East Oregonlan Round-Up Souwilr Edition
Pendleton. Oregon, Thursday, September 20, 191 7.
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LIEUT. T. J. SMALL'S ACCOUNT OF
INDIAN WAR OF 1855, INCLUDING
BATTLE AT THE LA ROQUE FARM
Ltcht on early 5 n y Indian fighting in
regrtm I thrown by a loiter that
mM written In 1 s by T. J. Small.
tteutenant, to T. A. Wood, grand com
mander of the Indian war veterans. It
nn follows:
My lHar Sir. 1 never desired a
ttkHTralhy of myself to be written, the
world and mankind are not Interested
In my advent urcs. struRgles, afflic
t tons, sa d lw rea ven i en t s and tender
ffectims. The pen of no true friend
The march to tho relief of Major
Haller was made through snow and
extreme cold by the first regiment O.
N. G. All who made that march
through snow, sometimes three feet
deep, and a bitter cold wind will re
member it through life. The com
mand found Major Haler and return
ed with him In safety to The Dalles
from which point Captain Connoyer
was ordered to march immediately tit
Fort Henrietta to reinforce Major
r myself, can at this time furnish Mark A- Chinn which he did. Cap-
vain connoyer witn company rv ar
rived at Fort Henrietta (at Echo) No
vember 27 and went into camp outside
the fort. With It arrived Col. Jamea
K. Kelley. I know not with whom he
left The Dallea hut I am sure he ar-
t-hnught to illustrate my very dark
gathway this far in life. It seems to
me now that there never was any
wunil reason or necessity for my hav
ing to breathe but as I did breathe it
tiaji nlft vs seemed to me that I f
should have br.thed the sweetest. riv at Fort Henrietta under escort
brightest and balmiest air on earth. of company K, Here I met for the
I am now convinced that the world nrst timrt the brave. noble.
Tever wanted m e for no Im portan t
rlaee was created for me to fill.
Teutenant Thomas J. Small was born
tn Mt. Pleasant, Maury county. Tenn.,
ec 9, 1SS4, and spent his boyhood
cys there in attending school and
warm
hearted and generous Major Mark A.
Chinn. who built the fort and named
it. But for this work he was secretly
charged with cowardice by some of
his small under offleerrs. At the bat
tle of Laroquos farm those -same men
Wminc a trade with his father. He j leftrn who the cowards were and Ma
tm of sturdy ftcotch-Irish stock, he
tnoved to Missouri with his father in
1SS2 and settled In Otterville, Cooper
conty in May. In the spring of 1853
lie spread his wings, left his home neat
nd started across the plains; to Ore
iron to build for himself a possible
titnno nest on the Pacific slope. He
if six months and 11 days crossing
plains and settled in the town of
"hampopg, Marion county. 1853.
CThampoee was & small old town, built
m the bank of the beautiful Wllla
Tnette river, at the head of steamboat
navigation in the summer. 25 miles
from Salem or Oregon City. Much
lor Chinn was not one of them. A
braver, truer, kinder man I never met
m the army. Sweet to me even now is
the memory of this noble man, I
know not when other companies arriv
ed at Fort Walla Walla but ours got
there with both feet a little after sun
rise on rec 3. We found the fort
rohhed and plundered, the interior
badly defaced! and the Indian devils
gone- We went into camp a short
distance from the fort on the morn
ing of the third. On the third, fourth,
f'fth and sixth we skirmished with In
dians. Company K marched alone in
t Indian valley, into a deep ravine on
fibfcory of Oregon springs from this : the Touchet river and scouted all that
Tlace. I ; 1 , 1 , ;- - : , - -
An Indian war broke out in eastern j
Oregon and Washington in 1955 and ;
fludtT a proclamation of Gov. George i
T. Curry, Connoyer, Revals and Small j
recruited a company at Champoeg of,
Trench, half breeds and four or five j
Americans, mostly all of whom were
from French parairie. rarcisse A. Con- j
ioyer was elected captain. A Revats. ,
first lieutenant and T. J. Small, sec- I
nnd lieutenant. The organization was J
mown as company K. It was muster- i
in at Portland October 30. 1S55(;
rd immediately started for The Dalles '
-via. Fort Vancouver and the cascades. !
."With the beginning of this march the!
company commenced to make history
Tor itself and Oregon. The greatest!
mistake for any man t ? make is to j
endeavor to correct errors of early
historians from memory. It Is well
Itnown that a great majority of men
ar born into the world without a
md thinking apparatus on their
-etroulders, but if I differ from some
f your early historians T hope they
slll not accuse me of thinking wrong.
country. Koturniug to Meima at the
mouth of the Touchot on the night
of the sixth. Peu-peu-inoTC-mox or
Yellow Serpent and those with him
were killed and the body of Peu-Peu-mox-mox
mutilated, ears cut off,
scalped and other indignities on the
night of Dec. 6, in camp at mouth of
Touchet river and not during tho bat
tle at Laroque's farm. On the morn
ing of the seventh the Indians came
down from the hills across the Tou
chet under a flag of truce and de
manded the release of their chief and
tho other prisoners. After exchang
ing flags a few times Lieut. Col. Kel
ley ordered Captain N. A. Connoyer
and Captain O. Hummason with their
companies to cross the Touchet and
take position to defend camp. Com
pany K moved across and Hummason
with the Wasco folowed end one other
company not now remembered and
soon the four days fight was on
known as the battle of La Roque's
farm. We had fun chasing the red
skin beauties seven miles, but when
the entire force of Indians met us at
La Roque's farm the fun was over
and business of vital importance was
on hand. For It kept us busy to re
tain scalps on our heads. For four
days this hard and bitterly contested
battle raged, no one knowing what
the result might be. Everv inch of
ground was fought over and the con
tending forces camped in sight of each
other. To the music of the torn toms
Indians danced the scalp dance every
night. The stubborn pluck of the
whites at last scattered the Indians
with a loss to them of ISO. After the
battle of Ia Roque's farm the com
mand moved to Howlish Wampool
camp. .
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Nine Umatilla
in Second
Nine L'matilla county young men
are at the present time being trained
a;, the U. S. training camp at the Presi
dio, San Francisco to tatte their places
as officers in the national army, and
one of the number is a former director
of the Round-Up and a former director
of Happy Canyon.
He is Frederick Steiwer, proninent
attorney, senator from Umatilla coun
ty in the last legislature, and former
district attorney. When the call came
for applicants for a second officers'
training school. Senator Steiwer closed
up his extensive law practice, put his
many business interests in shape, for
sook a most promising political career
and. having successfully passed the ex
aminations hod been accepted, bade
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boodbye to his wife and little daughter
and reported for training. He is in
the artillery division. Mr, Steiwer
served on the Round-Up during the
first two years of its existence as di
rector of non-competitive event. and
was one of the originators of Happy
Canyon and served with J. R. Kaley
on the program end of that show up
until last year. He is a graduate of
the University of Oregon and O. A. C.
The others going to the camp from
this county were James Alger Fee,
Chester A. Fee, Lyman O. Rice, Harold
J. Warner. John R. Wheeler Charles
Despain and Fritz Lundstrum. all of
Pendleton, and E. W. Ham man of
Echo.
The two Fees are brothers. The
elder was city attorney of Pendleton at
the time he was accepted. Upon his
resignation his father. Judge James
A. Fee was appointed and accepted
with the understanding that the
monthly salary was to be paid to the
wife and child of his son. The for
mer city attorney is a graduate of
Whitman College and of Columbia
University, having three degrees. His
brother, Chester Fee. is a graduate of
the University of Oregon and one of
the most noted athletes in the coun
t ry , He was captain of the O rego n
team in 1915. the greatest point win
ner that institution ever had and won
the distinction of being third best all
around athlete in the United States
at San Francisco In the exposition
decathlon events.
Lyman O. Rice Is the son of O. M.
Rice, vice-president of the First Na-
tiorvit P.'inlf, end was himself teller
in the bank when he applind for the
ramp, Hrt Is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Oregon end has a wife and
child. j
Harold J. Warner was a prominent j
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211-214 East Court Street
young attorney in the offices of Ha
ley A Haley when he responded to
the call. He left for camp ostensibly
a bachelor but in reality a young
bridegroom. It was not until he had
been gone a week that It was learned
that he had been secretly married to
Miss Edna Zimmerman, telegraph ed
itor of the East Oregon Ian. before de
parting. Mr. Warner, who Is a son
of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Warner of Port
land is a graduate of the University of
Oregon.
Charles Despain received his educa
tion at tho Oregon Agricultural College
and during his senior year there was
captain of one of the cadet compa
nies. He was rated an exceptionally
good student officer and ofes his ap
pointment to his previous experience.
He was in the dairy business here
a hen called and sold it to report. He
is also married.
Wheeler and Lundstrum are uradu
ates of the University of Idaho and
both had military training there.
Hoth were star members of the base
ball team at that institution and
Lundstrum afterwards played short
stop on the Walla WalaJ team of the
Western Trl -State League. Wheeler
was in the offices of the Hartman Ab
stract Co. when taken and Lundstrum
was selling G. M. C. trucks.
K. W. Ham man was instructor in
tho manual training department of the
(Continued on
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