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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1950)
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Stoney noticed my of New Y’ork, who immortalized tears and said: ‘Its squaws singing “Stoney” in a feature article entitled. the death song.’ “A Tenderfoot in the Coast Range” “Stoney was right, for as we round appearing in the Sunday Oregonian, ed a turn in the road, we came in August 30, 1903. view of an Indian home. The voice A city woman’s memories on a of the mother rose higher than the scenic and memorable Siletz country rest, and while the words were un trip, wherein “Stoney” figured, rest intelligible to me, there was no mis- i taking the fact that the pathetic, in print in the 1903 Oregonian. We quote: “I was just a bit ‘shaky’ grief-stricken voice that chanted was about going so far with an absolute that of the mother pouring out her stranger and to the Indians’ own woe in the funeral hymn.” hunting ground, too! But, after Those who knew “Stoney” Wells crossing that first hill, I realized that intimately — as everyone seems to I had instinctively selected the right have—speak of him as having “lots man for my driver and guide, there of life”. One of the many stories “Stoney” after in him I put my trust. “ ‘Stoney’ was his name, and he created deals with his having killed a proved not only a gallant and chiv- | nice fat bear, slicing and curing it alrous attendant, but a delightful | as one would “jerked” venison, all for companion as well. I asked him ques a good purpose. No doubt “Stoney” tions from the time we started until chuckled to himself many times as he our return three days later, and found saw his friends dive in and eat bear his knowledge of local matters and meat he carefully told them was “ ‘jerked’ venison”! events inexhaustible. “ ‘Stoney’ had a wide acquaintance. “Stoney” quickly took a dare and He knew every man, woman and child seldom, if ever, came out the worse —both Indian and white—in the coun for his efforts. Mrs. Wells, his wid try, ajid every man, woman and child ow, relates how in a young manhood in the country knew him and called escapade “Stoney” “rode”, by stand him ‘Stoney’ with an affectionate ing straight up in the saddle, a wildly familiarity. He knew every hillside running horse through the streets of like a book. He knew where the Corvallis just because his pals dared heaviest timber grew and under what him just to ride this particular horse! Horses and mules played a domi hills the big coal veins lay. He knew where the deer could be stalked, nant role in “Stoney’s” life and never where they always came to drink at was he without them. People in Mill City, before the advent of pulling ma the river.” chinery, repeatedly called upon him to A gentle and touching scene de use his mules to move their home, scribed in this epic casts a thought buildings and other heavy objects. many desire to hold of “Stoney”. The “Stoney’s” faithful animals never New York woman wrote, “The sun failed to accomplish their assigned was slanting in the west as we tasks under his careful and loving reached the edge of the reservation. guidance. The blue haze w’as settling closer The unusual meant the usual to over the mountain tops, and the gen “Stoney”. Only recently he taught tle breeze which sprung up seemed to his dog to ride about upon the back be singing an evening lullaby. The of a pet horse while "Stoney” worked stillness descended like a fog, broken the horse in the garden. now and then by the cry of a night The pioneer parents of “Stoney” bird or the distant bark of a dog. i came across the Great Plains from Suddenly there rose on the air a weird, chanting moan. It rose and Indiana in 1852. “Stoney” began life fell with a jerky, pathetic rythm. in Pleasant Valley, Benton county, Oregon, in 1863. Since the Indians lived in the area of his boyhood and youth he learned to speak the “jar gon” of the Indians as fluently as the English language. A Friendly Place As “Stoney" shared his domain and knowledge of natural beauty of Ore To While Away gon with a New Yorker, who re corded that trip, we of Mill City ex Your Idle Hours press loss of Stonewall “Stoney” Jackson Wells from this our North Santiam canyon. K K >< 5 HU I I ARD S TAVERN ■■■ PLYMOUTH 435 N. Court St. GATES [SU* TO THE MEH WHO DRIVE \ AMERICA’S 8 MILLION TRUCKS! 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