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Stonewall “Stoney” Jackson Wells, There was a tremulous, heart-search
86, who on September 14th bade his ing pathos to the chant, and somehow,
beloved canyon farewell forever, without knowing why, my eyes fillet!
unfolded a bit of Oregon’s beauty to with tears, for the chant was sugges
an Oregonian writer, Marion Macrae tive of death.
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.
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By MRS J. H JOHNSTON
Mrs. Walter Bevier is reported as
slowly improving at a convalescent
home in Salem.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Morris of Mill
City were Sunday callers at the Al
bert Ring home.
Mrs. Hugh Johnston and daughter
Kathryn went to Jordan Sunday for
the dinner at the Catholic church.
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rain the past weekend.
Kenneth Bass of Mehama was a
Fox Valley caller Monday evening.
The -tate is bargaining for the houses
west of Mehama, and one is where g
the Bass family live, consequently
Kenneth is looking for another loca
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