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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (June 4, 1903)
LAKHCOUINY EXAMINER, LAKRVIBW, OKftlON. JUNH 4, I MKf . moikh; war incident. (continued from first pnnvi April 11, We. and n U-nutlful morn ing. As our men approached tli' daco of tin Indian, tlvo or six In mnnU'r enmo out from I ho rocks on tho othor side. Thoy nil wore blank et nnd it wits undor those that tlioir guns won- concealed. Whon tho two tddos mot. all shook hands in friendly unvtlntf and entered tin tout. Tho.v wi-n' only thoro a fow minutes w hon t nav a man rush out of tho tout. nd thon anothor and anothor. Thou wo saw puffs of smoke, and we know what wan on. Without waiting for tho oommand ovory soldicrsprang to hit foot, rushed down tho hill and prabU'd hi gun. Wo lined up in stantly and wont to tho rescue on tho run. On tho way wo mot Kiddle and his wifo. Wl-no-niah. running for thoir lives. In fait that tho Indian hail takon several shots at thorn. A (illASTI.Y MiillT. Tpon reaching theplaoo a ghastly wight was prtwiitttl. In a short timo tho Modocs had stripis'd two of their victims, (ionoral Out by and lr. Thomas of everything thoy wort'. ami Mencham, who was loft for doad, only had on a pair of rod tlannol drawers. His scalp had also Urn partially torn from his hoad. Tho soldiors wore wild for revenge d,fr)jI11 t)lt. M,tiliur would have charged right into tho tho most danuerons. Thoy woro foarod by all of tho othor Indians. Wo had a lot of WnrinSprlng Indians Join our command, and thoy woro al ways ampins for Modoc gore until wo found tho Modocs. Thon they stayed close to tho soldiers. When there was a Modoc Indian In the neighborhood, tho Warm Spring In dian seemed to lose all tho lier0 ho hail. I roiiioinUT, one day. wo cut two Modocs off in an opening from their main band, and ran them down and killed them. There were about .'Ui Warm Springs Indians with us, and von ouuht to have sirlt them that night! They placed tho scalps of tl e Modocs una polo, inaugurated a first class wardanec and kept it tip all night. Thoy had never gotten close enough to even net a shot at tho Modocs either." Ol.ll Kit A "Thon' woro many errors published about the Indians and history o those times." continued Mr. Fitigor ald. "Tho story that old Kgnn was 'one-eyed' is all bosh. I saw Kgan every day or so for inont lis, and ho not only possessed two kirn eyes that saw everything that transpired about him. but he was one of the handsomest Indians 1 ever saw. Whon wo were stationed at old Fort Harney, Kgnn was at enco with the I government and visited us freiticntly reservation, lie He FOR SPRING CLOTHING GO TO w as as proud as Lucifer, also. lava is'Hs. t.ut cooler noaiieu omci.osj was H Kr,.at ,,k(.r ,,(iv,.r all( prevented it ami it was well that j vjjt , in,( a . xxjtll ,,. they di.l. foriioi.eof us would have,(l(N(i ,. ,,,,,,! gotten out alive. The bodies of the j ., did ,,,,( ,,Uv..- the loss ' dead were con veyed back to camp, J . wil h t heni ,,, t,,t,,,(j and Meacham was restored after ' ' t, Ti.y promised, but it soon j longtime. ; leaked u t t hrough t he count i y. ami i-itKi'AKKi) rim M.;iiT. HAit.;i:. , jt llt.arIv irik(. .;,,., i,al,. "The command had a signal sta- j I , J tut this only brings up a liumlred i tion above campaiul ionoral Wheat- ' , . . , . . . 1 i tales of t hose olden t linos, said Mr. on was at once signalled from this; , , i I r ItzgcruM, as he w as called aside by point to march that night at exactly : ... i a friend. midnight and meet our coinniand in i ! front f the Indian stronghold, from i Lakevl.-w Isolated. I which point it was intended to at-1 inu. viii.- K.i. .) ! tack the Indians und kill or drive : The government h.ts withdrawn them into tin lake. from settlement a large amount of i v ! BAILEY . & .. MASSINGILL Kill"; tts up on tin.- Phone if you waul Anything in our I. inc. PAINTLR . PAPt R . HVNOtR A 'oiiili-t- anil IIi-buiI-rul llnrot haiiipli-s lo -Irrl from. WORK . PKICFiS til ARAM IWM kl.ASONAIH.I "Wo inarched promitl.v on the j land in Iike county which is fiio hour. We had to iro in single tik- in posed to U- placed in a ivmtvo. Wo onier to ur't tnroun ino rocks ami iio not know how tho is-oiiio ol l.nKe ; ) boulders. We were fully four hours ' county look at this proposed reserve, in making the trip, and had just ' but it appears to us in looking at about consummated it wlien a sol-1 t lie map that the troveriiinent has ilier fell over a boulder and accident- i overdone herself a little in this latest ly discharged his i;uii. This 'ave the proposition. I.-iUo county w as alarm tothe.Moih.es. They had al- bound to become one of the wealth ready Uin on tin-lookout, but so far iest counties in the state, but the had not discovered us. withdrawal of the vast amount of lands will greatly cripple it. 7 .akeview Jrewery AYRES & SCIII.AOEK, Prop. SALOON IN CONNECTION ler sold Wholesale & Retail Delivered any place In Town If HIGH SHOES Lowest Prices See R A 1 1i:v!'p,i,;l, 'I!!.!,". .,-7'''. , '';.'-y'' if -'.in',':':' . '':'til''l;i!l,il ' i I fj mm':: Me! 13 Jk '.i "' t.ill'Sh! ..'V SOlMiKIl MKK IiKMoNS. "When the yrun was discharged an I 1-akeview, the county seat of I.nl I iorwt'. It was the characteristic ihout of warning of that triU-. The c1ioch if the signal had not died away w hen another one took it up, and another, until the whole prom ontory rany out like the din of a thousand coyotes. A desultory fir ing be-an and daylight soon dawned. Then the threo days' battle of the lava bods be";an. Stop by step we advanced, joined by (ieneral Wln-nt-on"s command on the other sile of the line, and we concluded that, t he work was about finished. We ex pected t hem t o surrender a t at any j time, when, to our surprise, t hey be- li u firing upon us from t f ivu r. I n ' some ln.-i liner they had .-lipped, through our lines, and broken up in- ' to M.uads, and hidden aiuoi;- t he I lava rocks like .-mikes, jiourWin a, deadly lire in t o cveryt liiii- that. ai- jiroaclied them. "The story of the lini-di N well re inemberod. No one w ho has n ver : been in those lava beds has any con ception of t he count ry. Tojiive anj idea of the location, a handful of Mo- i doi-s killed 17 out of ; men who dared to enter t he place, and the. Mo docs did not receive a soiatoh. Hut those who ha i' read the history of those limes are familiar wit h f he re sults. "The .Modois were the mo.-t inleili lent India tis ill t he I'aej.ir coil n l rv. and therefore, when arouse I, wi re tirol.v surrounded by the reserve ami they are left in an isolated posi tion with no prospects of having their surrounding country settled up if this reserve stands as it is, and their city will in the future stand completely isolated. 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