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Every Member Attentioq! of the Family ’J’HEHE IS in turn date opposite your name printed , on the margin of your pi<|H*r or on the w rapper I indicates the time your subscription expires. ( and you are invited to renew at that time. All papers sent to parties outside the county are promptly discontinued when their tim«* expires I aud six mouths* Arrearage is the limit w ithin tile county. Ill atopping ymir *ul»script«»»i. it ; H first to pay ail arrearage« no easier or surer way to reach their pocket Waits his or her Chance to John Smith books * Read This Paper TILLAMOOK. OREGON. THURSDAY. MARCH 19. 1896. Vol. Vili, No. 43. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. |)AVID WILEY. M. I), THE INDIAN WAR 0 YOU BEAD? PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND ACCOUCIIEUIt, All calls piumptly attended to TILLAMOOK, ORE J I). KELLY, M. J). P hysician and S urgeon , Makes a specialty ol antbei tic surgery. thus insuring success. TILLAMOOK, OR W.J MAV- ATTORNEY-AT-J, AW, Puck,Mudge, Trulli, Review of Reviews, North Aiuerieuii Review, Forum, llurper's Magazine, McClure's Mugazine, Frank Leslie's Popular Mag azine, Scribner’s, Munsey’s, The Delineator, Century, (¡.aley's Cassell's, Ladies’ Home Jour nal, Young Ladies' Journal, Life's Comedy, La Art <le la Mode, Illustrated Aiuiricun, Cosmopolite ii , A. P. A. Magazine? T illamook N ews C o • • B. C. LAMB, VI TOIINKY-VI'-I.WV, 'l l LLAMOOK, OREGON Agency for Victor Bicycles W. SEVERANCE, Next to Bank. TILLAMOOK. OREGON. P. 0. Box 123. A I TO II NICY-AT LAW, Til I. X.MOOK, OREGON. MISCELLANEOUS, leading Papers Almost Given Away With the Headlight—Prices never Quoted Before to our Subscribers. The following named papers will be clubbed with the 11 eadi . ight at the rates given in the right hand column of figures, The figures on the left show the price of the publishers oi the various papers. 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M illinery ......D ress M aking M E J Ruggì«-» an i Mr* Juhu son have a «•law-mil I • V - o t- and «Ire-* making e* ‘•liment latrai -tules in millinery. •4- Tillamook, Ore The foiegoing shows tl»e style of the ad dresses. '1 he large figure six at the light in- I dicates the year, that is 1896. A large seven at | the right would indicate 1897. or a five would in • licale 1895. The other figuivs denote tlie «lay of the month, and the month is indicated in small type A cross mark in blue pem il iudicates 1 that you are away behind and should pay up. | $1.50 Per Year ing at the foot of the ridge they com where the Indiana turned for the Col menced throwing some shells at the In umbia. By this time we were out of dians, and actually succeeded in throw provisions ngain save coffee, salt and TARDY JUSTICE TO THE ing some of the shells half way up the pepjier. Notwithstanding this, after side of the ridge. After enjoying this ; them we went, making forced marches, VETERANS. holiday fireworks for a while, and as living on the given out Imrses that the they had not ha I anything to eat since Indians could drive no further. We The following is an open letter written breakfast, it now being in the middle of camped at springs w hich were covered by Hon Win. D Stillwell, and address- the afternoon, they fell back a little and up with dead and rotten horses, that i ed to the Congress: went into camp for the night This was had to be dragged away before we could too much for the boys. Forgetting all get any water The water had to be Tillamook, Oregon March 13, 1896. about their dinner, one of the boys said strained to get the liorae hair out of it. To the H ouse of R eprésentatives and I'll go and lake a pop at them any way In about three weeks time we had all S en vi * e . U. S. A :—It is with difficulty As quick as we started up the mountain the Indians driven «cross the Columbia that 1 write to you, knowing my ina some of the regulars went out to have a and into the Yakima country. The little fun too. Up the hill they went. regiment got back and swam the Colum bility to do the subject justice. • hiving the Indians before them. Per bia near the mouth of the Yakima. The We, the few remaining Indian war haps there was not an officer among supplies not having arrived we slaugh veterans of the Northwest Pacific coast, them above a corporal. If there was. tered all the cattle we could find, which some private had charge of him giving consisted mostly of work oxen that were deserve a pension if any men do. In 1847 when the bloody Cayuse war him orders what to do. They drove the too poor to get to The Dalles. Barbe Indians pell moll from the ridge. cuing the meat we went after the In commenced, this war of death and After this the Indians fell back, driv rapine, there were but few of us in ing their stock with them across the dians up the Yakima, coming to them in the Simcoe valley, defeating them Oregon then. Columbia into the Big Bend country and driving them north up the Yakima. We gathered together what ammuiii- (JeneraI Wool having come up from Being out of provisions the regiment re tion we could, packed what provisions San Francisco, called the troops into turned to The Dalles. we could, furnished our own pack winter quarters to leave the frontier en Someone who was in the winter cam- 1’he governors of paign in Southern Oregon in 1855-(> , horses, shouldered our own riHes and tirely unprotected away to meet the red devils, We knew, Oregon and Washington territories ol> should tell how they suffered while Here the war between the ter lighting the most blood-thirsty Indians scattered as we were, through the whole jected length of the Willamette valley, that it ritorial officers and General Wool be in the continent. would never do to let them get thor gan. In justice to all I will have to stop Among the Indian War Veterans in oughly organized. At that time there weie about iin here to tell how this war began. Early I this county now are: Jep Walling, who was in Capt. Robt many Indiana in the Willamette valley in the fall of 1855, while Col. Sieptoe (I as whites, fo we Lad to make a winter may be mistaken as to the commanding Williams’ company. Wm. Johnson under (’apt. Shumasoni. campaign. Now. sirs, if you can, pic officer) was marching through the Yak II. F. Ilolden, same captain. ture out Io yourselves 400 or 5u0 men ima country near the Wenatchee he was I. T. Mmilsby. starting out to make a winter campaign attacked and defeated by the Indians, Captain W. D. S illwell was First without tents or baggage, men w ho had with a loss of over one-half of his com furnished their own arms, ammunition, mand, either ki I lad or wounded, at the Lieutenant in Company (’, Recruiting .same time the Indians began hostilities Baltallion, under Captain A. I’. Ankeny. horses, saddles, bridles and blankets II. B. Morgan, same company We bail to every mess one three gal from Puget Sound to the Sacramento Tillamook is the post office address of lon camp kettle, and one frying pan for river. On the Klamath and Rogue riv a mess of ten. We started for a six er, hundreds of miners were massacred the above named veterans. R II Holmes of Woods, was in the mom h>'campaign with only one month’s in their mines or camps by Indians that • provisions. When that was out, it was were friendly the day before. Now if it same Company with (’apt. Stillwell. i “fit' around boys and find something to Inul not been pre-arranged it would Jlimes Fuller <>f Bay City;(ieo. E R eat.” Sometimes it. was roots, then have been very strange that our whole Deane of Nehal< in ; and B D. Shackle- again it was dried salmon that the In eastern frontier of about 80 ) miles in ioid of Nestocton an* veterans of the dians had cached for winter use, that is, length should have been attacked about Indian war also. after we had eaten up all the poor cattle the same time. When the regulms were Mrs. Nancy Jane Bozley of this city, that had crossed the plains that year I defeated they called on the Governors , is a widow of Louis C. Bozky, who was and had been belated and left to winter of the two territories for volunteers. in Capt. I. F. Miller’s company. (or die) at The Dalles. When we would The call was no sooner made when the Mrs. Crawford of Nehalem, is the boil a pot full of this meat there would required numbers were sent into (he widow of John Crawford, who was with not be a speck of grease on top of the field with the success that I have stated. I Captain Shumanon. Now, a new order of things. There liquid And this was to be eaten with Mrs. John Toews of this place, was out either salt or pepper. We had no ha<l to be supplies of all kinds as well the widow of W.C. Hyatt, who was bread, sugar, coffee or ten except there as transportation, which took some time with ( apt Miller. In the mean was a little tea in the hospital depart* to get into wm king order Others who are not mimed heresliouId lime the volunteers pushed on after the write die facts to this paper. ment Back to I lie Walla Walla they When out Oil a scout we had to de* Indians Respectfully, i pend on what we could find, and it most went. When near the old Whitman C apt . W m . D. S iii . lwfi . l . I always tinned out dried salmon or, mission we had a three days fight with Nollen t«» Drmocrat». (else fasting) sometimes it would lie the Indians, where we lost seveial of I w ill not attempt to horse mt at stinight. Sometimes we our best citizens Notice is hereby given that the demo would find a cache of caiiuim , cowish describe it but let some one with a crat primary election will be held in sharper pen draw the picture. and dried berries. Then we would have each voting precinct in the county ot Cold weal her coming on w e were not a feast. Caimis is a bulb resembling an I’illauiook, State ol Oregon, on Monday, supplied with winter clothing, ami as onion, very glutinous when raw, but the 2.hd day of Maicli 1896, beginning supplies could not be forwarded in sulli- when cooked it is sweet ami very pala- al 1 o’clock p. m. of said day, for the table. Uowish is a while root, When c ent quantities to iullil the deniHiiil, purpose ol e.eciing delegates to repre raw it has a sweet, starchy taste, when ami often left them to live on resits or sent each of said precincts at the demo meat straight. As it was a very cold dry it taste 4 like si arch. cratic county convention lo he held at As soon Now as I have to describe our equip- winter we suffered severely. I’illauiook citv, Oregon, on Friday, meats ami bill of fare, I will riso ac- as the snow was gone and I the horses April 3, 1896, at 10 o'clock a. in. Said the lie).I, Kiilfiiently recruited to take knowledge that my pen is too blllllt to convention being convened fol the pur do the subject justice. The regiment the Colonel came to me ami i seiet, “You pose of nominating candidates for the was not idle; it was on the move, or mu-t go to The Dalles for allunimi» various county ollices and elect 3 dele part of it, all the time, up the Deschutes lion, as it has not been feel well eleel UH gates to represent Tillamook county at lighting the Indiana there, or up John agreed, ami I want you to make the trip the democratic -late convention lo he Day’s river. While upon the way to in five days, seven at the farthest.” held at Portland, Or< gon, Friday, Apiil the Walla Walla country, between Well Fifteen of us in a few hours were on the 9, 1896. Springs and Butter Creek, we had one way. The first «lay one man and one* Each pierinrt is allow ed tin* follow •d the hardest fought buttles that has horse gave out, which 1 left at Fort ing repreNentiilion, to-wit: One dele- I lenrietta. ever been fought ill the Northwest . gate-al-laige and one for ear1 5 voles or most of The next day by ten o ’ clock I will not stop here to describe it. A frn< lion thereof cast for .* n. \ S short stay was made on the Umatilla to the men and h<»rs< s were given out, and Bennett at the.,’ me eleclion 1894, ie- provide for ami rest the wounded. Then my eyes were bleeiling from the strong suiting as follows: I picked up to Wallula. From there up to Whit alkali dust we were facing. Little NestuucH precinct 3 mans we went, where we built a fort, or out one man, leaving the rest to follow Union ” 6 a stockade, from which we went out We pushed on reaching The Dalles, Dolph ” 2 scouting in every direction. Then we 225 miles in just 48 hours. We got back llebo M 4 oil the seventh day. Just al night the went to Tucannon, with 1 lie whole regi Sand fjike ” 2 ment, fighting the Indians two days and pack mules began to give out, 1 got off Blaine ” 2 my horse and put the pack oil him. It nights too, without anything to eat Beaver ” 2 was not long until the boys were all a Later, we swam the Snake river and (’arnalian ” 2 foot, having transferred their mule’s went mil to tVe C ilville. Netarts ” 2 A boll this lime At another time we swam the Snake packs to their hoi sew Month Priiirie ” 3 river, then up thiongh the Palouse the boys were mad enough to fight all Hoqiirirtuii ” 10 When country, ami then went around up the the Indians in the Northwest. Bay ” 5 Clearwater, swimming it at Lapwai, we got to the regiment the bottoms of Bsrnegat ” 2 my feet were soli«l blisters, runningovei oil our return swimming the Snake at or (iaiibsldi ” 4 the frozen gi< uml and my eyes were near where Lewiston now is. Foley ” 3 Of course, when we went out in 1855-6 bleeding, ami they have nevei entiiely Nehalem ” 4 we were better eq»’ippe«l ami better ra recovered. Fairview ” 8 Now I write this to show the hard tioned Perhaps the fall campaign of W W (’ ond : a, ( hairman. 1855 was a very plea-ant affair as the ships the volunleeri» had to endure Ire- cause General Wool would not l»'t us Volunteers and regulars had to travel Rev. Jos. Schell, the ('at hohe priest, 1« together ami as the regular infantry had have any of llo* government ammuni in correnpoinbrin e will» s large number their cannon ami all their ramp equip* tion. When I got back the battle had of parties of inraiis who wish lo Inn That day page with them, as the march was been in progiess one day. farms in this \ < ihity, and tin having through a broken country w ithout roads, we drove the Indians iktohs the <•<»!- g'Sxl tide lands, Ixjllolil lands, or prairie unibia river, ot a pait of them, the bal their progress was very slow. lands for »si»*, suitable for dairying By this On the ridge or the mountain that di ance going tip Snake rivei. ranches, should see Itev. Schell slid give time we were out of provisions We vides th»* Simcoe from the Yakima val him a ilesuriplfoti Hint price of tin* lan*l ley, the Indians wete gathered in some found and killed fifteen horses. Tlity ordered Call on or address him st om « were nice and fat force Alter a dress parade of a few at Tillamook 42-43 Then we started after those that went hours nr something like that the 10I- Wanted, a th«aisand • rd«* of w >« d, at diers threw out their skirmish line» ami up the river to the Palouse, up that advanced (he whole line. When arriv- stream to the fi/ot of the mountaiiui Ibis office.
