Talent news., August 15, 1892, Image 1

AUGUST 15,1892.
VOL. I.
NO. 14.
not so with the little company at t he For*..
A number were woui «led, among them.
(’apt. Fordyce, ami a Mr. Diggings wh »
was sleeping in his wagon with hi< win
• and little daughter, was killed, whil«’ bi­
Entered at the Talent Post Office as second wile ami daughter escaped. Hi- r« maim
rhifK mail matt« r.
wen* b’lrri'-d m ar that large pin«* tre«* th;«’
now stands just east of A. Alfonl's barn
THE INDIAN ATTACK ON FORT in Talent. There was also n young ma:
ABBERDEEN.
’ by the name of Smith, a nephew of th«*
late lamented “Grandma” Robison, in­
BY WELBORN BEESON.
stantly kill«*«! ami lies hurried it; what i*
The fifteenth of the present nion'h now known as the Hill cemeterv, near tie
marks the thirty-ninth anniversary of the scene of his death. The little garrison,
Indian outbreak (»11 Fort Abberdeen, a with the immigrants, immediately move«:
stockade surrounding Fred Abberdeen’s down the valley to Fort Wagner when
log cabin, which was located on the farm they remained untill peace was establish
afterwards improved and cultivated by e«l soon after the arrival «>f Gen. Joseph
Judge James C. Tolman, and situated Lane from the Willamette. This was no'
about eight miles above the now prosper­ a very encouraging welcome to tired,
travel-worn immigrants, who had been
ous town of Ashland.
Believing the Indians were preparing toiling f(»r five long months, to reach tbi-
f«»r hostilities, the few scattered inhabit­ beautiful vale. The poor wife and daugh­
ants, that were located at the upper end ter of the murdered Diggings fotiml a
of Bear Creek valley gathered at Abber- home with the old man Holman, at Jack
deen’f, built a stockade ami having cap­ sonville, for a while. The «laughter is now
tured a few squaws, detained tnem as a grandmother and resides near Los An
prisoners, or rather hostages, hoping by gules, California, but the memory of that
that means to induce the braves to come fateful morning will nex t r be obliterated
in and propose a treaty of peace, but un­ from her mind while life la>ts.
fortunately as the sequel will show, the
N e vada is nerd of a mis •inuary. It i- report­
settlers made a mistake.’ A day or two
ed that an <*ast«’rn clergyman wuh invited to con-
before the fifteenth of August, a small «hid the religious .*• rvices nt the op- nir g of th.
train of immigrants, commanded by rapt. legislature. Hr gladly accepted the call ami
Asa Fordyce, the first to arrive that Far­ closed th«* wrimony with the I ord s prayer.
No sooner h:ul hr concluded t han a I-a line
son from across the Great Plains,camped
senator turned to «noth er ami remarked
at the stockade, some of th«* families in­ stnt«*
audibly.“ H«* stole that praver mid I’ll I - t on it
side while others occupied their wagons
I heard it almost word for word at n funeral
and tents just outside.
•
in Eureka over t«*n y< « tt . a o.”
A Guard was stationed outside to give
W hy doth th«* festive Injun s.ptaw
the alarm if any thing should indicate
Improv«* each shining minute,
that Indians were near; but all seem»d
Ami scratch her head from morn till night ’
Because there’s millions in it.
quiet and the imprisoned squaws on tile
-Ex.
inside gave no evidence that they expect­
ed any relief from their ln avc-. Bui ju-t at
]t is im>r«-1
-I t-• /i a r th n to............ , who
a
kick
from
a
No.
Id boot is at issue.
daybreak on the morning of the fifteenth
the guard beard a shrill coyote V’ll,
J. W. Aid. thrvnt«*rpri-ing artist, writ« sfroti
which was nothing uncommon at that Berwick, Cal . that lie is nt present hard >*'
time for coyotes were nmre plentiful then work for the Klamath River Imnh-Co.. but
that hr has order. -I .« m " bn- in j l.icr «»f th.
’ban now ; but on the init mt of this p
one broken by th«* upsetting of his cart a few
tictiiar yell, a volley ofbullets ami arrow < week - ago,and will s. - m resume hi - fr « <»rite O»-
came thick and fast .from the surround­ cuptitiou of photographic vewing. Johnny I »-
■ llvul) ■ ’ ’ ’ ' ■ (• - r • p 111 t
.
ing thickets and trees against the wngon- b.id t- -
bl hi- onttit, but I. * has thcfortui it«’ fam’
and stockade ami into the tents. To add age
tv«»! turning hG hand tom irlyrv« n k ndofrn
to the confusion th«- squaws all jumped p|.r. tn.-iit, and to overcom«’ difficult»»*«» *itl
•ip ami escaped through th«’ «lours of the coin pa rat ive «•.•«M«*.
lockade which wa r«* opi ned to admit th«*
S he w tr. plump mid Uautiful, a’ d hr *»•
.’Hard. A* soon as the s«|U:iws were «»nt a * 11-11 y i. «in 1 of her, “dir Lat«-I him but woman
•he firing from the brush ceased and tin* like, iihr sf.r--• e to-’Ht- h him lb* wasHt’c«*
Indians etc ap«*d without a wound
But
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