DECEMBER 15,1892.
VOL. I.
The TAI,ENT NEWSi< published the
1st. airi 15th. of each month
Term a:
25 venta a year,
EDWARD ROBISON,
Editor.
Entered at the Tai-nt Post Office as second
class mail matt» r.
WAR STOKIE-.
HY R.
SHERM AN—CO lit I UUC»’ .
F or BEI)DIN g (?)
Being captain of a ’‘mess” of IS men it
would’nt do for me to forage, especially as we
h:t i an abundance furnished by thegovernnient,
but I see now that 1 was equally guilty. 'l he
l>ovs had been out on poshes to town and vlx-
wliere frequently andoi.e evening tln-y consult­
ed with me as to the advisability of going out
that evening for straw (?) lor Insiding. 1 con-
sented uh I didn’t wish to be arbitrary. The
secret of it wa^.tliey knew of some tine turkeys
about a mile out west of camp and moreover
they wished me to volenteer logo on the “2nd
relief” at the farther eml of the bridge in place
of Jo Copier— a tell-tale—so ns to I* t them
through the line safely. This, too I consented
to do. The sequel was we feasted on as tine a
lot of turkeys as any Thanksgiving party ever
did. The turkeys were inside of the blankets
of straw.
fetching IN STRAW
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LIVELY TIMES IX T>5.
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During the summer and fall oflS55 the
Indians of Rogue River country commit­
ted manydepr. datioi s on the w bites of the
valley ami vicinity by waylaying and
killing the white settlers and killing their
cattle. They said the cattle ate their
grass and they were going to eat the cat­
tle. They got so bad that we petitioned
the government for help, but g.»t none.
The Imlians were preparing for war all
the time. We lai'I our case before Indian
agent A’ubroze, who promised to settle
with the Imlians and stop all the trouble,
but the Italians got worse all the time.
After the Mar broke out , be said be
knew all summer that they were hound
to break out and ’’all b—I couldn't pre­
vent it.’’ The citizens held a meeting at 1
Phcpnix in October ami resolved to organ
ize a company of Volunteers.
Many,
speeches were made by leading citizens,
to the e fleet that something should be
done before the Indians destroyed every­
thing, for it was not safe for the settlers
anywhere. We organized a company of
47 inen at Phomix with Asa Fordyce ns
Cnpt., and set out for the mouth of Little
Butte creek at three o’clock the next
morning.
The women baked bread for
us.
We had all kinds of guns—muzzle '■
NO. 22.
loaders, of course. When we reached
Butte the citizens were greatly alarmed,
for the Red-skins had been very bold in
their depredations in that vicinity. Th»*
Indians were camped on the north si !*«
of Rogue river, above Table rock. They
said thev
• were readv
* for us. The Indians
on the reservation said those depreda­
tions were not committed by them, hut
by some “bad Imlians.”
The citizens
wanted us to wait until they could get
their families forted up for safety’ ami
they would help us. So we camped two
days, in the mean time sending reconnoi­
tering parties out to see w hat the Indians
were doing. At this time a company of
government soldiers came down Rogue
river and volunteered to go with us, but
said the Indians were too manv for ns.
Thev marched to Ft. Laue, sent a mes-
sage to the Indians advising them to go
on the reservation, that the volu ntuis
were coming ami would kill the List one
of them, The Imlians didn’t go, but de­
fiantly informed the messenger that thev
wen1 ready for us. At this the peoplo be­
came more excited, and still more so ns
they saw that the Indians were getting
ready for war.
Several citizens came
from Jacksonville to join us. increasing
our number to about si.xtv. Wethen re-
organize»! with Hays, ot Phoenix, (’apt.,
and Williams, first lieutenant. We ad­
vanced on the Indians in the night. At
daylight the battle commenced. The In-
dians fought bravely with bows and ar­
rows and gun.-,
l he volunteers deter­
mined to kill as many of the Indians a<
possible. We had thirteen wounded.
Major Lupton, shot in the breast with
an arrow, died the same evening.
(¡co.
Shepherd, -hot in the hips, »lit d the next
day. M Williams was also shot in the
hip. R, Gates rvcieved a wound in tie-
shoulder. My memory fails to recall the
names of the others that were wounded.
Tliirtviiitic Indians were kill«»! though
Capt. Smith of Ft. Lane placed the num-
bei at eighty,
A. Volunteer
Talent Oregon.
The Oregon Agricultural Station bulb tin f«»1
Oct «»I kt in for ne< iw th;»t during the M» z<»i»' p •
riod Kogu* Ri\er \ alley wa-» un.ler water end
“not le.-a than 30»X) (vet of si’difuen tuns drp< i •
ted.
The World’s 1 air is to !•»■ op nc»l On Siin.l \
say the eomnii-sioners.
Tin»»* ch»» r- ( >r
their g»»od avn ••!
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