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Tuld by the Pioneers tons" were had people, but the King George :Jlen, as they termed the Hudson's Bay Company, were good, and had been here a long time and had never stolen land; now the" Bostons" come and were fencing, and stealing the land from the Indians. Sta~'hi, who could speak English, interpreted what I failed to understand, which was nearly all of Quiemuth's Chinook. 'rhey finished their visit by giving me the ""orst berr.eaning I ever had. I tried to reason with them, telling them that tbe common people were not to hlame; that the "Tyees" had bought their land; the officials had made the t)'eat~·, and the~- had agreed upon it. Finding them unreasonable, I quietly took their abuse and ,,-hen they had finished, they got on their ponies and rode off. I saw Quiemuth once afterwards, when he ,,-as still growling about the" Bostons", but still called himself the "Boston Tillicum' " ,,,hich meant friend. )\"ot\"ithstanding- these assurances, friendly though they seemed, we were greatly alarmed, hut at a loss as to what move to make, as we did not want to leave our home unprotected, neither risk our o,,,n lives and those of our children by staying at home. On the lath of October, ,,,hile our boys, Elcaine and David, and myself and John Mollhigh, an Indian who often helped me with my work, were putting up rye about a mile and a half from the house where )lrs. Longmire and the youngest children were alone, at least thirty Indians rode up in company with "Old Stub", an Indian who had supplied our table with wild game since we first came on the Prairie a first rate hunter and an IJldian who was honest and friendly got off their horses, walked into the house with their guns, and ranged themselves around the fireplace, crowding my wife and children to the back part of the room, the latter crying with fright, while their mother sat in J.eadly fear, not knowing what moment they would strike a fatal blow. "Stub" sat in the corner, taking' little part in the noisy conversation, which lasted about an hour, when they made an impudent demand for food, which was denied them, then they mounted their ponies and rode away, after telling m~' wife, in Chinook, they were going to Bald :.\Iountain to hunt. Stub still sat in the corner by the fire, and after the others had gone, my wife gave him some food in a tin plate-the best we had-which he ate in silence. HaVing' finished his meal he alose, went to my wife, laid his hand on her head and began talking ill a sad, mournful tone, not one word of which she could understand; then he laid his hand on IJis own breast, then on the heads of the two frightened children, all the time talking', as my wife thought, warning her of the fate of the white settlers, and of the horrible intentions of the Indians. He left silentlv and that was the last time that he ever • came to our house. He went to the hostile Indians, and was captured with 1.:t-sa-la-la-wah, or Chuck Xose, as the settlers called him, about 136
Told by the Pioneers 1WO months later after the opening of the Iudian vYar, taken to Olympia, and put in prison in chains, where he killed himself by tying a strip of blanket around his throat. His companion was released later on and lived till the summer of 1886. Chuck Nose was laid at rest with his "Tillicums" in a little Indian burying ground about three hundred yards from where my house now stands-the spot he had begged me, from year to year, for his last resting plaee, almost en'r since I had known him. On the 11th of October, 1855, the day after the Indians came to my house, I started with my family to Olympia, as we now knew there was no safety for us in our own home which had already been under guard for two weeks. Our bachelor neighbors, :l\IcLean Chambers, Frank Goodwin, and :Mr. Perkins, the two former now living near Roy in Pierce County, the latter, long since at rest, came to our house for mutual protection, and kindly stood guard, taking turns, a kindness ·which we will never forget. Arriving at Olympia, I rented a house for my wife and children, put the boys in school, and returned to the farm, intending with the help of J ohn ~lollhigh, an Indian, to finish my fall work. On the 20th of October, Quiemuth paid a dsit to Secretary ~Iason, who was acting Governor in the absence of Governor Stevens, who had gone east of the Cascade ~Iountains to make treaties with those tribes which seemed to be in the rebellious movement whieh we began to fear would end iu a general massacre of the white settlers. Quiemuth assured the Seeretary again and again of the friendship of his tribe; whereupon ~Iason told him to get his half brother, Leschi, and with 1heir families eome to Olympia, where he would gin them food and shelter. This Quiemuth agreed to do, and returned 10 Yelm Prairie for that purpose; but he had forgotten both his promise, and his hieudship, for no sooner did he meet Leschi than they took their families and moved as fast as the~' could for Puyallup. As the chief did not come the followiug day, ~Iason, feeling somewhat alarmed for the safety of the white settlers, appointed ClJarles gaton and 1\\"eh-e other men, among them Connell, J ames McAllister, and his son, George, and Milton B. vVallace, to go to Puyallup, and invite the chief to come to Olympia. I was appointed to go with them, hut as I was four miles off the road they hurried along without me. Crossing the Puyallup River, they went to where Van Ogle's farm no\\" is and sent a friendly Indian, ·who had come with them from Olympia, to learn, if possible, the whereabouts of the chief. Returning, he reported two hundred Indians collected farther on, in company with the chiefs, Quiemuth, and Leschi, also the Puyallup Tribe. gaton, upon hearing this, declared it would not do to go farther, for such movements meant war; but McAllister and Connell ridiculed the idea, saying they knew these 137
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OCCURRENCES INDEX AT NISQUALLY (Ref
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INDEX McGillivery, S., 37-June 27.
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IKDEX I Ceder. (Cedar) Iowa. 120 Ce
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INDEX Immigration, 73, 74, 75, 76,
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INDEX Nelson Bridge, 95 N Elson Fer
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INDEX Sweet Water River, 162, 218 S
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