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Told by the Pioneers the Indians as the one whose life should pay forfeit for the loss of their chief. They had seen Dr. Kellogg in Port Gamble, and his \\"elldressed appearance and the respect with which he was treated bv his friends gave them the impression that he was a big chief among the whites; and they decided to secure his scalp as a fitting revenge for the death of their own favorite leader. They knew, however, it would be wise to postpone until their next yisit the ,oengeance they had sworn to have. They came back to Pug-et Sound the next year, according to their custom, carrying in their bosoms an undying hatred of the people who had killed their tyee. Dr. Kellogg at that time owned the lalld at Admiralty Head, opposite Port Townsend, and here the Indians who sought his scalp landed from their canoes and pitched their camp, hoping to put a bullet through the doctor within a short time. They were disappointed in this, however, for tbe doctor was not at that time on the island. The Judians were determined to get revenge, however, without further delay; and determined to take the life of someone else who was held ill as high esteem among the whites as their ehid had been held in their tribe. They were camped at the Head for "e,oeral days, but were driven away by a number of us settlers 011 ae('ount of the fear among our families; and their tents then were pitched at a little lake some distance from their first camp. The Indians kept well filled with whiskey ill order to he read~' to commit any crime, and began to look about for soml' one worth killing. They seldom talked to the whites, and were surly even when we tried to make friends with thC'm. One day a couple of Indians met Tom Hastie, and pointing' out Colonel Ebey, who was at work in a field a short distance away, they asked if he were a "tYee." !Ill". Ha:-tie • • • thoughtlessly replied: "Yes, he is a hyas tyee." (Big chief.) About 11 0 'clock that night, the Indians left one squaw to look after the canoes and to haye ewrything in readiness for a quick flight. The warriors took positions along the trail leading to CoL Ebey's house, and those nearest began making a great disturbance. This was ('011 tinued until CoL Ebe~- came out of the house, to quell the disturball('e. --\ shot was fired at him, and he seized an axe-handle and undertook to drin the Indians awa\,. • Another shot took off the fingers from his right hand and he called out: "'Vhat do vou want Y" "We want ~'Ol1r • head!" came the answer in jargon (this was afterward related by Mrs. Ebey), and the colonel rushed back to the window of his house to say something' to his wife. As he leaned against the window pane, a bullet struck him in the side and he had just time to rush around to the front porch where he fell, dead, at his own door. United States Marshal George A. Corliss and his wife were stop- 117
Told by the Pioneers ping at Col. Ebey's house that night; alld before the colonel fell on the porch they had rushed out the back door and came to my place, adjoining the Ebey farm. A shot was fired at Mrs. Corliss as she was climbing over the fence. Corliss had come to the island to pay off the jurors, and the money he had brought for that purpose was hidden in the bed in which he had been sleeping. l\Iy brother, Humphrey, William B. Engle and Judge Crosby were stopping at my house, and within a few moments all of us, armed with guns, were headed for the beach where the canoes were tied up. vVe had a short cut and would have reached the beach in time to hide where we could have picked off every Indian as he came down the hill. But Mrs. Corliss insisted on going with us, which so delayed us that bv the time we reached the beach the Indians were aboard their • canoes and so far out in the fog we could not see them. None of us at that time knew what had been Colonel Ebey's fate. 'While I was passing the house I heard someone hammering and thought it was some member of the household nailing up the door. Mrs. Corliss insisted, however, that she had heard the colonel fall just as she left the house. \Vhen we returned there we found it was as she had said. The colonel had been decapitated in a manner that would have done credit to a skilled surgeon, and the house had been ransacked. The money Mr. Crosby had hidden in the bed was not found by the Indians, although they had torn the mattress to pieces. Two vears later the colonel's head was restored to the family bv ., .' .' Judge Swan to whom this office had been entrusted by the Hudson's Bay Company. It was obtained from the Indians, and was interred with his body in the cemetery near the Ebey home. For several years thereafter, no northern Indian ever set foot on \Vhidby Island and lived to return to his native northern homl:'. • PIONEER PRIVAl'IONS AND PLEASURES By Flora A. P. Engle Island County (Whidby Island) The earliest settlers of \Vhidby Island, arriving about 1851, were called upon to endure what persons of the present generation would consider hardships. Much of the low land on Ebey's Prairie was quite wet and gTown up to tules and fern, with some light brush. In some of the clear spots the Indians had raised a few potatoes and the 118
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Logging in Mason County Told by the
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INDEX Benton, 149 Benton, Maine, 16
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INDEX Cold Spring Canyon, 13 Colfax
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INDEX Engle, A. W., Mrs., 51 Engle,
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INDEX Hays, Logan, 82 Hearn, Lamber
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INDEX Ketchikan, Alaska, 127 Kimbal
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INDEX Second National Bank, Colfax,
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INDEX Touchet Valley, 134, 135, 150
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INDEX Yakima River, 15 Yakima Valle
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