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Told by the Pioneers being unable to loosen the fishline. The fish was well hooked, and towed Seesal several hundred yards before another Indian came to his rescue and towed him ashore, canoe and all. The two Indians pulled the fish to the beach, and as it raised up in shallow water, displayed whiskers on its chin. Seesal had hooked a seal. In describing his fishing, Seesal said, "Mel' ticky salmon, seal him ticky sm£'lt. Me gettum hyas bath." ·When David Shelton landed on his later townsite, it ,,-as covered by brush and timber as thick as hair on a eat's tail. It was raining, the creek was full of water and dog salmon and occasionally silversides. The Indians camped on the creek all fall, catchillg salmon and drying them. After eating dried salmon and smoked clams all "inter, an Indian could be smelled on a warm day as far as an acti\'e skunk. Uncle Dabby, as the Indians called David Shelton, was depended upon for their" supalell" or flour. In return they gave Uncle Dahby many a fine haunch of venison or a prime salmon. Newspaper Comes to Shelton Years later, Grant Angle, then a young man, came to Shelton to establish a newspaper. He started the Mason County Jouma!. At that time most of the prominent oystermen on Oyster bay were married to Kloochmen, or Indian women, so to start his paper right :311'. Angle concluded to get up a book or pamphlet with photos and biographical sketches of Mason County pioneers. ·When he arrived on Oyster bay he was embarrassed by the wealth of detail of pioneer life, as the squaw men had beell married Indian fashion and several of the older pioneers had been married to several different squaws. I helped Grant get the biog-raphical sketches of the squaw men, but Grant slid over the marriage question. Also the papoose population. The Indians in those days on Oyster bay had a habit when one of the Indians got sick, of sitting up with him, and not only sat up, but they beat tin cans and wailed night and day to drive the devil out of the patient. They were successful most times, of not only driving out the devil, but the life of the Indian as well. One of the local Indians was Two Horse. He looked more like a mule with his big ears and feet as big as a small suit case. He was always hunting. When I became a game warden we had to arrest Two Horse for violating the game laws. He bucked and kicked about until we handcuffed him. Bagpipe Charley Hildebrand Among the residents of Oyster bay was Charles Hildebrand. He was a long, lean, hungry-looking man, who wore long hair down his back, and a buckskin suit. He was a perfect picture of Buffalo Bill gone to seed. He had a bagpipe and was a fine player. 'Vhen he first 221
Told by the Pioneers played this moaning instrument upon his arrival, he was a mile across the waters. ·When he began moaning before pulling out some of the minor keys of the bagpipe, I thought it ·was another sick Indian across the bay, and by the sounds, the Indian would die before morningbut there were few smarter men in Thlason County than Bagpipe Charley. He claimed to have been chief piper for Queen Victoria, and he evidently wore the same suit of buckskin he had worn before the • Queen. Charley had been in many Indian wars, carried dispatches for Generals Reno and Custer, and had been in the ~lodoc war in Southern Oregon and Northern California, where he had exchanged shots with Shagnasty Jim. Charley sold his oyster holdings for a cool hundred thousand dollars, later, and we lost track of him. Upon leaving Oyster bay, we moved to Olympia in 1900 and a year or so later we became game warden of Thurston county. In 1907 we moved to Bandon, Oregon, and became a game warden under .John W. Baker. After working in Oregon until the great war broke out, we moved to Pacific county, vVashington, and worked as a marshal in the shipyards, then game warden of Pacific county, for nearly fifteen years. Then we resigned as game warden after thirty years of the work in Oregon and Washington states, among the hills and valleys, watching for game violations. That we were successful goes without saying, after making 1,700 arrests in the two states. ISAAC V. MOSSMAN (My Father) Isaac V. Mossman, aged 82 years, an Oregon pioneer and one of the foremost Indian fighters and pony express riders of the state, died Thursday at Roseburg. In the death of Mr. Mossman there passes one of the best known men of pioneer days. He was born in Indiana, August 8, 1830, and came to Oregon by ox team in 1853, arri,-ing at Oregon City, October 20. Mr. Mossman carried the mail from Oregon City to Scottsburg, on the Umpqua river, in October, 1855, when he went to The Dalles. There, learning that the Indian agent at the Yakima reservation had been murdered by the Indians, he enlisted in Company G, first regiment, Oregon mounted volunteers, of which A. N. Armstrong was captain. After being mustered out of the company, he enlisted in Company B, second regiment of Oregon mounted volunteers, in command of Captain B. F. Burch. In April, 1861, he started a "pony express" to the Orofino mines, and soon after its establishment took in Joaquin Miller as a partner. 2 ...... ??
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Told by the Pioneers Port Townsend,
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Page 221 and 222: INDEX Benton, 149 Benton, Maine, 16
Page 223 and 224: INDEX Cold Spring Canyon, 13 Colfax
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Page 229 and 230: INDEX Ketchikan, Alaska, 127 Kimbal
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Page 235 and 236: INDEX Second National Bank, Colfax,
Page 237 and 238: INDEX Touchet Valley, 134, 135, 150
Page 239: INDEX Yakima River, 15 Yakima Valle
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