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Told by the Pioneers I then made up my mind to run away. So I got permission to g'o to Bawfaw to work. I went to Bawfaw horseback, stayed over night at grandfather's. Uncle Mart had just begun to cut hay. He wanted me to go to work. I told him I was going to run away from home. He tried to coax me to stay; but I was determined to go, so I left my horse and saddle for him to send home, and I struck out across the old Cowlitz trail with one dollar and fifty cents in my pocket. I footed it to Monticello on the Cowlitz River. There I got a job sawing wood. I worked a few days, then I got a job as deck hand on the Steamer Multnomah, running between Portland and Astoria. I worked there long enongh to get money to take me to The Dalles, Oregon. There I found Henry Blodgett. He and I went to work digging wells. ,Ye worked in The Dalles until October, then we started down the Columbia River looking for a place to hunt through the winter. ,'Te located fifteen miles above the Cascades on the Oregon side of the river, at :Moffatt's wood yard. }loffat wanted us to work a while. ,Ye did some carpenter work for him, and then cut wood a while, before we went hunting. I went to The Dalles between Christmas and New Year. The steamer froze in at The Dalles and the snow was so deep I could not get back. Board got up to $14 per week. Joe Guthrie and I got some grub and went out to Glaze's mill, twenty-five miles south of The Dalles, and fed his oxen for the use of his house. The snow got to about four feet deep on the level and then crusted almost hard enough to hold a man's weight. In ~larch I went to Mud Spring, between the DesChutes and .Tohn Dav Rivers to hold down a location for a hotel for Masker and Glass. • At that time the Indians were hostile in that section. Some miners started from the John Dav mines to The Dalles. The Indians at- • tacked them and killed six or seven of the miners. 'When a company of volunteers went out from 'rhe Dalles the flesh had been cut off the bodies as though it had been eaten. I stayed in my little 6x8 foot tent, all alone for six weeks. Several times I could hear the Indians drumming. As soon as the snow went off, Masker and Glass hauled out lumber nnd we put up a house and Masker's family moved out there. I and Mrs. Masker and two girls ran the hotel all summer. It was a good stand. ,Ve fed as many as eighty-two in one day. Masker went to Carabao and Glass ran his sawmill and I ran the twenty-mile house • till fall, then I came home and visited m~- folks after having been gone eighteen months. I had six hundred dollars in gold when I got home. I was very 101
Totd by the Pioneers proud of 'what I had done, and m~' parents seemed well pleased. I remained at home till February 18th, that being my 20th birthday. They gave me a dinner, and this time I did not run away, but bid them all goodbye and went away happy. I went to The Dalles and went to work for Robert Earl driving team on the portage between The Dalles and DesChutes. Stayed on Portages till June, then loaded five wagons for Boise mines. 'Ve got from twenty to twenty-eight cents a pound for hauling freight to the Boise mines. Part of our load was for a little Jew in Bannock City. He became uneasy about his goods and started out to meet us on horseback. About four miles out of town, two highwaymen stopped him and asked him for his money. He only had $7 with him, so they gave it back to him, and told him to ride on and not look back. He met us at noon and he was so scared he could scarcely eat dinner. • 'Ve delivered our goods in Bannock City and Placerville. The freight on our five loads came to over $7,000. Our little Jew sold out his store and came with us down to rmatilla; also a man and family of seven hv the name of Bevus. "We came west over the mountains • until we struck the Piute (Payette) Hi'·er. There was no road till we came to this river. The second morning out from Bannock City we met five men on horseback. Our little Jew recognized two of them as the men that had held him up as he came to meet us. I was sure I saw some of these men where we had unloaded our goods. They knew we had a good hunch of money, and they wanted it. ,cre were all armed and on the lookout. The first morning we started down the Piute we came across a man sitting by the road with his head all bloody. He told us he had started home to the Grande Ronde Valley, to his family. He had heen to the mines, had two horses and camp outfit and $1545. He came to this cabin and there were four or five men camped there, so he had stopped also. After dark he went down the road to look after his horses. He put his big' purse with $1500 under a flat rock and went back to camp near the cabin. Next morning his horses were gone. He went to the cabin to ask about them, and while talking, one of the men struck him from behind over the head. 'Vhen he revived, his $45 saddle and blanket were also gone, and the cabin deserted. So he sat down by the road to wait for someone to come along. 'Ve were the first to come, so he told us his story and asked Bob Earl if he would bring him to LaGrande. Bob told him "ves". He and Bob • went in search of the purse and found it and the money he had hidden. He accompanied us to LaGrande. 102
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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 Montgomery, William (Bill), 1
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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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