CHAPTER XIII.

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ia Indians, concluded.—“ The Waiilatpu massacre.—The thriiung
he story of one who, as a girl, was an eye witness, and then taken
‘he away as a prisoner.— Forebodings of the murderous outbreak.
It; 4 —Friendly warnings given.—The dying hours of Dr. and Mrs.
ds 4 Whitman.”—Mission life among the Indians.—As the Indians
ing were in 1852; and then in 1856.—Death of Chief Kanaskat.—How
tle- a Indians are preserved. — How “civilization” was introduced to the
Avo 4 natives of South and Central America.
ea 4
low CHAPTER XIV.
— 9 Home building narrative resumed.—Improve homestead claim
1001 4 as I had the other.—The market, ete.—My herds of cattle, horses,
4 hogs, ete. —Great prosperity.—Railroads built from tide water;
4 freights, ete—Immigration.—Further enlargement of my home
4 and business by leasing, fencing and breaking a quarter section of
i a school land.—Copy of the lease and receipt for second year’s pay-
ue 7 ment on the same.—The law and custom as to it—Confirmed by
ie q Congress.—Serve as county road viewer and on first grand jury
whe q of Columbia County, and learn something. — Road supervisor of a
waa 7 twenty-mile uistrict.—A review, and what I have learned about
hee 4 farming, ete.—The best economy while“ serpents are at the udder.”
dian
it of CHAPTER XV.
hrms Land jumping.—First serious case in the “ France settlement.”
and —Our graveyard started.—The “ poor man’s friend.”—Street fight
the ’ with a jumper. —- “Hurrah for Whetstone Hollow.” Public senti-
q ment as to such cases.--When the courts and press stand in with
the people, and when against them.—Land sharks.—How petty
thieves are shot down with impunity.—Home wreckers; how my
prosperity made me an object of envy and ravage.—A murderous
plage conspiracy by gentlemen with great influence at court to jump my
ee pre-emption and school land portions of my well-earned, improved
W * and stocked home.—The lying pretexts that were invented and
a used as a blind; jump all the water, etc., on my place.—“If you
es want any water, dig for it !”— Wanted to get me into their conrts.
me —How I repossessed my own.—‘“ Will fix you by helping H.,
sie : jump your school land !”—How I had befriended them.—“Damned
i. ‘ be he who first cries hold: enough! ”—Tries to drive me off wit’:

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agrees to quit—How I was performing my homage against a
lurking foe.—His object.—Is set to resume the conflict.—“ An out-
rage for one man to own all the land, and the water too.”—“ Will
settle it with an ounce of lead,” ete.—Boasts of his backing and
influence—‘ We will make it hot as hell for you now.”—“ I have
taken your school land, E—, your pre-emption, and by G—d! we
will soon have a man on your homestead !”—A man loans me his
pistol for defense, and then eggs on the jumper.—The lying gang.
—‘ But truth shall conquer at the last.”—Jumper’s many wicked
threats.—Try to have him bound over to keep the peace.—My
instructions from the peace officer—*“ Be prepared to defend your-
self and sow the ground.”—He loans me seed for the purpose.—
“There comes [Jumper] now with a gun!”—“Let us go out and
see what he is going to do with it.”—“I don’t care a damn what
he does with it..—How he followed me around the field with a
cocked carbine in both hands.—Quits and has a secret conference
with the man who did not care a damn what he done with his gun.
—‘T ask you as a friend and neighbor to quit sowing wheat and
leave the field, for there is going to be trouble! ”—“ Look out for
him, now!”—Belches out at the end of a stream of profanity,
“turn back! leave the field! and don’t come back nary time!”—
“T will fix you!” crack, bang/—TI will kill you!” crack, bang/—
I return the fire in rapid succession, thus saving my life.— Positive,
certain, incontrovertible proof as to the same.—How he missed me by a
scratch !—“There, France is shot!”—The lying gang.—“Where
logic is invented and wrong is called right.,—Am charged with
murder !—The would-be assassin, home ravager and ravisher is
shielded, venerated and revenged by his gang.—“If by this means
we further our cause, the private assassin deserves our applause.”
—Am thr wn into jail without a hearing —Held in jail near ten
inonths be :ging and demanding a trial; can never get either a
trial or hi ‘ing.—“ Virtue distressed” could get no protection
here—Am_ etrayed, sold and given away.—“ His glories lost, his
cause BetR YED!”—Shanghaied to the gang’s Bastile in double
irons.—“ Ol] | ’twas too much, too dreadful to endure !”—“ He jests at
scars that ever felt a wound!”—‘Is this then,” thought the
youth, “is this the way to free man’s spirit from the deadening
sway of worldly sloth; to teach him while he lives to know no
bliss but that which virtue gives?”—Examples of other cases, and
what the law is.—My case as established, and the law, etc., as to
the same.

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