The Oregon Daily Journal from Portland, Oregon • Page 28

THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 24, 1809. LOOKING TO DAYS OF "FIRST OREGON BACKWARD Second CLap ter of Captain Rinenarts Recollections i of Oregon Organization and Review of C. Small Stream Wort During tne Sixties--Personal Account of Border.

Day Experiences -r F. .1.1,1.. .1,. This. is the second and last installment of Captain W.

V. Rinehart's account of the First Oregon cavalry. The Sunday Journal of last week published the first tory of this famous organization. The two stories form an article of historic value, for it comes from the pen of one who. was present during the happenings that made history in the '60s.

Am lin.a dlan scouts were sent out to look for hostilds and about noon one returned re. porting that thy had been, fired upon by the Snakes and one of their number nMia. a hasty dash upon the hostile about six miles away, but he ground was so rocky we could make no speed, and be- fore we reached their camp a heavy smoke ahead was noticed and they were burning camp and would be gone before to our camp we prepared tor a long chase and took their trail at daylight next day. At noon we, reached the south fork of John Day at the mouth of Murderer creek and were eating hasty lunch when the Indians fired upon us from a high bluff across the river, andpack mules were turned over to Company and removed down stream, while Company A was deployed a skir- mlshers In the open woods fronting the Indians. KulIetS Strike UllttS.

It soon hecam nnimnt that whilst Called GlbbS Creek in honor of our governor of that name, re.a-- VLf A Iace'Wher Jordan creek jnterfl tne Owyhee, only a few months ilJ6160 Chine6 and captured tne team a that wra hurnU a a -w a.v we mi lUftllVi fbout the same time the Chinese were killed DLiS 5 stage at Rock creek the route from The iT.vfi nyn. ty, ur. Besides killing tne tage horses and a passen- ox 'wn'ch they broke open and ripping open the buckskin bags emptied the. gold dust on the tBdd took ba. On account of this and, similar raids upon -tne settlers at JBurat- Ranch and ottj V16.

the route, Lleuten- "Jf" Company from Fort Dalles 10 "oru remain until the ca.mp,?'vH lLV.I-'lf.i Chief JPaullna made a raid into i2 kimng a settler or. two fouj' Miller's miad ui.Uier. qua. Lieutfnnt Wmmin mni tn Aft tj- ti By TV- V. Rlnehart SERVICE Fort Dalles was brief but Ions- enouirh.

for me Drier, put long enougn lor me to get acquainted with a yeung lady who became my 1 wue a year later. seingxpro- tnoted captain, I was assigned to com- mand of Compan. A. succeeding Cap- t.7,; w.r-i i lTt tain Harris, dismissed at Boise. I went to Vancouver and was mustered De- t-emher Br I86J? returning, rriv.rf Walla Walla, January 8, 1S64, where one of the first duties assigned my com pany.was march with Company E.

unaer captain Surrey, to renawawa. where the' Indiana had fired unon some minora l-urn-vl Ih.lr.iMn mr.A them to seek assistance from the mlll iirv. Uance in Barracks. It -Februarv 22 and w. were fcav- ing a bi dance In one of the vacant barracks About midnight order came for 'Companies A and B-tO be in the saddle at daylight.

Some of us had on. i and Judge Joaquin Miller camp- naimn ran inw mn seen s.rixinr tne ciirr iu reet Deiow tne orxanlsed rnmnnnv af CD minora and wnnro m- onaiiw worp nosuies. wnen we nao. Deen linn ror, organasea a company or miner, ana entrenched against a low cliff of half an volley from Company a th i i i i i 4 flrlnar them, as our. bullets Vould Te creek near the Indians.

Thl. lSf. Av Columbia fell upon him. He romtly partner, living miles away in the How they, ever got home has not Absence of up the trough -McCali'. JickeU about $1200 were pajd by.

r.s- lK ur command. From Camp Henderson, night. Captain Curry marched his Drake's mmminil to Dalies then or ort Klamath July nV0. .11 r.uroiV over the route we had gone their "defeaY; and wtibllshed a tial du tv fo? October 20 Ai Captain Mc Brothar. Jonathan while on his way from San Francisco to take command of the newly created department of th Columbta, comprising the former dia 7-.

try would never have done service wor thy of being; recorded In history. the earliest military, occupation of the Oregon country. It had been the settled policy of the-war department to send troops Into the Indian country only in Walla Walla, The Dalles and Fort Van. couver for winter quarters. The ex cessive cost of transportation of sup- flies across the Blue mountains from the Columbia river, about 18 cents per pound even in summer, had been urged as the principal reason for auch a Conditional 'Second Lieutenant Ivan Applegate was reorultlng for the First Oregon cavalry and Conditional Second Lieutenant Stephen Rlgdon for th? First Oregon infantry, both of whom were re- porting to me.

and I was clothing, feed- porting to me. at llltr linri Trillin- ana ariuing their fipnernl Clrant txjam afnlihn'in1 llrktlns General Lee in 1 Wllrinrnoam nm. r.iT armed on Long Tom and Sluslaw. Secret service men employed by the provost marshal. Lieutenant Colonel English, were reoortinar to at mv ii.iirnr rendevous.

Fearing an open outbreak. 5S.VJ' rjrtth his two companies (B And F) of' fif In.antvii a disturbance-which might occur. Then nu. unur vu auuuifsi any came the assassination of President! When Uan Uii 1 T'tetrf a 1 ar n.i vM l--v. and rejoicing over the lassasaina- tlon President Lincoln, thereby dts- ir rhAPlnir rnr couragmg enlistments.

Under TT. i -Under order, from nrovost maTshaJ. Lieutenant Colonel I sent Mulkey to Fort-Vancouver, where he re- 4i. fu-uu, when he was with all other civilian prisoner. order, from the wa department.

81i.5aJl!8: 2r lasting nearly. three year, in the civil courts, gave mm muon puDllo notoriety nd me much trouble and cost at a time WllMl Wftfl fit Ml Trl in AT to Crot naur tt civil lTF.r-"Congr... Anally came to my relief In so far as to end vain Tha WVa hmn urove, a lew miies Deiow me post. na was adjourned to Talnax on f.P' river, a xew aays' marcn up t1BWofbM1lffi Sch Lk ftnd on frl-ndly terms with the Modocs. This move wa.

Intended Snat eam from KlamaVh lake' VVULIIiatV lUUStlinenaa aIU bSSSVUKIl 111 IU n.nt.in hia i.r-in.a i I Ve un thelt country and accept the reservation Tea their home reservation XS tnCir Home. Ir -J. Tha Tbfrlr-a w.ra nr h. Vlam- i u. Ii U(I.

nw.v DIltTlIlir. .11. th r.n- tn th. tr.ic V.rir'l ami The lat9ri ln whlch, wAeT fc of Oeneral Canby and Dr. Thomas were assassinated, superintendent A.

B. Meacham scalped, and Agent Dyer r. t.v Schonehin. Bharnaaty Jim and Scarface Charley were hanged for this -crime and th other Modocs were sent in exile to Sian Territory. Thus closed the Mo- -i v' The treaty over Cantain Snraeua with xno ireaiy over, v-aptain oprsgue Wlin most of his company was sent to con- upon the election as a "divine Interposi- tlon to heal the breach between Kansas and Missouri." Cameron had never for- gotten the days of border warfare, and Imarlned them as fresh in the minds of others.

On this Journey he walked to New York, traveled up and down Long Island visiting old scenes, went then to Washington- to see Harris take his seat and turned back to Kansas by the route he had taken In 1864. He went to St. Loui. and followed the river to Kansas City, going thence to Lawrence and Camp Ben Harrison. in a wnen tne war witn spam be- C'a mrn r.U..

tendered his services as a volunteer. uruvf-mur i-ircuy ioiu nim ne nau uone enough fighting for one life. Famous as a 1 i ring up the Dy supply camp whlch he; named Camp ieave of absence. I went to Oregon City "i lIJj fn 2Z First Oreaon lnfantr were late xeltini vapiain osrryi jnnirj Aivoro, aner our uenera Aiyoro. men wa.

marrloa to Amanda S. Gaines "t- riia.ant frontl-r ratnns. iiel haCS irV tSt de un Surgeon was a major in r.1"V"1- nolnt hn.rd.hln anH severe nrivatlons. i i mi un nr iihiti. iarr noninri in pnorra aniain kb rrv oecuu iu uvaviia nit li ca i ul yet been settled In my There was There was enow on the ground and the weather wa bitter cold.

Weferried acros. Snake river at the mouth of the Palouse, nri M.n Indiana fin. k-rt into camp from their camp op the Paloiiss. anxious to learn our destination. They were made to understand that we were -V 1a.a4 re 11.

wW l. at to satisfy their curiosity. Soon after dark we were again In the saddle and (on our way up Snake river toward the scene of the recent trouble. Near mid- nirht we eamned on a narrow bar be- tween a. bluff and the river diiut ana tne river.

Indiana Arrested. xnaiana Arresteo. During our morning nap the guard arrested some Indian horsemen lng- from the uprlver camp. They taken with us next day and held night Before daylight we eroacbed within a mile of the camp, where we awaited the morning in a concealed position surrounded their camp of about without having seen inoian. A.

voiiey irom one piatoon or 1 1 with hands raised in token of surrender. In our search for arms we found three wounded from the effect volley, vve louna inrer ot ine marauaers wno were recognised by our miners as of the party who bad fired at them and ft .1. 4. it. i.

vir Mkltii "of them, w- took thsm with ua to Fort Walla. Walla C3 ST and turned them over to the sheriff. Shortly after our Lieutenant Colonel English, First Washington ter- ritory lniantny, tnen in commarja or me fiosi. sent nis oraeny ror me one morn- ne and. upon reaching his headauar- r' Itiir v7: ters, he read to me the order Just re- t'S? "ie.

First post, jrTivate or company Oregon cavalry, ehall be shot to jaa.u with musketry. Spiritual Comfort As his company commander. I was directed to inform him of the fact and olfer-hlm the "benefit of Clergy." He woawau hi. anirit.i Chose ather BOSWell a. hi.

Spiritual dviser. Rev. Boswell was a Methodist; were hd P- Indian light of It "it a single 'nrton territory infantry, then stationed th though living in town, ottfn viUed nl daughter at the post. and on occasions visited the men In their quarters and acted as volun- teer chaplain, as the time approached an(j ,,1 Rev Bos we 11 not to come to aee him, as he had sent for the Catholic priest. For three days before the fatal Friday no passes were allowed, even to viit th tVm nnlv ml1 nwiv.

Cheok roll call of every company was held after mldnirtht each nleht. when the captain and sergeant quietly stole "om ounx to ounx cnecKing on ine name, to that every man was in hi. am. Believing a respite iw. or uniiiDiT Brieve.

WOUld CO me at the Colonel Mury. at Fort Dalles, dered men from Company tr -t tirH- Vir11- 1 i MTC 'iVi. 176 miles, to serve as couriers to carry forward the looked fororder from Gen- Am I 11 rn at fifl bha. la.M.arcn. and wMU there was a dally boat rom Tort- icib- ine aosence or tne couriers irom com- pany A mode its allotment for the fir- rf hllt In but four, while Company EJ furnished six, all under command of Second Lieutenant Silas Pepoon of nnmnanv a B-nWn 1 infantry formed the reserve firing party.

As the hour of 3 o'clock p. m- approached the batallion of tout com. panles followed by the firing parties and the cart in which sat Klv on his lch sat Ely on his and ridlnx back- A rouxh board coffin and ridlnx back- i fu. of mri mlC lB I either side the cart corrail which was br a he formation there high board fence. Th campaign now aneaa or our cavairy, Mnlll, ma.

A V. rl My favorite horse, "Charley," was of "George" stock, a good traveler, and had been tralm 00 andUe awav 'JSiii ft norm, surprised to find that every dered a charxe. Charley ran me and could, not be halted until he V- a-. Ir faddk p. a.

lnilnnA4 tne cenwary. Best In nnmij ui iu my men in 1 i .1 their search tor a horse with which to beat a 600 rao. offered them, had found Charley to be the best one ln the stables, and without consulting me thev naa trained ana xroomea mm un. til his old time traits were fully: veioped and ha won tne race. Karty May we started out for the suniner campaign.

Our force under command Companies A and First Oregon cav airy, 20 Umatilla scouts under their war -chief Umahowiisn, and Captain Barry's company. First Washington Ter- i.f.ni.. frnm Vnrt Our objective point was what we af- aside on the heap with the rubbish. I don't take any such chances here. This is my.

own world. I cannot lose or become outyeared he said. "Yet I cannot lose Interest In the world, even If I must sner at many of the things it Insists on doing. Even if I will not expose myself to Its kicks, I was ln It too long to forget, and so I go out occasionally to show what one who Is removed from it and impartial thinks of its So Cameron went back into the world again and again, whenever he believed there was occasion. He was always referred to ln Kansas as the Kansas hermit.

Everyone knew and believed he understood Cameron, and no one ever held him as anything else than a noteworthy and perhaps famous, if peculiar, figure ln Kansas. He was, indeed, the connecting link between a bloody and not unherolc past and the new, having lost none of the boldness of the old and kept pretty well abreast of the new. Cameron was horn ln New1 Y6rk state of parents whose nationality his name will attest and would prove even If Byron had forgotten to write: "And wild and high the 'Cameron Gathering rose!" Young Cameron was 38 years old In 1S54 when he was sent to Kansas with other anti-slavery men from Massachusetts and other states where the movement was gaining ground. Among r1 TT 1 T-vrr rhTcondeVnedVlVcln oartles at 10 Daces In the onen fourth can was drawn down over hi. eve.

and one volley sent four ball, through hi. heart. His body was carted away by ttoTO. In preparation for the long summer i last moment. hurt .1 tere.

ana oover the stolen stock. They set out expecUng to find the Indian, in vallev: 3S milaa IZ'VJ!" just before overtaking the Indians, Bieam irom a. not snrinr was miBUKfri for smoke from a cainnfTre. Lieutenant Waytnlre sent out Sergeant Casteel and iwo otners oc nis men 10 oring in a rfloori tne nronanie Birnn-rin orina supposed camp. Shortly after the men large force of warrior, several hundred large force of warrior, several hundred In number, and driven back until night, ut or.

the skillful handling of his men by Lieutenant Waymire, it wa. said th- whni forra niiiri hean slaughtered. A. it was, only three were kW na a few wounded. But it wm To punish these Indians unaer lamina ana we-ow-we-waw.

wno were supposed also to have killed the 8 0 Chinese, our force was to strike one side while Captain J. M. Drake th Companies and and SO men of Company-H, under Lieutenant Wat- ot company under lieutenant wat- Bon ax' 20 Warm Bpii.ngs soouts under rhief would a rrh from on nd to Warm Bpri.ngs scouts under Cblrf Stockwhltley would march from T.o lie- a.rllr-k th. Tnrllona flfim oppo-IU Barry with his. infantry had been left In Keportea Attack.

Am "Upon our return to Camp Henderson a seUler had Just arrived from Jordan vaUesr t0 Mk hel" 10 "POrted attack upon the few whites then in that v.nev. In charxe valley. Leaving our in charge of Caotaln Barry's infantry Dotn com- to find that it was a false alarm. In- formation gained from the settlers, how- ever, seemed to indicate that tne in- nian. were In camp near Three Forks of nt.h wa.

ani- with romnanv Owyhee, I was sent, with Company A to tneJr, location ana 1 watch them while I sent back for more troops. After, three days, search wlth- out finding ajy Indiana; we returned to camp to una it aoanaonea. it was dark when we camp and wo wereait' nungry, navmg cameo oniy cooked rations, which usually mean only half rations. After a long search following Jt as best we in the dark we reached their camp after mid- night, to rina tne inaian ecouts still engagd In their scalp dance over the ralm taken frnm hit if Rn.k. an.mi.a killed ln Captain Currey's engagement the men who went with him was D.

R. Anthony, the late Kansas editor, who waa destined to become as noted a figure Cameron in the Kansas territory. Wing Honors in Early Days. The party made the usual voyage of those, days to St. Louis, took a river steamer there and made their way lip the Missouri to Leavenworth, then he metropolis and only real settlement in Kansas.

Lawrence, afterward the territorial capital, also was beginning to be noticed then as one of the poles about which free state men might gather, and Cameron made his way to Lawrence. There he homesteaded his little quarter section on 'the bluff overlooking the Kan as river. Young Cameron had studied law In the office of Salmon P. Chase, later President Lincoln's secretary of state. He knew men and affairs through his distinguished employer, and he was a particular admirer of the Harrisons.

Away out In the Kansas wilderness Cameron called his home "Camp Ben Harrison." The biutf later got the name of Cameron's fBluff, and there, Just a plea-ant walk from where the buildings of the University of Kansas came to be clustered, Hugh Cameron, western pio TT Tn a -w-r-l r--r -w r- -r. Thru Fnrlr. it Annliu arrived from'Fort Boise with dispatches from headquarters at Vancouver, whlctl changed the order of our wholtf cam- PnA Intead of operating as two lAnaraU. fnrnAa "hh vnt.in r. and Captain Drake's oommands were or.

dered to unite at once and. the whole force" under Captain Currey to proceed after, and punish-If possible, the In dlans under Chiefs Paulina and Ws-ow- we-waw. This change wae brought of Captain Drake's command under First-Lieutenant McCall on Crooked river, above fltockwhltley scouts Spied out a camp of Snakes tin- der Paulina and reported to Drake that there were about 40 of the hostiles. Drake at once detailed Lieutenant Mq- tenant' Watson with a like number from Company and the 20 Indian cout to surprise and punish the Bn.kA Under cover of night McCall's force approached within a mile of the Snake caip, awauing aayiignt, iie planned his a'ttack from three sides. the Blue mountains forming the fourth th nmitinn n.r.r.

rhtM Jwsk had been built high enough to pro- rJUrLr. J- XL1 w'it' Son annroiiK. rhUrom a behind the cliff, could not nee their In- 1 Withhold iH.lnn. l.kh.U 4t a ntutam ivhumciu iuom u- til Watson', men were close, then n- am waison ana live men, ana mrowinii his force back in then en the flank of the were then en tne ii tne hostiles and In position to enfilade their defenses. Turning from Watson to gtockwhitlev.

the hostiles killed him Ana wounaea causing tne scout, to fly to McCall -Who had halted t6 capture the horses or the enemy. The recall was sounded and a courier sent to Drake for reinforcements. Demoralised Drake for reiniorcements. Demoraitsea as the troops were. MoCall attempted to mrmnnri tha hnatllAa ind hnM than, fin- as the troops were.

McCall attempted to surround the hostile, and hold them un- .11 T.r-1.-. hi. a 1 .1 a a but when" "he" did" arrlv. the" hostiles were all gone, having mutilated and rr' V. rr' 5nd for Harney lake, where we were to meet Caotaln Drake's command.

We passed over Steins mountain, crossed erl 'Hg turning on the north side to the mouth of river. Here we laid over on Dlnen -i. th. or se.v.e "7" on JU1W IU IIIUII UU III UO ICl SVllaB CSVIIU colnmBna- Paeearl abaa Drake nad passed the lakes on the Cll "ur tain. tnAiiht.tn Vi WOO V.

VW.1IGI "--v so named by Waymire and Miller and aiterwara tne permanent site or camp Harney, on July 8. Here we the Fourth of July. We then marched as Bear valley, so named because of our men killing a large cinnamon bear In full view of the marching column. From Bear valley we turned west and crossed rh. annth TV, T.

thence over a high -rldxe to Pauline neer, made himself a home that wa. to be a refuge from the world. Hardly had the camp been built when the border warfare began. Soon Quan-trell raided but forgot Cameron's Bluff. There were a few seasons of cruel border war, a few massacres, and then civil conflict.

Cameron enlisted on the side of the north. He fought from beginning to 'end in the war, earned a brigadier general's epaulets and went back to Camp Ben Harrison to live in his little border cabin with a thatched roof, no plaster and cold breeses. Backs Greeley for President. Cameron became a freighter across the Kansas prairies for the gold and sliver miners in Colorado. He became interested in Kansas politics and soon drifted out into national affairs.

He had known Chase, and through him Lincoln, Webster and Henry Clay. When he went back to Washington there was another set of men. Andrew Johnson was president. Grant was the looming and Horace Greeley the r.axt of the constellation. Then Camerpn came to know Carl Bchurs of Missouri and others of that famous group in the late day.

of the reconstruction, and their influence -war- Price. "Some of the missives have eome from Caneda am. others from the mid- die west but the bulk are from Mich- Igan town." A nt tRmmnrllnir fnn utnA nthnf supplies Rogue River (valley to the Thl road passed within short distance of "I-ake Sublfln it wafl then called. Annie Gii Drnun in itmnanv wi tVn iaKe Huoiimny os ne. ana fountain Oliver Applerate and others, VlBlted this lake and claimed the honor of belngr the first of their sex to dip their trends Into its placid waters.

The Huaiaaa have since nanved it Crater lake, From his road buildlrJg Captain a detachment of First Oregon! cavaly to establish and. occupy Camp Alvord, and his company was among tne last of the volunteers to quit the erilce, being mustered out in June. 187. volun- teer officers had discussed the Indian problem around their campflres and In years, and were now all greed that in no other way could the hostile be subdued finally and former excepk- by occupying their country permanently at whatever cost. No settlement in their country eeuld become; permanent so long as-tne settlers were jorcea 'T," kinrv vlnlir trt nma distant for Mafftfv.

By the loss of General Wright and the subsequent muster-out of Colonel Kauiy -Z irst ftrron Colonel George B. Currey, Jirst Oregon Infantry, became the ranklng-offlcer and, Command of the department decided to tet bur volunteer theory, of inf- tiArr tn irtniRn emin- try- ana conquering 11 ay poBHja.u. i i 1 fc. 11 If- ilurlncr hia hrlef enmmand 'Colonel Cur i.4 rantie. dt- department to the extreme frontier, tit- rectinr the establishment of camp, in the Winter home, of the bostiles.

These r.ihne were established so late in au- were.esiaousnea so tumn that they could not be broken up or the troop, recalled, for the snow on the Cascades and Blue mountain, had 1 "T-- LJ1 uu; cm otiuiuu.iiuiii the, movement was fully reported and understood at Washington, D. C. This bold move of Colonel Currey, for wnloli ne was severely censurea oy war department, and -resigned from the service In consequence, was in fact the "beginning of the of our Indian troubles. Camps Alvord. Wright, Colfax, Cur rey, Bruneau, Watson, Logan.

Three ever fell to the lot of the Oregon cav alry. A. evidence that their camps had been properly selected, namely, in the Indians' winter homes. Chief Paulina, the terror of the whole frontier. t-3SE frA.mtVrVumabefore Th rL.rf ib JLVl Condition end wefe fed by me from-gov ernment stores, uney never ioox me war oath acaln.

but after Chief Pau- been killed by Howard Mappin at Antelope valley, they gave up their "A i 11. a Ufa n.1 v-nhnnf1-ra end set VI. lag-wuituM. wiu Mainour reservation, wnere'as inaian annt. fait fnr ax vein th; these same In dians whom I had fouxht for four years.

The success attending the vigorous work of these small garrisons thrust unexpectedly into the very, heart of their winter homes not only demoralised the Indian, but cdmmanded the favorable attention of General George Crook who followed in command and was charged with the took of subduing the hostile Snakes and Plutes. Taking up the work where we left off, he followed our plan of campaign and in a few years strong settlements of hardy pioneers clustered around each of those small military camps, until, more than go year, ago not a spot In all the vast long and the hair 86. It was warm and when he worked on the farm the hermit braided It and stuffed his hair into his shirt. i rm i i Travel Episodes. From the Chicago News.

A travel-stained man registered at a Kansas hotel. "Bathr said the clerk. Yes," the traveler. Twenty minute, later the room telephone rang up the office and the trav- All "Say, was that bath" part of It a 'No: whvr "Not a particle of hot water here." "Well, that's too bad. I'll look after Jt You'll have hot water in IS mln- "P- "Well, that's too bad.

It'll be ready in 16 minutes." remark begins to Sound reminiscent I want my bath now or never." Fifteen minute, later. "No hot water yet Why don't you dp as you promise?" the porter has both furnaces going, I think here', the porter. Til send him up." The porter appears, 'rue traveler ex- rSS? coherent -III. wny. dubs.

tm ail a xni yo- nam 'N-no," said the hotel proprietor, "you ee, the parlor ain't been put up irlt en II m. 1 i but up" next Gnn With a lli.tory, From the" Kansas City Timea lhe modern sportsman who object, to irom a negro fanner, 80 year. old. who live, near that dace. The wae Sall ta hi.

mafr In TexiJ a double-barreled eight Aue Vhotgun! leaiiu iliaue, WC1KIIIIIK POUnfll, tniit barrels, muui remarkable stsrv. anil th. oii master, William Klmhrew. who was one It'lTTI. I 1 county, niade ma hy hard fight wit the gun against the Indian and Mexlna marluder.

la the old Texa. repubflfc that winter's service exceeded any mat he was also father-in-law of Captain terward named Camp Henderson, in at Sheep Rock valley, opening out to Crooked river, beginning of the First Oregon Infantry, struct a wagon road over the Cascade Inland empire could be called Indian Thompson of Company A. First Wash- honor of our then congressman, on a We learned that during our trip to The country wa. very rocky and we laid But for the untimely death of General mountain, to Rogue river to lessen the country. GEN.

CAMERON, THE MAN WHO SHUNNED SOCIETY Exiled Himself enc Lived Happily Alone for More TLan Half a Century Dies After All Many Miles Away From His Lonely Hut Won' Many Honors as Soldier anc? Pioneer three days, when we. lost the trail i. i i i i ihvur miu ivckb. mi riirfTiar. avins scattered.

We moved from Pauline val ley down Crooked river to a point near 2-m -mm --t if .4 I iy uver ine jesiue mounuuii i T.i 1 1 1 from where Camp Watson was soon after established. Here we camped for iy over ine 5iue mountain ouinwarnv aDOU ,9 wlth scouting parties scouring the country in an direction. Purlng this time I was confined to my ed front -the effect, of a fall off my th hill tthe attack at Murderer1 creek. was now October and wa crossed the ho Aouse her we smcciea tne nu mr wsison and left Company with Captain Small and Lieutenants Hand Nobis to, build and garrison the por Retraced March. Then Captain Currey retraced hie Si wW tner to Fort Walla Walla, Lieutenant orders from General Alvord and directed ranx, ana tnougn reguiany aeiauea oy il ---U-i 7.

X.IZI"'.."' IVT" i .7. i h. "oS th, maVch'to Fort Dalle. Cap! Drake olaced him und? arrest and v-" charKel ag.a)n.t colonel Cfa.IW.-. 3 J.

owuhhw niii--u i the courtmartlal which consisted of four staff and five line officers. On account af sickness Colonel Steinberer was un- Hlo in An. Trr.m XVallo Walla tL.r.htf vmg inn court wnn bui me-ii 1.1 i I 1 th. rl M.m. perg.

The charges set ud disobedience tk. i i i ua a. Evidence Seemed Conclusive. "w.m ov.ueu.- mu toijt ton- elusive, the doctor was acquitted upon ti vatt. tn offlrer.

vntln. fo tle tn.e "tarr T0. hlm na tle line against Returning to wife we were there barely two week. when I was ordered to Eugene City to take charge of a recruiting rendezvous, Captain Drake wae ordered to Balem.i I I banv on similar dutv. This was the made him a follower and friend a of Greeley.

In 1872 Cameron was editor of the Homestead Champion, the official Greeley organ. Cameron waa a certain quantity as a friend. His labor and his money went into the Greeley campaign, and when his idol came out defeated It Killed Greeley and had impoverished Cameron. The double blow was more than Cameron could bear. He had plenty of time for reflection, as he put it himself.

The question was whether to fight again or to quit the world, and Cameron quit. Thus, ln 1878 General Hugh Cameron, Intimate of the nation's great figures and distinguished soldier and editor, became a hermit For some years Cameron lived a secluded kind of a life, tilling his little farm or as much of It as he cared to clear of the trees he had known since the border days. Every four years, however, be came forth regularly- and started on a pedestrian pilgrimage to Washington to see the inauguration ceremonies. The peripatetic follower of political events walked there and back nine times to presidential inaugurations, but the most famous of his pilgrimages to the shrine where he 'had known the departed great was on tile occasion of the election of William A. Harris as senator from Kansas.

Harris waa an ex-confederate officer and a Democrat, and Cameron looked Uives rler Reasons Although Mr. Price has more letter. than he can answer, he ha. accepted Invitations to aid in spreading the movement over Ohio. 1 i Jy all Early in 1807 Camron appeared for utes." -another long migtioii.

One chill win-L'wrniteVu up a couple of ter morning the familiar figure of the times but the temperature isn't. hermit in hi. old blue army overcoat "Isn't whatt" and hi. red tosrobban can. Ma lonir whia.

kers floating about hia venerable head. appeared in the Kansas senate. He was escorted to the rostrum. Eighty year, had told on the muscle of the man, but not on the eye. or the remarkable voice.

He told the senate that he wa. a bail to start on a pilgrimage to Albuquer- 1 tho.hom8 or J-UIIIUIIII TV. RHM III I. I IKS 11. lljlt Hi liUULU iNU JLlVli AD JliaUD UiULleveJand Uirl J44 5 -v.

4 v' i i Thinking of the terrible wrongs suffered in behalf of an ungrateful society and seeing that I had never gained anything from that society but vexation of spirit and trouble of soul; I. concluded to leave it and to spend my life as the understanding of my own happiness seemed to dictate. General Hugh Cameron. Atf INTIMATE of Llnooln. Web- ster, Sumner and Greeley and al-.

most the last of the generation which won the part of the west beyond the Missouri, one who exiled himself from the society that had eared him and lived happily alone for more than half a century, died recently In Topeka, away from the lonely hut that had been home since 18S4. And thereby the last specification of General Hugh Cameron's wish, "to live and die cut of the world" disrespected, came to be defeated. Dozen, of time, since Cameron went to his hermitage on a towering bluff looking -down on the sluggish Kansas river where it flows past Lawrence, he went back to the world for brief visits, every one of which attracted attention, but the last visit failed to end in the return to the lonely cabin above the stream. Cameron had fallen vletlm to the wttes he dreaded, World Nothing to Him. "The world Is nothing to me.

All It has ever done for me has been to reward good with 11L It exalts the bass and abase, tho.e who would serve it honorably. I shall die here as I have lived," he said once not long before his end. but It happened otherwise. "I believe in letting my fellow men live as they will, after their own ideas. I have never been a reformer, but after years of encounter with the world I reached conclusion that the only real soul satisfaction comes 'from simple living and communion with nature or God, unmarred by the frivolities and high chimeras of modern society." There were no chimeras about the old hermit', bluff.

Snow lay about his rude cabin and the cold wind chilled the visitor and whisked the great white beard of the recluse philosopher till It hid his keen eyes. But it was warm to him. Tears of living without more fire than was needed to cook food or keep off death ln the coldest nights that swept down- the river valley had made him Immune, with all his 80 years; to what younger men couldn't bear. In all save the whlt.non of he was as young as the university students from Lawrence who called occasionally to listen to his stories of the men and events he had known or to talk over his strange philosophy And old Cameron knew events and times It was said of him that he knew more American history first hand than any living mam, Ie had watched the clouds of the cml war roll up; had fought trallantly enough thtouxh that become a brigadier; had been a figure in trie maxing oi tvanms; naa occupied a plane of trust with the high figures in politics Immediately after the war, and, then, his ambition and fortunes broken had gone back to his oasis of savagery in a wa.te of new industry to rf fleet and to hide from the world that had undone him. Ingratitude of Society.

"It's a tawdry spectacle, to see a man row gray in the trsvall of hi devotion to lie world and then to be cast Kansan that his state repented It. mixed. You all can't fool me. Di. ain' rashness and recognised -great turday night!" Edmund G.

Ross was a senator from. man Kansas when President Andrew JohnT JKT'T son's impeachment trial was hPld In iCan-' -congress. Of the seven famous Repul- kr licans who voted against impeachment. grumbled out that h. guessed defeating the meaiure by one voto there was one to be bad.

The condun-Ross was the the roll cLlVH1. a nd 'bont vote turned the majority against im- ttlLVtl.1 th6 peachment Kansas reviled and ostra- gKr.eff:LVorsrt.r-nhe irTnrSijR-K frolC.ri.,'.UhtaS2 ''ii the conductor. hiV of the Kansas outrage. snarne. dy y9U expect to see us doing' this time Cameron walked all the way to New a1d Mexico.

He Ross out at hi. '-J'if Ti? COTn to thlnlt of home. The one time senator and gov- much like merry ernor. then a peor printer In a news- UtUe yourself, old scout" paper office, lay ill with softening of Ta.i. n.iii the brain.

His fleeting mentality hard- Ht.tl2Jli-.e.h'irlr lyeeum man recalled Cameron or Kansas And the travels with his wife over the large long Jonrney the name Justice and ned old friendship wa. vain. Cameron own ln Missouri for nicely had heard the impeachment trial and wTd room. sided with Johnson? He was the one nl" man In Kansas who told Ross at the asked if the room time that he had done right. w.vrnC' MTed- There was litUe more for old Hurh TP.

"aid the landlord. They ain't Cameron. He went back to Camp bIS VS. up th" toveplpe from Harrison and his little thatchSf cot" tb i I1 th tage. Incendiaries had burned his cabin A 'kI'V and destroyed his library.

He built a ther flr In the From the New York World. THE girls who would live as Jesus did have given up th. trial. "You can't live as Jesus would and be an employe of a large Cleveland business house," says Miss Selma McGovern, aged 11, who Is one of three girls to begin living two weeks a. she thinks Christ would.

Two days of the experiment convinced her of Us Impossibility In Cleveland business Ufe. "It can't be done by an employe." she said. "The employer himself might carry the morality of Jesus into his business if he chose. The case la not hopeless. But the employer at least, my employerdoesn't and it is ui-cldal for the employe to attempt It "Christ, morality and business tact clash.

An employ. Insisting upon rigid honesty would be discharged instantly. I don't mean to say my firm Is dishonest Along broad lines, it Isn't but the department managers resort to many evasions of the truth In order to escape unpleasant consequences. ''For instance, a retail store Is writing or wiring in for an explanation of why a certain order has not been sent. The reply Is that it is the fault of the manufacturer.

'We have punched them up several times already. We will do so again at once, and no doubt the order will soon be So the letter runs. "Perhaps the manufacturer has been punched up. That may all be true -out after writing the letter the department band nuf nr ma not nuilr. crtnd his word, luost always he doean't "No doubt it 1.

In hualnHI to tell that kind of lies. But Jesu. wouldn't And when I type the letter. I must tell the He, too. if hub wouldn't be implicated in the lie.

He would refuse to write it If I did that. I would los my position." W. D. iiee, the leader of the hy which more than 1LO0O of vunj Business men ana ojnenr trying to live ae Jesus wouK Id is navmg nis nanaa hand. and answerihg in- who win Tto irJiJ ht ff.J?-PSTP, have poured irTir ",.1 ZMh Tn'J neve pourea ln from scores of cltle.

and new and put up a ne.t In 1 tall tree near the new cabin, which realty ThhV settled doV ..0 pie away irom the world a. he had lived. Cameron', long hair and hi. strange garb made him an object of wonder with save those who knew him. How haa oame to leave his hair and beard un- ft gun weighing more than seven pound.

a'r burdensome i gun purchased the woman suffrage advocate. He re- Arthur Seran, of Wewokg. OkliL, THREE OP THE CLEVELAND GIRLS WHO TRIED TO LIVE AS CHRIST WOULD. TO THE LEFT IS MARGARET HOLCOMBE. STENOGRAPHER; MARION PTOK, GROCERY CLERK, IN THE CEN- TER; TO THE RIGHT, EDNA-JOHNSON, CASIIItK.

C'. marxea to her that the Idea that men should have more rights than women was a relic of harhnrlam the difference in the length of the balr far a. he wu able to see. "And had i worn my nair lonr, I should not new nave inia coia," no added. "I believe I shall let it UT women get their rights," said Idle, Wlllard, and Cameron kept faith.

At one time th. beard waa, 40 Inches towns, and man are vet "These letter. In eome Instances-come rom Pors. who seen, to want to know the proper way to begin." said Mr..