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Show 7 LAST INDIAN SLAVE DEAD Schlckulash Pete Had Lived for Many Years Among White People In State of Washington. I At Hoqulam, Wash., Schickulashf Peto, believed to bo tho oldest man la tho Northwest and tho last of thai Grays Harbor Indian Blaves, has JuatJ died at tho ago of ono hundred and ton . years. . Another of tho slaves, John Kettle-, dlod recently at tho ago of ono hunj dred and flvo, and with tho passing of Poto they havo all now gono to tho - jj happy hunting grounds, the Now York W Sun states. I Tho old Indian, better known aa 1 Humptulips Peto from the fdet that ( 1 for moro than thirty years ho had: . , . D lived in tho Humptulips valley, was a ' 1 resident of Grays Harbor for 75 years. I or slnco 1840, when ho camo with a, I war party of Indians from tho Colum- ' I bla river to attack tho harbor Indians. 1 Tho InvadorB, a largo band, camo into tho harbor in canoes and landed at James Rock, about six miles .west of Hoqulam. Thero they camped "fop . .... tho night, pulling tholr canoes high up on tho beach to bo out of roach of tho tide. During tho night tho Indians of tho harbor attacked tho Invaders and tho last big Indian battlo of 'tho dray's Harbor district "was fought thoro. Most of tho Invaders wero elthon killed or captured, only a fow oscap , ing. Tho captives wero mado prisoners, prison-ers, and among their number wero tho! two Indians known after tho whito '' men camo as Humptulips Poto and' ' John Kettlo. Doth woro freed by the Governor Stovens treaty with tho Grays Harbor Indians. , |