Show j christians and savages y 1 WHO aggressions WE hlll WHITES OIL olt THE TUB MODOC f 51 J i in ih CO command imand ff of ot an emigrating party I 1 cr crossed the sierra nevada i mountains 1 I in 1849 at a point intermediate between boose goose lahe lake and the lakes or laa lava bed distrI district cL A few days before I 1 reached tho tilo pass capt warner of the LT 8 several of his Is men were massacred in a kanyon hanyon some nive five or six miles north of the pass I 1 had been anticipating the pleasure of meeting the captain in the mountains mount dins knowing that he was engaged sur aur beying there thero after I 1 rea reached elied the then ihen northe northern rn settlement of the sacramento valley Lassen cassens Las sens ls ranche 1 I had a iong long conversation with old oid pete peta lassen lasson li assen alson the veteran trap trapper h r who had resided in that wild country for nearly neary ham half a cen ceu tu reverting to the massacre of capt warner ho lie told me that when tho the gap pap captain tain left his ranche with the nig intention of traversing ver silz slig that particular locale h he felt feit convinced that tha tho klamath irmath aio nio Aro modoc doc indians would kill I 1 him fmc because ause during the tilo previous sea son pon 1 a party of emigrants going goin to oregon wore were on the margin bithe of the great klamath lake take and their guide another old and well known wn trapper named Hedge hedgepeth poth peth ob served the indians in their cai cal canoes loe ioe j quietly fishing on the lake lalko these In indians dhans hitherto inoffensive and called to the men of ills hia pa party oy to to their guns and shoot the d d redskins red skins which atrocity was promptly executed a deliberate cod cold blooded massacre of neof lof loo fens fIns lya iya savages since tho perpetration of ok that thab diabolical abo abol lical icat transaction from froin time to time tife the tribe has committed excesses in retaliation adding varner aad his ills men to the tho Nic victims tims and lastly goaded anby on by a iong jong series of wrongs the modoc warr war and all ill of tits sits its consequences were the results thus wo see hie the alpha and onie omega odail of alt all the tho indian troubles bk in tica that t section and thus it lias has ever been as f far ar as ai my observations eions havo have elicited the tho facts and furthermore amongst s all ali tho the indian tribes of bf the tho western west e rn part of the continent particularly have been uen and ana now aie die are ale numbers pt renegade disguised as indians conforming i to a all ali 1 11 theli modes of ilfe life litel 4 teaching them the use of firearms ac and instigating them to commit excesses upp the whites for pj plunder u ac A in wild wili adventures ahting the aiutes of the sierra nevada arnd annd the tho coast range mountains of af california for nearly two yeasts S spiced with nume numerous rouis rotis hairbreadth alf escapes I 1 learnt considerable of the ways of tle white and red paon pien of df thoe thoo countries and of many murders pro and con pon some of or W gil occurred unpleasantly near nean to 0 where WI afre lore I 1 was and invariably the first aggression gres sion slon was traced to the unprincipled reckless white whites in 1850 for th the sake gake kv of adventure I 1 joined a party pity tsa esa of rough fough prospectors among them some old mountaineers mountaineer and generally enc rally raily a hard set in a wild abild ene district of the sierra nevada below the pass and on the tho eastern slope where who retho rethe tho the aiutes clutes were numerous and very hostile and the first time that their domain had been invaded by tho F whites tra traversing at the time a narrow vale one of our party espied in the distance a squaw apparently engaged in ill digging toots roots putting spurr to 11 his is livorse horsey pursued he and overtook her and ard informed inn ormed us on rejoining the party that ho lie had outraged hgr A fe few nights after that a worthy young man was killed by arrows subsequently when traveling on foot from trinidad on the coast fo to tho the mouth of the ma klamath river I 1 noticed a deserted indian xii vIl village lago iago in ha a wooded hollow beech visited it admired its beautiful snug location and comfortable huts buts and noticed among other things somo some minature min mina aturo turc lodges and bits of bone crockery shells ac whore where the little ehll chil rah ren had been playing Z it appear ad ti t I 1 jiabo been very re recently vac vacated vacate warned varned of br tho the hostile character odthe of tilo rn indians fians of that dis triet I 1 bibuld hotrick hob hot risk stopping to make mako a sketch odthe of tile tilo spot it was q an old olo village why abandoned A afew few month months nore before I 1 saw iia lia ita it a party of miners 1 going oin oln gup bup tip sip the beech to the klamath country stopped here to test jest themselves soon some bome pt them taking offensive liberties with the fema females les ies a row and fight ensued several indians indiana were killed and wounded and rind t two wo of the whites slain when the whites reached their destina destination U ion lon they tiley reported that those indians attacked attached them without any provocation and killed their comrades thereupon a largo party was organized g gani jul uni juiced jui zed came camo down upon the thede thode devoted villagers killed and wounded many and drove the rest into the mountains travelers were occasionally sio nally murdered afterwards by the ruthless savages I 1 could relate hundreds of instances of like chai chal character neter showing the tiie white man to h havo have avo been the first cause of the difficulties with the indians i OLD PIONEER Y star |