| Show INDIANS WERE iI R PLAY PLAYMATES Mrs Eliza Spalding Warren tho second white while child born In the tho north northwest west ost who has lived In epic since her bIrth at what is i now Lapwai Idaho 72 2 years ago has just returned to front from the Nez Pierce s meat ment where she passed two weeks among amonS indians she knew In hor hei child childhood childhood hood At the home borne of her hor grandson randson B J Warron 17 South Madelia St Mrs Warren who Is a resident at Lake Lako Chelan Wash told of the stir stirring ring times in the early carly in what was as then lien called the Oregon coun COUll country try Mrs rs Warren Is a trpo of oC tho ho de woman who ilio assisted their fathers an husbands to build up tip U tub country In the face of har and dangers She was raised among the tho Indians playing as a child with the tho afterward notorious renegade Chief of the Nez Perces who gave nO the tho late General O 0 I 1 Howard h ha a lively chase In IS She the Whitman massacre iii hi which Dr Marcus larcus Whitman and thirteen of his brave brao followers lost their lIves and later was ransomed rom rein captivity u by 1 tho thib Hudsons Bay Bar company On her recent visit to Lapwai the first iii 62 years ears she found three Indians no not aged and falling wIth whom she pIa ed cd when a little girl The squaws re remembered remembered her after she gave her maiden name anti and recalled sonic somo of the early arly incidents l 11 My father Harry Barry If H Spalding ti n missionary sent out from New England made the trip across the plains antI and mountains with Dr Marcus Whitman In 1836 anti and sot set tied lied in liat Is now Lapwai Idaho Said Mrs Warren Dr con continued the journey to begIn his mis missionary missionary work among the Cayuse Cayuso In Indians at a point where Valla Walia Valla Wash Vash Is now located anti for yeM r they were our nearest white neigh neighbors neighbors bors The entire country was then Ulen known as Oregon terrItory I 1 was nas born In 1837 1537 and lived at Lapwai among the tho Nez Forces for nine years ears when I was taken en to Lit rit to go to school I made mado madelie the lie trip with a squaw unaccompanied by any white person herson The next year ear earI I was taken Laken by m my father who after arranging for my care b by Dr Whit While Whitman man and his wife loft lert me to see seo to some business in the al ai alIcy Icy Ills His leaving was the reason relOn or of his lIfo life saved for after my arrival tho Indians turned on Dr Whitman and the little band or of whito mon at the post Jost anti them themI I saw the fourteen mn and woman antI and children in number taken prisoners by the In Indians We were held captive for three weeks antI and then the tho Bay company bought us payIng the In blankets anti and other articles to the value of oC JOO Peter PeterS S Ogden who was then factor ot of the trading post at Yash Vashi was tie Ule man who so 50 humanely res rescued cued us from captivity anti to tho best of my knowledge ho he was never nC eten ed for it My lj father was hunted b by tho he Indians for six days but hid In the timber limber antI and so soe e escaped capetI the tho death meted out to the tho others After the Whitman massacre In my father moved his famIly to Lo Lotho the tho aller as It had be become become come tOo toe dangerous to live at Lapwai and amI n 0 settled In that country per Afterward I 1 moved to Lake Chelan an and this Is my first vis visit Is IsH it H to Spokane In iii 21 1 years ears At that time It was wag little more than a vII loge lage I passed several weeks amon among the tho Indians at Lapwai recently and I 1 was I struck b by progress It Is something wonderful The men at the Presby terlan terian mission founded b by m my father fathera a former resident of New Haven Haen Conn and Boston have havo built one or of orthe the best church In that section antI and andall all of them are aro leading lives Hes They have a batik bank anti and every eory family has a deposit The Tho Indians have hao devoted their belt attention to culture chiefly wheat growing and andt t they her are also doln doing sonic Intensive farmIng It may mar be of interest to note lint that the Nez Indians wore were the first to practice In the I have m my father tall talk about the tho method and I have letters by b Mm hint to rela Ues In New ew England In In which he spoke of theIr meth method od of oC supplying moisture to thc lie land html b by artificial means In n some Instances tho water was carried in earth lil in oth othis thc they stored th the melt melted ed sno snow froin the hills by br 1 buildIng dams The They were successful and rals rais cd raps of vegetables S which would do credit to an any truck zard er |
