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Indian wars, the earlier
.
723
HISTORICAL INDEX
Klickitat county erected. . . 112
Klickitat legends 21, 23
Klickitat myth, The. 4
Klickitat. the chief. 24
Klickitat tribe, founding of the.
23
Klickitats, The
11
Kohlhauff, William
115
Kooskooskie. name and description of ...
35
Kootenais, The.
11
Kuykendall, Dr. G. B., Indian author and collector. 28; on pioneer times of the physician, 275
Kyger, A .. 141
Labor Union Directory 242
Labor unions 241
Land and water, the forming of . 2
Land of spirits, In the.
20
Land offiee
151
Larger early stockmen 176
Lasater, J. H .. 141
Law case, a famous.
271
Law suits resulting from Timothy land case 273
Lawyer, the old-time.
267
Lawyer's Band 103
Lawyers 265
Laying out state into sixteen counties 92
Leaders in grain raising. 177
Lease-rights in Washington .273. 274
Ledyard, John.
43
Ledyard, S. F.
127
Lee. Jason, Christian crusader. 59, 229;
first of the Protestants, 80
Legality of Indian marriage. 273
Legend, a Klickitat .. 21
Legend of the origin of fire and Mounts Hood, Adams and St. Helens. 23
Legends, Indian 25
Legends, Yakima . 20
Legislative act to ereate Asotin county. 402
Legislative deadlock. 289
Legislative delegations from Walla Walla county from 1876 to 1916. 295-99
Legislative districts 289
Legislators chosen. 1863-1874. 139
Legislature, the first territorial, 92; de- erees of the, 92
Legislature, the first state 289
Letter of Dr. Whitman to secretary of war in 1843. 75
Letter from E. H. Morrison. 376
Letter from Judge O. S. Pratt. 429
Letter from Perrin Whitman to W. H. Gray 428
Lewis, James Hamilton 292
Lewis, Meriwether 33
Lewis and Clark expedition, 10. 33; a mess of salmon. 38; at Lewiston and Clarkston of today, 35; at Five Mile, 37; at Fort Clatsop, 39; at the Touchet. 39; distance travelled by. 40; find the prairie chicken, 38; had passed through, 178; hardsbips of. 35; journal of Cap- tain Lewis of, 34; journey resumed, 36; meeting with Chief Yelleppit, 38; meet Nez Perces. 36; start of, 34; re- turn journey of, 39; observations of, 12 Lewiston 124
Liberty Loan bonds. 196
Librarian, city of Walla Walla 315
Library statistics 304
Library, Walla Walla city. 303
Life of Timothy.
271
Lisa. Manuel, pioneer fur trader. 46
Litigation. a famous case of land. 271
Live stock. dairy products, poultry, wool, flour. chop, 1916. 192
Live stock on hand. 1863 and 1875. 179
Live stock statistics. 285
Lived on boiled wheat 453
Lloyd. Hon. A. G. 246
Location of Walla Walla city in regard to growth 293
Long tunnels, and big snows no bar. 162
Looney. Jesse 427
"Loowit," the witch 23
Loss of stock one million dollars. 128
Lost in fog and snow 279
Lots $5.00 each 115
Lot Whitcomb 156
Lovejoy. A. L .. letters on mid-winter ride from Waiilatpu to St. Louis 66
Lyman. H. S.
27
Lyman. W. D., address by. 252
McAuliffe. Lient. 100
MeBean, William 95
MeBeth, Kate. Indian student and mis- sionary among the Nez Perces. 29
McCabe, Joseph
164
MeClees. Warden John
291
MeClellan, George B., assistant surveyor 162 McClung, Mrs. Peter. recollections of
Pomeroy
472; 360
McDermott. Louisa
26
McDonald, Mr.
14
McGuire. Jerry 178
MeKay, Tom
87
Mckay. William (.
91, 96
Mckay, Dr. W. C. .
30
Mckay's Company,
C'ayuse war
86
McLoughlin, Doctor, 54.
59;
founds
Champoeg, 80
MeMorris, Lewis 102
MeWhirk. William
114
MeWhorter. L. V., student of Yakima lore 30
Mackenzie, Alexander 45
Magallon, Adrian 180
Magone, Major
Manufacturing
89
Many cattle driven in in '61. 175
Many miners in Portland in 1862. 128
Many orchards hard hit by sub-zero weather 189
Marriage customs, Indian
273
Marshal resigns
131
Marshals of Walla Walla, 1877-1916, 305-315
Martin. Captain William. 89
Martin's Company, Oregon Rifles, in Cay- use war 86
Masonic Order, the. in Walla Walla .. 236
Matches in the Sorghum. 450
Mayors of Walla Walla, 1877-1916, 305- 315; of Waitsburg, 318; of Asotin, 419 Meals, Indian 13
Measles, epidemic of, among Indians in 1847 79
192
Oregon Rifles,
in
724
HISTORICAL INDEX
Medical history 275
Medical profession. the ... 265
Medical seience and its achievements. 280
Meck. Joseph L. 87
Meeting to raise railroad fund. 167
Memories of old. 474
Meningitis epidemic in 1888. 277
Men in the public eye, in Walla Walla county 292
Mental characteristics of Indian. 13
Merchant, Mrs. Lillian Clemans. 467
Merchants' Carnival, the. 201
Merchants eome
175
Merchants hold back goods for big priees 127
Methodist church, the, 228; early history of, 229; the first in Walla Walla, 229;
jurisdiction over, 229; building the first, 230
Methodist Mission, the first, 59
Methodist missions, 80
Methodist parsonage, 231
Methodist pastors in Walla Walla since 1859 232
Methodist presiding elders in Walla Walla sinee 1859. 232
Methow highland 2
"Michel"
15
Military organization of volunteers for Cayuse war 84
Miller, Joaquin 114
Miller, Judge Chester F., contribution by, 266; paper of Judge, 320 Milliean, Lettice 110
Millican, "Unele Billy" 457
Mill Town
154
Miner, Mrs. A. J., first school teacher. 211
Mines at Orofino worked out. 122
Miners winter in Walla Walla .. 126
Minto, John. Indian student and state builder of the northwest. 30
Miscellaneous crops, 1916. 192
Miscellaneous happenings, Asotin county. 411 Missionaries, attitude of first, toward Indians, 18; difficulties of early, 64; first, in Walla Walla, 52
Missionary era, ending of, 82; period of the, 57; station in 1837, 178 59
Missions, early, in Oregon.
Missions of various denominations. 80
Modoc war 331
Modoe war changes views of fort. 150
Moisture, artificial and natural. 6
Mojonnier, F. E .. 190
Montagnes Bleues, Les 8
Moore, Miles C., appointed territorial governor, 286; address of, at pow wow, 204; farewell address of, 473
Morality of Indians .. 12, 13
More agitation for railway 377
More fires, 1884-5, 1890, '91. 350
Morning Star, Chief. 17
Mountains, height of, 1; Indian names of, 19, 20
Mounts Adams, Hood and St. Helens, Indian legend of, 24; other stories of, 28
"Mullan Road" 120
Multnomah nation, story of the founding of the great 23
Municipal elections of Walla Walla.
305
Municipal officers of Walla Walla, 1877- 1916 .305-315
Municipal ownership of Walla Walla waterworks . 301 Municipal politics of Walla Walla .. 299, 346 Municipal warrants 317 Municipal waterworks, registrars of .... 315 Musie, Indian .37,39
Musk Rat. the Tacullies legend of the .. 26
Mythology, Indian, of firmament and elements 18
Myths, Indian
25
Names and Stories, Indian. 19
Names found in advertising columns of the Chronicle 354
Names of advance guard at Pataha 178
Names of sections of Asotin lands. 400
National democracy 138
Nations, Indian
11
Native races
10
Nearest flour mill thirty miles away ... 4€5
Nesmith's, Senator, address to Oregon Pioneer Association 69
New county of Garfield. 364
Newell, William H.
258
New era of water transportation 170
Newspaper twenty-five cents per copy 118 Newspaper, the tirst. 246
Newspapers at Walla Walla.
246
Newspapers of Walla Walla county
257
News two weeks old .. 120
Nez Perces. the, 11; description of dress of, 36; meeting of Lewis & Clark ex- pedition with, 36; rising of the, in De- eember, 1855, 96: save Stevens con- ference, 94
Nez Peree war, the, 458; underlying cause of 95
Night-ride, a physician's
279
Northrop, N.
118, 257
N. P. R. R. builds feeders.
163
Northern Pacific railroad movement. 163
Northwestern Fur Company.
45
Northwestern Stage Company.
162
No salary to mayor or councilmen ..
116
Number of horses and eattle in 1863 and in 1875 179
Oceans of bunch grass. 175
Odd Fellows, Independent Order of. 236
Officials elected in 1860. 117
Officers, first, of Old Walla Walla county 92
Officers of Old Walla Walla county. 112
Ogden, Peter Skeen ..
84,
87
Ogress of Saddle Mountain, the myth of the 25
Okanogan highlands 2
Okanogans, The 11
"Old Bones," Chief . 11, 114
Old Walla Walla County, beginning of .. 92 Olney, Indian agent Nathan. .98, 100, 319 "O my God. for a Sabre!" 104
One hundred and ten bushels barley to aere 183
Onions .189, 190, 192 Only fire-proof building in Walla Walla 120 Opening of country ... 83
Orchards and gardens, Asotin county .. 413
Order of the Eastern Star ..
236
Organized bands of criminals.
121
725
HISTORICAL INDEX
Organized government in eastern Wash- ington 92
O. R. & N. Co. and N. P. 163
Oregon Lumber Company .
193
Ping, Elisha
154
Ping County bill passed.
154
"Pioneer Days"
197
Pioneer Hotel destroyed. 412
Pioneer lawyers 268
Pioneer meeting of 1904, 245; of 1911, 250
Pioneer, the, Physician, 275; race track,
179; recollections of Asotin county, 464; reminiscences, 426; stage lines, 160; wheat grower on large scale, 183 Pioneers, advance guard of, 69; in busi- ness, 247; of Asotin county, 470; of Whitman party of 1843, 72; prior to 1860 (names), 111
Plant food, ingredients of, in soil. 3
121
Poindexter, Hon. Miles. 335
Political annals
Political History of County division 136
Political history of Walla Walla city
299
Political history of Walla Walla county since division 285
Political party dissentions.
292
Political review
142
Pomeroy, J. M., 472; brings in first good stock, 380
Pomeroy
165
established by J. M. Pomeroy .
360
town of
472
elections
473
275
pioneer physicians of
wants county seat.
383
365
townsite plat filed.
fire department
384
Pomeroy Improvement Company. 384
Pomeroy Republican, the .. 263
Pomeroy Reservoir 415
474
Population of Washington, 1853-1880. .
Population, comparisons
Washington cities
293
of
various
Potter and Pomeroy build mill.
187
Prairie chicken first met ..
38
Preachers of note in Walla Walla
235
O
Precipitation
Predictions of Gov. Moore and their ful- fillment 475
12
Prehistoric horse
Presbyterian missions
80
Prescott, the town of homes, 216; as grain center, 216; schools, 216
Present city government of Starbuck ... 352
Present day churches at Dayton.
335
Presidential election, 1904.
340
Presidential vote, the, in Walla Walla county 292
Press of Garfield county, the.
392
Preston, W. G ..
215, 226
Preston Hall
.215, 226
Prevailing sentiment, democratic.
136
Prices of foods, etc., in 1861 .. 120
Prisoners, escape of, from penitentiary, attempted 291
Private schools
217
Proclamation of opening of eastern Ore-
gon
83
Profits in fur trade.
44
Prohibition
294
Physicians of Old Walla Walla 275
Pietrzycki, Mareel 326
Pietrzycki bequest, the. 325
Pine Grove School House 465
Oregon Methodist Conference, the.
229
Oregon, provisional government of .... 84, 87
Oregon question, the.
69
Oregon Rifles in Cayuse war, membership 84
of 157
Oregon Steam Navigation Company
Oregon, territorial government of. 88
Oregon territory, Dr. Whitman's letter to secretary of war regarding .. 75 88
Oregon territory, first officers of
78
Oregon treaty of 1846 ..
Oregon volunteers organize after Whit- man massacre for Cayuse war.
84
Ostrander, Jolm Y 270
Our conference 333
"Our Mother Oregon". 173
Outbreak of all Columbia Indians in
1855-56
96
Outbreak of prisoners, a contemplated .. 291
Owsley school
381
Pacific Fur Company .
47
Page, Right Rev. Herman 222
Pageant of May, 1914, 206; program of, 207
Paine, F. W., gives an anecdote 132
Palmy period for hold-ups. 161
11
Palouse myth, a.
37
Palouse river, the.
Park at Walla Walla. 462
Park Club, the ..
258
Parker, Frank J
Parker, Hollon
142
1-
Parleys, Indian
360
Parson Quinn
186
Pasca Mills
328
Pastoral work
473
Pataha
Pataha City
187, 387
Pataha "Spirit," the.
402
Patients and doctors in pioneer times .. 275
Patit, origin of the name of. 319
Patterson, Ferd., "Bad man". 134
Paved streets of Walla Walla.
302
Pavilion erected in 1900.
198
125
Pearson, the express rider .
Penal labor
290,
291
Pend Oreilles, the.
11
Penitentiary, history of the 290
Penrose, Rev. S. B. L. . 219
People's Party
340
Permanent Organization of Walla Walla
county 109
Personal contact
Petty local jealousies. 358
Pettyjohn, Jonathan 177
Peupeumoxmox, chief of the
Wallas, 79, 88, 94, 98, 319; death of, 320
Phillips, W. S., "El Comanchio," author of "Totem Tales" 29
Physical condition of Indians.
11, 12, 13
Physical features
1
Physician, mode of travel of pioneer
275
Walla
328
Pearce, E. D. .
96
464
Palouse Indians 25
Plummer, Henry
290
726
HISTORICAL INDEX
Professions, trades, etc. . 194
Provision for dairy and poultry purposes 180
Provisional government of Oregon ... 84, 87
Prunes raised, value, 1916. 192
Public schools, organized. 211
l'ythias, the Knights of. 237
Quinn, Parson 360
Raboin, Louis 177
Races, native, of Old Walla Walla county 10
Race track laid ont in 1875. . 198
Railroad age, the 162
Railroad building hangs back. 167
Rails as "legal tender" 465
Rainfall
1.
Ready access to hip pocket. 140
Receipts and disbursements of Walla
Walla city 316
Recollections, by Mrs. St. George. 361
Recollections of C. W. Clark 455
Recorders of Walla Walla city, 1877-
1916 306-315
Record of elections (Garfield county) 369
Red Cross work
464
Rees, Frank
118
Rees. R. R.
Rees, S. G. 118, 257
258
Reforms the whiskey dispenser
Registrars of city waterworks
Reliable, steady incomes.
185
Religious life in Walla Walla county.
210
Religious meetings, early.
81
Remarkable wheat yields
"Reminiscences" by Governor Moore. 183
204
Reminiscences of medical practice 275
Report of school superintendent, 1916-17 325 Reservoirs huilt 149
Residents in Oregon in 1843. 74
Resolutions at Pioneer Meeting of 1911 .. 254
Retail stores in Walla Walla 195
Reynolds, Almos H. 110
Reynolds raises fine peaches. 189
Rbnbarb 270 190
Ribbon of fertile soil ..
191
120
"Rice vs. County Commissioners of Gar- field county" 367
Riot in theatre .. 130
Riparia or Texas Rapids. 37
Ritz arrives with trees 188
Ritz, Philip 147
Ritz ships flour, Walla Walla to New York 181
Ritz to try sweet potatoes.
189
River improvement 378
River traffie under O. N. S. Co. 160
Rivers, Indian names of . 20
Rivers. system of 6,
7
Road agents 132
Road justified cost from start.
169
Roads, lonely and dangerous.
278
Roads never worked. 161
Rocky Mountain Fur Company, the 52
Rogers. Cornelins. arrival of, in 1857 64
Rolling prairies and swelling hills 180
Ross, Alexander 49
Ross, observation of. in 1811 .. 50
Routes, first, thro' northwest region 32
Russell, Charles, builds jail .. 117
Russian fur trade, beginning of the. 43
Rutherford. J. K 269
Ryan, M., Jr. 179
St. George, Mrs. 360
St. Helens, Mount, the story of . .. 24
St. Mary's Hospital . 223
St. Patrick's Academy for boys. 223
St. Paul's Episcopal church in Walla Walla 232
St. Pauls School, Walla Walla. 221
St. Rose Mission, at Frenchtown 82
St. Vincent Academy 224
Sager tragedy, the. 77 "Sahale" 23
Sahaptin Indians 11
Salish Indians 11
Salmon River Emigration. 127
Salmon spring festival, Indian 26
Saloon, chief source of revenue. 148
Sanitary conditions in pioneer times 276
Sapir. Edward 26
Saylor, Fred A. 25
Sehinobley, Theodore 470
School buildings, beginning of . 210
School children, the first. 210
School conditions, in 1917 214
School districts, organization of . 211
School districts of Garfield county 382
School enrollment of Garfield county 382
School property, value of, in 1900 214
School receipts and expenditures, 1897- 1900 213
School report of 1900 .. 212
School statisties of Columbia county 324
School statistics of Walla Walla county 217
School Superintendent and Pioneer> in Asotin county 468
School tax levy, first. 211
School teacher, the first. 210
School, the first in Columbia county 324 Schools in Asotin county
467
Schools in Garfield county 381
Schools, private 217
Scott, Elmon
Sealth, Chief (Seattle)
29
Sca-otter, the
43
Seasons, the 4, 5
Seattle nearly destroyed. 103
Secret Societies 237
Seminary, Whitman 218
Semi-tropical in elimate .. 191
Senatorial and legislative districts. 288
289
Sentinel, the
Sergeant Smith's party.
126
Settlement, early, of country after Whit- man Massacre 83
Settler, the old, in a new age. 474
Settlers, arrival of early . 64
Settlers, early, after Cayuse war. 91
Settlers of '59 in Columbia county 321
Seven millions in gold taken in 1862 129
Seventh Day Adventists in Dayton. 334
Severe winter of 1861-2. 128
Sharpstein. Hon. B. L. 288
Sharpstein, Hon. J. L. 265
Shaw's Company, Oregon Rifles, in Cay- use war 86
Sheep business grows. 180
Sheep increase very rapidly . 176
Sheep now in Garfield county
381
418
Senatorial contests
Rice 18e-20c per pound.
333
315
727
HISTORICAL INDEX
Sheep worth $1.00 per head. 176
Sheriff Whitman and one Bunton .. 140
Shipments and freight rates
1867 181
Ships 40,000 pounds of onions. 189
Shoemaker sends watermelon to the
"Statesman" 188
Shorthorns imported in 1864. 177
Shoshone Indians 14
Shovels $12 to $16 129
Shushwap Indians
11
Siekness and death in party of 1843 76
"Side Hill" harvester. 193
Sileott, John 178
Sims, J. A. 186
Siskiyou Mountain Island
2
Sisters of Providence 223
Site of Orofino Mines. 125
Six-hundred-eighty acre orchard. 190
Six hundred miners winter at Salmon River Mines 127
Skomalt or Great Mother 24
Skyappe, the good spirit. 25
Slavery question in Oregon 88
Slim Jim and Six-toed Pete
133
Smallpox epidemie, the. 277
Smith, A. B., arrival of, in 1857. 64
Smith, Hon. E. L .. lifelong student of Indian legends . 30
Smith, Jedadiah, 52; massacre of part of his party
53
Smith, R. D 118
Smith, Silas 27
Smith, W. N. and R. B.
257
Snake River, affluents of. 7
Snake River, description of the .. 6
Snowfall
6
Soil, component parts of, 3; conditions, 1: creation, 2, 3; depth of fertile, 3
Sokulk Indians . 12,
37
Some "joints" of the '60s. 130
Some prices in 1869 182
Song. Indian death 14
Sorghum tried
189
Sound Indians, the. 11
Sows one hundred and fifty aeres to oats 180
Spalding, Eliza (Hart) diary of.
60
Spalding, Rev. H. H. arrival of 60
at Vancouver 62
at Waiilatpu and Lapwai. 62
work among Nez Perces. 63
difficulties encountered by 64
at Waiilatpu before Whitman mas- sacre
79
escape of 79
Spalding, H. M. 178
Spanish explorers, old.
42
Spectacular Villard excursion. 163
Speelyi, chief
God of Mid-Columbia
Indians 2, 5, 21
Spinden, H. J.
26
Spirits, Indian 20,
21
Spokane County laid out 112
Spokanes, the
11
Spotted Eagle 103
Spring festival, Indian Salmon 26
Squash weighs 1341/2 pounds
189
Squire, Hon. Watson C.
289
Stages became big factor
161
Staple, Captain 134
Starbuck 165
Start raising grain .. 177
Starvation and bounty 13
Statehood achieved
475
Statehood and constitution 285
Statehood, transition to. 473
State legislature, first, 288; members for the four counties of the, 288
"Statesman" urges people to get railroad 165 Statistics of Old and New Walla Walla county 285
Steamer records 15%
Steamer service well organized in 1859 .. 156
Steer-roping contests 202
Stephens, William 110
Steptoe Butte 105
Steptoe, Colonel 103
Steptoe's defeat 105
Steptoeville 113
Stevens county laid out . 112
Stevens'. General, camp. 93; conference of, with the Indians in 1855, 93; Nez Perces save day for, 94; new outbreak of Indians. 96, 101
Stevens, Isaac I., first territorial gov- ernor 92
Stock in demand 175
Stock interests, the. 379
Stock raising in Garfickl county 379
Stolen horses recovered. 133
Stories and names, Indian 19
Story telling, Indian. 19
Strap-iron rails laid. 169
Street commissioners of Walla Walla, 1898-1916 . 311-315
Street railway extended to Fair Grounds 200 Stubblefield Home 227
Stubblefield. Mr. and Mrs. J. L 227
Sturdevant. Judge
269
"Sublettes." the
54
Suffrage, Woman
291
Sugar 18e to 26e per pound. 120
Sugar 40c to 50c per pound. 128
Sugar $1.25 per pound. 129
Summary of first events in Garfield county 359
Summary of recent production. 191
Sunken forests in Columbia River. 23
Superintendent of city schools of Walla Walla 315
Superintendent of Schools' report, 1916- 17 325
Supreme court, the. 265
Survey declared official. 115
Surveyors of Walla
Walla city, 1882-
1916
307-315
Swift, roomy steamers
158
Tacoma "City of Destiny" 163
Taggard. J. D.
190
Tamsaky killed by Umatillas as result of Whitman massacre 89
Teachers' Reading Cirele. 213
Teachers' wages
214
Teams no competitors for railroad . .
169
Teit, James
26
Telegraph, Portland to Walla Walla ...
151
Temperature, 4; averages of, 4; records of, 5
Temperature and rainfall, 1
Spirit of the West, the. 260
728
HISTORICAL INDEX
Ten per cent of stock survives winter. 143
Ten thousand pounds wool shipped. 180
Tent store in 1857. 114
Territorial delegates 146
Territorial governor, the first. 92
Territorial governor, the last. 473
Territorial governors
147
370
Territory becomes a state.
Testimony in Whitman murder trial. 90
Texts, Coos and Umpqua, 26; other Indian 27
Theatrical performances 119
Thermometer measurements 5
Thomas, George F. 161
Thompson, David
49
"Those hills reach from hell to heaven.
with bunchgrass from top to bottom". 380 "Thunder Bird" legends. 25
Times of Cowboys, miners, vigilantes. .. 124
Timothy, a life history of ... .. 271, 272
Timothy of Alpowa and his land case .. 271
Timothy saves Steptoe's command. 178
Tolmie, Doctor
12
"Tomanowas Bridge," the Indian story of the 22
Touchet, an active business center, 217:
its schools, 217
Touchet, Lewis and Clark on the .. 39
Touchet belt excels in high grade apples 190
Touchet Pioneer, the ..
264
Touchet valley, first wheat crop in.
471
129
Town of Dayton booms.
Town of Mentor. 364
Town of Starbuck 351
Town government organized. 115
Towns of Asotin county. 418
Towns of Garfield county. 382
Traditions, Indian
10
Trades and Labor Council, the. 242
Trades, professions, etc. 194
Transportation, early 155
Trappers, carly
51
Treasurers of Walla Walla city, 1877- 1916 306-315
Treaties of Oregon 84
Treaty of Joint Occupation, of 1818. 50
Treaty of 1846 .. 78
Trees brought on muleback . 188
Trial of Indians accused of Whitman massacre 90
Trial of the Timothy land case. 274
Tribes, Indian 11
Tribes, the Ten Lost, of Israel and Indian lore 25
Trip from Wallula to Walla Walla in 1870 161
Troup, Capt. James. 159
Trustees of Pietrzycki Foundation .. 327
Tucanon, 40; origin of the name of, 319 Tucanon river, description of the. 7
Tum-a-lum
114
Tum-a-Lum Lumbering Co 193
"Turkey Pen" 334
Tusbepaws, the 12
Two hundred thousand boxes apples 190
Two remarkable criminal cases. 355
Two voting precincts.
113
Umatilla 124
Umatilla Rapids 160
U'matillas, the 11
Union Transportation Company. 157
United Brethren 234
U. S. Fort Walla Walla. 124
United States Senators, first election of. 289
"Upper Country" towns ..
124
Up-To-The-Times Magazine, the. 261
Value of products, 1916. 192
Value of property in Walla Walla, 1862. 116
Varied aspects of the Fair 200
Vegetables and irrigation .. 6
Vegetables and melons in variety . 180
Vessels engaged in fur trade in 1786-7 .. 44 Vigilantes, etc. 124
Vigilantes disband 135
Villard. llenry 163
Vineland Journal, the 423
Violin and Indian .. 39
Volcanic eruptions 3
Voorhees, Hon. C. S. 286
Vote against constitutional convention. 145 Vote for presidential electors, 1892. 335 Vote in 1863 for Territorial Delegate. 138
Vote, the presidential, in Walla Walla county 292
Voting precinets in 1860.
117
Voyages, early exploration 25
Waiilatpu, origin of name of, 11; selected post by Dr. Whitman, 62; deser ption of. 64; mission a center of light and help, 77; clouds gathering and warning indications for mission, 79; last days of Wintman mission, 19; end of, 00; in history, 80; hunting the murderers of the Whitman mission, 88, 89; 113 Wait starts milling in Columbia county 187 Waitsburg Academy 225
Waitsburg, elections in, 317; charter of, 317; mayors of, 318; schools, 215
Waitsburg Times, the .. 262
Walker, Rev. Elkanah, arrival of .. 61
Walla Walla & Columbia River Railroad, 165; incorporated, 168
Walla Walla and fur-traders. 50
Walla Walla, Catholic diocese of .. 82
Walla Walla, battle of the, 97; Col. Kelley's report of, 97
Walla Walla, founding of Catholic church of 82
Walla Walla, origin of name of. 11
Walla Walla Bulletin, the. 260
Walla Walla City. 147
Walla Walla City, Inc. 116
Walla Walla City laid out November 17, 1859 115
Walla Walla City's Liberty Loan sub- scription 196
Walla Walla City's revenue for six
months
116
Walla Walla City, as agricultural center, 293; churches of, 228; divided into wards, 300; election in, under local op- tion law, 294; growth of, 205; political history of, 299; location of, in regard to growth, 293
Walla Walla clubs. 238
Walla Walla College ..
224
Walla Walla Commercial Club.
238
Tough collection of human beings. 187
729
HISTORICAL INDEX
Walla Walla County, beginning of, 92;
first board of commissioners, 92; sta- tisties of, after division, 285; political
history of since division, 285; officials from 1876-1916, 295-299; local political history of. 292; subscription to Liberty Loan, 196
Walla Walla County Fair Association .. 200
Walla Walla County Press, the. 257
Walla Walla Court House 295
Walla Walla Democrat, the 261
Walla Walla Journal, tlie
259
Walla Walla Labor Union 241
Walla Walla Lumber Co. 193
Walla Walla newspapers 246
Walla Walla Methodist district 230
Walla Walla pageant of 1914, tlie. 206
Walla Walla Park Association 238
Walla Walla Pow-wow 201
Walla Walla Race Track Association 200
Walla Walla Spectator, the
263
Walla Walla Statesman, the 257
Walla Walla treaty, 95; broken, 96
Walla Walla Union, the 258
Walla Walla, United States senators from 289, 290
Walla Walla Volunteers of Cayuse war. 84
Walla Walla Watchman, the 261
Walla Walla Water Company, the. 301
Walla Walla Wild West show. 202
Walla Wallas, the
11
Wallowa Basin 7
Wallula 124
Walter. W. W.
430
Wardens of the penitentiary. 291
War Dress, Indian ..
14
War and peace proceedings, Early Indian 14
War Eagle, Cayuse brave .. 87
Warrants, municipal 317
Warriors, Indian
14
Wascos, the
11
Washington & Columbia River Railroad. 163 Washington, territory of, ereated, 92; or- ganizing territory of, 93; made a state. 289
Washington Independent, the 263
Washington Statesman, the .. 257
Washington volunteers for Spanish war. 350
Waterloo of the Indians. 104
Water-courses
1
Water supply 149
Waterway system, natural.
6
Waterworks of Walla Walla. municipal ownership of, 301; registrars of. 315; superintendents of, 315
Waters, Lieutenant Colonel 89
Watetash (animal people) 2
Wealth of Indian tribes 12
Weather records
5,
6
Webb, Nathaniel
180
Weinhard brewery destroyed. 350
Weiser, Jacob
128
Weiser's claim 127
Wells. artificial 6
Wells. Bishop Lemuel H. 221, 233
Weyrauch's, Major, batallion on parade. 202
Wheat at $2.50 per bushel. 126
Wheat in field seven feet high 180
Wheat production and value, 1916. 191
Wheat shipped down the Columbia. 181
Wheat, first in Touchet valley 471 "Where the four creeks meet" 114 "Whisk broom with a drink" 130
White Man's island, or Samahtuma- whoolah 24
White women, first at Fort Walla Walla 62 Whites and Indians meet. 13
Whitman, Alice Clarissa, first white child born at Waiilatpu, 1837, 62; death of, 63
Whitman, Dr. Marcus, coming of, 59; journey of, 60, 61; meets Dr. Me- Loughlin, 62; selects Waiilatpu and Lapwai, 62; versatility of, 63; diffi- culties encountered by, 64; Whitman controversy, 65; motives of, impugned. 66; mid-winter ride to St. Louis, 66; early life history of, 68; on Oregon question, 69; guiding party of 1843, 70-74; letter to secretary of war 15; philanthropies of, 77; treaty of 1846, his work, 78; ministering to Indians, 79; last days of, 79: murder of, 79; war following murder of, 80; the grave and the monument of, 80; trial of Indians accused of murder of, 90 Whitman built sawmill. 193
Whitman not a fighter. 417
Whitman, Narcissa. 60; diary of, 60; at
Fort Walla Walla, 61, 62; at Van- couver, 62; daughter born to, at Waiilatpu, 62; letter of, 63; instructor of Indian children, 64; philanthropy of, 77; Joseph Smith and, 78; murder of, 79; last resting place of, 80
Whitman College, founded by Father Eells. 89; early teachers at, 218; board of trustees of, 220; faculty of, 220 "Whitman controversy," the. 65
Whitman Massacre, causes leading to, 79; survivors of, 79; war following, 80; tidings of, spread terror. 84; re- mains of victims of, reinterred, 87; hunting the murderers, 88; Indian chiefs executed in retribution. 89
Whitman Mission, its place in history . .. 80
Whitman's letter to Elkanah Walker ... 426
Whitney, Charles 176
Wholesale houses in Walla Walla 195
Whyama. the mythical eagle. 20
Wilbur, Rev. J. H., 229, 235; stops liquor dealer 332
Wild Horse Creek. 133
Wilkes. Captain Charles 25
Willamette Valley, history of . 71
Willamette University, origin of .
59
Wind Brothers, the cold (the Walla Wallas) 4,
5
Wind conditions
4
Wind velocity
5
Wingard, Judge
.267, 268
Wingard, S. C.
147
Wishpoosh. the monster beaver 2
Wiveast, the "myth" chief. 24
Wol'awollahs. the 40
Wheat at 40 cents ..
181
Woman's experience crossing the plains. 447
Wheat at $2.00 a bushel
471
Woman Suffrage
294, 336, 370
Ward division of Walla Walla city 300
730
HISTORICAL INDEX
Woman's Park Club, the
Women, Indian 12
Wormeil, Mrs. Mary 1. 461
Yakimas, the 11
Wright, Colonel 319 Jehl, the raven, legend of. . .
Nyche. Judge J. E .. 141 Velleppit, the handsome chief . 35
Yellow Bird
102
Young Joseph ( Hallakallakcent .
93
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
Abbott, J. F .
523
Johnson, Alexander 66.
Jonas, F. A. 494
Kaser. F. W 517
Kees, A. F. . 685
Keiser, F. T. 610
Bartell, G. E. 514
Becker, Martha E. (Kiblinger) 694
Berryman, C. M. 587
Blize. J. R. 622
Broughton, M. JI. 711
648
Bryson, H. C. 698
493
Burnap, A. H.
Burroughs, L. B. 649
Cahill, A. P. 487
534
Canfield, O. F.
605
C'arr. John
653
Claxon, A. W. 580
Cochran, George 594
McKvinnan, T. B
643
Maiden, C. C. . 691
Minnick. G. D. 664
Minnick, W. C. 569
Neace, Frank 495
Neace, L.
621
Neace, Louis 561
Pearson. A. P. 670
Pearson, C. W.
665
Pentecost, P. J.
546
Prather, S. T. 512
Rainwater, J. K. 524
Ray, Alexander
707
Ray, A. L. 505
541
Retzer. Charles
599
Robertson, J. C.
704
Romaine. F. S 676
Rose, J. F. . . 701
Ruchert, E. C. 703
Ilarvey, J. W. 673
Hastings, E. G. 679
Ilerrold. B. A 575
IJerrold, J. B. 532
Iloffman, E. J .. 513
607
Hughes, P. J 697
Ilunt, Gilbert 542
Ingalls, T. P
626
Stalleop, II. B.
592
Klahr, F. P
679
Nuott. E. G. 518
Kuykendall, G. B 551
Labudde, Otto 657
Lane, C. B. . 675
Lester, Clyde
503
Lloyd, G. M.
674
Lloyd, W. A. 600
Long, Mary 603
McCoy, A. M 581
MeCullouch, A. J 506
Corbett, L. C. 572
Crews, C. S.
633
Davis, J. A.
488
Dement. C. F.
512
Diekinson, A. C. 576
Estes, L. W. 658
Falkenberg, Kristian 641
Flathers, B. F.
564
Fontaine, J. A. 500
Forgey, John 571
604
Fudge, Adam
527
Fudge, William
588
Gardner, H. A. 620
(ilafke, Fred
593
Glover, J. M. 582
532
Graves. A. H
Sehncekloth, Henry 511
Schwarz, Adolph 563
Seoggin, J. D. 703
Shaffer. C. E. 692
Shelton. A. L. 521
Shelton, O. M. 521
Snell, G. H. .. 625
Snoderley. Charles 708
Adams, J. F.
632
Anderson. Jens
615
Angermann, H. I .. .
579
Ayres, W. E.
558
Kenny, Michael
504
Kershaw. J. S.
496
Bruch. H. P.
Camp, J. M.
206 Vakima branch 165
Vakuna Indian legend 20
26
Wyeth, Nathaniel, 52, 53: expeditions of, 53, 54
Iollowell, T. J
Fouts, W. II. H.
Reser, Willis
731
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
Struthers, W. A.
686
Wheeler. E. L ..
5.2 %
Stubblefield, F. M
647
WIntmore. W. L ..
554
Sullivan, N. S ..
637
Williams, C. R . . 619
Summers, J. W
666
Wilson, IL. L.
533
Swinney. Green
616
Winans. A. L. .
486
Winans, G. P. .
485
Taylor, G. B.
684
Winans, P. M.
485
Taylor, JJ. W.
65 1
Winans. W. P.
481
Thompson, J. N
63%
Wolle. Ida May
522
Tierney. F. W.
591
Wood. D. V.
693
Tompkins. R. J
712
Woods, A. B.
702
Woods. M. A.
650
Van Patten, E. H.
680
Yeend, J. A.
539
Weatherford, J. C.
494
Yeend, S. N.
540
Weller. P. R.
634
Yenney, F. P'.
563
25
JAN 6 - 1932
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