Chapter II: , 319;

Indian war of '55, 320;
settlers of '59, 321;
immigration of '61, 321;
establishment of, 322;
first county commissioners, 322;
election of 1875, 322;
following elections, 323;
the first school in, 324

Columbia County Dispatch, 354

Columbia River Fishing & Trading Company, establishment of, 54

Columbian Indians, The, 11

Colville reminiscences, 248

Commercial Club, The, of Walla Walla, 238

Commission government of Walla Walla, 301

Company H, National Guard, 384

Comparison in costs of living then and now, 120

Complete file of "Washington Statesman", 118

Completion of telegraph line, 151

Condition of county in 1860, 117

Condon, Thomas, 1, 27

Conference on subject of railroad, 376

Congregational missions, 80

Congressional rivalry in 1878, 286

Constitutional convention of 1878, 285;
of 1889, 288;
Walla Walla members of, 288

Contests for senatorship, 289

Cook, James, explorer of the Pacific, 43

Cook, J. D., 149

Coppei, Lewis and Clark on the, 40

Corn nine feet in the tassel, 180

Corn produced, value 1916, 191

Cosgrove, Samuel G., 270, 288

Cost of living then and now, 120

Councils, city, of Walla Walla 1877-1916, 306-315

County commissioners of Columbia county in 1875, 322

County Courthouse, 145

County Elections (Garfield), 373

County jail contract given, 117

County limits reduced, 112

County Offices over a saloon, 113

County Officials of Walla Walla from 1876-1916, 295-99

County seat contest resulted in favor of Pomeroy, but ----, 367

County seat location, 367

County seat question in Asotin county, 405

Courthouse, the new Walla Walla, 295

Courthouse built, first, 146

Court Circuits, old, 267

Court practice in early days, 267

Court towns, old-time, 267

Cowboy contests, 202

"Cowhide and calico", 466

Cox, Anderson, 144

Cox, Ross, 49

Cox's journey in 1812, 51

Craig, William, 92

Creation of Man, an Indian story of the, 24

Cropp, Dr. J. F., 281

Crowley, D. J., 288

Cumberland Presbyterian church at Dayton, 334

Curtin, Jeremiah, 27

Cutler, J. G., 164

Daughters of Rebekah, 236

Davin Brothers, 180

Dawn of civilization in this territory, 359

Dayton a city of lodges, 335

Dayton circuit, 333

Dayton bar, The, 268-271

Dayton, Lewis and Clark at the site of, 40

Dayton, named for Jesse N. Day, 154

Dayton News, The, 263, 353

Dayton school faculty, 325

Dayton woolen mill disappoints, 187

Deadman Hollow, 360

Death ceremonies, Indian, 14

Death islands, Indian, 21

Death song, Indian, 14

Defeat of Steptoe's Command, 105

De La Salle Institute, 223

Deliberations, Indian war and peace, 14, 15

Demers, Rev. Modeste, 80

Denny, A. A., 141

Dent, Captain F. T., 186

Descending The Dalles in 1888, 159

De Smet, Rev. Pierre J., 81

Desperate medical cases, 280

Destructive early fires, 149

Determines to raise wheat on big scale, 183

Development in mines, ranges, farms, 167

Development of Industry in Walla Walla, 175

Devils, Indian, 20

Disbursements and receipts of Walla Walla city, 316

Discovery, early era of American, 42

Discovery of gold in California, 155

Dispatch, The, 355

District over-subscribes Liberty Loan, 197

Diversions of pioneers, 465

Division of Old Walla Walla county, 153

Doctor Baker's Road, 165

Doctor Baker the man, 167

Dr. Blalock, 170

Dr. McLoughlin, John, retired, 83;
vicissitudes besetting 83;
died of broken heart, 83;
receives Whitman party, 62

Donation act of 1850, 474

Donnehue "gets" Patterson, 135

Dooley, John, 179

Dorion, Madam's flight before hostile Indians, 51

Door, Charles R., 270

Douglas, James, manager Hudson's Bay Company, 84

Dress of Nez Perces, 36

Drumheller, Daniel M., 176

Drumheller, George, "wheat king", 201

Drumheller, Jesse, 176

"Dry town" unheard of, 148

Dumas, J. L., 190

Eagle Cap, 8

Earliest buildings in Walla Walla, 115

Earliest permanent settler on the Asotin, 398

Earliest survey of Walla Walla, 115

Early advertisements in the "Statesman", 120

Early cattle raisers, 124

Early days in Asotin, 466

Early settler's attitude toward Indian, 18

Early settlers on Anatone Prairie, 400

Early stockmen, Some larger, 176

Early teachers at Whitman College, 218

Early transportation age, 155

Ears in jar of whiskey, 102

East Washingtonian, 358

Eatables, Indian, 13

Edmiston, J. E., 270

Educational institutions of Walla Walla county, 210

Educational system of Asotin county, 421

Eells, Cushing, 64, 218, 235

Eells, Father, with missionaries at Chimakain, 89;
founds Whitman College, 89, 218

Eels, Rev. Myron, 27;
life of Whitman (extracts), 68

Effort to annex Walla Walla county to Oregon, 141

Eggs at $1.00 per dozen, 121

Election of 1859, 113

Election of 1864, vote by precincts, 139

Election of 1875 in Columbia county, 322

Election of 1878, 285

Election of U. S. senators, first, 289

Election precincts of Walla Walla city, 301

Election results in Asotin county, 405

Election returns, 292, 293

Elections, municipal, of Walla Walla, 305

Elections in Waitsburg, 317

Elections in Columbia county, 323

Elections in Walla Walla county in 1889, 292

Elections in Walla Walla county from 1876-1916, 295-99

Elections of 1888 to 1916, 337-345

Elevation above sea-level, 1

Elijah, the murder of, and its effects, 79

Elk among stock, 451

Elks, the, 237

Enabling Act, The, 287

Enactments of first state legislature, 289

Endowment of Whitman College, 219

English's Company, Oregon Rifles, in Cayuse war, 86

English monopolists of fur trade, 45

Epidemics in pioneer times, 277

Episcopal church, early history of, 233

Episcopal church in Walla Walla, 232

Era of good roads, 174

Escape of convicts from penitentiary, attempted, 291

Establishment of Asotin county, 401, 466

Establishment of Columbia county, 322

Ethnological bibliography, Indian, 26

Ethnology, Indian, 11

Ewing Hall, Walla Walla, 222

Examples of Indian character, 13

Expedition against the Cayuses after Whitman massacre, 87

Expeditions in interest of fur trade, 48

Expenditures considerable (fort), 150

Expense of ties and iron great, 169

Experiences of a pioneer doctor, 275

Explorers, first, 32

Explorers, old Spanish, 42

Extensive business done by stage company, 162

Fair Grounds, retained, 201

Fair to be held, October, 1866, 181

Fall, Dr. E. E., 260

Famous Criminal Suit, 350

Famous doctors, 275

Fare, Portland to Lewiston, $60.00, 158

Fares lowered, 166

Farewell address of Governor Moore, 473

Farmers' Agency, The, 244

Farmers' Unions, 244, 390

Farming and fruit raising tested, 180

Farming industry, 180

Farrand, Livingston, 27

Father Wilbur on the Indian Agency, 332

Federal Reserve Bank, 196

Ferguson county created, 112

Ferrel, Mrs. Brewster, 447

Few hogs raised in Garfield before coming of railroad, 381

Finances of city of Walla Walla, 315

Fine wheat crop of S. Maxson in 1860, 180

Fire chiefs of Walla Walla, 1910-1916, 314, 315

Fire, Indian story of origin of, 23

Fireman's Ball, 119

Fires and start of fire department, 149

Fires of 1880 and 1882, 348

First assessment for Asotin County, 404

First boy in Walla Walla, 455

First brick building in Pomeroy, 384

First Catholic church at Walla Wall, 82

First cattle buyer to Garfield county, 380

First city election in Pomeroy, 383

First election results, 116

First election under charter, 1862, 147

First events in Garfield county, 359

First explorers, 32

First flour mill, 186

"First Garfield County Pioneer Edition", 358

First July 4th celebration at Dayton, 364

First lots sold (Walla Walla), 115

First man to sail on Snake river, 159

First merchant in Walla Walla, 114

First nursery, 188

First officers of Old Walla Walla County, 92

First paper in Walla Walla, 118

First prospecting tour into Idaho, 125

First school at Pataha City, 382

First school district on Pataha flat, 381

First schoolhouse in Asotin county, 467

First sermon, 329

First steamers on Columbia river, 156

First steamship trip up Snake river, 160

First telegram out of Walla Walla, 151

First white woman to live in Columbia county, 177

Five Crows, a Cayuse chief, 87, 94

Five Mile, 37

Five regions, 189

Flag incident of 1863, 132

Flanders, Alvin, 143

Flathead Mission, The, 81

Flinn, Rev. John, 235

Flohr, Rev. M., 223

Flour and coffee prices in 1843, 76

Flour $1.00 per pound, 126, 129

Flour milling, 186

Fog conditions, 4

Food, Indian, 13

Food supply and condition of Indian, 13

Foods high and scarce, 127

Formation of Vigilantes, 132

Fort abandoned, 150

Fort a disturbing question, 150

Fort Henrietta, 100

Fort Taylor, 319

Fort Walla Walla, 110;
the founding of, 51;
description of, 52;
trade of, 52;
missionaries coming to, 52;
arrival of Mrs. Whitman and Mrs. Spalding, first white women, at, 62

Forty-five stock shippers, 179

Fossils of the northwest, 2

Founding of Walla Walla, 109

Four-and-one-half-pound potato, 189

Fourth Annual Fruit Fair, 198

Frachtenberg, Leo J., on Indian texts, 26

Franchère, narrative of, in 1814, 51

Franchère, Gabriel, narrator of Indian legends, 24

Fraternal Orders in Asotin county, 424

Fraternal Orders, Garfield county, 389

Fraternal Orders in Walla Walla, 236

Frazier, C. R., address by, 252

Freight and passenger rates, 167

Freight rates on wheat, 182

Freight tonnage, 1870-1878, 182

French-Canadians, the, in early mission work, 80

Frenchtown in early days, 92

Friction between civilians and the military, 150

Friend of the pioneers--the physician, 275

Frontier Days celebration, 201

Fruit Growers' Association, 198

Fruit growing and precipitation, 6

Fruit lands, acres of, 192

Fuca, the mystery of Juan de, 44

Fuel very scarce, 448

Fur "haul," a, in 1811, 51

Fur-hunters of all nations, 42

Fur trade: American and English rivalry, 49;
American beginnings of, 44;
and Walla Walla, the, 50;
and fur traders, 42;
capital and profits, 44;
early expeditions, 48;
fitting out, 44;
in French and Spanish hands, 46;
Pacific Fur Company, third rival, 47;
rivalry between the two great companies, 45;
Russian, 43

Fur, value of, at beginning of trade, 44

Fur trade; vessels engaged in, 44;
number of skins sold in 1786-87, 44;
profits, 44

Game hunting, Indian, 13

G. A. R., the, 237

"Garden City" changes name November 17, 1859, 113

Garden City Monitor, The, 243, 261

Gardens and Orchards, 188

Garfield and Asotin repeat experience of Walla Walla and Columbia, 185

Garfield county, 358;
first events, 359;
judges and lawyers of, 266;
physicians of, 275;
Pioneer Association, 394;
press, the, 392

Garfielde, Selucius, 144

Garnett crushes Yakimas, 105

Garrison's Company, Oregon Rifles, in Cayuse war, 86

Gatchett, Albert S., 27

General Clarke's proclamation, 105

General events, 375

Geological beginnings, 2

Geological features, 1

Geological formation, 2;
Indian tale of, 2

Geology of the Northwest, 1

George, Colonel Wyatt A., 268

German starts "fire water" store, 332

Gibbs, George, 28

Gilbert's History of Walla Walla, 178

Gilbreath, recollections of Mrs. Margaret, 469

Gilbreath, S. L., 469

Gill, John, student of Indian geography and languages, 30

Gilliam, Colonel Cornelius, 84, 87;
killed by accident, 88

Gilliam's reference to Whitman, 439

Girls' schools, 221;
Catholic, 224

Glaciers, effects of, on geological formation, 3

God, Indian names for, 20

Godman, Melvin M., 269

Gods, Indian, 2

Gold, discovery of, at Pend Oreille River and Columbia, 92

Gold discovered, 104

Gold discovery stimulated farm products, 180

Gold dust sent to Portland, 126

Gold dust thieves, 132

Gold fever catching, 127

Gold taken out, 126

Gold yields on Salmon River, 127

Gose, Judge Mack F., 270

Government, provisional of Oregon, 84

Governor Ferry vetoes Ping county bill, 154

Governor, the last territorial, 473

Grading begins at Wallula, 168

Grain crops, valued at $15,000,000, 188

"Grain chutes", 185

Grain lands in bearing, etc., 192

Grain stacked on banks of Snake river, 375

Grain yield exceeds demand, 1867, 181

Grand jury, the first, 266

Grande Ronde, The, 7

Grange City, 169

Gray, W. H., 64

Great cattle ranges on Dry Creek, 177

Great wheat belt, 181

Greatest fire in Pomeroy, 384

Greeley, Horace, and Dr. Whitman, 69

Greeley and Sumner, 137

Greetings to first governor-elect, 475

Grey Eagle, 432

Grinding flour in coffee mill, 458

Guichard, Ralph, 115

Habits of Indians, 12

Haidahs, the, 11

"Half-way House," the, 115

Halhaltlossot, or Lawyer, 93

Hall, Fort, 54

Hangings by vigilance committee, 133

Harangues, Indian, 15, 16

Hard road of the pioneer physician, 276

Hard winter causes big loss of stock, 175

Hay at $125.00 per ton, 128

Health officers of Walla Walla city, 1877-1916, 306-315

Heceta, Spanish explorer, 44

Hellmuth, Joseph, 149

Hendron, W. W., 325

"Heroes and heroic deeds of the Pacific Northwest", 135

Higgins, David, 269

High school class, first, 211

Hill case, the, 357

Hills considered good only for grazing, 379

Hills settle rapidly from 1873, 380

Hipparion, The, 12

History of business houses in Pomeroy, 385

History of Columbia county, 319

History of early courts, 267

History of lawyers, judges and doctors, 265

History of native races, 10

Holladay System, The, 161

Holt Harvester Works, 193

Home of berries and "truck", 191

Honesty, Indian, example of, 40

Hood, Mount, the story of, 24

Horse, prehistoric, 12;
the Indian, 12

Horse industry not much changed till 1880, 381

Horse-thieves, etc., 135

Horticulture and precipitation, 6

Horton, Robert, 457

Hospitality, Indian, 40

Hothouse vegetables, 190

Hot Springs, 450

Houser, John, 187

Houser, Max, 187

Howlish Wampoo's Racer, 416

Hudson's Bay Company, grant to, 45;
lord of the Pacific, 50;
policy of, 57;
hostile policy of, 79;
meeting emergency in Indian uprisings, 63

Humidity, 6

Hunt Railroad, The, 163

Hunt Threshing Factory, 193

Idaho (Ter.) established, 112

Ideal fruit and garden land, 185

Imagination, Indian, 20

Immigration of 1843, 69

Immigration of 1847, 439

Incomers discover Pataha, Tucanon, Alpowa and Asotin locations, 178

Incorporators of "Baker's Road", 168

Indian, The, and the violin, 39

Indian, The, on warpath, 14

Indian behavior at war, 14

Indian character, the, 13

Indian chief executed for Whitman murder, 90

Indian concourse of 1,500 souls in 1811, 50

Indian conference, the great, with Governor Stevens, 93

Indian customs and myths, 10

"Indian death islands", 21

Indian death song, 14

Indian ethnological bibliography, 26

Indian fighting, early, 13

Indian food conditions, 13

Indian gods, 2

Indian gods and devils, 20

Indian habits and morality, 12

Indian heathenism and Christianity, 19

Indian honesty, 40

Indian hospitality, 40

Indian legend of Yakimas, 20

Indian life, 10

Indian literature, 10

Indian loyalty, an example of, 272

Indian marriage, legality of, 273

Indian marriage customs, 273

Indian meals, 13

Indian music, 37

Indian mythical festivals, 21

Indian mythology of the firmament, fire, water, forest, etc., 18

Indian myths, 25

Indian names and stories, 19

Indian nations, 11

Indian population, 330

Indian reservations, first, 93

Indian rising of 1855, 93, 97, 319

Indian Salmon Spring festival, 26

Indian spirit men, 21

Indian story of the Cascades and the origin of fire, 23

Indian story telling, the manner of, 19

Indian texts, 27

Indian traditions, 10

Indian tribes, 10, 11

Indian wars, the earlier, 83

Indian wealth, 12

Indian women, The, 12

Indians and early settler, 18

Indians in St. Louis in 1832, 57

Indians learn of Christian religion, 58

Indians, white, traditions of, 24

Industrial instruction, 225

Influenza epidemic, 277

Inland Empire Magazine, The, 261

Inland Empire Pioneer Association, 110, 245, 255

Intellectual life in Walla Walla county, 210

Into the hostile camp, 331

Introducing high-grade horses and cattle, 176

Irrigation, natural sub-, 6

Isaac I. Stevens' survey for railroad, 162

Isaacs, H. P., 149

Isaacs, J. C., 149

Itemized expense of wheat crop, 183

Jaussaud, Leon, 180

Jay Cooke & Company, 163

Jefferson's instructions to Captain Lewis, 33

Jefferson, Thomas, 32, 44;
tribute to Captain Lewis, 41

Jerome W. J., 422

Johnson P. B., 258

Joint Occupation Treaty of 1818, 50

Joseph Band of Nez Perces, The, 95

Journalism in Columbia county, 353

Jubilee on opening of canal, 171

Judge Brents, 132

Judges, 265, 266

Judicial districts, 265

Judicial system, 265

Julian, R. C., 263

Junger, Father Arvidius, 82

Justices of the peace of Walla Walla city, 1877-1916, 306-315

Jute mills, the penal, 290

Kahmiakin, Chief of the Yakimas, 94

Kalispels, The, 11

Kamm, Jacob, 156

Keith, Mr., 14

Kelley, Colonel J. K., 97, 101

Kelly, Senator J. J., 142

Kennedy, Robert, 177

Killing of Peupeumoxmox, 102

Kirkman, William K., 178

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 office, 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 create 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;
decrees 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;
hardships of, 35;
journal of Captain Lewis of, 34;
journey resumed, 36;
meeting with Chief Yelleppit, 38;
meet Nez Perces, 36;
start of, 34;
return 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, Lieut., 100

McBean, William, 95

McBeth, Kate, Indian student and missionary among the Nez Perces, 29

McCabe, Joseph, 164

McClees, Warden John, 291

McClellan, George B., assistant surveyor, 162

McClung, Mrs. Peter, recollections of Pomeroy, 472, 360

McDermott, Louisa, 26

McDonald, Mr., 14

McGuire, Jerry, 178

McKay, Tom, 87

McKay, William C., 91, 96

McKay, Dr. W. C., 30

McKay's Company, Oregon Rifles, in Cayuse war, 86

McLoughlin, Doctor, 54, 59;
founds Champoeg, 80

McMorris, Lewis, 102

McWhirk, William, 114

McWhorter, L. V., student of Yakima lore, 30

Mackenzie, Alexander, 45

Magallon, Adrian, 180

Magone, Major, 89

Manufacturing, 192

Many cattle driven 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 Cayuse 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

Medical history, 275

Medical profession, the, 265

Medical science and its achievements, 280

Meek, 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 come, 175

Merchants hold back goods for big prices, 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 since 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

Millican, Lettice, 110

Millican, "Uncle 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

Missions, early, in Oregon, 59

Missions of various denominations, 80

Modoc war, 331

Modoc 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

Music, 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, 465

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 first, 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 expedition with, 36;
rising of the, in December, 1855, 96;
save Stevens conference, 94

Nez Percé 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 cattle 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 acre, 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

Organized government in eastern Washington, 92

O. R. & N. Co. and N. P., 163

Oregon Lumber Company, 193

Oregon Methodist Conference, the, 229

Oregon, provisional government of, 84, 87

Oregon question, the, 69

Oregon Rifles in Cayuse war, membership of, 84

Oregon Steam Navigation Company, 157

Oregon, territorial government of, 88

Oregon territory, Dr. Whitman's letter to secretary of war regarding, 75

Oregon territory, first officers of, 88

Oregon treaty of 1846, 78

Oregon volunteers organize after Whitman massacre for Cayuse war, 84

Ostrander, John 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

Palouse Indians, 11

Palouse myth, a, 25

Palouse river, the, 37

Park at Walla Walla, 462

Park Club, the, 464

Parker, Frank J., 258

Parker, Hollon, 142

Parleys, Indian, 14

Parson Quinn, 360

Pasca Mills, 186

Pastoral work, 328

Pataha, 473

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

Pearce, E. D., 125

Pearson, the express rider, 96

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, 328

Petty local jealousies, 358

Pettyjohn, Jonathan, 177

Peupeumoxmox, chief of the Walla Wallas, 79, 88, 94, 98, 319;
death of, 320

Phillips, W. S., "El Comancho," author of "Totem Tales", 29

Physical condition of Indians, 11, 12, 13

Physical features, 1

Physician, mode of travel of pioneer, 275

Physicians of Old Walla Walla, 275

Pietrzycki, Marcel, 326

Pietrzycki bequest, the, 325

Pine Grove School House, 465

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 business 247;
of Asotin county, 470;
of Whitman party of 1843, 72;
prior to 1860 (names), 111

Plant food, ingredients of, in soil, 3

Plummer, Henry, 121

Poindexter, Hon. Miles, 290

Political annals, 335

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
pioneer physicians of, 275
wants county seat, 365
townsite plat filed, 383
fire department, 384

Pomeroy Improvement Company, 384

Pomeroy Republican, the, 263

Pomeroy Reservoir, 415

Population of Washington, 1853-1880, 474

Population, comparisons of various Washington cities, 293

Potter and Pomeroy build mill, 187

Prairie chicken first met, 38

Preachers of note in Walla Walla, 235

Precipitation, 6

Predictions of Gov. Moore and their fulfillment 475

Prehistoric horse, 12

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 Oregon, 83

Profits in fur trade, 44

Prohibition, 294

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

Pythias, The Knights of, 237

Quinn, Parson, 360

Raboin, Louis, 177

Races, native, of Old Walla Walla county, 10

Race track laid out in 1875, 198

Railroad age, the, 162

Railroad building hangs back, 167

Rails as "legal tender", 465

Rainfall, 1, 6

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., 118, 257

Rees, S. G., 258

Reforms the whiskey dispenser, 333

Registrars of city waterworks, 315

Reliable, steady incomes, 185

Religious life in Walla Walla county, 210

Religious meetings, early, 81

Remarkable wheat yields, 183

"Reminiscences" by Governor Moore, 204

Reminiscences of medical practice, 275

Report of school superintendent, 1916-17, 325

Reservoirs built, 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

Rhubarb, 190

Ribbon of fertile soil, 191

Rice 18c-20c per pound, 120

"Rice vs. County Commissioners of Garfield 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 traffic 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, Cornelius, 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., 28

Schnebley, 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 statistics of Columbia county, 324

School statistics of Walla Walla county, 217

School Superintendent and Pioneers 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, 270

Sealth, Chief (Seattle), 29

Sea-otter, the, 43

Seasons, the, 4, 5

Seattle nearly destroyed, 103

Secret Societies, 237

Seminary, Whitman, 218

Semi-tropical in climate, 191

Senatorial and legislative districts, 288

Senatorial contests, 289

Sentinel, the, 418

Sergeant Smith's party, 126

Settlement, early, of country after Whitman 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 Cayuse war, 86

Sheep business grows, 180

Sheep increase very rapidly, 176

Sheep now in Garfield county, 381

Sheep worth $1.00 per head, 176

Sheriff Whitman and one Bunton, 140

Shipments and freight rates on flour, 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

Sickness and death in party of 1843, 76

"Side Hill" harvester, 193

Silcott, 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 epidemic, 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 acres 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 massacre, 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

Spirit of the West, the, 260

Spirits, Indian, 20, 21

Spokane County laid out, 112

Spokanes, the, 11

Spotted Eagle, 103

Spring festival, Indian Salmon, 26

Squash weighs 134-1/2 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, 158

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 governor, 92

Stock in demand, 175

Stock interests, the, 379

Stock raising in Garfield 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, 294

Sugar 18c to 26c 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 Circle, 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

Ten per cent of stock survives winter, 443

Ten thousand pounds wool shipped, 189

Tent store in 1857, 114

Territorial delegates, 146

Territorial governor, the first, 92

Territorial governor, the last, 473

Territorial governors, 147

Territory becomes a state, 370

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 bunch-grass 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

Tough collection of human beings, 129

Town of Dayton booms, 187

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, early, 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

Tushepaws, the, 12

Two hundred thousand boxes apples, 190

Two remarkable criminal cases, 355

Two voting precincts, 113

Umatilla, 124

Umatilla Rapids, 160

Umatillas, 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, Henry, 163

Vineland Journal, the, 425

Violin and Indian, 39

Volcanic eruptions, 3

Voorhees, Hon. C. S., 286

Vote against constitutional convention, 145

Vote for presidential electors, 1892, 338

Vote in 1863 for Territorial Delegate, 138

Vote, the presidential, in Walla Walla county, 292

Voting precincts in 1860, 117

Voyages, early exploration, 25

Waiilatpu, origin of name of, 11;
selected post by Dr. Whitman, 62;
description of, 64;
mission a center of light and help, 77;
clouds gathering and warning indications for mission, 79;
last days of Whitman mission, 79;
end of, 80;
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, 64

Walla Walla & Columbia River Railroad, 165;
incorporated, 168

Walls 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 subscription, 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 option 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

Walla Walla County, beginning of, 92;
first board of commissioners, 92;
statistics 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

Walls Walla County Press, the, 257

Walla Walla Court House, 295

Walla Walla Democrat, the, 261

Walla Walla Journal, the, 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, the, 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

Ward division of Walla Walla city, 300

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, created, 92;
organizing 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 at 40 cents, 181

Wheat at $2.00 a bushel, 471

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 Samahtumawhoolah, 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. McLoughlin, 62;
selects Waiilatpu and Lapwai, 62;
versatility of, 63;
difficulties 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, 75;
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 Vancouver, 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;
remains 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

Wollawollahs, the, 40

Woman's experience crossing the plains, 447

Woman Suffrage, 294, 336, 370

Woman's, Park Club, the, 206

Women, Indian, 12

Wormell, Mrs. Mary A., 464

Wright, Colonel, 319

Wyche, Judge J. E., 141

Wyeth, Nathaniel, 52, 53;
expeditions of, 53, 54

Yakima branch, 165

Yakima Indian legend, 20

Yakimas, the, 11

Yehl, the raven, legend of, 26

Yelleppit, the handsome chief, 38

Yellow Bird, 102

Young Joseph (Hallakallakeen), 95

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

Abbott, J. F., 523

Adams, J. F., 632

Anderson, Jens, 615

Angermann, H. E., 579

Ayres, W. E., 558

Bartell, G. E., 514

Becker, Martha E. (Kiblinger), 694

Berryman, C. M., 587

Blize, J. R., 622

Broughton, M. H., 711

Bruch, H. P., 648

Bryson, H. C., 698

Burnap, A. H., 493

Burroughs, L. B., 649

Cahill, A. P., 487

Camp, J. M., 534

Canfield, O. F., 608

Carr, John, 653

Claxon, A. W., 580

Cochran, George, 594

Corbett, L. C., 572

Crews, C. S., 633

Davis, J. A., 488

Dement, C. F., 512

Dickinson, A. C., 576

Estes, L. W., 658

Falkenberg, Kristian, 644

Flathers, B. F., 564

Fontaine, J. A., 500

Forgey, John, 571

Fouts, W. H. H., 604

Fudge, Adam, 527

Fudge, William, 588

Gardner, H. A., 620

Glafke, Fred, 593

Glover, J. M., 582

Graves, A. H., 532

Harvey, J. W., 673

Hastings, E. G., 679

Herrold, B. A., 575

Herrold, J. B., 532

Hoffman, E. J., 513

Hollowell, T. J., 607

Hughes, P. J., 697

Hunt, Gilbert, 542

Ingalls, T. P., 626

Johnson, Alexander, 663

Jonas, F. A., 494

Kaser, F. W., 517

Kees, A. F., 685

Keiser, F. T., 610

Kenny, Michael, 504

Kershaw, J. S., 496

Klahr, F. P., 679

Knott, 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

McCullouch, A. J., 506

McKeirnan, 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

Reser, Willis, 541

Retzer, Charles, 599

Robertson, J. C., 704

Romaine, F. S., 676

Rose, J. F., 701

Ruchert, E. C., 703

Schneckloth, Henry, 511

Schwarz, Adolph, 563

Scoggin, J. D., 703

Shaffer, C. E., 692

Shelton, A. L., 521

Shelton, O. M., 521

Snell, G. H., 625

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