Chapter 52

Election of 1878,285Election of U. S. senators, first,289Election precincts of Walla Walla city,301Election results in Asotin county,405Election returns,292,293Elections, municipal, of Walla Walla,305Elections in Waitsburg,317Elections in Columbia county,323Elections in Walla Walla county in 1889,292Elections in Walla Walla county from 1876-1916,295-99Elections of 1888 to 1916,337-345Elevation above sea-level,1Elijah, the murder of, and its effects,79Elk among stock,451Elks, the,237Enabling Act, The,287Enactments of first state legislature,289Endowment of Whitman College,219English's Company, Oregon Rifles, in Cayuse war,86English monopolists of fur trade,45Epidemics in pioneer times,277Episcopal church, early history of,233Episcopal church in Walla Walla,232Era of good roads,174Escape of convicts from penitentiary, attempted,291Establishment of Asotin county,401,466Establishment of Columbia county,322Ethnological bibliography, Indian,26Ethnology, Indian,11Ewing Hall, Walla Walla,222Examples of Indian character,13Expedition against the Cayuses after Whitman massacre,87Expeditions in interest of fur trade,48Expenditures considerable (fort),150Expense of ties and iron great,169Experiences of a pioneer doctor,275Explorers, first,32Explorers, old Spanish,42Extensive business done by stage company,162Fair Grounds, retained,201Fair to be held, October, 1866,181Fall, Dr. E. E.,260Famous Criminal Suit,350Famous doctors,275Fare, Portland to Lewiston, $60.00,158Fares lowered,166Farewell address of Governor Moore,473Farmers' Agency, The,244Farmers' Unions,244,390Farming and fruit raising tested,180Farming industry,180Farrand, Livingston,27Father Wilbur on the Indian Agency,332Federal Reserve Bank,196Ferguson county created,112Ferrel, Mrs. Brewster,447Few hogs raised in Garfield before coming of railroad,381Finances of city of Walla Walla,315Fine wheat crop of S. Maxson in 1860,180Fire chiefs of Walla Walla, 1910-1916,314,315Fire, Indian story of origin of,23Fireman's Ball,119Fires and start of fire department,149Fires of 1880 and 1882,348First assessment for Asotin County,404First boy in Walla Walla,455First brick building in Pomeroy,384First Catholic church at Walla Wall,82First cattle buyer to Garfield county,380First city election in Pomeroy,383First election results,116First election under charter, 1862,147First events in Garfield county,359First explorers,32First flour mill,186"First Garfield County Pioneer Edition",358First July 4th celebration at Dayton,364First lots sold (Walla Walla),115First man to sail on Snake river,159First merchant in Walla Walla,114First nursery,188First officers of Old Walla Walla County,92First paper in Walla Walla,118First prospecting tour into Idaho,125First school at Pataha City,382First school district on Pataha flat,381First schoolhouse in Asotin county,467First sermon,329First steamers on Columbia river,156First steamship trip up Snake river,160First telegram out of Walla Walla,151First white woman to live in Columbia county,177Five Crows, a Cayuse chief,87,94Five Mile,37Five regions,189Flag incident of 1863,132Flanders, Alvin,143Flathead Mission, The,81Flinn, Rev. John,235Flohr, Rev. M.,223Flour and coffee prices in 1843,76Flour $1.00 per pound,126,129Flour milling,186Fog conditions,4Food, Indian,13Food supply and condition of Indian,13Foods high and scarce,127Formation of Vigilantes,132Fort abandoned,150Fort a disturbing question,150Fort Henrietta,100Fort Taylor,319Fort 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,62Forty-five stock shippers,179Fossils of the northwest,2Founding of Walla Walla,109Four-and-one-half-pound potato,189Fourth Annual Fruit Fair,198Frachtenberg, Leo J., on Indian texts,26Franchère, narrative of, in 1814,51Franchère, Gabriel, narrator of Indian legends,24Fraternal Orders in Asotin county,424Fraternal Orders, Garfield county,389Fraternal Orders in Walla Walla,236Frazier, C. R., address by,252Freight and passenger rates,167Freight rates on wheat,182Freight tonnage, 1870-1878,182French-Canadians, the, in early mission work,80Frenchtown in early days,92Friction between civilians and the military,  150Friend of the pioneers—the physician,275Frontier Days celebration,201Fruit Growers' Association,198Fruit growing and precipitation,6Fruit lands, acres of,192Fuca, the mystery of Juan de,44Fuel very scarce,448Fur "haul," a, in 1811,51Fur-hunters of all nations,42Fur 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,43Fur, value of, at beginning of trade,44Fur trade; vessels engaged in,44;number of skins sold in 1786-87,44;profits,44Game hunting, Indian,13G. A. R., the,237"Garden City" changes name November 17, 1859,113Garden City Monitor, The,243,261Gardens and Orchards,188Garfield and Asotin repeat experience of Walla Walla and Columbia,185Garfield county,358;first events,359;judges and lawyers of,266;physicians of,275;Pioneer Association,394;press, the,392Garfielde, Selucius,144Garnett crushes Yakimas,105Garrison's Company, Oregon Rifles, in Cayuse war,86Gatchett, Albert S.,27General Clarke's proclamation,105General events,375Geological beginnings,2Geological features,1Geological formation,2;Indian tale of,2Geology of the Northwest,1George, Colonel Wyatt A.,268German starts "fire water" store,332Gibbs, George,28Gilbert's History of Walla Walla,178Gilbreath, recollections of Mrs. Margaret,469Gilbreath, S. L.,469Gill, John, student of Indian geography and languages,30Gilliam, Colonel Cornelius,84,87;killed by accident,88Gilliam's reference to Whitman,439Girls' schools,221;Catholic,224Glaciers, effects of, on geological formation,3God, Indian names for,20Godman, Melvin M.,269Gods, Indian,2Gold, discovery of, at Pend Oreille River and Columbia,92Gold discovered,104Gold discovery stimulated farm products,180Gold dust sent to Portland,126Gold dust thieves,132Gold fever catching,127Gold taken out,126Gold yields on Salmon River,127Gose, Judge Mack F.,270Government, provisional of Oregon,84Governor Ferry vetoes Ping county bill,154Governor, the last territorial,473Grading begins at Wallula,168Grain crops, valued at $15,000,000,188"Grain chutes",185Grain lands in bearing, etc.,192Grain stacked on banks of Snake river,375Grain yield exceeds demand, 1867,181Grand jury, the first,266Grande Ronde, The,7Grange City,169Gray, W. H.,64Great cattle ranges on Dry Creek,177Great wheat belt,181Greatest fire in Pomeroy,384Greeley, Horace, and Dr. Whitman,69Greeley and Sumner,137Greetings to first governor-elect,475Grey Eagle,432Grinding flour in coffee mill,458Guichard, Ralph,115Habits of Indians,12Haidahs, the,11"Half-way House," the,115Halhaltlossot, or Lawyer,93Hall, Fort,54Hangings by vigilance committee,133Harangues, Indian,15,16Hard road of the pioneer physician,276Hard winter causes big loss of stock,175Hay at $125.00 per ton,128Health officers of Walla Walla city, 1877-1916,306-315Heceta, Spanish explorer,44Hellmuth, Joseph,149Hendron, W. W.,325"Heroes and heroic deeds of the Pacific Northwest",135Higgins, David,269High school class, first,211Hill case, the,357Hills considered good only for grazing,379Hills settle rapidly from 1873,380Hipparion, The,12History of business houses in Pomeroy,385History of Columbia county,319History of early courts,267History of lawyers, judges and doctors,265History of native races,10Holladay System, The,161Holt Harvester Works,193Home of berries and "truck",191Honesty, Indian, example of,40Hood, Mount, the story of,24Horse, prehistoric,12;the Indian,12Horse industry not much changed till 1880,381Horse-thieves, etc.,135Horticulture and precipitation,6Horton, Robert,457Hospitality, Indian,40Hothouse vegetables,190Hot Springs,450Houser, John,187Houser, Max,187Howlish Wampoo's Racer,416Hudson's Bay Company, grant to,45;lord of the Pacific,50;policy of,57;hostile policy of,79;meeting emergency in Indian uprisings,63Humidity,6Hunt Railroad, The,163Hunt Threshing Factory,193Idaho (Ter.) established,112Ideal fruit and garden land,185Imagination, Indian,20Immigration of 1843,69Immigration of 1847,439Incomers discover Pataha, Tucanon, Alpowa and Asotin locations,178Incorporators of "Baker's Road",168Indian, The, and the violin,39Indian, The, on warpath,14Indian behavior at war,14Indian character, the,13Indian chief executed for Whitman murder,90Indian concourse of 1,500 souls in 1811,50Indian conference, the great, with Governor Stevens,93Indian customs and myths,10"Indian death islands",21Indian death song,14Indian ethnological bibliography,26Indian fighting, early,13Indian food conditions,13Indian gods,2Indian gods and devils,20Indian habits and morality,12Indian heathenism and Christianity,19Indian honesty,40Indian hospitality,40Indian legend of Yakimas,20Indian life,10Indian literature,10Indian loyalty, an example of,272Indian marriage, legality of,273Indian marriage customs,273Indian meals,13Indian music,37Indian mythical festivals,21Indian mythology of the firmament, fire, water, forest, etc.,18Indian myths,25Indian names and stories,19Indian nations,11Indian population,330Indian reservations, first,93Indian rising of 1855,93,97,319Indian Salmon Spring festival,26Indian spirit men,21Indian story of the Cascades and the origin of fire,23Indian story telling, the manner of,19Indian texts,27Indian traditions,10Indian tribes,10,11Indian wars, the earlier,83Indian wealth,12Indian women, The,12Indians and early settler,18Indians in St. Louis in 1832,57Indians learn of Christian religion,58Indians, white, traditions of,24Industrial instruction,225Influenza epidemic,277Inland Empire Magazine, The,261Inland Empire Pioneer Association,110,245,255Intellectual life in Walla Walla county,210Into the hostile camp,331Introducing high-grade horses and cattle,176Irrigation, natural sub-,6Isaac I. Stevens' survey for railroad,162Isaacs, H. P.,149Isaacs, J. C.,149Itemized expense of wheat crop,183Jaussaud, Leon,180Jay Cooke & Company,163Jefferson's instructions to Captain Lewis,33Jefferson, Thomas,32,44;tribute to Captain Lewis,41Jerome W. J.,422Johnson P. B.,258Joint Occupation Treaty of 1818,50Joseph Band of Nez Perces, The,95Journalism in Columbia county,353Jubilee on opening of canal,171Judge Brents,132Judges,265,266Judicial districts,265Judicial system,265Julian, R. C.,263Junger, Father Arvidius,82Justices of the peace of Walla Walla city, 1877-1916,306-315Jute mills, the penal,290Kahmiakin, Chief of the Yakimas,94Kalispels, The,11Kamm, Jacob,156Keith, Mr.,14Kelley, Colonel J. K.,97,101Kelly, Senator J. J.,142Kennedy, Robert,177Killing of Peupeumoxmox,102Kirkman, William K.,178Klickitat county erected,112Klickitat legends,21,23Klickitat myth, The,4Klickitat, the chief,24Klickitat tribe, founding of the,23Klickitats, The,11Kohlhauff, William,115Kooskooskie, name and description of,35Kootenais, The,11Kuykendall, Dr. G. B., Indian author and collector,28;on pioneer times of the physician,275Kyger, A.,141Labor Union Directory,242Labor unions,241Land and water, the forming of,2Land of spirits, In the,20Land office,151Larger early stockmen,176Lasater, J. H.,141Law case, a famous,271Law suits resulting from Timothy land case,273Lawyer, the old-time,267Lawyer's Band,103Lawyers,265Laying out state into sixteen counties,92

Election of 1878,285Election of U. S. senators, first,289Election precincts of Walla Walla city,301Election results in Asotin county,405Election returns,292,293Elections, municipal, of Walla Walla,305Elections in Waitsburg,317Elections in Columbia county,323Elections in Walla Walla county in 1889,292Elections in Walla Walla county from 1876-1916,295-99Elections of 1888 to 1916,337-345Elevation above sea-level,1Elijah, the murder of, and its effects,79Elk among stock,451Elks, the,237Enabling Act, The,287Enactments of first state legislature,289Endowment of Whitman College,219English's Company, Oregon Rifles, in Cayuse war,86English monopolists of fur trade,45Epidemics in pioneer times,277Episcopal church, early history of,233Episcopal church in Walla Walla,232Era of good roads,174Escape of convicts from penitentiary, attempted,291Establishment of Asotin county,401,466Establishment of Columbia county,322Ethnological bibliography, Indian,26Ethnology, Indian,11Ewing Hall, Walla Walla,222Examples of Indian character,13Expedition against the Cayuses after Whitman massacre,87Expeditions in interest of fur trade,48Expenditures considerable (fort),150Expense of ties and iron great,169Experiences of a pioneer doctor,275Explorers, first,32Explorers, old Spanish,42Extensive business done by stage company,162Fair Grounds, retained,201Fair to be held, October, 1866,181Fall, Dr. E. E.,260Famous Criminal Suit,350Famous doctors,275Fare, Portland to Lewiston, $60.00,158Fares lowered,166Farewell address of Governor Moore,473Farmers' Agency, The,244Farmers' Unions,244,390Farming and fruit raising tested,180Farming industry,180Farrand, Livingston,27Father Wilbur on the Indian Agency,332Federal Reserve Bank,196Ferguson county created,112Ferrel, Mrs. Brewster,447Few hogs raised in Garfield before coming of railroad,381Finances of city of Walla Walla,315Fine wheat crop of S. Maxson in 1860,180Fire chiefs of Walla Walla, 1910-1916,314,315Fire, Indian story of origin of,23Fireman's Ball,119Fires and start of fire department,149Fires of 1880 and 1882,348First assessment for Asotin County,404First boy in Walla Walla,455First brick building in Pomeroy,384First Catholic church at Walla Wall,82First cattle buyer to Garfield county,380First city election in Pomeroy,383First election results,116First election under charter, 1862,147First events in Garfield county,359First explorers,32First flour mill,186"First Garfield County Pioneer Edition",358First July 4th celebration at Dayton,364First lots sold (Walla Walla),115First man to sail on Snake river,159First merchant in Walla Walla,114First nursery,188First officers of Old Walla Walla County,92First paper in Walla Walla,118First prospecting tour into Idaho,125First school at Pataha City,382First school district on Pataha flat,381First schoolhouse in Asotin county,467First sermon,329First steamers on Columbia river,156First steamship trip up Snake river,160First telegram out of Walla Walla,151First white woman to live in Columbia county,177Five Crows, a Cayuse chief,87,94Five Mile,37Five regions,189Flag incident of 1863,132Flanders, Alvin,143Flathead Mission, The,81Flinn, Rev. John,235Flohr, Rev. M.,223Flour and coffee prices in 1843,76Flour $1.00 per pound,126,129Flour milling,186Fog conditions,4Food, Indian,13Food supply and condition of Indian,13Foods high and scarce,127Formation of Vigilantes,132Fort abandoned,150Fort a disturbing question,150Fort Henrietta,100Fort Taylor,319Fort 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,62Forty-five stock shippers,179Fossils of the northwest,2Founding of Walla Walla,109Four-and-one-half-pound potato,189Fourth Annual Fruit Fair,198Frachtenberg, Leo J., on Indian texts,26Franchère, narrative of, in 1814,51Franchère, Gabriel, narrator of Indian legends,24Fraternal Orders in Asotin county,424Fraternal Orders, Garfield county,389Fraternal Orders in Walla Walla,236Frazier, C. R., address by,252Freight and passenger rates,167Freight rates on wheat,182Freight tonnage, 1870-1878,182French-Canadians, the, in early mission work,80Frenchtown in early days,92Friction between civilians and the military,  150Friend of the pioneers—the physician,275Frontier Days celebration,201Fruit Growers' Association,198Fruit growing and precipitation,6Fruit lands, acres of,192Fuca, the mystery of Juan de,44Fuel very scarce,448Fur "haul," a, in 1811,51Fur-hunters of all nations,42Fur 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,43Fur, value of, at beginning of trade,44Fur trade; vessels engaged in,44;number of skins sold in 1786-87,44;profits,44Game hunting, Indian,13G. A. R., the,237"Garden City" changes name November 17, 1859,113Garden City Monitor, The,243,261Gardens and Orchards,188Garfield and Asotin repeat experience of Walla Walla and Columbia,185Garfield county,358;first events,359;judges and lawyers of,266;physicians of,275;Pioneer Association,394;press, the,392Garfielde, Selucius,144Garnett crushes Yakimas,105Garrison's Company, Oregon Rifles, in Cayuse war,86Gatchett, Albert S.,27General Clarke's proclamation,105General events,375Geological beginnings,2Geological features,1Geological formation,2;Indian tale of,2Geology of the Northwest,1George, Colonel Wyatt A.,268German starts "fire water" store,332Gibbs, George,28Gilbert's History of Walla Walla,178Gilbreath, recollections of Mrs. Margaret,469Gilbreath, S. L.,469Gill, John, student of Indian geography and languages,30Gilliam, Colonel Cornelius,84,87;killed by accident,88Gilliam's reference to Whitman,439Girls' schools,221;Catholic,224Glaciers, effects of, on geological formation,3God, Indian names for,20Godman, Melvin M.,269Gods, Indian,2Gold, discovery of, at Pend Oreille River and Columbia,92Gold discovered,104Gold discovery stimulated farm products,180Gold dust sent to Portland,126Gold dust thieves,132Gold fever catching,127Gold taken out,126Gold yields on Salmon River,127Gose, Judge Mack F.,270Government, provisional of Oregon,84Governor Ferry vetoes Ping county bill,154Governor, the last territorial,473Grading begins at Wallula,168Grain crops, valued at $15,000,000,188"Grain chutes",185Grain lands in bearing, etc.,192Grain stacked on banks of Snake river,375Grain yield exceeds demand, 1867,181Grand jury, the first,266Grande Ronde, The,7Grange City,169Gray, W. H.,64Great cattle ranges on Dry Creek,177Great wheat belt,181Greatest fire in Pomeroy,384Greeley, Horace, and Dr. Whitman,69Greeley and Sumner,137Greetings to first governor-elect,475Grey Eagle,432Grinding flour in coffee mill,458Guichard, Ralph,115Habits of Indians,12Haidahs, the,11"Half-way House," the,115Halhaltlossot, or Lawyer,93Hall, Fort,54Hangings by vigilance committee,133Harangues, Indian,15,16Hard road of the pioneer physician,276Hard winter causes big loss of stock,175Hay at $125.00 per ton,128Health officers of Walla Walla city, 1877-1916,306-315Heceta, Spanish explorer,44Hellmuth, Joseph,149Hendron, W. W.,325"Heroes and heroic deeds of the Pacific Northwest",135Higgins, David,269High school class, first,211Hill case, the,357Hills considered good only for grazing,379Hills settle rapidly from 1873,380Hipparion, The,12History of business houses in Pomeroy,385History of Columbia county,319History of early courts,267History of lawyers, judges and doctors,265History of native races,10Holladay System, The,161Holt Harvester Works,193Home of berries and "truck",191Honesty, Indian, example of,40Hood, Mount, the story of,24Horse, prehistoric,12;the Indian,12Horse industry not much changed till 1880,381Horse-thieves, etc.,135Horticulture and precipitation,6Horton, Robert,457Hospitality, Indian,40Hothouse vegetables,190Hot Springs,450Houser, John,187Houser, Max,187Howlish Wampoo's Racer,416Hudson's Bay Company, grant to,45;lord of the Pacific,50;policy of,57;hostile policy of,79;meeting emergency in Indian uprisings,63Humidity,6Hunt Railroad, The,163Hunt Threshing Factory,193Idaho (Ter.) established,112Ideal fruit and garden land,185Imagination, Indian,20Immigration of 1843,69Immigration of 1847,439Incomers discover Pataha, Tucanon, Alpowa and Asotin locations,178Incorporators of "Baker's Road",168Indian, The, and the violin,39Indian, The, on warpath,14Indian behavior at war,14Indian character, the,13Indian chief executed for Whitman murder,90Indian concourse of 1,500 souls in 1811,50Indian conference, the great, with Governor Stevens,93Indian customs and myths,10"Indian death islands",21Indian death song,14Indian ethnological bibliography,26Indian fighting, early,13Indian food conditions,13Indian gods,2Indian gods and devils,20Indian habits and morality,12Indian heathenism and Christianity,19Indian honesty,40Indian hospitality,40Indian legend of Yakimas,20Indian life,10Indian literature,10Indian loyalty, an example of,272Indian marriage, legality of,273Indian marriage customs,273Indian meals,13Indian music,37Indian mythical festivals,21Indian mythology of the firmament, fire, water, forest, etc.,18Indian myths,25Indian names and stories,19Indian nations,11Indian population,330Indian reservations, first,93Indian rising of 1855,93,97,319Indian Salmon Spring festival,26Indian spirit men,21Indian story of the Cascades and the origin of fire,23Indian story telling, the manner of,19Indian texts,27Indian traditions,10Indian tribes,10,11Indian wars, the earlier,83Indian wealth,12Indian women, The,12Indians and early settler,18Indians in St. Louis in 1832,57Indians learn of Christian religion,58Indians, white, traditions of,24Industrial instruction,225Influenza epidemic,277Inland Empire Magazine, The,261Inland Empire Pioneer Association,110,245,255Intellectual life in Walla Walla county,210Into the hostile camp,331Introducing high-grade horses and cattle,176Irrigation, natural sub-,6Isaac I. Stevens' survey for railroad,162Isaacs, H. P.,149Isaacs, J. C.,149Itemized expense of wheat crop,183Jaussaud, Leon,180Jay Cooke & Company,163Jefferson's instructions to Captain Lewis,33Jefferson, Thomas,32,44;tribute to Captain Lewis,41Jerome W. J.,422Johnson P. B.,258Joint Occupation Treaty of 1818,50Joseph Band of Nez Perces, The,95Journalism in Columbia county,353Jubilee on opening of canal,171Judge Brents,132Judges,265,266Judicial districts,265Judicial system,265Julian, R. C.,263Junger, Father Arvidius,82Justices of the peace of Walla Walla city, 1877-1916,306-315Jute mills, the penal,290Kahmiakin, Chief of the Yakimas,94Kalispels, The,11Kamm, Jacob,156Keith, Mr.,14Kelley, Colonel J. K.,97,101Kelly, Senator J. J.,142Kennedy, Robert,177Killing of Peupeumoxmox,102Kirkman, William K.,178Klickitat county erected,112Klickitat legends,21,23Klickitat myth, The,4Klickitat, the chief,24Klickitat tribe, founding of the,23Klickitats, The,11Kohlhauff, William,115Kooskooskie, name and description of,35Kootenais, The,11Kuykendall, Dr. G. B., Indian author and collector,28;on pioneer times of the physician,275Kyger, A.,141Labor Union Directory,242Labor unions,241Land and water, the forming of,2Land of spirits, In the,20Land office,151Larger early stockmen,176Lasater, J. H.,141Law case, a famous,271Law suits resulting from Timothy land case,273Lawyer, the old-time,267Lawyer's Band,103Lawyers,265Laying out state into sixteen counties,92

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


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