Chapter 53

Leaders in grain raising,177Lease-rights in Washington,273,274Ledyard, John,43Ledyard, S. F.,127Lee, Jason, Christian crusader,59,229;first of the Protestants,80Legality of Indian marriage,273Legend, a Klickitat,21Legend of the origin of fire and Mounts Hood, Adams and St. Helens,23Legends, Indian,25Legends, Yakima,20Legislative act to create Asotin county,402Legislative deadlock,289Legislative delegations from Walla Walla county from 1876 to 1916,295-99Legislative districts,289Legislators chosen, 1863-1874,139Legislature, the first territorial,92;decrees of the,92Legislature, the first state,289Letter of Dr. Whitman to secretary of war in 1843,75Letter from E. H. Morrison,376Letter from Judge O. S. Pratt,429Letter from Perrin Whitman to W. H. Gray,428Lewis, James Hamilton,292Lewis, Meriwether,33Lewis 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,12Lewiston,124Liberty Loan bonds,196Librarian, city of Walla Walla,315Library statistics,304Library, Walla Walla city,303Life of Timothy,271Lisa, Manuel, pioneer fur trader,46Litigation, a famous case of land,271Live stock, dairy products, poultry, wool, flour, chop, 1916,192Live stock on hand, 1863 and 1875,179Live stock statistics,285Lived on boiled wheat,453Lloyd, Hon. A. G.,246Location of Walla Walla city in regard to growth,293Long tunnels, and big snows no bar,162Looney, Jesse,427"Loowit," the witch,23Loss of stock one million dollars,128Lost in fog and snow,279Lots $5.00 each,115Lot Whitcomb,156Lovejoy, A. L., letters on mid-winter ride from Waiilatpu to St. Louis,66Lyman, H. S.,27Lyman, W. D., address by,252McAuliffe, Lieut.,100McBean, William,95McBeth, Kate, Indian student and missionary among the Nez Perces,29McCabe, Joseph,164McClees, Warden John,291McClellan, George B., assistant surveyor,162McClung, Mrs. Peter, recollections of Pomeroy,472,360McDermott, Louisa,26McDonald, Mr.,14McGuire, Jerry,178McKay, Tom,87McKay, William C.,91,96McKay, Dr. W. C.,30McKay's Company, Oregon Rifles, in Cayuse war,86McLoughlin, Doctor,54,59;founds Champoeg,80McMorris, Lewis,102McWhirk, William,114McWhorter, L. V., student of Yakima lore,30Mackenzie, Alexander,45Magallon, Adrian,180Magone, Major,89Manufacturing,192Many cattle driven in '61,175Many miners in Portland in 1862,128Many orchards hard hit by sub-zero weather,189Marriage customs, Indian,273Marshal resigns,131Marshals of Walla Walla, 1877-1916,305-315Martin, Captain William,89Martin's Company, Oregon Rifles, in Cayuse war,86Masonic Order, the, in Walla Walla,236Matches in the Sorghum,450Mayors of Walla Walla, 1877-1916,305-315;of Waitsburg,318;of Asotin,419Meals, Indian,13Measles, epidemic of, among Indians in 1847,79Medical history,275Medical profession, the,265Medical science and its achievements,280Meek, Joseph L.,87Meeting to raise railroad fund,167Memories of old,474Meningitis epidemic in 1888,277Men in the public eye, in Walla Walla county,292Mental characteristics of Indian,13Merchant, Mrs. Lillian Clemans,467Merchants' Carnival, the,201Merchants come,175Merchants hold back goods for big prices,127Methodist church, the,228;early history of,229;the first in Walla Walla,229;jurisdiction over,229;building the first,230Methodist Mission, the first,59Methodist missions,80Methodist parsonage,231Methodist pastors in Walla Walla since 1859,232Methodist presiding elders in Walla Walla since 1859,232Methow highland,2"Michel",15Military organization of volunteers for Cayuse war,84Miller, Joaquin,114Miller, Judge Chester F., contribution by,266;paper of Judge,320Millican, Lettice,110Millican, "Uncle Billy",457Mill Town,154Miner, Mrs. A. J., first school teacher,211Mines at Orofino worked out,122Miners winter in Walla Walla,126Minto, John, Indian student and state builder of the northwest,30Miscellaneous crops, 1916,192Miscellaneous happenings, Asotin county,411Missionaries, attitude of first, toward Indians,18;difficulties of early,64;first, in Walla Walla,52Missionary era, ending of,82;period of the,57;station in 1837,178Missions, early, in Oregon,59Missions of various denominations,80Modoc war,331Modoc war changes views of fort,150Moisture, artificial and natural,6Mojonnier, F. E.,190Montagnes Bleues, Les,8Moore, Miles C., appointed territorial governor,286;address of, at pow wow,204;farewell address of,473Morality of Indians,12,13More agitation for railway,377More fires, 1884-5, 1890, '91,350Morning Star, Chief,17Mountains, height of,1;Indian names of,19,20Mounts Adams, Hood and St. Helens, Indian legend of,24;other stories of,28"Mullan Road",120Multnomah nation, story of the founding of the great,23Municipal elections of Walla Walla,305Municipal officers of Walla Walla, 1877-1916,305-315Municipal ownership of Walla Walla waterworks,301Municipal politics of Walla Walla,299,346Municipal warrants,317Municipal waterworks, registrars of,315Music, Indian,37,39Musk Rat, the Tacullies legend of the,26Mythology, Indian, of firmament and elements,18Myths, Indian,25Names and Stories, Indian,19Names found in advertising columns of the Chronicle,354Names of advance guard at Pataha,178Names of sections of Asotin lands,400National democracy,138Nations, Indian,11Native races,10Nearest flour mill thirty miles away,465Nesmith's, Senator, address to Oregon Pioneer Association,69New county of Garfield,364Newell, William H.,258New era of water transportation,170Newspaper twenty-five cents per copy,118Newspaper, the first,246Newspapers at Walla Walla,246Newspapers of Walla Walla county,257News two weeks old,120Nez 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,94Nez Percé war, the,458;underlying cause of,95Night-ride, a physician's,279Northrop, N.,118,257N. P. R. R. builds feeders,163Northern Pacific railroad movement,163Northwestern Fur Company,45Northwestern Stage Company,162No salary to mayor or councilmen,116Number of horses and cattle in 1863 and in 1875,179Oceans of bunch grass,175Odd Fellows, Independent Order of,236Officials elected in 1860,117Officers, first, of Old Walla Walla county 92Officers of Old Walla Walla county,112Ogden, Peter Skeen,84,87Ogress of Saddle Mountain, the myth of the,25Okanogan highlands,2Okanogans, The,11"Old Bones," Chief,11,114Old Walla Walla County, beginning of,92Olney, Indian agent Nathan,98,100,319"O my God, for a Sabre!",104One hundred and ten bushels barley to acre,183Onions,189,190,192Only fire-proof building in Walla Walla,120Opening of country,83Orchards and gardens, Asotin county,413Order of the Eastern Star,236Organized bands of criminals,121Organized government in eastern Washington,92O. R. & N. Co. and N. P.,163Oregon Lumber Company,193Oregon Methodist Conference, the,229Oregon, provisional government of,84,87Oregon question, the,69Oregon Rifles in Cayuse war, membership of,84Oregon Steam Navigation Company,157Oregon, territorial government of,88Oregon territory, Dr. Whitman's letter to secretary of war regarding,75Oregon territory, first officers of,88Oregon treaty of 1846,78Oregon volunteers organize after Whitman massacre for Cayuse war,84Ostrander, John Y.,270Our conference,333"Our Mother Oregon",173Outbreak of all Columbia Indians in 1855-56,96Outbreak of prisoners, a contemplated,291Owsley school,381Pacific Fur Company,47Page, Right Rev. Herman,222Pageant of May, 1914,206;program of,207Paine, F. W., gives an anecdote,132Palmy period for hold-ups,161Palouse Indians,11Palouse myth, a,25Palouse river, the,37Park at Walla Walla,462Park Club, the,464Parker, Frank J.,258Parker, Hollon,142Parleys, Indian,14Parson Quinn,360Pasca Mills,186Pastoral work,328Pataha,473Pataha City,187,387Pataha "Spirit," the,402Patients and doctors in pioneer times,275Patit, origin of the name of,319Patterson, Ferd., "Bad man",134Paved streets of Walla Walla,302Pavilion erected in 1900,198Pearce, E. D.,125Pearson, the express rider,96Penal labor,290,291Pend Oreilles, the,11Penitentiary, history of the,290Penrose, Rev. S. B. L.,219People's Party,340Permanent Organization of Walla Walla county,109Personal contact,328Petty local jealousies,358Pettyjohn, Jonathan,177Peupeumoxmox, chief of the Walla Wallas,79,88,94,98,319;death of,320Phillips, W. S., "El Comancho," author of "Totem Tales",29Physical condition of Indians,11,12,13Physical features,1Physician, mode of travel of pioneer,275Physicians of Old Walla Walla,275Pietrzycki, Marcel,326Pietrzycki bequest, the,325Pine Grove School House,465Ping, Elisha,154Ping County bill passed,154"Pioneer Days",197Pioneer Hotel destroyed,412Pioneer lawyers,268Pioneer meeting of 1904,245;of 1911,250Pioneer, the, Physician,275;race track,179;recollections of Asotin county,464;reminiscences,426;stage lines,160;wheat grower on large scale,183Pioneers, advance guard of,69;in business 247;of Asotin county,470;of Whitman party of 1843,72;prior to 1860 (names),111Plant food, ingredients of, in soil,3Plummer, Henry,121Poindexter, Hon. Miles,290Political annals,335Political History of County division,136Political history of Walla Walla city,299Political history of Walla Walla county since division,285Political party dissentions,292Political review,142Pomeroy J. M.,472;brings in first good stock,380Pomeroy,165established by J. M. Pomeroy,360town of,472elections,473pioneer physicians of,275wants county seat,365townsite plat filed,383fire department,384Pomeroy Improvement Company,384Pomeroy Republican, the,263Pomeroy Reservoir,415Population of Washington, 1853-1880,474Population, comparisons of various Washington cities,293Potter and Pomeroy build mill,187Prairie chicken first met,38Preachers of note in Walla Walla,235Precipitation,6Predictions of Gov. Moore and their fulfillment 475Prehistoric horse,12Presbyterian missions,80Prescott, the town of homes,216;as grain center,216;schools,216Present city government of Starbuck,352Present day churches at Dayton,335Presidential election, 1904,340Presidential vote, the, in Walla Walla county,292Press of Garfield county, the,392Preston, W. G.,215,226Preston Hall,215,226Prevailing sentiment, democratic,136Prices of foods, etc., in 1861,120Prisoners, escape of, from penitentiary, attempted,291Private schools,217Proclamation of opening of eastern Oregon,83Profits in fur trade,44Prohibition,294Professions, trades, etc.,194Provision for dairy and poultry purposes,180Provisional government of Oregon,84,87Prunes raised, value, 1916,192Public schools, organized,211Pythias, The Knights of,237Quinn, Parson,360Raboin, Louis,177Races, native, of Old Walla Walla county,10Race track laid out in 1875,198Railroad age, the,162Railroad building hangs back,167Rails as "legal tender",465Rainfall,1,6Ready access to hip pocket,140Receipts and disbursements of Walla Walla city,316Recollections, by Mrs. St. George,361Recollections of C. W. Clark,455Recorders of Walla Walla city, 1877-1916,306-315Record of elections (Garfield county),369Red Cross work,464Rees, Frank,118Rees, R. R.,118,257Rees, S. G.,258Reforms the whiskey dispenser,333Registrars of city waterworks,315Reliable, steady incomes,185Religious life in Walla Walla county,210Religious meetings, early,81Remarkable wheat yields,183"Reminiscences" by Governor Moore,204Reminiscences of medical practice,275Report of school superintendent, 1916-17,325

Leaders in grain raising,177Lease-rights in Washington,273,274Ledyard, John,43Ledyard, S. F.,127Lee, Jason, Christian crusader,59,229;first of the Protestants,80Legality of Indian marriage,273Legend, a Klickitat,21Legend of the origin of fire and Mounts Hood, Adams and St. Helens,23Legends, Indian,25Legends, Yakima,20Legislative act to create Asotin county,402Legislative deadlock,289Legislative delegations from Walla Walla county from 1876 to 1916,295-99Legislative districts,289Legislators chosen, 1863-1874,139Legislature, the first territorial,92;decrees of the,92Legislature, the first state,289Letter of Dr. Whitman to secretary of war in 1843,75Letter from E. H. Morrison,376Letter from Judge O. S. Pratt,429Letter from Perrin Whitman to W. H. Gray,428Lewis, James Hamilton,292Lewis, Meriwether,33Lewis 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,12Lewiston,124Liberty Loan bonds,196Librarian, city of Walla Walla,315Library statistics,304Library, Walla Walla city,303Life of Timothy,271Lisa, Manuel, pioneer fur trader,46Litigation, a famous case of land,271Live stock, dairy products, poultry, wool, flour, chop, 1916,192Live stock on hand, 1863 and 1875,179Live stock statistics,285Lived on boiled wheat,453Lloyd, Hon. A. G.,246Location of Walla Walla city in regard to growth,293Long tunnels, and big snows no bar,162Looney, Jesse,427"Loowit," the witch,23Loss of stock one million dollars,128Lost in fog and snow,279Lots $5.00 each,115Lot Whitcomb,156Lovejoy, A. L., letters on mid-winter ride from Waiilatpu to St. Louis,66Lyman, H. S.,27Lyman, W. D., address by,252McAuliffe, Lieut.,100McBean, William,95McBeth, Kate, Indian student and missionary among the Nez Perces,29McCabe, Joseph,164McClees, Warden John,291McClellan, George B., assistant surveyor,162McClung, Mrs. Peter, recollections of Pomeroy,472,360McDermott, Louisa,26McDonald, Mr.,14McGuire, Jerry,178McKay, Tom,87McKay, William C.,91,96McKay, Dr. W. C.,30McKay's Company, Oregon Rifles, in Cayuse war,86McLoughlin, Doctor,54,59;founds Champoeg,80McMorris, Lewis,102McWhirk, William,114McWhorter, L. V., student of Yakima lore,30Mackenzie, Alexander,45Magallon, Adrian,180Magone, Major,89Manufacturing,192Many cattle driven in '61,175Many miners in Portland in 1862,128Many orchards hard hit by sub-zero weather,189Marriage customs, Indian,273Marshal resigns,131Marshals of Walla Walla, 1877-1916,305-315Martin, Captain William,89Martin's Company, Oregon Rifles, in Cayuse war,86Masonic Order, the, in Walla Walla,236Matches in the Sorghum,450Mayors of Walla Walla, 1877-1916,305-315;of Waitsburg,318;of Asotin,419Meals, Indian,13Measles, epidemic of, among Indians in 1847,79Medical history,275Medical profession, the,265Medical science and its achievements,280Meek, Joseph L.,87Meeting to raise railroad fund,167Memories of old,474Meningitis epidemic in 1888,277Men in the public eye, in Walla Walla county,292Mental characteristics of Indian,13Merchant, Mrs. Lillian Clemans,467Merchants' Carnival, the,201Merchants come,175Merchants hold back goods for big prices,127Methodist church, the,228;early history of,229;the first in Walla Walla,229;jurisdiction over,229;building the first,230Methodist Mission, the first,59Methodist missions,80Methodist parsonage,231Methodist pastors in Walla Walla since 1859,232Methodist presiding elders in Walla Walla since 1859,232Methow highland,2"Michel",15Military organization of volunteers for Cayuse war,84Miller, Joaquin,114Miller, Judge Chester F., contribution by,266;paper of Judge,320Millican, Lettice,110Millican, "Uncle Billy",457Mill Town,154Miner, Mrs. A. J., first school teacher,211Mines at Orofino worked out,122Miners winter in Walla Walla,126Minto, John, Indian student and state builder of the northwest,30Miscellaneous crops, 1916,192Miscellaneous happenings, Asotin county,411Missionaries, attitude of first, toward Indians,18;difficulties of early,64;first, in Walla Walla,52Missionary era, ending of,82;period of the,57;station in 1837,178Missions, early, in Oregon,59Missions of various denominations,80Modoc war,331Modoc war changes views of fort,150Moisture, artificial and natural,6Mojonnier, F. E.,190Montagnes Bleues, Les,8Moore, Miles C., appointed territorial governor,286;address of, at pow wow,204;farewell address of,473Morality of Indians,12,13More agitation for railway,377More fires, 1884-5, 1890, '91,350Morning Star, Chief,17Mountains, height of,1;Indian names of,19,20Mounts Adams, Hood and St. Helens, Indian legend of,24;other stories of,28"Mullan Road",120Multnomah nation, story of the founding of the great,23Municipal elections of Walla Walla,305Municipal officers of Walla Walla, 1877-1916,305-315Municipal ownership of Walla Walla waterworks,301Municipal politics of Walla Walla,299,346Municipal warrants,317Municipal waterworks, registrars of,315Music, Indian,37,39Musk Rat, the Tacullies legend of the,26Mythology, Indian, of firmament and elements,18Myths, Indian,25Names and Stories, Indian,19Names found in advertising columns of the Chronicle,354Names of advance guard at Pataha,178Names of sections of Asotin lands,400National democracy,138Nations, Indian,11Native races,10Nearest flour mill thirty miles away,465Nesmith's, Senator, address to Oregon Pioneer Association,69New county of Garfield,364Newell, William H.,258New era of water transportation,170Newspaper twenty-five cents per copy,118Newspaper, the first,246Newspapers at Walla Walla,246Newspapers of Walla Walla county,257News two weeks old,120Nez 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,94Nez Percé war, the,458;underlying cause of,95Night-ride, a physician's,279Northrop, N.,118,257N. P. R. R. builds feeders,163Northern Pacific railroad movement,163Northwestern Fur Company,45Northwestern Stage Company,162No salary to mayor or councilmen,116Number of horses and cattle in 1863 and in 1875,179Oceans of bunch grass,175Odd Fellows, Independent Order of,236Officials elected in 1860,117Officers, first, of Old Walla Walla county 92Officers of Old Walla Walla county,112Ogden, Peter Skeen,84,87Ogress of Saddle Mountain, the myth of the,25Okanogan highlands,2Okanogans, The,11"Old Bones," Chief,11,114Old Walla Walla County, beginning of,92Olney, Indian agent Nathan,98,100,319"O my God, for a Sabre!",104One hundred and ten bushels barley to acre,183Onions,189,190,192Only fire-proof building in Walla Walla,120Opening of country,83Orchards and gardens, Asotin county,413Order of the Eastern Star,236Organized bands of criminals,121Organized government in eastern Washington,92O. R. & N. Co. and N. P.,163Oregon Lumber Company,193Oregon Methodist Conference, the,229Oregon, provisional government of,84,87Oregon question, the,69Oregon Rifles in Cayuse war, membership of,84Oregon Steam Navigation Company,157Oregon, territorial government of,88Oregon territory, Dr. Whitman's letter to secretary of war regarding,75Oregon territory, first officers of,88Oregon treaty of 1846,78Oregon volunteers organize after Whitman massacre for Cayuse war,84Ostrander, John Y.,270Our conference,333"Our Mother Oregon",173Outbreak of all Columbia Indians in 1855-56,96Outbreak of prisoners, a contemplated,291Owsley school,381Pacific Fur Company,47Page, Right Rev. Herman,222Pageant of May, 1914,206;program of,207Paine, F. W., gives an anecdote,132Palmy period for hold-ups,161Palouse Indians,11Palouse myth, a,25Palouse river, the,37Park at Walla Walla,462Park Club, the,464Parker, Frank J.,258Parker, Hollon,142Parleys, Indian,14Parson Quinn,360Pasca Mills,186Pastoral work,328Pataha,473Pataha City,187,387Pataha "Spirit," the,402Patients and doctors in pioneer times,275Patit, origin of the name of,319Patterson, Ferd., "Bad man",134Paved streets of Walla Walla,302Pavilion erected in 1900,198Pearce, E. D.,125Pearson, the express rider,96Penal labor,290,291Pend Oreilles, the,11Penitentiary, history of the,290Penrose, Rev. S. B. L.,219People's Party,340Permanent Organization of Walla Walla county,109Personal contact,328Petty local jealousies,358Pettyjohn, Jonathan,177Peupeumoxmox, chief of the Walla Wallas,79,88,94,98,319;death of,320Phillips, W. S., "El Comancho," author of "Totem Tales",29Physical condition of Indians,11,12,13Physical features,1Physician, mode of travel of pioneer,275Physicians of Old Walla Walla,275Pietrzycki, Marcel,326Pietrzycki bequest, the,325Pine Grove School House,465Ping, Elisha,154Ping County bill passed,154"Pioneer Days",197Pioneer Hotel destroyed,412Pioneer lawyers,268Pioneer meeting of 1904,245;of 1911,250Pioneer, the, Physician,275;race track,179;recollections of Asotin county,464;reminiscences,426;stage lines,160;wheat grower on large scale,183Pioneers, advance guard of,69;in business 247;of Asotin county,470;of Whitman party of 1843,72;prior to 1860 (names),111Plant food, ingredients of, in soil,3Plummer, Henry,121Poindexter, Hon. Miles,290Political annals,335Political History of County division,136Political history of Walla Walla city,299Political history of Walla Walla county since division,285Political party dissentions,292Political review,142Pomeroy J. M.,472;brings in first good stock,380Pomeroy,165established by J. M. Pomeroy,360town of,472elections,473pioneer physicians of,275wants county seat,365townsite plat filed,383fire department,384Pomeroy Improvement Company,384Pomeroy Republican, the,263Pomeroy Reservoir,415Population of Washington, 1853-1880,474Population, comparisons of various Washington cities,293Potter and Pomeroy build mill,187Prairie chicken first met,38Preachers of note in Walla Walla,235Precipitation,6Predictions of Gov. Moore and their fulfillment 475Prehistoric horse,12Presbyterian missions,80Prescott, the town of homes,216;as grain center,216;schools,216Present city government of Starbuck,352Present day churches at Dayton,335Presidential election, 1904,340Presidential vote, the, in Walla Walla county,292Press of Garfield county, the,392Preston, W. G.,215,226Preston Hall,215,226Prevailing sentiment, democratic,136Prices of foods, etc., in 1861,120Prisoners, escape of, from penitentiary, attempted,291Private schools,217Proclamation of opening of eastern Oregon,83Profits in fur trade,44Prohibition,294Professions, trades, etc.,194Provision for dairy and poultry purposes,180Provisional government of Oregon,84,87Prunes raised, value, 1916,192Public schools, organized,211Pythias, The Knights of,237Quinn, Parson,360Raboin, Louis,177Races, native, of Old Walla Walla county,10Race track laid out in 1875,198Railroad age, the,162Railroad building hangs back,167Rails as "legal tender",465Rainfall,1,6Ready access to hip pocket,140Receipts and disbursements of Walla Walla city,316Recollections, by Mrs. St. George,361Recollections of C. W. Clark,455Recorders of Walla Walla city, 1877-1916,306-315Record of elections (Garfield county),369Red Cross work,464Rees, Frank,118Rees, R. R.,118,257Rees, S. G.,258Reforms the whiskey dispenser,333Registrars of city waterworks,315Reliable, steady incomes,185Religious life in Walla Walla county,210Religious meetings, early,81Remarkable wheat yields,183"Reminiscences" by Governor Moore,204Reminiscences of medical practice,275Report of school superintendent, 1916-17,325

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


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