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