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THE SAYING OF OREGON.
HOW DR. WHITMAN BRAVED
BLIZZARDS AND DEATH.
Determined to Save Country From
British Daniel Webster Opposed
to Retaining Territory*
A bloody trophy in possession of the
government at Washington is an In
dian hatchet. The tomahawk reeks
with red and horid association. It is
the weapon with which Dr. Marcus
Whitman, the Indian missionary and
his wife were slain in 1847 and with
which the first blow of the tearsome
Whitman masacre was begun—an en
ormous crime which nearly obliterated
the white American settlers in the Ore
gon country, sent a thrill of horror
and indignation throughout the Amer
ican republic and saved to the Amer
ican people the great northwest coun
try out of which Oregon, Washington
and other states were created. It is
one of the very cruel chapters in his
tory-a chapter embracing eight years
of war between settlers and savages
the result of which was that the Hud
son's Bay Company and the British
crown were compelled to relinguish
their claim to the territory. Another
result was the virtual annihilation of
the Cayuse tribe of Indians. So much
tragic history centers about this rusty
hatchet that it is one of the rarest rel
ics of the government A government
official familiar with the period says
"The Whitman massacre was the re
sult of the machinations of England
to secure by treaty or otherwise all
On-WMiTMAN
5TA(\T|PIG
Easto* HIS jjt
Perilous "fa|P(l!
Across THE
ROCKIES
PLEADING HIS
CAUSE BEFORE
WEBSTER, AND
JHEPhesident.
the territory west of the Rockies and
north of the 42nd parallel of north lat
itude."
First White Women to Cross Rockies.
It was in 1836 that Dr. Marcus Whit
man and the Rev. Mr. Spaulding, with
/their wives—the first white women
to cross the Rock Mountains went
among the tribes of the Far North
west. The country was then in the
control of the Hudson's Bay Com
pany a British monopoly with nearly
a thousand employes. Its power over
the Indian tribes was nearly absolute.
It had a string of fortified Canadian
posts from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The company owned by men in Lon
don desired to exclude American set
tlements and to foster British immi
gration. The Washington government
so far from having any conception of
the value of the northwestern country
stubbornly maintained that it was
worthless and inaccessible by land.
The great Webster said that it was
a land fit only for .savage beasts and
stilj more savage men.
Dr. Whitman established his mission
among the Oayuse in the state of
Washington near what is now Walla
Walla, then Fort Walla Walla, trad
ing post. In 1842 while attending a
dinner given at the fort in honor
of, some British officers news came
that a company of British immigrants
were on their way and had already
crossed the Rocky Mountains. There
(wiais great excitement at the table
and a young officer unconscious of
the presence of the American mission
ary jumped to his feet exclaiming
"Hurrah for Columbia: (the Oregon
country). America )is 'too ljate* -W«
havejffeot the country."
Dr\ Whitman perceived that it was
the pWpose of the British to claim
the coiXtry by right of settlement
He left flbe table rode rapidly to his
wildernes\ home and after a brief
pause thei set out for Washington.
His partingkwords to his wife were
"I am goink to cross the Rocky
Mountains, reach Washington this
winter, God carrying me through
and bring out an immigration
through the mountains next spring or
this country is i6«st."
An Awful Journey.
Winter had set in and the old chron
icles tell it was a severe one marked
by terrific storms and deep snows.
Dr. Whitman reached Washington)
crippled by frozen hands and feet.
The news he brought caused excite
ment among the populace &^d concern
among many of the government offi
cers He saw Daniel Webster Secre
tary of State represented to him
the grandeur and value of the Oregon
country, told him of the need of Im
im'igrants and explained the rvasom
that had Induced him to brave, the
rigor of the season by makingN^he
trlp. Mr. Webster was about to ex
clude the Webster-Ashburton treat/
renouncing any claim we might have
to the great norhwest for a Newfpund
llaaid cod-flslieiry. Webster wSignot
impressed with Whitman's parotic
enthusiasm. He considered the coiin
of no value. He thought it would,
as well to let Great Britian have
satisfied with his Interview
Secretary of State Dr. Whit­
man sought President Tyler who
cans across the continent and In the
autumn entered the valley of the
Oregon.
Develish Work.
The British agents slowly poisoned
the minds of the savages against the
new comers but it was not till 1847
that the savages in council determined
to' massacre all the American settlers
in their country.
The site of Dr. Whitman's dwel
ling was on the north bank of
the Walla Walla river at what is
now the town of Wahulo. The In
dians surrounded the houses of the
niissi&n their weapons hidden under
their blankets. At dawn of November
29,1847 an Indian entered the doctor's
house and asked for medicine. As
the missionary turned to his medicine
chest the savage buried hlis toixtar
hawk in the good man's brain. Mrs.
Whitman was killed a minute later
by the same savage with the same
weapon. The murder of the mission
ary was the signal for the wholesale
slaughter to begin. The butchery com
menced on all sides. The crash of
firearms, the groans of the dying,
screams of women, yells of the painted
demons filled the air. The Indians
women and children danced and sang
as the atrocious work went on. They
multilated the dead. Women and
children of the settlers sank under
bloody knife and club. •The massacre
lasted all day and then murdering
(patrtiQs star tod in (every diiredtioo.
Kverybody in the Whitman_ mission
was killed and many settlers all
through the woods were slain. The
Cayuise attacked a mlission ainloug
the Nez l'ercets buit .these }ii(]iiau£
beat them back and took the sides of
the (settlers, (dispatching parties of
braves after the murderous Cayuse.
American Immigration Won the Day.
The surviving settlers were not slow
in seekiug revenge and they made the
name 'Paleface" a fearful word to the
redskin murderers of the northwesit
forests. War to the dearh was carried
on against the Indians for eight years.
Government troops were in the coun
try, and a stream of immigration had
set in. The leadens of the Cayuse
who attacked the Whitman mission
were captured by the Nez Perces on
the upper John Bay river and five of
them were hanged at Oregon city.
The graves of Dr. Whitman and his
wlife are pointed out near where they
fell at Wahula on that 'bloody Novem
ber morning 1847.
In the light of this does it not seem
that the government might have been
a little considerate in its treatment of
the late chief Joseph and his Nez
Perces band?
The World Moves Quickly.
How the thought of the world passes
from one thing ta another, and then
forgets. Attention for months was
centered upon Port Arthur, and then
it was transferred to the movements
of the naval fleets, the meeting of
which was so disastrous to Russian
hopes. It will be remembered that
when Rojestvensky entered the China
Sea he wired to the Czar: "If I am
victorious I shall inform you. If I am
vanquished, Togo will inform you."
To the public Port Arthur is no more
than one of the countless red
splotches that disfigure history, and
the naval battle of all history is
already relegated to dry discussions as
to what branch of service was most
disastrous to ship and lives.
Eaforeiag the Laws.
—_ behind, Vith a total number of 21.041.
Tnfe CTttinmiotr-er-niooks" showed
wed that the diplomatic
ted ft party of one thousand Amen- o*
From the Washington Star.
There was nothing original in Gov.
Folk's address at Chautauqua, N. Y.,
recently, but the well-known truth he
enunciated took on greater weight for
his indorsement He is no closet phil
osopher, giving to the public the re
sults of reading and speculation, bat
a man of affairs who has done things
and noted the consequences. He was
elected District Attorney in St. Louis
in the expectation that he would ignore
the laws and let those who were vio
lating them continue to flourish on
their iniquities. Instead of that, he
enforced the laws and saw conditions
all around him rapidly improve. When
therefore, such a man tells us that a
cure for many of the Ills we are endur
ing as a people is the simple execution
of the laws, he has the strongest pos
sible claim upon our attention, and his
advice is worth following. Laws are
Of little use unless their enforcement
is demanded and backed up by public
sentiment.
Literature and Musle Prosper.
During the past year the Library of
ngress made entries for copyrights to
extent of 106,577, an increase of
7,141 over those made in 1903. Of
*th?My compositions of a musical char
«ctfcr\head*the list, there having been
entered for copyright 23,740. Period
icals'm single' numbers follow closely
entr
trading of he 16,691 of -which were'books and the
!h «. th^missionan?? train. remainder Booklets, leaflets,-circulars,
jeB toNthe number of 29,516, some
PALATIAL R. STATION.
NEW WASHINGTON STATION THE
FINEST IN THE WORLD.
Construction of Structure and Build
Ins of Adjacent Largest of Freight
Yar^s to Cost *22,OOOfOOO.
i
With all the talk relative to Govern
ment control of^railway rates, and the
1D-
probability of Congress giving the sul
ject at least consideration, the busy
solons of the Senate and House this
winter may not appreciate that within
a radius of eight miles of the Capitol
building there is work of railroad im
provement going on having a value of
over $22,000,000.
Just across the Potomac River, be
tween Washington and the historic
but sleepy town of Alexandria, the
Pennsylvania railroad is well along in
constructing the largest freight yards
in the United States, at a cost of
$7,000,000, •while the Pennsylvania and
Baltimore and Ohio railroads are ex
pending $15,000,000 in the city itself in
eliminating grade crossings and erect
ing a new Union station—a station
which, when completed, will be the
largest passenger station in the world,
even exceeding that at Hamburg, Ger
many.
Compares In Size with Capitol.
The new station, in itself but five
feet shorter than the Capitol building,
will face a plaza 500 feet wide by about
1,000 feet long, decorated with artistic
balustrades, terraces and fountains,
Nine streets will lead into the plaza,
which itself will provide a space for
massing troops and spectators for pub
lic ceremonies. To give the required
elevation to the station so as to admit
the two passenger tunnels from the
South, it was necessary to fill in the
site of the station, some 1,000,000
cubic yards of earth being required to
form the new plaza, the fill for a con
siderable area being over 35 feet In
depth.
Sanitary Train Sheds.
Unlike most railroad stations, the
architectural beauty of the Washing
ton station will not be marred by the
usual gigantic semi-circular train shed,
but each pair of tracks will be covered
over with a sort-of umbrella train shed,
which will protect alighting and de
parting passengers from the elements,
but will also allow the smoke and gases
to rise into the atmosphere. The bag
gage trucks will pass to the cars
through tunnels to the end of the
tracks, where the trunks and parcels
will be brought to the surface by ele
vators, so that at no time will the pas
sengers be in danger of collision with
the baggagemen. The train concourse
will be the largest single room in the
world, nearly 700 feet long, the entire
vista being unbroken by the usual
labyrinth of pillars. The ceiling is to
be constructed in what is technically
known as of the self-supporting type.
There will be 33 passenger tracks, 27
on the main floor level and six on the
tunnel floor where trains from the
South will arrive through the double
tunnel under Capitol tliii. A feature
of the station will be the absence of
stairs, so that even in a large crowd,
for which Washington is famous dur
ing inangural or convention times,
there will be no danger of accident to
the passenger arriving or departing.
Presidential and Diplomatic
Entrance.
There will be special entrances and
also rooms for guests of the nation, the
diplomatic corps and for the President
of the United States, who will thus be
enabled to quietly seek their train with
out hindrance.
In the original bill introduced in Con-
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gress allowing the railroad companies
to construct this station, provision
was made to drive a tunnel directly
beneath the Capitol building, with ele
vators running immediately from the
Senate Chamber and the House Cham
ber into private Congressional stations.
This would have enabled the -United
States Senator from Oregon, for in
stance, to pass out of the Senate and
walk directly aboard his Pullman
sleeping car without exposure to the
open air' until he reached his far
western home. A great convenience
this, doubtlesB, to delicate legislators
but a literal undermining of Congress
by the railroads probably wisely ex
cluded from the architectural plans.
TheBrlckbata Never Touched Hltn
I bad a funny dream last night
Thought that John D. Rockefeller was
running for office^—
Yes!
And he was about to make a speech
In a brickyard, when I woke up.
.... rmf.
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.
Tales of Diplomatic and Court 1ft
trigue.
It seems that Mr. W. W. Astor has
bought the historic Hever estate in
Kent, England, and is improving it. It
includes 2,000 acres of land and &
moated castle, nearly six hundred
years old, where at one time Henry
VIII. maintained Anne of Cleves. On
this estate Mr. Astor has put to work
about one thousand men, with due ap
paratus, and is making changes rated
as improvements which the calculating
natives estimate will cost him a million
and a quarter pounds. He is building
a lake, a model village, roads, bridges
and gardens, and is doubtless having a
good deal of the sort of fun that Mr.
Kipling in a recent story has suggested
as a suitable recreation for tired Amer
icans.
Though the Sultan is himself a total
THE SHAH OF PERSIA,
abstainer, the finest vintage wines are
always offered to such guests as dine
at the palace.
The recent visit of the Shah of Persia
to England recalls ar former call of his
upon Queen Victoria, when London
was startled at the Oriental methods
employed by this picturesque Eastern
potentate. Thousands of dollars worth
of damage was done in the famous
Buckingham Palace by the nochalant
orders of the Shah. The sheep which
provided hi3 mutton were brought into
the palace rooms, which bad been
placed at his royal disposal, and
slaughtered upon the magnificent and
costly rugs and other such extravagant
practices were the order of the day.
While the meat which the Shah eats is
always supposed to be slaughtered be
fore his eyes, it was believed at the time
that these performances were simply
the carrying out of an Eastern regal
fancy, to show Western barbarians
what the Orient was accustomed to.
The Queen's maids of honor have
very little to do. They live at home,
and when the Queen is in London they
are conveyed to Buckingham Palace
after luncheon in royal carriages, and
remain in a suite of charming salons
until required to accompany the Queen
and her unmarried daughter out
driving. They must dress very well
and not appear in the same clothes too
often, and, above all, study the wishes
of Her Majesty in regard to colors anil
modes. The_millinery embargo, that is,
not to wear a picture hat, must be fol
lowed to the letter. With a salary of
$1,500 and the attachment of "Honor
able" to their names, the fair maids-of
honor manage to worry along until
they marry.
Al/D PLAZA- YMBJf CMPLETED^
THE $r/?E£rL£lfeLnMm&^&Ea.
King Alfonso recently had a curious
adventure at Madrid. He had left
Granda one morning incognito. He
guarded his identity so strictly that
no one suspected his presence and
when he presented himself at the royal
palace the sentry refused him admit
tance. The King Inspected the apart
ments being prepared for President
Loubet of France, who was preparing
to visit the youthful Spanish monarch,
and then sent a summons to the aston
ished ministers to come and hold a
council.
The Empress-Dowager of China Is
thoughtful of her subordinates. Here
Is an edict of hers Issued recently
which will bear, out the Idea: "Wong
Wgn-Shao, the grand secretary, has
served under us many years, and he
has shown great 'diligence and faith
fulness. He Is now over 70 years of
age, and In the dally audiences his
obeisance is now Very difficult, and our
sympathy must be shown him. Xet
him be relieved from the grand coun-
ell in order that he may be saved
trouble." As a dismissal this could
hardly be improved upon.
Father John of Cronstadt, whose
extraordinary influence over the Czar
no less than his propaganda against
the revolutionaries, continually rouses
the ire of the secret committee, is 8b
years of age. In personality he
answers to the description of the aver
age Russian peasant, only in his case
abstemiousness has wrought a refining
effect on his features.
VAN CALAVA.
COUNTING UNCLE SAM'S CASH.
Occurs Every Time a New Treasurer
is Appointed.
Owing to the recent change in the
office of Treasurer of the United
States, a task of no small magnitude is
going on in the Treasury Building.
Every time one Treasurer gives way to
another the cash must be counted and
verified before the new official becomes
responsible. for the money under his
care. ..
As soon as a change is made tne
Secretary of the Treasury appoints a
Committee of Three to select a force to
count'the cash. This committee picks
out a number of clerks in the various
offices of the Department, and they are
set at work to "count the millions. Per
haps there may be forty men selected
to perform this huge count maybe
fifty or eighty. It is always considered
an honor to be one of these counters.
The total sum counted by these men
is somewhere in the neighborhood of
five hundred and thirty millions in
money, bonds, notes and everything
else. One vault alone contaifis over a
hundred millions in silver dollars. An
other has a heavy amount of silver
fractional currency, and many tons of
nickel five-cent pieces and pennies.
The worKing cash is handled first,
and in order to give it a chance to do
regular duty it is counted at night.
Most of the money is counted in bulk
and stored away in nags, each contain
inga certain sum. Tuese are weighed,
and if there is even one dollar short,
there is instant detection of the wrong
count As each bag is filled by a clerk,
who attaches his name by a tag, any
discrepancy in the number of coins or
any coin missing from the sack is
charged to him. This is done, not only
to check any tendency toward dis
honesty, but also to cause each counter
to exercise the greatest care. The new
Treasurer is Charles H. Treat, of New
York, who takes the place of Ellis H.
Roberts.
The Unemployed in Germany,
It seems from consular reports that
there are none. Colonies for the so
called "unemployed" take tuem out of
this class immediately and make pau
perism unknown. Each city supports
large offices where hunters for work
go and register. They get a bath, have
th.eir clothing disinfected, and if the
unions which support these institutions
have no work for them in cities, they
are sent to the farm colonies in the
country, where they can work at farm
ing, land reclamation, and in other pro
ductive capacities. The system of
these unions is said to be very com
prehensive they are open to all, and
besides providing opportunities for
workers, have systems of old age pen
sions, insurance against accidents, and
other benefits.
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