Centralia Chronicle (Newspaper) - April 3, 1890, Centralia, Washington LEWIS COUNTY WASHINGTON APRIL NO 40 The Cayuso War Oregonian In very early days Dr Whitman and established a station at in the Valley of the Walla Walla river between the present Walla Walla and This was territory occupied by the Cayuse In- dians On the day of November 1847 the doctor and hie wife and merous others assembled at the station were either killed and wounded or carried off captives by these Indians who razed the buildings to the ground nud tried by one blow to wipe the sion from the face of the earth The distance by rail from to gon City the territorial capital above Portland was about flews of the massacre reched the latter place on the 7th following the legislature of the provisional was in session On the 811 Governor Abernethey the fact to that body On the 9th a was passed and on the 10th signed by the governor authorizing the raising of amounted regiment men 800 strong to serve ten months un- less sooner discharged by proclamation alouse returning to about Tune 4 having been gone about three weeks The Cayuse tribe had left the country A few days afterwards the Colville detachment returned having successfully accomplished its purpose The troops were now started en route for their homes arriving at Oregon City about June where they were promptly mustered out of service after about six months of active ing In the beginning when raising teers was authorized there were vided for and appointed by legislative sanction a and an The former appears to have been entrusted with supervision of the business of the troops equipments supplies rations etc while the latter kept the records An extract from a report of the to the as due each enlisted man engaged agains the in the war in BO far as i afreets Hall's company is hereto ap It ia that these dues were settled at the time Every and pri vate who furnished his own horse to receive 59 per day and it will b all that he can find Nature's is in this way removed and the ce increase again and the injury goes n perhaps worse It is not t all uncommon for entomologists to these friendly insects from rs or fruit growers who report them as oing much damage to some tree or lant The lady beetles or lady birds as hey are often called are among the most beneficial of our ects Their food consists almost y of plant lice and the eggs of insects and they should always be protected Nearly everyone knows these insects in state They are rather small and are shaped much like a rado potato beetle and are usually rated with bright white or black spots Who has not said when a child Lady bird fly away home Two other very beneficial insects that I can only mention are the lame of the flies and the beautiful winged These are most com- found in colonies of plant lice of which they devour large numbers Tbe Hire of the governor and which while in timt making this allowance tin should be subject to the rules as luo in appendix E regulations of the United States army The left the vicinity of Portland the Brat week in ary 1848 crossed the Columbia river to Vancouver followed the trail on the covered about six months service will such variations as might be under the circumstances The Cayuse war was attended b privations and such suffering on the par of the troops These were to some ex- IF YOU WANT In accordance with the advice of the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union at Berne notice has been given by our postal department that queen bees will be admitted to the they are packed in north side of that river to n point above tent the natural incidents of warfare the Cascades thence recrossing and oui aggravated by a defective on the south side to the So soon HR the DOSh of January The belief was then general on the Des Chutes after the fight there that the Walln Walla Nez Forces Yakimas and others were we find the troops killing horses for food After they succeeded in recrossing the ing forces against the whites Touchet from their prolonged contest ingly was adopted of fighting two and a night with the Indians the Indians wherever found which led at Tucannon they found and to a scout up the DCS Chutes river killed some Indian ironies and ate the where on the of January Hull's j ment with a relish being the first company with tome others first met the tlley had had to eat since the The Indians were off The impunities on each side were Indians having fresh horses and fight began The night after the battle at Sand Hollows or Old Wells on the 24th of February the whites slept on the wooden boxes nou inches in size closed by a wire EL in protected by a moveable wooden lid and that postage thereon is prepaid either at the rate applicable to letters or to samples of merchandise in Postal Union mails Under the regulations queen bees may be sent to the Argentine Republic Bulgaria Chili lumbia Congo Dutch West Indies Egypt Guatemala Hawaii In- dia Italy Liberia Mexico Paraguay Portugal and the Portugese colonies Siam Spain Switzerland Austro Hungary France Germany Greece Luxemburg the d Dutch Guiana It appears that as rule the bees hove their childhood The attention of the public has for a year past in a large degree been given to the ad- vantages and solid attractions Centralia Lewis county offer to the intending settler The immigration that is now setting in with the ad- vent of spring will nearly all be to western Washington People who are looking for homes no longer go to fornia to Nebraska or kota Of the thousands who are coming to Western the greater number laterally visit Puget sound is one of the most ful inland seas of the world but the farmer the business man of moderate means will have great difficulty in ing a location along its shores There agricultural land is scarce and in some counties an almost unknown quantity We invite this large class to TO SEE Claims Homesteads Rotary business inded to Over New York Store Tower OF- keeping in a respectful distance without wood water or from the riflemen The moral effect of waiting the renewal of the attack next I larger growth do Mr paid this attack was excellent leaving morning The secretary of the Oregon country comparatively from raids j pioneer Society informs me that the by these particular Indians as the j pert of Hull referred to in the troops penetrated still further into the j letter of Mm L 1 Bennett to interior of the Indian country ing to The Hall's com- pany leaving 11 few men behind as a Mitchell dated Hockford Wash March 10 1880 are now among the papers of that society at Salem Or but he and play season just as children of a larger growth do Mr paid that he removed a black queen from a place about the loth of June A until the first Italian bee wa hatched and followed a second watch t when the first Italian took its flight leaving n invn i-v guard and garrison at the Unimpressed not more definite information for out on the old emigrant road toward Hint if lie were to go nnd search first objective point or for them himself he would not know Whitman's station When a few miles j to find them east of Old Wells and as the command survivors of this gallant hand of reached the river it was at- riflemen are now few in by the Indians nnd the battle of j There can be no doubt that by the Sand Hollows or Dry was determined course they took this fought on the 24th nnd February I va saved a ruthless and some of the riflemen were wounded Indian war and several Indians including nil Cayuse chief Great Kagle killed The troops arrived at the of March 1843 The re- Every observant man knows hat mains of those who had been fruit raising is a profitable ns wcl Us were and a small j Peasant industry Surrounding built Accompanying the are lands superior was of citizens en route to for the growth of apples pea rs plums Washinston headed by strawberries Meek who was the bearer of dispatches berries and innumerable kinds of small fZ Governor Abernethy to the fruit The trees and vines grow y dent Some of the including bear early are escorted this daring ly prolific and hardy and gallant party to the summit of the j here named s grown easily and great Wue mountains to star them well on j profit and perfection Many a man has their perilous journey and place them made his fortune n prunes alone am bevond the sight and hearing of the here are as good chance as the hostile Indians The object was ever afforded experience has nnd Mr Meek after much j demonstrated that the his dispatches lands an far better for fruit than the Returning to the best richer bottom lands Tn the of of the and can be seen Severn orchards Hall among j planted on ground which have for ed for an expedition against the years been bearine heavily and con- Indians whose exact location was at j stantly the trees hardy this time unknown The as to appearance and which arc of great profit bring the Indians to terms by some their owners There is plenty of Cleans bv fighting or otherwise and re- land to be had now can be capture the stolen from the whites j had at moderate prices and which can The expedition started about the j be easily cleared filiform of March 1848 and n search of glittering inducements to fruit or so found the but the assertion is baldly on river about that there are surer returns and miles above confluence with the Col- j greater genuine profits 111 a The enemy adopted the ruse of I or cherry orchard than in like Acreage hoisting a white flag asked for and had ft tropical dimes u talk with the and pretended not to belong to the hostile party But At a recent meeting e-f the in upon the whites Inking of 0 T speaking of etolen stock of the murdered pio- entomology for the horticulturalist Clothing Hats Caps and Furnishing Goods THE FINEST LINE OF- Lewis county where tural land is more plentiful than in any other county of Western Washington There are tributary to Centralia acres of rich bottom lands suitable for al purposes The prices paid for farm products arc very much higher than in the east and Lewis county farms yield a better profit on the ment than an eastern farm of equal value GROCERIES The home market demand cause tue ki This event took place about 2 p in 01 the eighth day when a few came out fo a short piny spell and in a half hour all had returned to the hive but only the j farm products has Steadily black bees were seen going out and ju ing in loaded The daily play spells Ever shown in this part of the country and at the the lowest possible CASH PRICES l Line of 6 S and Main and Tower ave And You will Find what continued and the number joining in- created until the sixteenth day when n few Italians came in loaded with len nnd honey The number of ians increased after this and the I ber of black bees until the j forty-fifth day after the last black bee I was hatched when not another black seems destined to increase more rapidly in the future While possessing more ing land than the sound tion the timber land about Centralia is as dense and CENTRALIA WASH under the laws ot Washington Centralia The longest ginp road from any of these bee was seen in or around the hive i as any ill the United i Mr G M who has t I a deal of attention to the subject I says The bee's life if longer or shorter I untouched although i just in proportion to the labor it j mills are located at forms said labor bringing on death from i old age nt forty-five days just as surely when the bee is in constant activity as if lit dies of old age at 200 day when nil j j j t miles while the time is spent in quiet repose Ii at j lany time in the winter the bees get beyond this the unbroken easy and wear themselves out r to the nine about the hive they will die in 45 days just as surely as if they were busy cade range many miles away the working season It is only i Thouch a few years ago the I by being perfectly n Centralia is HOW the 1 can prolong its to 200 days I ur no work with the bee appears to of determine the measure of life The settled of more it works the sooner it dies One vear a was kept inactive by a the state In the election Of I rold unfavorable spring and reached j 1839 hotly Contested all the of 202 days of life Bat Mr j Centralia cast 173 IX From this shall we say that bee must live that length of time before than jit dies of old No AYhen the sea and for the i of anv animate being is used lip v e according io the natural course of this i events not brought about Centralia's share of the school I dies of old age let the life be longer or Capital General Banking Business and satd on Ell pans of the United Slates ami Canada arriving Rates Stages leave daily for W of depot HOTEL j Q.O.MWM Loan and i 1C President Vice-President Cashier C P John Gilchrist C shorter lo which were feeding on the adja cent hills the wily foe threw off the mask and began nn attack It is utterly impossible to definitely draw the line nnd say just much the 0 I apportionment based on the number of school children is I much larger than that of any other town in the county A estimate places present population at G W STOUFFER MERCHANT TAILOR RAILROAD ADDITION i Shop in H J Miller A building Tower avenue Centralia Samples of fine suitings and ings always on hand New Management RATES je Tho greatly outnumbered were j know There is no to compelled Ui on the defensive tilc that mm might gain i THE MT SHASTA in retreat formed in n hollow square Next morning as the river crossing was approached the took of it Hero nothing most determined fighting drove off the Indians nnd enabled the whites to save threatened extermination About the middle of May ex- including Hull's company out to scour the nnd Spokane countries After arrival in the country and finding no ft was sont to Kort Colville for and families there 11 wide i penetrating the country when Colfax and now anil traversing the country which ten years liter tlm theater of the study of would be a j to him in devising methods if and remedy 1 shall not go out- i side of may be called the essential j knowledge to successful warfare our insect The should he able to distinguish injurious from beneficial species The majority of infects arc vegetable feeders but thorp are n great iminy lint feed upon bodies of other insects causing them to die These ter called or parasitic and in Iho main arc beneficial ns they destroy ninny injurious forms the lico been mostly eaten from n and finding many of tho and few o the former naturally he Iho nnd In The cause of this rapid in- crease lies in Centralia's 0 as the key to the Harbor country at j the head of tho Chehalis Puget sound and the Columbia as shown by tho map heading this page Much is also due to the men have put in tho many saw shingle and planing mills brick yards etc and to the pushing men of business who advertise in tho Come and Grand Scenic Route PACIFIC COAST BUFFET SLEEPERS 1 nri lo Thro pli lo siul IH 01 lo nut sun JJ I'M No V r en ST JOHN BUG and Sip Painters South Tower Avenue WASHINGTON Paints Oils Varnish Brushes ARTISTIC HANGING Gustavo 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