WM STORY
FATHER MURDERED
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AS TOLD BY -MRS. MARY PERRY
FROST NOW VISITING HERE
WTH HER DAUGHTERS
On Trip Across Plains M hen
Ward’s Party Was
Massacred
It is safe to say that only very
fe'v residents of Ketchikan arc a
u are of the fact that we have a dis
tinguished visitor in our midst. A
pioneer among the pioneers of the
western frontiers. Mrs. Mary Perry
I'rost, mother of Mrs. F. J. Hunt
and Mrs. A. W. Morgan—every
body’s friends—is now in Ketchi
kan and has consented to tell tne
reader’s of the Progressive-Miner
her experience. It will be told in
two installments. The story was
told years ago and appeared in a
publication in the slate of Wash
ington, of which the following is a
c opy:
How many times I have longed
10 put my story of the hardships,
•laauoid jo sa[qnbqt puu suopuAud
life in print, but I have never be
fore attempted it. I came here when
I was a little girl but 9 years old.
In the mpnth of April, 1854, my
father, Walter G. Perry, started
with his family, consisting of wife
and four children, from Garden
Grove, Apanaose county, la., where
he had a good farm and was con
sidered a well-to-do farmer in those
days for this far western country,
but he was destined never to reach
here.
After having traveled three or four
months, we cante to where the In
dians had burned the grass along
the emigrant road in order to starve
the stock belonging to the emi
grants. We were with a large train
under the command of Captain J.
P. Coats, and when confronted by
this situation, he thought It best to
divide up into smaller squads, which
course was adopted. The first
train to start was called the Ward
train, as it was composed of sev
eral families of Wards, all related,
and it included all the reatives, ex
cept one woman, who was with
the middle train.
The captain gave orders for none
to go beyond the burned district, or
a place known in the guide books as
Jeffries’ cutoff. I will state here
that we had guide hooks that had
been published by some pathfinder,
or trapper, describing every camp
watering places and all cutoffs and
the names of creeks, etc. Each
train had some of these books,
In cutting up the large train we
brought up the rear with four wag
ons, consisting of four men with
families and two young men aged
IP and 23 years. The men were
Mr' Kirkland and family, delud
ing cne young man, William Kirk
land, arid his son-in law, Mr. Cox
and fab ily; my uncle, George Lake,
wife and two sons, young men; my
father, Walter G. Perry, and his
family; C. C. Thompson, a young
man, then about 20 years of age,
and my father's teamster, Empson
Cantrell, a young man aged 19
years or thereabouts.
Our last camping place where we
were to all meet alive was at a
creek, designated in the guide book
as “White Horse creek. 1 think it
is in Idaho, and think it was then
about the last of August, perhaps
inter. Starting on our jcurney the
next morning we had traveled
perhaps an hour when we discov
ered in the distance to our left,
Indians coming up out of a can
yon in great numbers, the foremost
ones being on foot, and who looked
to be unarmed. They were followed
by mounted Indians, armed with
guns in sheaths made of deer skins.
At this time a young lady, daughter
of Mr. Kirkland of our party, was
riding on horseback, ahead and a
part from the rest of the train. Her
horse took fright at sight of the
Indians, and becoming unmanage
able, she dismounted and tried to
hold the horse by the reins, but it
jerked away from her. The Indians
then surrounded and captured the
horse, but Miss Kirkland made her
way on foot to the train unharmed.
After capturing the horse the In
dians advanced on the train, and
coming up squarely in front of the
ox teams, held out their arms and
stopped them, but appeared friendly
and shook hands with the members
of our party and asked for whiskey,
but were told that we had none.
Thereupon they began to talk of
trading with some of our party
and while my fattier was talking
of trading a pistol for a pony they
onened fire on us, shooting my
father, my uncle, Mr. Lake and the
• oung man Empson Canterell, my
father’s teamster.
Mr. Kirkland then called to his son
to get their guns, which he did, and
they then fired on the Indians, who
retreated until out of range of the
guns, trying to stampede our stock,
for several hours. It was finally
thought that they wanted our hors
es, and it was arranged to surrender
them to the Indians if they would
let us pass without further trouble,
and when this was proposed by
Mr. Kirkland the Indians readily
assented. The horses were then
turned loose, and the Indians were
compelled to fallow us several miles
before f'ey could catch them ail.
When the Indians r red on us
Mr. Lak; fell dead, with the words
“I am a dead man.” Empson Can
terell was shot through the abdomen
and after being shot, asked my
mother for father’s gun, which he
snapped several times at the In
dians, but it would no go off. He
lingered in great agony until the
following morning, when he died.
My father was shot through the
right lung,' and lived until the even
ing of the fourth day, when death
relieved him of his terrible suffer
ings.
The wagon that carried the shov
els and other implements, known
as the "tool wagon,” was with the
big train, and we had nothing with
which to dig graves for the dead,
nor did we care to stop to bury
hem right away, as we were afraid
of another attack from the Indians.
Hence we carried the bodies until
the third day after the attack, when
•here was such a stench that we
had to keep fires aroung the “dead
wagon” to keep the wolves off. As
the bodies had to be disposed of in
some way, wooden spades were im
provised with which a hole was dug
and both bodies (Mr. Lake and
Empson Cantrell) were buried in
it. We overtook the big train on
the afternoon of the following day
nd my father died about 10 o’
clock that night, after having suf
fered untold agonies for four days,
find begging many times to be kill
ed and put out of his misery. We
dared not stop and the jolting of
the wagon was almost unendurable
to him. He was buried on the fol
lowing morning near the emigrant
road.
—To be continued tomorrow—
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WHY MEN NEEDS WOMAN’S
HELP IN CHOOSING WIFE
(Atlantic Monthly)
/Woman understands woman.
When one woman meets another
woman, Greek meets Greek. There
is a certain look, a certain feeling
that passes between them which
man can never quite comprehend.
A woman can see another as plain
ly as she can see her own image in
the mirror.
No sensible woman ever tries to
fool another; she never poses be
fore another—for woman meet face
to face! The woman who is ever
foolish enough to try to pose be
fore another, or pretends she Is
something entirely different from
her natural self, is as foolinsh as a
fly who tries to tango before a
spider’s web.
But woman doesn’t often try to
pose before another of the fair sex
any more than she tries to stand
before a mirror and tell herself
that her eyes are brown when they
are blue. You can’t wear gingham
and pretend it is lawn, and you
can’t wear paste diamonds and pre
tend they are real. Neither can a
woman paint her complexion or
color her hair and another woman
not know it.
A woman does not need to know
another for a number of years to
form an opinion of her—one glance
will do. How many men have said
they wanted their wives to meet
another man’s wife because she
was such a fine woman, and when
the meeting took place how many
wives have said “cat” and prompt
ly dropped the acquaintance.
You can cheat a woman on stocks
and bonds a good deal easier than
a man, but you can never cheat a
woman on another woman's char
acter. If there is a mouse in the
^om a cat knows it, while the dog
sleeps quietly on, and if there is a
woman about any woman is keen
enough to “size her up” in one
good glance.
The feminine instinct is to sur
er fully before her own sex,
just as the private citizen sur
renders to the hiwayman. When
a woman of questionable character
comes into the presence of a good
woman there is a dropping of the
eyelids, an unspoken confession of
“you know my type.” Perhaps
that same woman will pose as a
moral woman before a preacher,
but she shrinks fren the eye of
woman.
Woman is always a good judge
of character. Her power of an
alysis, of intuticn and of natural
instinct usually exceed? that of
man. Although she has been
known t ooverestimate the value of
man and to misjudge him, with
woman she never fails.
Therefore, before blind man, that
creature who is so sure of himself
in the business world, ventures in
to matrimony, let his present his
intended wife to some good: whole
some woman who is entirely neu
tral as to his motive. No matter
how hard-hearted a man may be
he always softenrs when he comes
in contact with the weaker so*.
Man believes in woman, and lie be
lieves she is what she poses to be,
but woman pierces through the
surface and sees her as she Is.
Woman send out little words and
DEATH TRACED
TO EMBARGO
KITISH REFUSAL TO ADMIT
RUBBER GLOVES CAUSED
DEATH OF MANY NURSES
NEW YORK, Jan. 6—“Papa” said
cne of my young sons to me to
i'ay as he counted up his Christmas
treasures and missed one familiar
name among those who had remem
bered him; “papa, why did the
English kill sister Emma?”
“Sister Emma,” as she is known—
was known—in her beautiful walk
of help and comfort (Emma Duen
sing, to give her the name under
which she moved in the ordinary
. void) was for a number of years
one of the best known and most be
loved of New York’s trained nurses.
When in 1900 there was a call for
urges for the American army in
the Philippines, sister Emma re
sponded.
When the present war broke out
Sister Emma felt that her exper
ience laid upon her the duty of a
gain volunteering for work among
the wounded. In September she
sailed for Europe under the direc
tion of the American physicians’ ex
pedition committee, as head nurse
of a relief unit. Before the month
was up on duty in the town of Op
pelin, Silesia, she had contracted
infection from wounds of one of the
soldier;; she was attending and on
November 5 she died.
Her death was directly due to
the fact that she was obliged to
work without rubber gloves, which
the British Government refused and
which it still refuses to allow the
-American Red Cross to supply to
its workers in German lands,, rub
ber being contraband of war.
For several months Miss Mable
Boardman, president of the Ameri
can Red Cross Society, had in vain
endeavored to persuade the British
Government to adopt a humane
course.
The English position (let it do
it justice) is that “every pair of
rubber gloves that goes into Ger
many releases a corresponding
quantity of rubber for automobile
tires and other military necessities.”
Rubber”, said a statement is
-ed by the British embassy at
Washintgon on Christmas even, “is
an article of great importance from
a military point of view.” Two or
three hundred pairs of rubber gloves
such as those the lack of which kill
ed Emma Duensing would make an
automobile tire.—W. B. Hale.
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MR. BUCHANAN’S CASE
Representative Buchanan, of Ill
inois, has formally demended the
impeachment of United States At
torney Marshall, of the district of
New York, for his activity in the
prosecution of offenders against
the neutrality of the country. The
federal attorney charges that the
Labors National Peace Council, of
which Buchanan was formerly pres
ident and of which he was one of
the organizers, is financed by Ger
man money.
Congress may accede to Mr. Bu
chanan’s request to investigate the
activities of the federal district at
torney. It might also and very prop
erly investigate the charges against
the society and Mr. Buchanan’s
connection with it. If he organized
And acted as president of a society
financed by German money, which
had for its obpect the cripling of
American industries, the propriety
of his occupying e. seat in the
American congress may very well
he questioned.
Mr. Buchanan was for several
terms president of the Bridge and
Structural Tron Workers’ Union of
Chicago and served one term as
president of the Intenational Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers.— P.-I
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phrases which catch each other up,
as the spider sends out little
threads to trap its prey. One
word or look from one woman to
another will “let the cat out of the
bag.”
Now, man is not looking for any
side of her nature but the side she
chooses to set forth. It is woman
who plans to make herself what
men desires. If a woman finds out
U t a man likes a domestic wom
an or a bookish woman, she will
rant and rave over the joys of a
home or the pleasures of reading,
eventhough she detests them. But
she cannot do this to a woman. One
question as to how to make a cer
tain dainty or about a certain
heroine will bring out the true
woman.
And so if a man really wants to
know' his wife-to-be as she really
';>, he needs the help of a sister, a
mother or a woman friend. He
fhight introduce all his male
friends to her, and get the opinion
that she is a “peach” or “mighty
nice,” but when he introduces her
to one woman he will get the truth
He will find out just what the
woman is and whteher she is worth
her weight in gold or nothing
One nod or one wink from an
other woman would save many a
man years of pain and suffering.
If he gets approval of the woman
he admires from another woman his
married life is very apt to be ideal.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
[
The first rehearsal of the Ly
ceum Chorus will be held tonight at
Firemen’s Hall. Please do not for
ge to be on hand at eight o’clock
sharp. Adv.
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SOME COLDER
Mr. Peckham reports that the
. minimum temperature for Satur
: 'ay night was 12 above, and the
’ owest for the past twenty-four
''ours was six above. The coldest
'ov he winter by five degrees. The
: h manometer did not rise above 2C
: ■'* any time vesterday.
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WOHELO, WOHELO
The Lamonte Camp Fire Girls
will give a big dance next Satur
! day night in the Skating Rink. The
music will be by the Emanon Or
chestra. Remember the date, Jan..
16th, and come out for a good time.
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PROSPECTORS RETURN
Marsh Iekis and Otto Herbst
have returned from Sunny Point
where they have been doing some
assessment work the past few
weeks. They report the weather
cold and plenty of snow in the
hills.
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SLANG DECLARED PROOF
OF MENTAL DEFICIENCY
“Slang is a convincing proof of
the mental deficiency of its users,”
declared Dr. Carl G. Doney, presi
dent of Willamette University of
Oregon, at a convention of the State
Teacher Association recently. He
deplored the increasing use of it and
urged the teachers to use their in
fluence to stamp out “loose think
ing and loose speech in America.”
He called attention to the “grow
ing inaccuracy of speech among ed
ucated Americans.”
“Language,” he said, “is the man.
We are merely what our powers of
speech allow, for no matter how
lofty or profound our ideas, they
only equal our ability to express
them.
“The crowned heads of Europe
are translating nobility into imbecil
ity, largely because as a class their
minds are no longer employed. The
test of an education is clear
thought; accurate speech; culture,
not for its own sake, but for serv
ice.
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“THE SQUAW MAN”
CANNON’S BAKERY '
AND GROCERY
Butter, 35 cents per lb.
EGGS 35 cents a Dozen
The fact that I am
shipping in Six hundred ^
dozen a week, should
recommend the eggs.
But if you are in doubt
as tothe quality, stop
in and I will break a
few for you.
Send in your furs and get the
hest market price for them
from I*. J. Gilmore, adv.
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