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 hole returned the fire and wounded Long Jim. One Indian was killed by Mrs Brotherton.

While this was going on, an Indian woman who had been living with Sover as his wife, came to Mrs Brotherton's door, wishing to be taken in. The Indians ordered her away, and threatened to kill her if she refused to go. She told them to kill her, if they wished, being then in deep grief for her white husband; but they replied that they killed Boston men, not women. At length Mrs Brotherton, whose sympathy was aroused for the poor creature, opened the door to admit her, and Hooker Jim, who was waiting for this opportunity, shot into the opening, fortunately without hitting anyone. At dark the Indians went away, and did not return, though Mrs Brotherton dared not relax her guard, and was not relieved until the third day, when a party under Ivan Applegate came that way, and took the family to Crawley's, ten miles above.

On leaving Mrs Brotherton's, the Indians proceeded along the eastern border of the lake to the house of Louis Land, a stock raiser. What transpired there could only be surmised by those who afterward found the cabin destroyed, and the dead body of his herder in the road near the Brotherton place, where he had fallen after a chase of over nine miles. Land was absent; but a man in his service, Adam Shillinglow, was killed; also Erasmus, Collins, and two strangers riding along the road. The number of white men killed on the 29th and 30th of November was eighteen.

The distance from Crawley's, which was now the central point of interest in the Klamath valley, to Fort Klamath was nearly sixty miles. The agency was a few miles nearer. Camp Yaiuax was about the same distance. It was twenty-three miles to Linkville, where the road to the Rogue River valley left the Klamath basin at Link river; and sixty-five miles from there to Ashland on the other side of the Cas-