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 368 FEDSBAL BKPOBTEB. �permanent home. At the time the defendant abandoned this station there were about 70 acres under some kind of snclosure, about one-half of which had been under cultiva- tion. There were six moderate-sized buildings upon the promises, a dwelling, meeting, school, and storehouse, barn and workshop, built of logs, except the dwelling, which was a frame fiUed in with adobe. The buildings were plain, and constructed mostly with Indian labor, and did not cost to exceed $4,000, at which valuation they were afterwards — on June 16,1860 — paid for by the United States, upon the claim and estimate of the defendant to that effect, See H. of E. Eep. No, 145, 2d Sess. 35th Gong.; 12 St. 44. �On November 29, 1847, Dr. Whitman and othera were murdered at Wailatpu, by the Indians of that station, and this was followed by what is known as the Cayuse war, in which the people of Oregon, under the provisional government, undertook to chastise the Cayuse Indians for this massacre. By midsummer of 1848 hostilities had ceased and peace was established, and in the latter part of the summer the troops were withdrawn from the country and returned to their homes. �About December 16th, Perrin B. Whitman, who had re- mained in charge of the station at The Dalles, being appre- heasive of danger, left for the Wallamet valley, taking with him Mr. Alanson Hinman, whom his uncle had sent there from Wailatpu in October as a farmer and housekeeper. A detachment of volunteers soon after occupied the premises, with the permission of said Whitman, and it remained in the possession of the troops of the provisional govemment until they were withdrawn from the country as stated. There- after, the premises remained unoccupied, except occasionally by passing travelers and immigrants, until the spring of 1850, when a military post was established there by the United States, and the premises included in a military reserve. �There never were any Indian hostilities at The Dalles of a general or serions nature, or within 100 miles of the place. The immigrations of 1848 and 1849 came through the country without molestation ; and from early in 1848 there ��� �