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348 neglect to establish a territorial government, and to extinguish the Indian titles. At last, in the autumn of 1847, acting upon the conviction that the Waiilatpu station would have to be abandoned, he purchased the Methodist station at the Dalles, intending to remove thence the following spring; and at the very moment that he decided upon this course, and had already commenced preparations by sending his nephew to occupy the Dalles during the winter, Archbishop Blanchet, the bishop of Walla Walla and associate clergy of the Catholic church, arrived among the Cayuses, prepared to take the Presbyterians' place.