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Rh am indebted for a voluminous narrative of pioneer events, says was in October, he again met the caravans at the Umatilla.

From the train to which Crawford belonged he selected several persons whom he engaged to aid him in various ways at Waiilatpu. He secured a man named Saunders as a teacher, who with his wife and children agreed to go to the mission; a tailor named Isaac Gilliland, and a farmer named Kimball, from Indiana, among whose family was a daughter of seventeen. There were already at the mission many who intended to winter there, part of a company from Oscaloosa, Iowa, and others, in all fifty-four, some