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Shepard from St. Louis being killed, and two others wounded. This affair was begun by the usual thieving of the Indians. The men robbed appealed to Rev. A. F. Waller, who advised them to take some Indian horses and hold them until the property was restored. This brought on an attack, with the result of a skirmish, and about the same number of killed and injured on both sides. Many families were robbed between the Umatilla and The Dalles, their property being carried to a distance from the road and cached. Mrs. Geer came near being killed at the crossing of Des Chutes by an Indian. Four families left near John Da} T river with their wagons, while the men of the party were looking for stolen cattle, had everything taken from them, even to the last vestige of clothing, the women and children being left naked. They had managed to conceal a bolt of white muslin, out of which they had hastily made a covering when Ross company overtook them and gave them some blankets. By building a fire on the sand to warm it, they were made passably comfort able through a frosty September night. These outrages were known to Dr. Whitman, and still he remained.

That he was much alarmed, however, seems to be shown by the large number of persons over seventy in all whom he gathered about him at his station for the winter. Thanks to Mr. Crawford s journal, we are able to obtain some account of this temporary colony. From the train to which Crawford belonged he drew Joseph and Hannah Smith, with five children one of them a daughter aged fifteen years. Smith was sent to the sawmill, about twenty miles from the mission; and Elam Young, his wife, and three sons, the eldest aged twenty-four, the second twenty- one, also were sent to the sawmill, where Young was to get out the timbers for the new gristmill at the mission. Isaac Gilliland was employed as a tailor at the mission; Luke Saunders and wife as teachers. The latter had five children, the eldest a girl of fourteen years. Miss Lori rid a Bewley, and her brother Crockett A. Bewley, were also