CALLUSTRO THE LUSTRE OF LUSTRES! A New and Wonderful Natural Polishing Agent THE CALLUSTRO CO Office and Depot, 1304% Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, C No Chemicals. D W. BAKER & CO.'S OOKKEEPING, SHORTHAND, ENGLISH BRANCHES, YFYY FRAPHY. PENMANSHIP. DACIFIC College VICKERY FINE FRAMING 108 GRANT AVENUE, Ladies Admitted to All Ares VOL. XIV. (SECOND SERIES.)-OCTOBER, 1889.- No. 82. THE comparatively recent death of killed. Previous to that he had had some General Sheridan lends an interest to any event in which he was prominently concerned, and here it is purposed to give an account of the first fight he was in that approached the dignity of a battle. He had been with Major Rains in his expedition against the Yakinas in the fall of 1855, had been under fire a few times, but had never seen a soldier scouting experience in Texas, where he was stationed after his graduation at West Point in 1853, and had led a small party from Lassen to Fort Vancouver, seeing many Indians, more or less hostile, but having no fight with them. But in 1856 occurred the fight here to be related. 1855 and 1856 were troubled years in VOL. XIV.-22. (Copyright, 1889, by OVERLAND MONTHLY PUBLISHING CO.) All rights reserved. Bacon & Company, Printers. LIEUTENANT SHERIDAN. Sketch from the engraving in Memoirs.-Chas. L. Webster & Co. the extreme Northwest. Oregon and more particularly Washington Territory were then but sparsely settled by whites, and these were in serious danger from the attacks of the Columbia River Indians, the confederated tribes of the Yakimas, Klikitats, and other bands. Of course there was provocation enough to rouse the hatred of the Indians, and the medicine men of these tribes, especially Kamiakin, medicine man of the Yakimas, had incited their followers to avenge their wrongs, relating the constant encroachments on the Indian lands, and the inevitable fate of the red man if he remained passive, assuring them that the "medicine" was all in the direction of war, and that through its potency warriors would be invulnerable to the bullets of the white men. It is the old story of Indian wars told again and again across the whole breadth of the continent. In March, 1856, the situation was something like this: The tribes mentioned were openly on the warpath. Nearly all settlers were driven from the outlying claims to the towns and blockhouses in all the region from Puget Sound to the Snake River. peditions, aggregating some 1,700 men, were maneuvering against the Yakimas on the Upper Columbia. To these expeditions had been gathered not only all the soldiers, except a handful here and Two ex |