HISTORICAL INDEX

Abbott, J. F., [160]

Abernethy, Governor, [89]

"Abolitionists and black republicans", [136]

Academies, Catholic, [223]

Acquisition of fire, Indian story of the, [23]

Act to organise the county of Garfield, An, [365]

Adams, Mount, The story of, [24]

Address delivered by Dr. Lyman at Wallula, May 4, 1915, [171]

Address of Governor Moore upon retirement, [473]

Advance Guard, Names of, [110]

Advance in rates brings revolt, [169]

Advertisers in "Statesman", [120]

Afraid of "nigger equality", [137]

Agriculture and rainfall, [6]

Agricultural, Horticultural and Stock Products, 1916, [192]

Agricultural Society of 1866, [181]

Ainsworth, J. C., [156]

Aldermen of Walla Walla, 1877-1916, [306-315]

Alfalfa gives four or five cuttings, [190];

raised, and value in 1916, [225]

Allen, Hon. John B., [286], [289];

senatorial contest of, [290]

Alter, Rev. Joseph, [225]

Alpowa, Timothy of, and his case, [271]

Alpowa Creek, Description of, [7]

Alpowa Station established, [64]

Alpowa Toll Road, [360]

American Expedition to Oregon in 1788, [44]

American and English fur-traders, [49]

American fur-carrying vessels, [44]

American fur-trade, Beginnings of, [44]

American Theatre, [110]

Anatone Prairie, [400]

Anderson, Doctor A. J., [219]

Ankeny, Hon. Levi, [290]

Annual county fair, [197]

Another camp meeting, [330]

Apashwayhayikt, Chief (Looking Glass), [95]

Apple supply meager, [189]

Apples and their value, 1916, [191]

Apple seeds planted in 1837, [178]

Appleton Hall, Walla Walla, [222]

Arguments, Indian war and peace, [14]

Artesian water, [6]

Ashburton Treaty, The, [65]

Asotin county, [395];

churches, [424], [472];

commissioners appointed, [404];

schools, [422], [467];

established, [466];

school superintendent and pioneers, [468];

school reminiscences, [469];

pioneers of, [470];

Indians and pioneers, [470];

first wheat crop, [471];

early schools, [472]

Asotin County Sentinel, [419]

Asotin Creek, Description of, [7], [414]

Asotin Spirit, The, [418]

Asparagus, [190];

1916 crop and value, [192]

Assessed valuation of Walla Walla city, [315]

Assessed valuation of Walla Walla county after division, [285]

Assessors of city of Walla Walla, 1877-1916, [306-315]

Astor, John Jacob, [47]

Astor Company, Data of the, [49]

Astoria, [48]

Attalia News-Tribune, The, [264]

Atmospheric phenomena, [4]

Attorneys, Early, [265]

Authors and narrators of Indian legends, [24]

Automobiles, [174]

Average temperatures, [5]

Baboon Gulch, [127]

Bacon $1.25 per pound, [129]

Baker, Dorsey S., [110], [144]

Baker, Dr. D. S., Donation of school land of, [211]

Baker, Morgan A., [269]

Baker-Boyer Bank, [149]

Baker sells railroad, [170]

Bancroft, H. H., [10]

Bank Allotments (Liberty Loan), [197]

Banks of Walla Walla, [196]

Banks save the day, [184]

Baptist church at Dayton, [334]

Bar, the Old Walla Walla, [265]

Barbarism, [10]

Barley production and value, 1916, [191]

Barley yields 50 bushels to acre, [114], [180]

Barry, Rev. J. N., student of Indian legends, [29]

Barometric pressure, [5]

Bassett, W. F., [125]

Beautiful legend of Yakimas, [20]

Beaver, Legend of, [25]

Beginning of Walla Walla Fair, [179]

Bellman, Charles, [114]

Bennett, Captain, killed in war of 1855, [99]

Bering, Vitus, Discovery of Oregon by, [43]

Berry, Rev. G. M., [229], [471]

Besserer, Charles, [259]

Bibliography, Indian ethnological, [26]

Bishop, B. B., [156]

Bishoprics, Early Catholic, [82]

Blalock, Dr. N. G., [96], [183], [224], [245], [288]

Blanchet, Bishop Francis N., [80], [82]

Blewett, J. H., [141]

"Blind Pool" of Villard, [163]

Blue Mountains, [1]

Blue Mountain Island, [2]

Boarding Schools for girls, [221]

Boas, Dr. Franz, Indian ethnologist, [26]

Bolles Junction, [165]

"Bone-dry" law, [295]

Bonneville, B. L. E., [52], [53];

upholds "Stars and Stripes" in fur rivalry, [55];

expedition through Walla Walla, 1832-35, [55]

Books in Walla Walla City Library, [304]

Boundary disputes in regard to Oregon question, [65]

Boundaries of Walla Walla, 1859, [115]

Boundaries of Walla Walla city wards, [300]

Boyer, John F., [129]

Boys' schools, Catholic, [223]

Bradford, Dan, [156]

Brents, Judge Thomas H., [132], [286]

Brick yards, the penal, [290]

Bridal Veil Lumber Co., [193]

Bridegroom, The Spirit, [22]

"Bridge of the Gods, The", [23], [28]

Brouillet, Father, J. B. A., [82], [223]

"Bucket lines", [185]

"Build a road and make wheat legal tender", [375]

Building inspectors of Walla Walla, [314]

Building period of the '80s, The, [286]

Burgunder, Ben, address by, [253]

"Bunch-grass" boys and girls, [6]

"Bunch-grass" horses and cattle, [6]

Burglaries in 1890, [350]

Burnett, Peter H., pioneer, governor of California, chief justice, [70]

Business men of the '60s, [444]

Butter $3.00 per pound, [129]

Butter at 75 cents, [121]

Cain, A. J., lays out an addition, [148], [268]

Calderhead, T. B., [164]

Calls of a pioneer physician, [276]

Camp meeting, [329]

Canal and locks of the Cascades, [170]

Canfield, W. D., [416]

Canoe, the Indian, [12]

Canoe Camp, [35]

Capacity of Walla Walla Waterworks, [302]

Capital and profits in early fur-trade, [44]

Captains, pilots and pursers, [158]

Cascade Mountains, origin of the, [2]

Cascade Range, the, [8]

Cascades Indian story of the, [22];

another Indian story of the, [23]

Casualties of Indian Rising, in December, 1855, [99]

Catholic Academies, [223]

Catholic church, founding of the, at Walla Walla, [82], [232]

Catholic dioceses, early, [82]

Catholic missionaries, early, [80]

Catholic missions, [80]

Caton, Judge N. J., [258]

Cattle decline, [381]

Cattle worth $20 a head, now worth $100, [179]

Cattle thieves, etc., [132]

Cayuse chiefs, trial of, for Whitman murder, [90]

Cayuse horse, The, [12]

Cayuse horses and cattle herds, [175]

Cayuse war, the, [84];

scattering of bands, [89];

close of, [91], [430]

Cayuses, The, [11]

Celilo canal opened 1915, [170]

Census of Asotin County, [404]

Central school at Waitsburg, [215]

Chacha, the bad spirit, [25]

Chamberlain, Rev. P. B., [235]

Champoeg, settlement of, [80]

Chants, Indian death, [14]

Character, the Indian, [13]

Charter and names of men (for R. R.), [166]

Charter of city of Walla Walla, [299]

Charter of Waitsburg, [317]

Chase, Henry M., [91]

Chase and La Fontaine, [320]

Cheese $1.50 per pound, [129]

Chelan highlands, [2]

Chemeketa (peace ground), first permanent American settlement, [59]

Cherries, 1916, their value, [192]

Chief Moses, [331]

Chinese banishment attempted, [350]

Chinook, The, [4]

Christian influences, [64]

Christian missions, The first, [59]

Christian teachings reach Indians, [58]

Christianity, Indians seek, [58], [59]

Christianized Indians, [19]

Church, history of Methodist, in Walla Walla, [229]

Church history of Walla Walla, [228]

Churches of Walla Walla county, [228];

of Columbia county, [327];

of Garfield county, [388]

Citizen assaults soldier, [131]

City of Walla Walla, the new charter, [299];

ordinance No. 185, [300];

boundaries of wards, [300];

election precincts, [301];

commission form of government, [301];

waterworks municipally owned, [301];

streets paved, [302];

the library of, [303];

elections, [305];

municipal officers, [305]-315;

financial statement, [315];

assessments of, [315]

City attorneys of Walla Walla, 1880-1916, [306-315]

City clerks of Walla Walla, 1882-1916, [307-315]

City commissioners of Walla Walla, [315]

City deeds courthouse ground to county, [146]

City engineers of Walla Walla, [315]

City library of Walla Walla, [303]

City officers and council of Walla Walla, [151]

City park, Walla Walla, [462]

City surveyors of Walla Walla, 1882-1916, [307-315]

City wards of Walla Walla, [300]

City of Walla Walla politics, [299]

City officials of Asotin, [419]

Clark, George Rogers, [33]

Clark, Ransom, [110]

Clark, Samuel A., Oregon literary pioneer, [28]

Clark, William, [33]

Clarke, General, [83]

Clarkston, [413];

incorporated, [420]

Clarkston Republic, The, [425]

Clatsop, Fort, [39]

Climate, [1], [4]

Clubs, Walla Walla, [238]

Coblentz, J. H., tragic end of, [291]

Coffee $2.00 per pound, [129]

Collegial institutions, [218]

Colonel W. S. Gilliam killed, [436]

Colter, John, trapper and explorer, [46]

Columbia, The, and its tributaries, [6]

Columbia basin, [1]

Columbia Chronicle, The, [353]

Columbia county, judges and lawyers of, [266];

district court of, [276];

Chapter II, [319];

Indian war of '55, [320];

settlers of '59, [321];

immigration of '61, [321];

establishment of, [322];

first county commissioners, [322];

election of 1875, [322];

following elections, [323];

the first school in, [324]

Columbia County Dispatch, [354]

Columbia River Fishing & Trading Company, establishment of, [54]

Columbian Indians, The, [11]

Colville reminiscences, [248]

Commercial Club, The, of Walla Walla, [238]

Commission government of Walla Walla, [301]

Company H, National Guard, [384]

Comparison in costs of living then and now, [120]

Complete file of "Washington Statesman", [118]

Completion of telegraph line, [151]

Condition of county in 1860, [117]

Condon, Thomas, [1], [27]

Conference on subject of railroad, [376]

Congregational missions, [80]

Congressional rivalry in 1878, [286]

Constitutional convention of 1878, [285];

of 1889, [288];

Walla Walla members of, [288]

Contests for senatorship, [289]

Cook, James, explorer of the Pacific, [43]

Cook, J. D., [149]

Coppei, Lewis and Clark on the, [40]

Corn nine feet in the tassel, [180]

Corn produced, value 1916, [191]

Cosgrove, Samuel G., [270], [288]

Cost of living then and now, [120]

Councils, city, of Walla Walla 1877-1916, [306-315]

County commissioners of Columbia county in 1875, [322]

County Courthouse, [145]

County Elections (Garfield), [373]

County jail contract given, [117]

County limits reduced, [112]

County Offices over a saloon, [113]

County Officials of Walla Walla from 1876-1916, [295-99]

County seat contest resulted in favor of Pomeroy, but ——, [367]

County seat location, [367]

County seat question in Asotin county, [405]

Courthouse, the new Walla Walla, [295]

Courthouse built, first, [146]

Court Circuits, old, [267]

Court practice in early days, [267]

Court towns, old-time, [267]

Cowboy contests, [202]

"Cowhide and calico", [466]

Cox, Anderson, [144]

Cox, Ross, [49]

Cox's journey in 1812, [51]

Craig, William, [92]

Creation of Man, an Indian story of the, [24]

Cropp, Dr. J. F., [281]

Crowley, D. J., [288]

Cumberland Presbyterian church at Dayton, [334]

Curtin, Jeremiah, [27]

Cutler, J. G., [164]

Daughters of Rebekah, [236]

Davin Brothers, [180]

Dawn of civilization in this territory, [359]

Dayton a city of lodges, [335]

Dayton circuit, [333]

Dayton bar, The, [268]-271

Dayton, Lewis and Clark at the site of, [40]

Dayton, named for Jesse N. Day, [154]

Dayton News, The, [263], [353]

Dayton school faculty, [325]

Dayton woolen mill disappoints, [187]

Deadman Hollow, [360]

Death ceremonies, Indian, [14]

Death islands, Indian, [21]

Death song, Indian, [14]

Defeat of Steptoe's Command, [105]

De La Salle Institute, [223]

Deliberations, Indian war and peace, [14], [15]

Demers, Rev. Modeste, [80]

Denny, A. A., [141]

Dent, Captain F. T., [186]

Descending The Dalles in 1888, [159]

De Smet, Rev. Pierre J., [81]

Desperate medical cases, [280]

Destructive early fires, [149]

Determines to raise wheat on big scale, [183]

Development in mines, ranges, farms, [167]

Development of Industry in Walla Walla, [175]

Devils, Indian, [20]

Disbursements and receipts of Walla Walla city, [316]

Discovery, early era of American, [42]

Discovery of gold in California, [155]

Dispatch, The, [355]

District over-subscribes Liberty Loan, [197]

Diversions of pioneers, [465]

Division of Old Walla Walla county, [153]

Doctor Baker's Road, [165]

Doctor Baker the man, [167]

Dr. Blalock, [170]

Dr. McLoughlin, John, retired, [83];

vicissitudes besetting 83;

died of broken heart, [83];

receives Whitman party, [62]

Donation act of 1850, [474]

Donnehue "gets" Patterson, [135]

Dooley, John, [179]

Dorion, Madam's flight before hostile Indians, [51]

Door, Charles R., [270]

Douglas, James, manager Hudson's Bay Company, [84]

Dress of Nez Perces, [36]

Drumheller, Daniel M., [176]

Drumheller, George, "wheat king", [201]

Drumheller, Jesse, [176]

"Dry town" unheard of, [148]

Dumas, J. L., [190]

Eagle Cap, [8]

Earliest buildings in Walla Walla, [115]

Earliest permanent settler on the Asotin, [398]

Earliest survey of Walla Walla, [115]

Early advertisements in the "Statesman", [120]

Early cattle raisers, [124]

Early days in Asotin, [466]

Early settler's attitude toward Indian, [18]

Early settlers on Anatone Prairie, [400]

Early stockmen, Some larger, [176]

Early teachers at Whitman College, [218]

Early transportation age, [155]

Ears in jar of whiskey, [102]

East Washingtonian, [358]

Eatables, Indian, [13]

Edmiston, J. E., [270]

Educational institutions of Walla Walla county, [210]

Educational system of Asotin county, [421]

Eells, Cushing, [64], [218], [235]

Eells, Father, with missionaries at Chimakain, [89];

founds Whitman College, [89], [218]

Eels, Rev. Myron, [27];

life of Whitman (extracts), [68]

Effort to annex Walla Walla county to Oregon, [141]

Eggs at $1.00 per dozen, [121]

Election of 1859, [113]

Election of 1864, vote by precincts, [139]

Election of 1875 in Columbia county, [322]

Election of 1878, [285]

Election of U. S. senators, first, [289]

Election precincts of Walla Walla city, [301]

Election results in Asotin county, [405]

Election returns, [292], [293]

Elections, municipal, of Walla Walla, [305]

Elections in Waitsburg, [317]

Elections in Columbia county, [323]

Elections in Walla Walla county in 1889, [292]

Elections in Walla Walla county from 1876-1916, [295-99]

Elections of 1888 to 1916, [337]-345

Elevation above sea-level, [1]

Elijah, the murder of, and its effects, [79]

Elk among stock, [451]

Elks, the, [237]

Enabling Act, The, [287]

Enactments of first state legislature, [289]

Endowment of Whitman College, [219]

English's Company, Oregon Rifles, in Cayuse war, [86]

English monopolists of fur trade, [45]

Epidemics in pioneer times, [277]

Episcopal church, early history of, [233]

Episcopal church in Walla Walla, [232]

Era of good roads, [174]

Escape of convicts from penitentiary, attempted, [291]

Establishment of Asotin county, [401], [466]

Establishment of Columbia county, [322]

Ethnological bibliography, Indian, [26]

Ethnology, Indian, [11]

Ewing Hall, Walla Walla, [222]

Examples of Indian character, [13]

Expedition against the Cayuses after Whitman massacre, [87]

Expeditions in interest of fur trade, [48]

Expenditures considerable (fort), [150]

Expense of ties and iron great, [169]

Experiences of a pioneer doctor, [275]

Explorers, first, [32]

Explorers, old Spanish, [42]

Extensive business done by stage company, [162]

Fair Grounds, retained, [201]

Fair to be held, October, 1866, [181]

Fall, Dr. E. E., [260]

Famous Criminal Suit, [350]

Famous doctors, [275]

Fare, Portland to Lewiston, $60.00, [158]

Fares lowered, [166]

Farewell address of Governor Moore, [473]

Farmers' Agency, The, [244]

Farmers' Unions, [244], [390]

Farming and fruit raising tested, [180]

Farming industry, [180]

Farrand, Livingston, [27]

Father Wilbur on the Indian Agency, [332]

Federal Reserve Bank, [196]

Ferguson county created, [112]

Ferrel, Mrs. Brewster, [447]

Few hogs raised in Garfield before coming of railroad, [381]

Finances of city of Walla Walla, [315]

Fine wheat crop of S. Maxson in 1860, [180]

Fire chiefs of Walla Walla, 1910-1916, [314], [315]

Fire, Indian story of origin of, [23]

Fireman's Ball, [119]

Fires and start of fire department, [149]

Fires of 1880 and 1882, [348]

First assessment for Asotin County, [404]

First boy in Walla Walla, [455]

First brick building in Pomeroy, [384]

First Catholic church at Walla Wall, [82]

First cattle buyer to Garfield county, [380]

First city election in Pomeroy, [383]

First election results, [116]

First election under charter, 1862, [147]

First events in Garfield county, [359]

First explorers, [32]

First flour mill, [186]

"First Garfield County Pioneer Edition", [358]

First July 4th celebration at Dayton, [364]

First lots sold (Walla Walla), [115]

First man to sail on Snake river, [159]

First merchant in Walla Walla, [114]

First nursery, [188]

First officers of Old Walla Walla County, [92]

First paper in Walla Walla, [118]

First prospecting tour into Idaho, [125]

First school at Pataha City, [382]

First school district on Pataha flat, [381]

First schoolhouse in Asotin county, [467]

First sermon, [329]

First steamers on Columbia river, [156]

First steamship trip up Snake river, [160]

First telegram out of Walla Walla, [151]

First white woman to live in Columbia county, [177]

Five Crows, a Cayuse chief, [87], [94]

Five Mile, [37]

Five regions, [189]

Flag incident of 1863, [132]

Flanders, Alvin, [143]

Flathead Mission, The, [81]

Flinn, Rev. John, [235]

Flohr, Rev. M., [223]

Flour and coffee prices in 1843, [76]

Flour $1.00 per pound, [126], [129]

Flour milling, [186]

Fog conditions, [4]

Food, Indian, [13]

Food supply and condition of Indian, [13]

Foods high and scarce, [127]

Formation of Vigilantes, [132]

Fort abandoned, [150]

Fort a disturbing question, [150]

Fort Henrietta, [100]

Fort Taylor, [319]

Fort Walla Walla, [110];

the founding of, [51];

description of, [52];

trade of, [52];

missionaries coming to, [52];

arrival of Mrs. Whitman and Mrs. Spalding, first white women, at, [62]

Forty-five stock shippers, [179]

Fossils of the northwest, [2]

Founding of Walla Walla, [109]

Four-and-one-half-pound potato, [189]

Fourth Annual Fruit Fair, [198]

Frachtenberg, Leo J., on Indian texts, [26]

Franchère, narrative of, in 1814, [51]

Franchère, Gabriel, narrator of Indian legends, [24]

Fraternal Orders in Asotin county, [424]

Fraternal Orders, Garfield county, [389]

Fraternal Orders in Walla Walla, [236]

Frazier, C. R., address by, [252]

Freight and passenger rates, [167]

Freight rates on wheat, [182]

Freight tonnage, 1870-1878, [182]

French-Canadians, the, in early mission work, [80]

Frenchtown in early days, [92]

Friction between civilians and the military, 150

Friend of the pioneers—the physician, [275]

Frontier Days celebration, [201]

Fruit Growers' Association, [198]

Fruit growing and precipitation, [6]

Fruit lands, acres of, [192]

Fuca, the mystery of Juan de, [44]

Fuel very scarce, [448]

Fur "haul," a, in 1811, [51]

Fur-hunters of all nations, [42]

Fur trade: American and English rivalry, [49];

American beginnings of, [44];

and Walla Walla, the, [50];

and fur traders, [42];

capital and profits, [44];

early expeditions, [48];

fitting out, [44];

in French and Spanish hands, [46];

Pacific Fur Company, third rival, [47];

rivalry between the two great companies, [45];

Russian, [43]

Fur, value of, at beginning of trade, [44]

Fur trade; vessels engaged in, [44];

number of skins sold in 1786-87, [44];

profits, [44]

Game hunting, Indian, [13]

G. A. R., the, [237]

"Garden City" changes name November 17, 1859, [113]

Garden City Monitor, The, [243], [261]

Gardens and Orchards, [188]

Garfield and Asotin repeat experience of Walla Walla and Columbia, [185]

Garfield county, [358];

first events, [359];

judges and lawyers of, [266];

physicians of, [275];

Pioneer Association, [394];

press, the, [392]

Garfielde, Selucius, [144]

Garnett crushes Yakimas, [105]

Garrison's Company, Oregon Rifles, in Cayuse war, [86]

Gatchett, Albert S., [27]

General Clarke's proclamation, [105]

General events, [375]

Geological beginnings, [2]

Geological features, [1]

Geological formation, [2];

Indian tale of, [2]

Geology of the Northwest, [1]

George, Colonel Wyatt A., [268]

German starts "fire water" store, [332]

Gibbs, George, [28]

Gilbert's History of Walla Walla, [178]

Gilbreath, recollections of Mrs. Margaret, [469]

Gilbreath, S. L., [469]

Gill, John, student of Indian geography and languages, [30]

Gilliam, Colonel Cornelius, [84], [87];

killed by accident, [88]

Gilliam's reference to Whitman, [439]

Girls' schools, [221];

Catholic, [224]

Glaciers, effects of, on geological formation, [3]

God, Indian names for, [20]

Godman, Melvin M., [269]

Gods, Indian, [2]

Gold, discovery of, at Pend Oreille River and Columbia, [92]

Gold discovered, [104]

Gold discovery stimulated farm products, [180]

Gold dust sent to Portland, [126]

Gold dust thieves, [132]

Gold fever catching, [127]

Gold taken out, [126]

Gold yields on Salmon River, [127]

Gose, Judge Mack F., [270]

Government, provisional of Oregon, [84]

Governor Ferry vetoes Ping county bill, [154]

Governor, the last territorial, [473]

Grading begins at Wallula, [168]

Grain crops, valued at $15,000,000, [188]

"Grain chutes", [185]

Grain lands in bearing, etc., [192]

Grain stacked on banks of Snake river, [375]

Grain yield exceeds demand, 1867, [181]

Grand jury, the first, [266]

Grande Ronde, The, [7]

Grange City, [169]

Gray, W. H., [64]

Great cattle ranges on Dry Creek, [177]

Great wheat belt, [181]

Greatest fire in Pomeroy, [384]

Greeley, Horace, and Dr. Whitman, [69]

Greeley and Sumner, [137]

Greetings to first governor-elect, [475]

Grey Eagle, [432]

Grinding flour in coffee mill, [458]

Guichard, Ralph, [115]

Habits of Indians, [12]

Haidahs, the, [11]

"Half-way House," the, [115]

Halhaltlossot, or Lawyer, [93]

Hall, Fort, [54]

Hangings by vigilance committee, [133]

Harangues, Indian, [15], [16]

Hard road of the pioneer physician, [276]

Hard winter causes big loss of stock, [175]

Hay at $125.00 per ton, [128]

Health officers of Walla Walla city, 1877-1916, [306-315]

Heceta, Spanish explorer, [44]

Hellmuth, Joseph, [149]

Hendron, W. W., [325]

"Heroes and heroic deeds of the Pacific Northwest", [135]

Higgins, David, [269]

High school class, first, [211]

Hill case, the, [357]

Hills considered good only for grazing, [379]

Hills settle rapidly from 1873, [380]

Hipparion, The, [12]

History of business houses in Pomeroy, [385]

History of Columbia county, [319]

History of early courts, [267]

History of lawyers, judges and doctors, [265]

History of native races, [10]

Holladay System, The, [161]

Holt Harvester Works, [193]

Home of berries and "truck", [191]

Honesty, Indian, example of, [40]

Hood, Mount, the story of, [24]

Horse, prehistoric, [12];

the Indian, [12]

Horse industry not much changed till 1880, [381]

Horse-thieves, etc., [135]

Horticulture and precipitation, [6]

Horton, Robert, [457]

Hospitality, Indian, [40]

Hothouse vegetables, [190]

Hot Springs, [450]

Houser, John, [187]

Houser, Max, [187]

Howlish Wampoo's Racer, [416]

Hudson's Bay Company, grant to, [45];

lord of the Pacific, [50];

policy of, [57];

hostile policy of, [79];

meeting emergency in Indian uprisings, [63]

Humidity, [6]

Hunt Railroad, The, [163]

Hunt Threshing Factory, [193]

Idaho (Ter.) established, [112]

Ideal fruit and garden land, [185]

Imagination, Indian, [20]

Immigration of 1843, [69]

Immigration of 1847, [439]

Incomers discover Pataha, Tucanon, Alpowa and Asotin locations, [178]

Incorporators of "Baker's Road", [168]

Indian, The, and the violin, [39]

Indian, The, on warpath, [14]

Indian behavior at war, [14]

Indian character, the, [13]

Indian chief executed for Whitman murder, [90]

Indian concourse of 1,500 souls in 1811, [50]

Indian conference, the great, with Governor Stevens, [93]

Indian customs and myths, [10]

"Indian death islands", [21]

Indian death song, [14]

Indian ethnological bibliography, [26]

Indian fighting, early, [13]

Indian food conditions, [13]

Indian gods, [2]

Indian gods and devils, [20]

Indian habits and morality, [12]

Indian heathenism and Christianity, [19]

Indian honesty, [40]

Indian hospitality, [40]

Indian legend of Yakimas, [20]

Indian life, [10]

Indian literature, [10]

Indian loyalty, an example of, [272]

Indian marriage, legality of, [273]

Indian marriage customs, [273]

Indian meals, [13]

Indian music, [37]

Indian mythical festivals, [21]

Indian mythology of the firmament, fire, water, forest, etc., [18]

Indian myths, [25]

Indian names and stories, [19]

Indian nations, [11]

Indian population, [330]

Indian reservations, first, [93]

Indian rising of 1855, [93], [97], [319]

Indian Salmon Spring festival, [26]

Indian spirit men, [21]

Indian story of the Cascades and the origin of fire, [23]

Indian story telling, the manner of, [19]

Indian texts, [27]

Indian traditions, [10]

Indian tribes, [10], [11]

Indian wars, the earlier, [83]

Indian wealth, [12]

Indian women, The, [12]

Indians and early settler, [18]

Indians in St. Louis in 1832, [57]

Indians learn of Christian religion, [58]

Indians, white, traditions of, [24]

Industrial instruction, [225]

Influenza epidemic, [277]

Inland Empire Magazine, The, [261]

Inland Empire Pioneer Association, [110], [245], [255]

Intellectual life in Walla Walla county, [210]

Into the hostile camp, [331]

Introducing high-grade horses and cattle, [176]

Irrigation, natural sub-, [6]

Isaac I. Stevens' survey for railroad, [162]

Isaacs, H. P., [149]

Isaacs, J. C., [149]

Itemized expense of wheat crop, [183]

Jaussaud, Leon, [180]

Jay Cooke & Company, [163]

Jefferson's instructions to Captain Lewis, [33]

Jefferson, Thomas, [32], [44];

tribute to Captain Lewis, [41]

Jerome W. J., [422]

Johnson P. B., [258]

Joint Occupation Treaty of 1818, [50]

Joseph Band of Nez Perces, The, [95]

Journalism in Columbia county, [353]

Jubilee on opening of canal, [171]

Judge Brents, [132]

Judges, [265], [266]

Judicial districts, [265]

Judicial system, [265]

Julian, R. C., [263]

Junger, Father Arvidius, [82]

Justices of the peace of Walla Walla city, 1877-1916, [306-315]

Jute mills, the penal, [290]

Kahmiakin, Chief of the Yakimas, [94]

Kalispels, The, [11]

Kamm, Jacob, [156]

Keith, Mr., [14]

Kelley, Colonel J. K., [97], [101]

Kelly, Senator J. J., [142]

Kennedy, Robert, [177]

Killing of Peupeumoxmox, [102]

Kirkman, William K., [178]

Klickitat county erected, [112]

Klickitat legends, [21], [23]

Klickitat myth, The, [4]

Klickitat, the chief, [24]

Klickitat tribe, founding of the, [23]

Klickitats, The, [11]

Kohlhauff, William, [115]

Kooskooskie, name and description of, [35]

Kootenais, The, [11]

Kuykendall, Dr. G. B., Indian author and collector, [28];

on pioneer times of the physician, [275]

Kyger, A., [141]

Labor Union Directory, [242]

Labor unions, [241]

Land and water, the forming of, [2]

Land of spirits, In the, [20]

Land office, [151]

Larger early stockmen, [176]

Lasater, J. H., [141]

Law case, a famous, [271]

Law suits resulting from Timothy land case, [273]

Lawyer, the old-time, [267]

Lawyer's Band, [103]

Lawyers, [265]

Laying out state into sixteen counties, [92]

Leaders in grain raising, [177]

Lease-rights in Washington, [273], [274]

Ledyard, John, [43]

Ledyard, S. F., [127]

Lee, Jason, Christian crusader, [59], [229];

first of the Protestants, [80]

Legality of Indian marriage, [273]

Legend, a Klickitat, [21]

Legend of the origin of fire and Mounts Hood, Adams and St. Helens, [23]

Legends, Indian, [25]

Legends, Yakima, [20]

Legislative act to create Asotin county, [402]

Legislative deadlock, [289]

Legislative delegations from Walla Walla county from 1876 to 1916, [295-99]

Legislative districts, [289]

Legislators chosen, 1863-1874, [139]

Legislature, the first territorial, [92];

decrees of the, [92]

Legislature, the first state, [289]

Letter of Dr. Whitman to secretary of war in 1843, [75]

Letter from E. H. Morrison, [376]

Letter from Judge O. S. Pratt, [429]

Letter from Perrin Whitman to W. H. Gray, [428]

Lewis, James Hamilton, [292]

Lewis, Meriwether, [33]

Lewis and Clark expedition, [10], [33];

a mess of salmon, [38];

at Lewiston and Clarkston of today, [35];

at Five Mile, [37];

at Fort Clatsop, [39];

at the Touchet, [39];

distance travelled by, [40];

find the prairie chicken, [38];

had passed through, [178];

hardships of, [35];

journal of Captain Lewis of, [34];

journey resumed, [36];

meeting with Chief Yelleppit, [38];

meet Nez Perces, [36];

start of, [34];

return journey of, [39];

observations of, [12]

Lewiston, [124]

Liberty Loan bonds, [196]

Librarian, city of Walla Walla, [315]

Library statistics, [304]

Library, Walla Walla city, [303]

Life of Timothy, [271]

Lisa, Manuel, pioneer fur trader, [46]

Litigation, a famous case of land, [271]

Live stock, dairy products, poultry, wool, flour, chop, 1916, [192]

Live stock on hand, 1863 and 1875, [179]

Live stock statistics, [285]

Lived on boiled wheat, [453]

Lloyd, Hon. A. G., [246]

Location of Walla Walla city in regard to growth, [293]

Long tunnels, and big snows no bar, [162]

Looney, Jesse, [427]

"Loowit," the witch, [23]

Loss of stock one million dollars, [128]

Lost in fog and snow, [279]

Lots $5.00 each, [115]

Lot Whitcomb, [156]

Lovejoy, A. L., letters on mid-winter ride from Waiilatpu to St. Louis, [66]

Lyman, H. S., [27]

Lyman, W. D., address by, [252]

McAuliffe, Lieut., [100]

McBean, William, [95]

McBeth, Kate, Indian student and missionary among the Nez Perces, [29]

McCabe, Joseph, [164]

McClees, Warden John, [291]

McClellan, George B., assistant surveyor, [162]

McClung, Mrs. Peter, recollections of Pomeroy, [472], [360]

McDermott, Louisa, [26]

McDonald, Mr., [14]

McGuire, Jerry, [178]

McKay, Tom, [87]

McKay, William C., [91], [96]

McKay, Dr. W. C., [30]

McKay's Company, Oregon Rifles, in Cayuse war, [86]

McLoughlin, Doctor, [54], [59];

founds Champoeg, [80]

McMorris, Lewis, [102]

McWhirk, William, [114]

McWhorter, L. V., student of Yakima lore, [30]

Mackenzie, Alexander, [45]

Magallon, Adrian, [180]

Magone, Major, [89]

Manufacturing, [192]

Many cattle driven in '61, [175]

Many miners in Portland in 1862, [128]

Many orchards hard hit by sub-zero weather, [189]

Marriage customs, Indian, [273]

Marshal resigns, [131]

Marshals of Walla Walla, 1877-1916, [305-315]

Martin, Captain William, [89]

Martin's Company, Oregon Rifles, in Cayuse war, [86]

Masonic Order, the, in Walla Walla, [236]

Matches in the Sorghum, [450]

Mayors of Walla Walla, 1877-1916, [305-315];

of Waitsburg, [318];

of Asotin, [419]

Meals, Indian, [13]

Measles, epidemic of, among Indians in 1847, [79]

Medical history, [275]

Medical profession, the, [265]

Medical science and its achievements, [280]

Meek, Joseph L., [87]

Meeting to raise railroad fund, [167]

Memories of old, [474]

Meningitis epidemic in 1888, [277]

Men in the public eye, in Walla Walla county, [292]

Mental characteristics of Indian, [13]

Merchant, Mrs. Lillian Clemans, [467]

Merchants' Carnival, the, [201]

Merchants come, [175]

Merchants hold back goods for big prices, [127]

Methodist church, the, [228];

early history of, [229];

the first in Walla Walla, [229];

jurisdiction over, [229];

building the first, [230]

Methodist Mission, the first, [59]

Methodist missions, [80]

Methodist parsonage, [231]

Methodist pastors in Walla Walla since 1859, [232]

Methodist presiding elders in Walla Walla since 1859, [232]

Methow highland, [2]

"Michel", [15]

Military organization of volunteers for Cayuse war, [84]

Miller, Joaquin, [114]

Miller, Judge Chester F., contribution by, [266];

paper of Judge, [320]

Millican, Lettice, [110]

Millican, "Uncle Billy", [457]

Mill Town, [154]

Miner, Mrs. A. J., first school teacher, [211]

Mines at Orofino worked out, [122]

Miners winter in Walla Walla, [126]

Minto, John, Indian student and state builder of the northwest, [30]

Miscellaneous crops, 1916, [192]

Miscellaneous happenings, Asotin county, [411]

Missionaries, attitude of first, toward Indians, [18];

difficulties of early, [64];

first, in Walla Walla, [52]

Missionary era, ending of, [82];

period of the, [57];

station in 1837, [178]

Missions, early, in Oregon, [59]

Missions of various denominations, [80]

Modoc war, [331]

Modoc war changes views of fort, [150]

Moisture, artificial and natural, [6]

Mojonnier, F. E., [190]

Montagnes Bleues, Les, [8]

Moore, Miles C., appointed territorial governor, [286];

address of, at pow wow, [204];

farewell address of, [473]

Morality of Indians, [12], [13]

More agitation for railway, [377]

More fires, 1884-5, 1890, '91, [350]

Morning Star, Chief, [17]

Mountains, height of, [1];

Indian names of, [19], [20]

Mounts Adams, Hood and St. Helens, Indian legend of, [24];

other stories of, [28]

"Mullan Road", [120]

Multnomah nation, story of the founding of the great, [23]

Municipal elections of Walla Walla, [305]

Municipal officers of Walla Walla, 1877-1916, [305-315]

Municipal ownership of Walla Walla waterworks, [301]

Municipal politics of Walla Walla, [299], [346]

Municipal warrants, [317]

Municipal waterworks, registrars of, [315]

Music, Indian, [37], [39]

Musk Rat, the Tacullies legend of the, [26]

Mythology, Indian, of firmament and elements, [18]

Myths, Indian, [25]

Names and Stories, Indian, [19]

Names found in advertising columns of the Chronicle, [354]

Names of advance guard at Pataha, [178]

Names of sections of Asotin lands, [400]

National democracy, [138]

Nations, Indian, [11]

Native races, [10]

Nearest flour mill thirty miles away, [465]

Nesmith's, Senator, address to Oregon Pioneer Association, [69]

New county of Garfield, [364]

Newell, William H., [258]

New era of water transportation, [170]

Newspaper twenty-five cents per copy, [118]

Newspaper, the first, [246]

Newspapers at Walla Walla, [246]

Newspapers of Walla Walla county, [257]

News two weeks old, [120]

Nez Perces, the, [11];

description of dress of, [36];

meeting of Lewis & Clark expedition with, [36];

rising of the, in December, 1855, [96];

save Stevens conference, [94]

Nez Percé war, the, [458];

underlying cause of, [95]

Night-ride, a physician's, [279]

Northrop, N., [118], [257]

N. P. R. R. builds feeders, [163]

Northern Pacific railroad movement, [163]

Northwestern Fur Company, [45]

Northwestern Stage Company, [162]

No salary to mayor or councilmen, [116]

Number of horses and cattle in 1863 and in 1875, [179]

Oceans of bunch grass, [175]

Odd Fellows, Independent Order of, [236]

Officials elected in 1860, [117]

Officers, first, of Old Walla Walla county 92

Officers of Old Walla Walla county, [112]

Ogden, Peter Skeen, [84], [87]

Ogress of Saddle Mountain, the myth of the, [25]

Okanogan highlands, [2]

Okanogans, The, [11]

"Old Bones," Chief, [11], [114]

Old Walla Walla County, beginning of, [92]

Olney, Indian agent Nathan, [98], [100], [319]

"O my God, for a Sabre!", [104]

One hundred and ten bushels barley to acre, [183]

Onions, [189], [190], [192]

Only fire-proof building in Walla Walla, [120]

Opening of country, [83]

Orchards and gardens, Asotin county, [413]

Order of the Eastern Star, [236]

Organized bands of criminals, [121]

Organized government in eastern Washington, [92]

O. R. & N. Co. and N. P., [163]

Oregon Lumber Company, [193]

Oregon Methodist Conference, the, [229]

Oregon, provisional government of, [84], [87]

Oregon question, the, [69]

Oregon Rifles in Cayuse war, membership of, [84]

Oregon Steam Navigation Company, [157]

Oregon, territorial government of, [88]

Oregon territory, Dr. Whitman's letter to secretary of war regarding, [75]

Oregon territory, first officers of, [88]

Oregon treaty of 1846, [78]

Oregon volunteers organize after Whitman massacre for Cayuse war, [84]

Ostrander, John Y., [270]

Our conference, [333]

"Our Mother Oregon", [173]

Outbreak of all Columbia Indians in 1855-56, [96]

Outbreak of prisoners, a contemplated, [291]

Owsley school, [381]

Pacific Fur Company, [47]

Page, Right Rev. Herman, [222]

Pageant of May, 1914, [206];

program of, [207]

Paine, F. W., gives an anecdote, [132]

Palmy period for hold-ups, [161]

Palouse Indians, [11]

Palouse myth, a, [25]

Palouse river, the, [37]

Park at Walla Walla, [462]

Park Club, the, [464]

Parker, Frank J., [258]

Parker, Hollon, [142]

Parleys, Indian, [14]

Parson Quinn, [360]

Pasca Mills, [186]

Pastoral work, [328]

Pataha, [473]

Pataha City, [187], [387]

Pataha "Spirit," the, [402]

Patients and doctors in pioneer times, [275]

Patit, origin of the name of, [319]

Patterson, Ferd., "Bad man", [134]

Paved streets of Walla Walla, [302]

Pavilion erected in 1900, [198]

Pearce, E. D., [125]

Pearson, the express rider, [96]

Penal labor, [290], [291]

Pend Oreilles, the, [11]

Penitentiary, history of the, [290]

Penrose, Rev. S. B. L., [219]

People's Party, [340]

Permanent Organization of Walla Walla county, [109]

Personal contact, [328]

Petty local jealousies, [358]

Pettyjohn, Jonathan, [177]

Peupeumoxmox, chief of the Walla Wallas, [79], [88], [94], [98], [319];

death of, [320]

Phillips, W. S., "El Comancho," author of "Totem Tales", [29]

Physical condition of Indians, [11], [12], [13]

Physical features, [1]

Physician, mode of travel of pioneer, [275]

Physicians of Old Walla Walla, [275]

Pietrzycki, Marcel, [326]

Pietrzycki bequest, the, [325]

Pine Grove School House, [465]

Ping, Elisha, [154]

Ping County bill passed, [154]

"Pioneer Days", [197]

Pioneer Hotel destroyed, [412]

Pioneer lawyers, [268]

Pioneer meeting of 1904, [245];

of 1911, [250]

Pioneer, the, Physician, [275];

race track, [179];

recollections of Asotin county, [464];

reminiscences, [426];

stage lines, [160];

wheat grower on large scale, [183]

Pioneers, advance guard of, [69];

in business 247;

of Asotin county, [470];

of Whitman party of 1843, [72];

prior to 1860 (names), [111]

Plant food, ingredients of, in soil, [3]

Plummer, Henry, [121]

Poindexter, Hon. Miles, [290]

Political annals, [335]

Political History of County division, [136]

Political history of Walla Walla city, [299]

Political history of Walla Walla county since division, [285]

Political party dissentions, [292]

Political review, [142]

Pomeroy J. M., [472];

brings in first good stock, [380]

Pomeroy, [165]

established by J. M. Pomeroy, [360]

town of, [472]

elections, [473]

pioneer physicians of, [275]

wants county seat, [365]

townsite plat filed, [383]

fire department, [384]

Pomeroy Improvement Company, [384]

Pomeroy Republican, the, [263]

Pomeroy Reservoir, [415]

Population of Washington, 1853-1880, [474]

Population, comparisons of various Washington cities, [293]

Potter and Pomeroy build mill, [187]

Prairie chicken first met, [38]

Preachers of note in Walla Walla, [235]

Precipitation, [6]

Predictions of Gov. Moore and their fulfillment 475

Prehistoric horse, [12]

Presbyterian missions, [80]

Prescott, the town of homes, [216];

as grain center, [216];

schools, [216]

Present city government of Starbuck, [352]

Present day churches at Dayton, [335]

Presidential election, 1904, [340]

Presidential vote, the, in Walla Walla county, [292]

Press of Garfield county, the, [392]

Preston, W. G., [215], [226]

Preston Hall, [215], [226]

Prevailing sentiment, democratic, [136]

Prices of foods, etc., in 1861, [120]

Prisoners, escape of, from penitentiary, attempted, [291]

Private schools, [217]

Proclamation of opening of eastern Oregon, [83]

Profits in fur trade, [44]

Prohibition, [294]

Professions, trades, etc., [194]

Provision for dairy and poultry purposes, [180]

Provisional government of Oregon, [84], [87]

Prunes raised, value, 1916, [192]

Public schools, organized, [211]

Pythias, The Knights of, [237]

Quinn, Parson, [360]

Raboin, Louis, [177]

Races, native, of Old Walla Walla county, [10]

Race track laid out in 1875, [198]

Railroad age, the, [162]

Railroad building hangs back, [167]

Rails as "legal tender", [465]

Rainfall, [1], [6]

Ready access to hip pocket, [140]

Receipts and disbursements of Walla Walla city, [316]

Recollections, by Mrs. St. George, [361]

Recollections of C. W. Clark, [455]

Recorders of Walla Walla city, 1877-1916, [306-315]

Record of elections (Garfield county), [369]

Red Cross work, [464]

Rees, Frank, [118]

Rees, R. R., [118], [257]

Rees, S. G., [258]

Reforms the whiskey dispenser, [333]

Registrars of city waterworks, [315]

Reliable, steady incomes, [185]

Religious life in Walla Walla county, [210]

Religious meetings, early, [81]

Remarkable wheat yields, [183]

"Reminiscences" by Governor Moore, [204]

Reminiscences of medical practice, [275]

Report of school superintendent, 1916-17, [325]

Reservoirs built, [149]

Residents in Oregon in 1843, [74]

Resolutions at Pioneer Meeting of 1911, [254]

Retail stores in Walla Walla, [195]

Reynolds, Almos H., [110]

Reynolds raises fine peaches, [189]

Rhubarb, [190]

Ribbon of fertile soil, [191]

Rice 18c-20c per pound, [120]

"Rice vs. County Commissioners of Garfield county", [367]

Riot in theatre, [130]

Riparia or Texas Rapids, [37]

Ritz arrives with trees, [188]

Ritz, Philip, [147]

Ritz ships flour, Walla Walla to New York, [181]

Ritz to try sweet potatoes, [189]

River improvement, [378]

River traffic under O. N. S. Co., [160]

Rivers, Indian names of, [20]

Rivers, system of, [6], [7]

Road agents, [132]

Road justified cost from start, [169]

Roads, lonely and dangerous, [278]

Roads never worked, [161]

Rocky Mountain Fur Company, the, [52]

Rogers, Cornelius, arrival of, in 1857, [64]

Rolling prairies and swelling hills, [180]

Ross, Alexander, [49]

Ross, observation of, in 1811, [50]

Routes, first, thro' northwest region, [32]

Russell, Charles, builds jail, [117]

Russian fur trade, beginning of the, [43]

Rutherford, J. K., [269]

Ryan, M., Jr., [179]

St. George, Mrs., [360]

St. Helens, Mount, the story of, [24]

St. Mary's Hospital, [223]

St. Patrick's Academy for boys, [223]

St. Paul's Episcopal church in Walla Walla, [232]

St. Pauls School, Walla Walla, [221]

St. Rose Mission, at Frenchtown, [82]

St. Vincent Academy, [224]

Sager tragedy, the, [77]

"Sahale", [23]

Sahaptin Indians, [11]

Salish Indians, [11]

Salmon River Emigration, [127]

Salmon spring festival, Indian, [26]

Saloon, chief source of revenue, [148]

Sanitary conditions in pioneer times, [276]

Sapir, Edward, [26]

Saylor, Fred A., [28]

Schnebley, Theodore, [470]

School buildings, beginning of, [210]

School children, the first, [210]

School conditions, in 1917, [214]

School districts, organization of, [211]

School districts of Garfield county, [382]

School enrollment of Garfield county, [382]

School property, value of, in 1900, [214]

School receipts and expenditures, 1897-1900, [213]

School report of 1900, [212]

School statistics of Columbia county, [324]

School statistics of Walla Walla county, [217]

School Superintendent and Pioneers in Asotin county, [468]

School tax levy, first, [211]

School teacher, the first, [210]

School, the first in Columbia county, [324]

Schools in Asotin county, [467]

Schools in Garfield county, [381]

Schools, private, [217]

Scott, Elmon, [270]

Sealth, Chief (Seattle), [29]

Sea-otter, the, [43]

Seasons, the, [4], [5]

Seattle nearly destroyed, [103]

Secret Societies, [237]

Seminary, Whitman, [218]

Semi-tropical in climate, [191]

Senatorial and legislative districts, [288]

Senatorial contests, [289]

Sentinel, the, [418]

Sergeant Smith's party, [126]

Settlement, early, of country after Whitman Massacre, [83]

Settler, the old, in a new age, [474]

Settlers, arrival of early, [64]

Settlers, early, after Cayuse war, [91]

Settlers of '59 in Columbia county, [321]

Seven millions in gold taken in 1862, [129]

Seventh Day Adventists in Dayton, [334]

Severe winter of 1861-2, [128]

Sharpstein, Hon. B. L., [288]

Sharpstein, Hon. J. L., [265]

Shaw's Company, Oregon Rifles, in Cayuse war, [86]

Sheep business grows, [180]

Sheep increase very rapidly, [176]

Sheep now in Garfield county, [381]

Sheep worth $1.00 per head, [176]

Sheriff Whitman and one Bunton, [140]

Shipments and freight rates on flour, 1867, [181]

Ships 40,000 pounds of onions, [189]

Shoemaker sends watermelon to the "Statesman", [188]

Shorthorns imported in 1864, [177]

Shoshone Indians, [14]

Shovels $12 to $16, [129]

Shushwap Indians, [11]

Sickness and death in party of 1843, [76]

"Side Hill" harvester, [193]

Silcott, John, [178]

Sims, J. A., [186]

Siskiyou Mountain Island, [2]

Sisters of Providence, [223]

Site of Orofino Mines, [125]

Six-hundred-eighty acre orchard, [190]

Six hundred miners winter at Salmon River Mines, [127]

Skomalt or Great Mother, [24]

Skyappe, the good spirit, [25]

Slavery question in Oregon, [88]

Slim Jim and Six-toed Pete, [133]

Smallpox epidemic, the, [277]

Smith, A. B., arrival of, in 1857, [64]

Smith, Hon. E. L., lifelong student of Indian legends, [30]

Smith, Jedadiah, [52];

massacre of part of his party, [53]

Smith, R. D., [118]

Smith, Silas, [27]

Smith, W. N. and R. B., [257]

Snake River, affluents of, [7]

Snake River, description of the, [6]

Snowfall, [6]

Soil, component parts of, [3];

conditions, [1];

creation, [2], [3];

depth of fertile, [3]

Sokulk Indians, [12], [37]

Some "joints" of the '60s, [130]

Some prices in 1869, [182]

Song, Indian death, [14]

Sorghum tried, [189]

Sound Indians, the, [11]

Sows one hundred and fifty acres to oats, [180]

Spalding, Eliza (Hart) diary of, [60]

Spalding, Rev. H. H.

arrival of, [60]

at Vancouver, [62]

at Waiilatpu and Lapwai, [62]

work among Nez Perces, [63]

difficulties encountered by, [64]

at Waiilatpu before Whitman massacre, [79]

escape of, [79]

Spalding, H. M., [178]

Spanish explorers, old, [42]

Spectacular Villard excursion, [163]

Speelyi, chief God of Mid-Columbia Indians, [2], [5], [21]

Spinden, H. J., [26]

Spirit of the West, the, [260]

Spirits, Indian, [20], [21]

Spokane County laid out, [112]

Spokanes, the, [11]

Spotted Eagle, [103]

Spring festival, Indian Salmon, [26]

Squash weighs 134½ pounds, [189]

Squire, Hon. Watson C., [289]

Stages became big factor, [161]

Staple, Captain, [134]

Starbuck, [165]

Start raising grain, [177]

Starvation and bounty, [13]

Statehood achieved, [475]

Statehood and constitution, [285]

Statehood, transition to, [473]

State legislature, first, [288];

members for the four counties of the, [288]

"Statesman" urges people to get railroad, [165]

Statistics of Old and New Walla Walla county, [285]

Steamer records, [158]

Steamer service well organized in 1859, [156]

Steer-roping contests, [202]

Stephens, William, [110]

Steptoe Butte, [105]

Steptoe, Colonel, [103]

Steptoe's defeat, [105]

Steptoeville, [113]

Stevens county laid out, [112]

Stevens', General, camp, [93];

conference of, with the Indians in 1855, [93];

Nez Perces save day for, [94];

new outbreak of Indians, [96], [101]

Stevens, Isaac I., first territorial governor, [92]

Stock in demand, [175]

Stock interests, the, [379]

Stock raising in Garfield county, [379]

Stolen horses recovered, [133]

Stories and names, Indian, [19]

Story telling, Indian, [19]

Strap-iron rails laid, [169]

Street commissioners of Walla Walla, 1898-1916, [311-315]

Street railway extended to Fair Grounds, [200]

Stubblefield Home, [227]

Stubblefield, Mr. and Mrs. J. L., [227]

Sturdevant, Judge, [269]

"Sublettes," the, [54]

Suffrage, Woman, [294]

Sugar 18c to 26c per pound, [120]

Sugar 40c to 50c per pound, [128]

Sugar $1.25 per pound, [129]

Summary of first events in Garfield county, [359]

Summary of recent production, [191]

Sunken forests in Columbia River, [23]

Superintendent of city schools of Walla Walla, [315]

Superintendent of Schools' report, 1916-17, [325]

Supreme court, the, [265]

Survey declared official, [115]

Surveyors of Walla Walla city, 1882-1916, [307-315]

Swift, roomy steamers, [158]

Tacoma "City of Destiny", [163]

Taggard, J. D., [190]

Tamsaky killed by Umatillas as result of Whitman massacre, [89]

Teachers' Reading Circle, [213]

Teachers' wages, [214]

Teams no competitors for railroad, [169]

Teit, James, [26]

Telegraph, Portland to Walla Walla, [151]

Temperature, [4];

averages of, [4];

records of, [5]

Temperature and rainfall, [1]

Ten per cent of stock survives winter, [443]

Ten thousand pounds wool shipped, [189]

Tent store in 1857, [114]

Territorial delegates, [146]

Territorial governor, the first, [92]

Territorial governor, the last, [473]

Territorial governors, [147]

Territory becomes a state, [370]

Testimony in Whitman murder trial, [90]

Texts, Coos and Umpqua, [26];

other Indian, [27]

Theatrical performances, [119]

Thermometer measurements, [5]

Thomas, George F., [161]

Thompson, David, [49]

"Those hills reach from hell to heaven, with bunch-grass from top to bottom", [380]

"Thunder Bird" legends, [25]

Times of Cowboys, miners, vigilantes, [124]

Timothy, a life history of, [271], [272]

Timothy of Alpowa and his land case, [271]

Timothy saves Steptoe's command, [178]

Tolmie, Doctor, [12]

"Tomanowas Bridge," the Indian story of the, [22]

Touchet, an active business center, [217];

its schools, [217]

Touchet, Lewis and Clark on the, [39]

Touchet belt excels in high grade apples, [190]

Touchet Pioneer, the, [264]

Touchet valley, first wheat crop in, [471]

Tough collection of human beings, [129]

Town of Dayton booms, [187]

Town of Mentor, [364]

Town of Starbuck, [351]

Town government organized, [115]

Towns of Asotin county, [418]

Towns of Garfield county, [382]

Traditions, Indian, [10]

Trades and Labor Council, the, [242]

Trades, professions, etc., [194]

Transportation, early, [155]

Trappers, early, [51]

Treasurers of Walla Walla city, 1877-1916, [306-315]

Treaties of Oregon, [84]

Treaty of Joint Occupation, of 1818, [50]

Treaty of 1846, [78]

Trees brought on muleback, [188]

Trial of Indians accused of Whitman massacre, [90]

Trial of the Timothy land case, [274]

Tribes, Indian, [11]

Tribes, the Ten Lost, of Israel and Indian lore, [25]

Trip from Wallula to Walla Walla in 1870, [161]

Troup, Capt. James, [159]

Trustees of Pietrzycki Foundation, [327]

Tucanon, [40];

origin of the name of, [319]

Tucanon river, description of the, [7]

Tum-a-lum, [114]

Tum-a-Lum Lumbering Co., [193]

"Turkey Pen", [334]

Tushepaws, the, [12]

Two hundred thousand boxes apples, [190]

Two remarkable criminal cases, [355]

Two voting precincts, [113]

Umatilla, [124]

Umatilla Rapids, [160]

Umatillas, the, [11]

Union Transportation Company, [157]

United Brethren, [234]

U. S. Fort Walla Walla, [124]

United States Senators, first election of, [289]

"Upper Country" towns, [124]

Up-To-The-Times Magazine, the, [261]

Value of products, 1916, [192]

Value of property in Walla Walla, 1862, [116]

Varied aspects of the Fair, [200]

Vegetables and irrigation, [6]

Vegetables and melons in variety, [180]

Vessels engaged in fur trade in 1786-7, [44]

Vigilantes, etc., [124]

Vigilantes disband, [135]

Villard, Henry, [163]

Vineland Journal, the, [425]

Violin and Indian, [39]

Volcanic eruptions, [3]

Voorhees, Hon. C. S., [286]

Vote against constitutional convention, [145]

Vote for presidential electors, 1892, [338]

Vote in 1863 for Territorial Delegate, [138]

Vote, the presidential, in Walla Walla county, [292]

Voting precincts in 1860, [117]

Voyages, early exploration, [25]

Waiilatpu, origin of name of, [11];

selected post by Dr. Whitman, [62];

description of, [64];

mission a center of light and help, [77];

clouds gathering and warning indications for mission, [79];

last days of Whitman mission, [79];

end of, [80];

in history, [80];

hunting the murderers of the Whitman mission, [88], [89], [113]

Wait starts milling in Columbia county, [187]

Waitsburg Academy, [225]

Waitsburg, elections in, [317];

charter of, [317];

mayors of, [318];

schools, [215]

Waitsburg Times, the, [262]

Walker, Rev. Elkanah, arrival of, [64]

Walla Walla & Columbia River Railroad, [165];

incorporated, [168]

Walls Walla and fur-traders, [50]

Walla Walla, Catholic diocese of, [82]

Walla Walla, battle of the, [97];

Col. Kelley's report of, [97]

Walla Walla, founding of Catholic church of, [82]

Walla Walla, origin of name of, [11]

Walla Walla Bulletin, the, [260]

Walla Walla City, [147]

Walla Walla City, Inc., [116]

Walla Walla City laid out November 17, 1859, [115]

Walla Walla City's Liberty Loan subscription, [196]

Walla Walla City's revenue for six months, [116]

Walla Walla City, as agricultural center, [293];

churches of, [228];

divided into wards, [300];

election in, under local option law, [294];

growth of, [205];

political history of, [299];

location of, in regard to growth, [293]

Walla Walla clubs, [238]

Walla Walla College, [224]

Walla Walla Commercial Club, [238]

Walla Walla County, beginning of, [92];

first board of commissioners, [92];

statistics of, after division, [285];

political history of since division, [285];

officials from, 1876-1916, [295-299];

local political history of, [292];

subscription to Liberty Loan, [196]

Walla Walla County Fair Association, [200]

Walls Walla County Press, the, [257]

Walla Walla Court House, [295]

Walla Walla Democrat, the, [261]

Walla Walla Journal, the, [259]

Walla Walla Labor Union, [241]

Walla Walla Lumber Co., [193]

Walla Walla newspapers, [246]

Walla Walla Methodist district, [230]

Walla Walla pageant of 1914, the, [206]

Walla Walla Park Association, [238]

Walla Walla Pow-wow, [201]

Walla Walla Race Track Association, [200]

Walla Walla Spectator, the, [263]

Walla Walla Statesman, the, [257]

Walla Walla treaty, [95];

broken, [96]

Walla Walla Union, the, [258]

Walla Walla, United States senators from, [289], [290]

Walla Walla Volunteers of Cayuse war, [84]

Walla Walla Watchman, the, [261]

Walla Walla Water Company, the, [301]

Walla Walla Wild West show, [202]

Walla Wallas, the, [11]

Wallowa Basin, [7]

Wallula, [124]

Walter, W. W., [430]

Ward division of Walla Walla city, [300]

Wardens of the penitentiary, [291]

War Dress, Indian, [14]

War and peace proceedings, Early Indian, [14]

War Eagle, Cayuse brave, [87]

Warrants, municipal, [317]

Warriors, Indian, [14]

Wascos, the, [11]

Washington & Columbia River Railroad, [163]

Washington, territory of, created, [92];

organizing territory of, [93];

made a state, [289]

Washington Independent, the, [263]

Washington Statesman, the, [257]

Washington volunteers for Spanish war, [350]

Waterloo of the Indians, [104]

Water-courses, [1]

Water supply, [149]

Waterway system, natural, [6]

Waterworks of Walla Walla, municipal ownership of, [301];

registrars of, [315];

superintendents of, [315]

Waters, Lieutenant Colonel, [89]

Watetash (animal people), [2]

Wealth of Indian tribes, [12]

Weather records, [5], [6]

Webb, Nathaniel, [180]

Weinhard brewery destroyed, [350]

Weiser, Jacob, [128]

Weiser's claim, [127]

Wells, artificial, [6]

Wells, Bishop Lemuel H., [221], [233]

Weyrauch's, Major, batallion on parade, [202]

Wheat at $2.50 per bushel, [126]

Wheat at 40 cents, [181]

Wheat at $2.00 a bushel, [471]

Wheat in field seven feet high, [180]

Wheat production and value, 1916, [191]

Wheat shipped down the Columbia, [181]

Wheat, first in Touchet valley, [471]

"Where the four creeks meet", [114]

"Whisk broom with a drink", [130]

White Man's island, or Samahtumawhoolah, [24]

White women, first at Fort Walla Walla, [62]

Whites and Indians meet, [13]

Whitman, Alice Clarissa, first white child born at Waiilatpu, 1837, [62];

death of, [63]

Whitman, Dr. Marcus, coming of, [59];

journey of, [60], [61];

meets Dr. McLoughlin, [62];

selects Waiilatpu and Lapwai, [62];

versatility of, [63];

difficulties encountered by, [64];

Whitman controversy, [65];

motives of, impugned, [66];

mid-winter ride to St. Louis, [66];

early life history of, [68];

on Oregon question, [69];

guiding party of 1843, [70-74];

letter to secretary of war, [75];

philanthropies of, [77];

treaty of 1846, his work, [78];

ministering to Indians, [79];

last days of, [79];

murder of, [79];

war following murder of, [80];

the grave and the monument of, [80];

trial of Indians accused of murder of, [90]

Whitman built sawmill, [193]

Whitman not a fighter, [417]

Whitman, Narcissa, [60];

diary of, [60];

at Fort Walla Walla, [61], [62];

at Vancouver, [62];

daughter born to, at Waiilatpu, [62];

letter of, [63];

instructor of Indian children, [64];

philanthropy of, [77];

Joseph Smith and, [78];

murder of, [79];

last resting place of, [80]

Whitman College, founded by Father Eells, [89];

early teachers at, [218];

board of trustees of, [220];

faculty of, [220]

"Whitman controversy," the, [65]

Whitman Massacre, causes leading to, [79];

survivors of, [79];

war following, [80];

tidings of, spread terror, [84];

remains of victims of, reinterred, [87];

hunting the murderers, [88];

Indian chiefs executed in retribution, [89]

Whitman Mission, its place in history, [80]

Whitman's letter to Elkanah Walker, [426]

Whitney, Charles, [176]

Wholesale houses in Walla Walla, [195]

Whyama, the mythical eagle, [20]

Wilbur, Rev. J. H., [229], [235];

stops liquor dealer, [332]

Wild Horse Creek, [133]

Wilkes, Captain Charles, [25]

Willamette Valley, history of, [71]

Willamette University, origin of, [59]

Wind Brothers, the cold (the Walla Wallas), [4], [5]

Wind conditions, [4]

Wind velocity, [5]

Wingard, Judge, [267], [268]

Wingard, S. C., [147]

Wishpoosh, the monster beaver, [2]

Wiveast, the "myth" chief, [24]

Wollawollahs, the, [40]

Woman's experience crossing the plains, [447]

Woman Suffrage, [294], [336], [370]

Woman's, Park Club, the, [206]

Women, Indian, [12]

Wormell, Mrs. Mary A., [464]

Wright, Colonel, [319]

Wyche, Judge J. E., [141]

Wyeth, Nathaniel, [52], [53];

expeditions of, [53], [54]

Yakima branch, [165]

Yakima Indian legend, [20]

Yakimas, the, [11]

Yehl, the raven, legend of, [26]

Yelleppit, the handsome chief, [38]

Yellow Bird, [102]

Young Joseph (Hallakallakeen), [95]