Q. (Interrupting.) Very shortly before the massacre, did you? A. Well, I was in there.
Q. State why you went in there. A. I was in there on the 10th of April. My woman and me went in there, and took a written message in there from the peace commissioners. I read and interpreted it to Captain Jack, and I told him then, after I interpreted it to him, that I gave him a notice; and I told him to bring it the next day when he met the commissioners, to bring it with him. He threw it on the ground, and he said he was no white man; he could not read, and had no use for it. He would meet the commissioners close to his camp—about a mile beyond what they called the peace tent. He said he would meet them there and nowhere else.
Q. A mile nearer the Lava Beds than the peace tent? A. Yes; he said that was all he had to say then. I could hear them talking around, and sort of making light of the peace commissioners—as much as to say they didn’t care for them.
Q. What was the tenor of this message you say you read? A. It was a statement that they wished to hold a council with them at the peace tent next day, to have a permanent settlement of the difficulties between the whites and the Indians; they wanted to make peace, and move them off to some warm climate, where they could live like white people.
Q. Where is that note you carried? A. It is lost.
Q. Did Captain Jack say anything about arms in reference to
the meeting? A. Yes, sir; he said he would meet them five men without arms, and he would do the same—he would not take any arms with him.
Q. That he would meet them at the place he fixed—one mile nearer the Lava Beds? A. Yes, sir; one mile nearer the Lava Beds.
Q. Five men, without arms, and he would also go without arms? A. Yes, sir.
The Court. Five, including himself? A. Yes, sir.