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;
commissioners appointed, 404;
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, 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
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
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;
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
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
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
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 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, 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