Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — LO LOVES REVENGE. [ARTICLE]

LO LOVES REVENGE.

An Eye for an Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth Is His Law. You may educate an Indian as much as you plea, e, carry him through all tho higher branches, and fairly steep him in moral philosophy, but you can’) eliminate the spirit of revenge from his make up, says one who has lived among them. A great many of them have been taken in hand and fairly well educated, but the eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth law is strong among them. An incident of this characteristic occurred recently in Oregon. About twenty-live years ago a Klamath Indian was foully murdered by threo others, who departed for Another portibn of the Northwest. The murdered man left an infant child, a boy about a year old, and a squaw. When this boy was about 11 years of age his mother died and he was taken charge of by some while persons, who became inlore sted in his brightness and sent him to tcheol. He was an apt scholar ani learned rapidly and he did so well in the primary branches that his education was continued. At 111 his studies ceased and he was given employment as a lally keeper at one of the Columbia River fisheries. It was remembered, after the recurrences that I am about to relate took place, that the young Indian was continually making inquiries of one sort or another of every visiting Indian who happened to reach the neighborhood. At last one day he threw up his position and disappeared. Within the next t»yo weeks three old Si wash Indians were found killed in three different sections of the Puget Sound country. It turned out that they were tho murderers of this young Indian’s father, and that from his infancy to the time she djed his mother bed devoted herself to instilling into his mind the idea that it was his holy duty to avenge his father's death.