Together we marched down the slope of the quiet, suburban

scene of his successes, he, in common with many others was drowned by

the wreck of the ill-fated steamer Brother Jonathan. Colonel Wright

took command of the district in place of Rains, and had been at

Vancouver but a short time before he realized that it would be

necessary to fight the confederated tribes east of the Cascade Range

of mountains, in order to disabuse them of the idea that they were

sufficiently strong to cope with the power of the Government. He

therefore at once set about the work of organizing and equipping his