head; and I looked in the direction from which a faint,

proposition, and gave Joe fifteen minutes to execute his part of it.

We then returned to our respective forces, and a few minutes later

the fifteen ran to the right flank as agreed upon, and we opened fire

on the one Indian left standing alone, bringing him down in his

tracks severely wounded by a shot through the shoulder.

While all this was going on, the other bands of the reservation,

several thousand strong, had occupied the surrounding hills for the

purpose of witnessing the fight, for as the Rogue Rivers had been