Jarboe's War [Round Valley] (7 pages)

on PAGE18 THECALIFORNIANS NOV./DEC.t¢ son set up a camp some 50 miles from the Valley, sending Lieurenant Edward Dillon ahcad with 17 coopers to establish headquarters on the Nome Cult Farm and look over the situation. Dillon didn't like what the Indians. He tly developed a pathological harred for them and, accord. ing to the testimony of a neighbor, collected a posse and “commenced killing all the Indians they could find in the mounBecause the settlers disliked taking off their work to hunt Indians, Ha: suggested a volunteer company paic equipped by the stare. He immediate! gan soliciting secclers co petition his f he saw, quickly determining that instead of tains.” By his own admission, Hall not only Governor Weller and wrote to the G. the whites needing protection from the Inara ak or ng oneal acted nor himself (April 30ch) that che m: dians, the reverse was true: settler posses nine in their food. He once remarked tha! was uncooperative in moving agains had killed literally hund: aeees ae he didn’t want anyone with him h ig He d bitterly o and although the ee ces a epee : * ve by Bie tee ling and doing Concluding that the soldiers were po me yeemnah seat these were mostly acts of re“good for nothing against the Indians, disns in the front and th: venge or to keep from starving. . ed assesor in the rear.” In Eden Valley —a smallerdeJudge Serranus P. Hastings ask Meanwhile the Indians Pression in the mouncains just Walter S. Jarboe, known locally as Bia deplocecoccitiors . three miles south of Round Valley — Superintendent Henley, an Indian hater,toleadacompany in the valleys, the Yukis Wailkis had the choice oft uite aside from his duty to look . cker the Indians, ons engsed of paid volunteers to hunt Indians. —jittdindhe eee in large-scale hing. Indeed, ing on the reservations. Ve: the whole Valley was owned byHenleyand — Indians who wouldn't killall he couldfind. al disease was rampant among them. : Serranus C. Hastings, the first ChiefJustice “A nit would make a louse,” he would say, —_ ley, by now agreeing with Hastings t! of che Califomia Supreme Court and the — meaning children too mus be killed. volunteer company was the only w: Seace Ancomey General in 1851. Hastings, an absentee owner for the most part, lived in Napa most of the time where a houseful of Indian servanss made life easy. Henley, up co his elbows in corruption, used Indian lsbor on his ranch while neglecting work on the Nome Cult Farm and sold ee An incident in early March became the fuse to the powder keg. Hall reported to Lieutenant Dillon chat Indians were raiding his stock and had killed two stall protect stock, asked loca! settler Dr Lacock ro be captain of the proposed pany, saying that he and Hastings u ’ salaries unt: worth $3,000 as well as some cattle. He was furious and determined to go after the Indians. Dillon seid he would ary and bring Acad ani " +, upp at tion store in which he had an i Bur did the Indians in, bur only if Hall and his men ised not co take matters into their own Henley have any compassion for his charges? Lieutenant Dillon reported the following: “Thomas Henley went over on the Eel River with some of his employees and finding some huts, surrounded them and sencan Indian in co tell the Indians tocome out and come into the reservation. . Four bucks came out bur one of them professed co be lame and unable to walk, wherefore Mr. Henley either shot or had him shor. . Mr. Henley does not charge these Ind hands. Hall agreed. Dillon and a squad of soldiers rode down one side of the river while Hall and his men rode down the other. The water was too high to cross and when they didn’t encounter any Yukis, Dilton brought his men tn. Hall's group stayed out. In a report dated March 23, 1859, Lieutenant Dillon wrote that Hall's men “have Basher pean coe eeeba nies Indians dhere that 240 with having stolen anything from him, but says they're too near him and he is afraid they will steal. He says he killed this Indian because he looked like a bad Indian.” I, Seprember of 1858 Judge Hastings had established his ranch in Eden Valley. His foreman, H.L Hall, who set up his headquarcers near an Indian rancheria (village), proved to be a source of trouble. Hall once employed 13 Indians in place of pack mules to carry supplies berween Eden Valley and the county sear ar Ukiah City, a one-way trip of 40 miles, promising each native a shirt in recut for the labor. When he didn’t get the shirts in time to pay them and the Indians complained, Hall whipped them. The Indians never gor their shirts. After this incident, whenever any of Hasting’s stock died, strayed or was lest, Hall blamed and. Indians were Lilled anal have been told by as reliable a man as there is in the valley that one of the parry has said they killed i atic atl [led at the loss of hi Judge appalled at the is tino, pris dtallipng. ccised thatthe Gnly Legislature would pay them. but La declined. He and other ranchers dis: ed Hastings and Henley. Casting abo: another captain, Hastings and Henle. ded on local stock man Walter S. Ja: well known locally a5 an Indian hate: reportedly a leader in the expedition had killed some 60 Indians on the ( Mendocino reservation in 1858. On! cently wounded by an arrow while ing out an Indian village, Jarboe dout jumped at the chance co ger paid fo murderous forays. Ina petition signed by Henley and 2¢ tlers, Judge Hastings recommended Ja to lead a volunteer militia against the . ans. The petition claimed that at lea: whites and some $40,000 worth of + had been killed locally, and chat w’ traveling through Indian country wer tacked “at sight.” Governor John B. passed the petition along to the Arm Major Joh and Liew way to safeguard his stock was to all the Iwai to the M, Py z Serie comes A miasms of birremess hung over the area: many of the settlers were allied against the Indians, but some sympathized with the Yukis, seeing the hopelessness of their sinzation. Ocher secders accused the military detachment of siding with the Indians against white people. When Hastings discovered that his foreman, Hall, was disliked by both settlers and military, he fired him but also concluded that the soldiers were ineffective, telling a neighbor chacthe solder sere “good for nothing against the Indians.” ant Dillon, after looking into the cha replied co the Governor in a report ¢ a 1, 1859. “The Yukas have not been,” stated \ Johnson, “for the last wo years, nothey now, at open war with the whites the whites have waged a relentless w. extermination against the Yukas, ma no distinction berween the innocent the guilty.” The report noted that whites, not 20, had been killed and t two deserved their face; that some 60. dians had been killed the past year; only a small fraction of the stock repx

on PAGE18 THECALIFORNIANS NOV./DEC.t¢ son set up a camp some 50 miles from the Valley, sending Lieurenant Edward Dillon ahcad with 17 coopers to establish headquarters on the Nome Cult Farm and look over the situation. Dillon didn't like what the Indians. He tly developed a pathological harred for them and, accord. ing to the testimony of a neighbor, collected a posse and “commenced killing all the Indians they could find in the mounBecause the settlers disliked taking off their work to hunt Indians, Ha: suggested a volunteer company paic equipped by the stare. He immediate! gan soliciting secclers co petition his f he saw, quickly determining that instead of tains.” By his own admission, Hall not only Governor Weller and wrote to the G. the whites needing protection from the Inara ak or ng oneal acted nor himself (April 30ch) that che m: dians, the reverse was true: settler posses nine in their food. He once remarked tha! was uncooperative in moving agains had killed literally hund: aeees ae he didn’t want anyone with him h ig He d bitterly o and although the ee ces a epee : * ve by Bie tee ling and doing Concluding that the soldiers were po me yeemnah seat these were mostly acts of re“good for nothing against the Indians, disns in the front and th: venge or to keep from starving. . ed assesor in the rear.” In Eden Valley —a smallerdeJudge Serranus P. Hastings ask Meanwhile the Indians Pression in the mouncains just Walter S. Jarboe, known locally as Bia deplocecoccitiors . three miles south of Round Valley — Superintendent Henley, an Indian hater,toleadacompany in the valleys, the Yukis Wailkis had the choice oft uite aside from his duty to look . cker the Indians, ons engsed of paid volunteers to hunt Indians. —jittdindhe eee in large-scale hing. Indeed, ing on the reservations. Ve: the whole Valley was owned byHenleyand — Indians who wouldn't killall he couldfind. al disease was rampant among them. : Serranus C. Hastings, the first ChiefJustice “A nit would make a louse,” he would say, —_ ley, by now agreeing with Hastings t! of che Califomia Supreme Court and the — meaning children too mus be killed. volunteer company was the only w: Seace Ancomey General in 1851. Hastings, an absentee owner for the most part, lived in Napa most of the time where a houseful of Indian servanss made life easy. Henley, up co his elbows in corruption, used Indian lsbor on his ranch while neglecting work on the Nome Cult Farm and sold ee An incident in early March became the fuse to the powder keg. Hall reported to Lieutenant Dillon chat Indians were raiding his stock and had killed two stall protect stock, asked loca! settler Dr Lacock ro be captain of the proposed pany, saying that he and Hastings u ’ salaries unt: worth $3,000 as well as some cattle. He was furious and determined to go after the Indians. Dillon seid he would ary and bring Acad ani " +, upp at tion store in which he had an i Bur did the Indians in, bur only if Hall and his men ised not co take matters into their own Henley have any compassion for his charges? Lieutenant Dillon reported the following: “Thomas Henley went over on the Eel River with some of his employees and finding some huts, surrounded them and sencan Indian in co tell the Indians tocome out and come into the reservation. .. Four bucks came out bur one of them professed co be lame and unable to walk, wherefore Mr. Henley either shot or had him shor. .. Mr. Henley does not charge these Ind hands. Hall agreed. Dillon and a squad of soldiers rode down one side of the river while Hall and his men rode down the other. The water was too high to cross and when they didn’t encounter any Yukis, Dilton brought his men tn. Hall's group stayed out. In a report dated March 23, 1859, Lieutenant Dillon wrote that Hall's men “have Basher pean coe eeeba nies Indians dhere that 240 with having stolen anything from him, but

says they're too near him and he is afraid they will steal. He says he killed this Indian because he looked like a bad Indian.” I, Seprember of 1858 Judge Hastings had established his ranch in Eden Valley. His foreman, H.L Hall, who set up his headquarcers near an Indian rancheria (village), proved to be a source of trouble. Hall once employed 13 Indians in place of pack mules to carry supplies berween Eden Valley and the county sear ar Ukiah City, a one-way trip of 40 miles, promising each native a shirt in recut for the labor. When he didn’t get the shirts in time to pay them and the Indians complained, Hall whipped them. The Indians never gor their shirts. After this incident, whenever any of Hasting’s stock died, strayed or was lest, Hall blamed and. Indians were Lilled anal have been told by as reliable a man as there is in the valley that one of the parry has said they killed i atic atl [led at the loss of hi Judge appalled at the is tino, pris dtallipng. ccised thatthe Gnly Legislature would pay them. but La declined. He and other ranchers dis: ed Hastings and Henley. Casting abo: another captain, Hastings and Henle. ded on local stock man Walter S. Ja: well known locally a5 an Indian hate: reportedly a leader in the expedition had killed some 60 Indians on the ( Mendocino reservation in 1858. On! cently wounded by an arrow while ing out an Indian village, Jarboe dout jumped at the chance co ger paid fo murderous forays. Ina petition signed by Henley and 2¢ tlers, Judge Hastings recommended Ja to lead a volunteer militia against the . ans. The petition claimed that at lea: whites and some $40,000 worth of + had been killed locally, and chat w’ traveling through Indian country wer tacked “at sight.” Governor John B. passed the petition along to the Arm Major Joh and Liew way to safeguard his stock was to all the Iwai to the M, Py z Serie comes A miasms of birremess hung over the area: many of the settlers were allied against the Indians, but some sympathized with the Yukis, seeing the hopelessness of their sinzation. Ocher secders accused the military detachment of siding with the Indians against white people. When Hastings discovered that his foreman, Hall, was disliked by both settlers and military, he fired him but also concluded that the soldiers were ineffective, telling a neighbor chacthe solder sere “good for nothing against the Indians.” ant Dillon, after looking into the cha replied co the Governor in a report ¢ a 1, 1859. “The Yukas have not been,” stated \ Johnson, “for the last wo years, nothey now, at open war with the whites the whites have waged a relentless w. extermination against the Yukas, ma no distinction berween the innocent the guilty.” The report noted that whites, not 20, had been killed and t two deserved their face; that some 60. dians had been killed the past year; only a small fraction of the stock repx