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From: Ben Truwe <truwe@mind.net>

Subject: CL

Date: February 21, 2021 at 9:13:33 AM PST

To: larry smith <twinhiker@gmail.com>

Letter from Yai Nox.
KLAMATH, Ogn., Aug. 2nd, 1869.
   The weather continues warm and dry. The grain on the Reservation fields is fast ripening–harvest is upon us, and “all hands and the cook,” carpenter, teacher and blacksmith are daily seen with cradle and rake wading into the grain, side by side with farmers, teamsters &c.
   Quite a delegation of “gentlemen of leisure” from your town are out here rusticating. Alex. Miller and Col. Ross appear to be the most active, and are making sad havoc among our chickens (wild ones).
   Tom McKay arrived here last night, direct from Camp Warner. Archy McIntosh left Warner some time ago, and as it was not known where he had gone, the report became general that he had gone into the mountains with the Snake Indians. The excitement was intense among the citizens. Donald McKay was hunting in the mountains near Goose Lake Valley when he was suddenly surrounded and captured by a party of citizens who, believing him to be McIntosh, seemed determined to hang him right up. Donald finally prevailed upon them to take him to Camp Warner, where he had no trouble in satisfying them that they had caught the wrong half-breed. McIntosh has since turned up at Camp Harney.
   The Snake Indians are in their old range subsisting themselves. They come in around the garrison to beg and trade–many desperate bad white men are in that country, and have more or less intercourse with the Indians, and it will be a little remarkable if there is no outbreak if the Indians are allowed to ramble around as they now do.
   A soldier belonging to Capt. Goodall’s company at Klamath was drowned in Williamson River last week while trying to ford the stream on horseback.
   We learn that a party of pleasure seekers from Rogue River Valley are now at Lake Majesty [Crater Lake], cruising upon its blue and placid water in a boat built in Jacksonville. As it is reported that the party is partly composed of young ladies, you may well imagine that the desire to see and explore Lake Majesty has become intense.
   If your people are tired of the din and clash of business in your lively city, tell them to come out here; we will be glad to do all in our limited power to make the stay interesting. Fishing, shooting, boat riding and swimming are among the recreations out here. Come out and try it.
YAI-NOX.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, August 7, 1869, page 2