CHAPTER L.

Dr. White's report.--Seizure and destruction of a distillery.--Homicide of Joel Turnham.--State of the Territory.--Trials of Dr. White.--The liquor law.--Revenue act.--Case of the negro Saul.--The Indians kill an ox.--Other Indian difficulties.--Indian expedition to California.--Death of the Indian Elijah.--State of the Territory.--Claim of the Hudson's Bay Company on the north bank of the Columbia.-- Letter of Peter H. Burnett.--The Nez Percés and Cayuses.--Extract from the report of the United States Senate. Page 387