CHAPTER XXXVII

PROSTRATION.--RESCUE

Country utterly prostrated--Settlers take refuge in towns--Abandon farms--General Wool disbands volunteers, takes the defensive, and maligns the people--Review of war-- Kam-i-ah-kan, leading spirit--Treacherous chiefs, fresh from signing treaties, incite war--Miners massacred--Agent Bolon murdered--Major Haller's repulse--Settlers driven from Walla Walla--Massacre on White River--Volunteers raised-- Lieutenant Slaughter killed--Impenetrable forests and swamps--Cascades afford hidden resorts--Fruitless march of Major Rains to Yakima--Governor Stevens addresses legislature--His measures of relief--Calls out volunteers-- Visits lower Sound--Enlists Indian auxiliaries--Settlers return to farms--Build blockhouses--Organization of volunteers 156