upon the other. The ground chosen for the council was
on the south side of Rogue river, the Indians making their
encampment on an elevation directly opposite the cliffs of
Table Rock, and Lane in the valley one mile distant, on
the spot where Fort Lane was soon afterwards established.
Although, according to the armistice, peace should have
been restored, there was some further fighting in scattered
localities between independent volunteer companies and
roving bands of Indians. Four days after the battle of
Evans creek, a collision occurred between a detachment of
Captain Owens company, under Lieutenant Thomas Fraz-
zell, and a foraging party of Rogue-rivers at Long s ferry,
about ten miles below the mouth of the creek, in which
Frazzell and a private named James Mango were killed.
After this Owens induced a party of Indians to enter his-
camp on Grave creek, and treacherously shot them; at
least so it is related in a public document. Robert L.
Williams, captain of a volunteer company, was also re
ported to have slain twelve Indians in an unfair fight, in
which he lost one man, Thomas Phillips. 3 Doubtless
many things were done in the exasperation of public
feeling, caused by the interruption of business and loss of
property and friends, which, under any other circum
stances, would have seemed impossible to the actors.
Martin Angell, a highly respected citizen, from his own
door shot an Indian out of pure hatred of the race, which
seemed to him only incarnate evil. He was, long after,
shot from an ambush by one of the hated race; and this
was Indian war. But now there was to be peace.
The time between the battle of Evans creek and the fourth of September was spent in preparations for the treaty council, which could not be held until the arrival of Superintendent Palmer. In the interim, there arrived Captain A. J. Smith, first United States dragoons, from Fort Orford, with his troops; Lieutenant Kautz of the
3 United States house executive documents, 99, p. 4, thirty-third congress, first
