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FRED LOCKLEY "In the spring of 1856 we were mustered out. You can make up your mind we were pretty glad to get home where we could get something fit to eat, for a good deal of the time when we were chasing Indians we lived oil horse meat straight, without salt, coffee or bread. "After I came back from Walla Walla I went to work on the farm. When I was 22 I married Henrietta Griffith, daughter of John W. Griffith, who came across the plains in 1842. We had four children, all boys. My oldest boy, Columbus M. Tetherow, has a farm on the Luckiamute. My next boy, King Solomon Tetherow, lives in Spokane. Kane Tetherow lives at Northport, to the northward of Spokane. My youngest boy, Sammy, is a farmer and lives about five miles east of Dallas. My first wife died in 1887. After her death I married a widow named Isoline Holman. "When I was younger, I used to do a good bit of run- ning around. I packed into the Caribou mines from Dallas. We weren't much on speed, be we were strong on distance. I traveled on horseback with a pack horse over 110 miles before I struck a claim that suited me, and at that I just about broke even on the trip. In 1862 I bought up a lot of bacon here in the valley at 10 cents a pound and packed it to the mines at Bannock City, where I sold it for 48 cents a pound. I also tried my luck at Canyon City and John Day. Some years later I took up a claim in Harney valley, about a mile and a half from Burns. I had to leave it for a little while to tome back to the valley, and while I was gone someone stole all my barb wire and tore down my cabin and carried off the lumber. That made me kind of peeved, so I sold my claim and decided to stay here in the Willamette valley. "I was 9 years old when we started for Oregon, so I remember our trip across the plains very clearly. One of my brothers, David Atcheson, a twin brother of Wil- liam Linn, died while we were crossing the plains.