Charley gave the word and lit out on a run as fast as his
horse could go. He left the soldiers away back in the rear.
The Indians did not see Scarface until he was within fifty
yards of them. When they did see him going towards them
with his right hand up saying: "Hch tuck gatt kai dnks ah
yudah tnk," meaning in English, "Stay where you are, "Mo
.not do any shooting." The Indians all stopped and stood
still. The two men that had guns never took them off their
shoulders. The five soldiers rode up slow, laughing. Scar-
face wanted to know where Ben Lawver and his father were.
The man that had the seven mile running fight with the sol-
diers the evening before told Scarface Charley that Ben Law-
ver, wife, father and mother and another young man had
left them early that morning saying he was going back to the
lava beds to hide. Scarface told the Indians that he would take
the nearest route for the peninsular w r ith them, so they started
on a direct line for the peninsular on Tule Lake. When they
got down on Lost River about the upper end of Langell's
Valley, Oregon, near where Malone's Ranch is now, 1 they
saw Capt. Jack running for all that was in him with Hooker
Jim and two soldiers in pursuit. Scarface Charley reined
his horse in ahead of Jack and told him to stop. Jack was
out of wind. He fell to the ground and wept like a child.
Finally he got up and told the soldiers he was ready to die
or go with them. One soldier told Jack after Scarface
Charley told him what he said that no one would offer to
hurt him if he would go along quietly. Jack gave his gun
and belt up, had only five cartridges in the belt and none in
his gun. When the scouts and soldiers got all the prisoners
together, they had them all but Ben Law r ver, his wife, father
and mother, and the young man. When Jack made his es-
cape near Steele's Swamp with the two men and three women,
they went down Willow Creek a short distance then they left
the creek and took a direct line for the southeast slope of
Bryant Mountain, 'but daylight came so they were afraid
to travel and they went in hiding near the head of Langell's
Valley. Hooker Jim, Shaknasty Jim and the five soldiers
iSoutheast end of Langells Valley, about 25 miles from Bonanza, Oregon.
