people live with me. They followed me here. We are here
yet. No white men or Indians bothers us here. You had the
same chance that my other men had. I was also your chief
with my brother and Captain Jack. You followed my brother-
and Capt. Jack's words and ways. Your other chiefs are now
in a corral with their followers at Fort Klamath, Oregon. I
will send you to that same corral this very clay by my men, so
that you may be under the protection of your chiefs. You are
not wanted here by me." So he told four of his men & get
horses and take the two braves to Fort Klamath and turn
them over to the soldiers. Although it is fifty-two miles to
Fort Klamath, Long Jim and father was turned over to the
soldiers that evening and was lodged in the stockade with the
rest of the Modoc prisoners.
Old Chief Schonchin or Skonches, was head chief of the Mo- docs for many years. He remained loyal to the Great Treaty that was signed at Council Grove, near Fort Klamath, Oregon, 1864. He was a brother to John Schonchin who was hung for the killing of the Peace Commissioners. He was the Author's father-in-law. Born at Tule Lake, California; died August 10, 1892, aged 95, at the Klamath Reservation, Oregon.
