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The commission were divided as to the 

 advisability of keeping the appointment. 

 Commissioners Dyar and Meacham sus- 

 pected treachery and were of the opinion 

 that it was not safe, while General Canby 

 and Dr Thomas, a Methodist minister, 

 insisted that it was plainly their duty 

 to go. The four commissioners, accom- 

 panied by an interpreter and his Indian 

 wife, proceeded to the place of appoint- 

 ment, and, being met by eight Indians, 

 fully armed, it was evident that they 

 had fallen into a trap. The council was 

 opened with brief speeches by Thomas 

 and Canby offering the terms of peace, 

 only to be interrupted by Schonchin 

 John, who angrily commanded, "Take 

 away your soldiers and give us Hot Creek 

 for a home!" Before the commissioners 

 could reply, at a signal from Jack the 

 Indians fell upon the white men. Canby 

 and Thomas were shot to death, Dyar 

 fled and escaped, and Meacham was shot 

 five times by Schonchin John, l)ut finally 

 recovered. As a result of this massacre 

 military operations were resumed with 

 great activity, and after a few severe 

 engagements Jack was dislodged from 

 the lava beds and with his itarty sur- 

 rendered on June 1 . Gen. Davis decided 

 to hang the leaders forthwith, Schonchin 

 John among the number. While the 

 scaffolds were being prepared word was 

 received from Washington that the con- 

 demned men must be tried by a military 

 commission. The prisoners were found 

 guilty of murder and assault to kill, 

 in violation of the rules of war, and 

 sentenced to be hanged, but sentences 

 of two of them were commuted to 

 imprisonment for life. Schonchin John 

 was one of those who were hanged. The 

 execution took place at Ft Klamath, 

 Oct. 3, 1873. In a speech made by Schon- 

 cliin immediately before his death he 

 declared that his execution would be 

 a great injustice, that his "heart was 

 good," and that he had not committed 

 murder. He asked that his children 

 should be sent to his brother Schonchin, 

 who was still at Yainax on the reserva- 

 tion, and who would "bring them up to 

 be good." Bancroft says that Schonchin 

 John was striking in appearance, with a 

 sensitive face, showing in its changing 

 expression that he noted and felt all that 

 was passing about him. Had he not been 

 deeply wrinkled, though not more than 

 45 years of age, his countenance would 

 have been rather yjleasing. (f. s. n. ) 



Schoneschioronon ( ' beautiful -hillside 

 people. ' — Hewitt) . A clan of the Iroquois, 

 q. V. — French writer (1666) in N. Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist, IX, 47, 1855. 



Schoomadits. An unidentified tribe of 

 Vancouver id., probably Nootka. 

 Schoomadits.— .Tewitt. Narr." 36, 1849. Shoomads.— 

 Armstrong, Oregon, 136, 1857. 



Schoyerre. A former Seneca settlement 

 on the w. side of Seneca lake, probably in 

 Ontario or Yates co., N. Y. It contained 

 18 houses when destroyed by Gen. Sul- 

 livan in 1779. — Grant (1779) quoted by 

 Conover, Kan. and Geneva MS., B. A. IC. 



Schuelstish. A former Salish division 

 on Columbia r.. Wash. According to 

 Stevens it formed one of the 8 Spokan 

 bands in 1853. 



Schee-et-st-ish.— Stevens in Ind. Aff. Rep., 429, 

 1854. Schu-el-stish.— Gibbs in Pac. R. R. Rep., I, 

 414, 1855. 



Schurye. A Cowichan village on lower 

 Fraser r., just aliove Sumass lake, Brit. 

 Col. Pop. 27 in 1894, the last time it was 

 enumerated separately. 



Schuary.— Can. Ind. Aff. Rep. 1894, 276, 1895. 

 Schurye.— Ibid., 1880, 316, 1881. Schuye.— Brit. Col. 

 map, Ind. AIT., Victoria, 1872. 



Scitadin. A village on the St Lawrence, 

 in 1535, below the site of Quebec.^Car- 

 tier, Bref Recit, 32, 1863-. 



Sconassi. A former village with a mixed 

 population under Iroquois jurisdiction, 

 situated in 1746, according to D'An- 

 ville's map of that date, on the w. side of 

 Susquehannar., below the w. branchof the 

 Susquehanna, probably in Union co.. Pa. 

 Sionassi. — Nouvelle Carte Particuliere de I'Am^r- 

 iqiie, n. d. 



Scorse Ranch ruins. A group of pueblo 

 ruins on the s. side of Leroux wash, in 

 the broken country along the n. flank of 

 the Holbrook mesa, 16 to 20 m. n. e. of 

 Holbrook, Ariz. The pottery, of which 

 there are 175 pieces in the National Mu- 

 seum, is chiefly of coarse gray and undeco- 

 rated brown ware, vases with handles 

 being largely represented, and resembles 

 theancientZufii earthenware more closely 

 than it does anv other tvpe. — Hough in 

 Eep. Nat. Mus."l901, 307, 1903. 



Scotch. See Enr/lish infJiienre. 



Scoutash's Town. A former Mingo or 

 Shawnee village, named after a chief, near 

 Lewistown, Logan co., Ohio, on a tract 

 ceded by treaty of July 20, 1831, when 

 the occu])ants removed to Indian Ter. 

 Scoutashs town, — Maumee treaty, Sept. 29, 1817, In 

 U. S. Ind. Treat., Kappler ed., ii, 105, 1903. 



Scowlitz. A Cowichan tribe living at 

 a town of the same name at the mouth of 

 Harrison r., Brit. Col. Pop. 52 in 1904, 

 42 in 1909. 



Harrison Mouth,— Can. Ind. Aff. Rep. 1891, 248, 

 1892. Scowlitz.— Can. Ind. Aff. Rep., 160, 1901. 

 Skau'elitsk.— Boas in Rep. 64th ^Meeting Brit. 

 A. A. S., 454. 1894. Skowliti,— Brit. Col. map, Ind. 

 Aff., Victoria, ls72. 



Scrapers. Implements of the scraper 

 class are indispensable adjuncts of the 

 artsof lifeamongprimitivepeoples. They 

 take varied forms, serve many important 

 purposes, and are made of every available 

 material — animal, vegetal, and mineral. 

 It is observed that although the shapes 

 are often highly specialized, these imple- 

 ments have never risen above the homely 

 realm of the simply useful arts as have 

 some of the implements associated with 



