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From: "Sandy Pratt" <>
Subject: Joseph Jonah
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 22:10:02 -0700

Klamath Republican
August 24, 1899
JONAH IS DEAD

Joseph Jonah, Indian, who murdered David Hill, the famous Indian policeman
and white man's friend, in February 1892, at midnight on the Fort Klamath
Road three miles east of Klamath Falls, and who was convicted of
manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years in state penitentiary on June 29,
1892, after a lingering illness died in the penitentiary August 20.
Jonah had been in failing health for the past 5 years. In fact he has
never been in good health since being sent to prison.
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Klamath Republican
September 14, 1899

All that is mortal of the famous Indian Jonah, who murdered policeman Dave
Hill a few miles east of Klamath Falls in the Spring of 1892, was laid in
its final resting place last Sunday among his good departed tillicums' and
comrades' souls which are now sleeping beneath the moaning pines in the
little cemetery a few miles below Klamath Agency.
Jonah realized the awfulness of his crime after being sentenced to 15
years in the state penitentiary where he served out nearly half of his
sentence when he was overtaken by the grim visage of death and passed to the
happy hunting grounds on August 20, last. His body was sealed in a metal
casket by the request of his relatives, who defrayed all expenses, and had
it shipped to the reservation for interment. On its arrival at the Agency,
the state seal of the casket was broken and the body, which was in a state
of mortification, taken forth and redressed and placed in a $125 coffin. A
large cortege followed the remains to its last resting place among whom were
R.S. Moore, and George T. Baldwin, of Klamath Falls, the former acting as
chief mourner. So well did Rufus Moore act his part on this occasion that
his pathos moved the whole procession in a transport of tears and sighs for
the bereaved relatives and friends, while George with his camera, made a
lasting impressions of the many tear stained faces which he has preserved
for future references.

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