Robert C. Hill, Island County, in "Told by the Pioneers" vol. 2

[David Robertson]

p. 117:  "The Indians...seldom talked to the whites, and were surly even
when we tried to make friends with them.  One day a couple of Indians met
Tom Hastie, and pointing out Colonel Ebey, who was at work in a field a
short distance away, they asked if he were a 'tyee'.  Mr. Hastie
thoughtlessly replied:  'Yes, he is a hyas tyee.' (Big chief.)

"About 11 o'clock that night, the Indians left one squaw to look after the
canoes and to have everything in readiness for a quick flight.  The
warriors took positions along the trail leading to Col. Ebey's house, and
those nearest began making a great disturbance.  This was continued until
Col. Ebey came out of the house, to quell the disturbance.  A shot was
fired at him, and he seized an axe-handle and undertook to drive the
Indians away.  Another shot took off the fingers from his right hand and
he called out:  'What do you want?'  'We want your head!' came the answer
in jargon (this was afterward related by Mrs. Ebey), and the colonel
rushed back to the window of his house to say something to his wife...a
bullet struck him in the side...he fell, dead, at his own door."

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