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The Klickitat County Agriculturist, Goldendale, WA., January 14, 1905, page 1
"Klickitat Intelligence"

JOSLYN'S CLAIM FINALLY GRANTED - After waiting 50 years for the government to pay him for the use of his farm for a fort during the Indian outbreak at White Salmon in 1855, the announcement was made on the day of his death that E.S. Joslyn's claim of $1500 is to be allowed at the present session of congress. The announcement comes through press dispatches, dated Colorado City, December 29. Mr. Joslyn's claim against the government for $1500 was for deprivation of the use of the claimant's farm on the Columbia river in 1855, 1856, and 1857. During the years of the mentioned time the claimant's land was used as a military station by the United States troops engaged in suppressing an Indian outbreak. In the half-century that has intervened Joslyn has been engaged in pushing his claim. On the day that the letter announcing that it would be paid Joslyn died and the claim will be paid to the widow. An extended account in the Glacier two weeks ago of the life of Pioneer Joslyn told some thing of the Indian trouble in the early '50s. What was Joslyn's farm is now the property of Judge A.R. Byrkett at Bingen landing. Some logs of the fort constructed on this farm by the government in 1855, today form an outhouse on Judge Byrkett's farm. This building is an interesting old relic. Port holes or plainly visible in the logs, and within recent years poisoned Indian arrow heads were cut from the sides of the fort and carried away as souvenirs.

The Hood River Glacier, Hood River, OR., January 12, 1905, page 1

JOSLYN'S CLAIM FINALLY GRANTED

After waiting 50 years for the government to pay him for the use of his farm for a fort during the Indian outbreak at White Salmon in 1855, the announcement was made on the day of his death that E.S. Joslyn's claim of $1500 is to be allowed at the present session of congress.
The announcement comes through press dispatches, dated Colorado City, December 29. Mr. Joslyn's claim against the government for $1500 was for deprivation of the use of the claimant's farm on the Columbia river in 1855, 1856 and 1857.
During the years of the mentioned time the claimant's land was used as a military station by the United States troops engaged in suppressing an Indian outbreak.
In the half-century that has intervened Joslyn has been engaged in pushing his claim. On the day that the letter announcing that it would be paid Joslyn died and the claim will be paid to the widow.
An extended account in the Glacier two weeks ago of the life of Pioneer Joslyn told some thing of the Indian troubles in the early '50s. What was Joslyn's farm is now the property of Judge A.R. Byrkett at Bingen landing. Some logs of the fort constructed on this farm by the government in 1855, today form an outhouse on Judge Byrkett's farm. This building is an interesting old relic. Port holes or plainly visible in the logs, and within recent years poisoned Indian arrow heads were cut from the sides of the fort and carried away as souvenirs.