 With the approach of the Puget Sound War, they persuaded him to ally himself, for a fee, with the forces of the United States.He assisted in constructing forts and encamped at Fort Tilton with 100 of his troops to block Snoqualmie Pass.After the Battle of Seattle in 1856, Governor Isaac Stevens put a bounty on the head of raiders, $20 for ordinary Indians and $80 for a "chief".