Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1855-09-04

Logan Eonteuel2e, in order to save hi
people from a massacre by the ferc,
: Sioux 1t is a heroic act Woman
beautiful character is incidentally devel
oped iE her effort to save the life of tbi,
noble brave
Logan Fontenella, Chief of the Oma
has, has just been slain and scalped a.
Loup Fork, by band of Sioux Logan
was noble fellow, and in his last morta
conflict, he dispatched several of the cue
my TO the spirit land before, to herald the
coming OF his own brave soul He fought
long, desperately aud with great effect
but numbers finally overeame him. and
his life departed through hundred
wounds. He died martyr for his peo-
pie, and his name should be carved upon
fame's brightest table
/ He was on his annual hunt witch his
nation. A number of his lodges were
pitched upon the plains near Loup Fork
As young warrior rode around the ad
Ijaeent bills, he espied powerful band of
Sioux encamped along stream in a Sc
lquestered vale He FASTENED to inform
Logan of the proximity and power of their
natural foe. Logan ordered his people to
pack Immediately, and proceed in a
straight line and with all speed for home,
while he would remain behind, and divert
the Sioux by false eamp-fres. and other
devices, from direct pursuit of them =
This was about twilight The people got
under way as quickly as possible, but not
too soon; for scarcely had they turned a
! highland when several Sioux warriors
came in sight and discovered the place Of
their recent encampment They eXamin-
ed aud found that the Omahas had been
| there, and then they returned to notify
their chief, and bring an adequate force
| to pursue and slaughter them. Logan,
| from hiding place, saw all. and knew
that no time was to be lost in drawing
their attention from the trail, which they
would soon discover and follow, and
mounting his horse, he dasle ed away at
fuH speed across the prairie, at right
angles with the route his tribe had
taken, and struck fire about eight miles
distant, on an eminence where Sioux could
distinctly see it. He had scarcely done
so before a powerful band were upon the
spot that he and his people bad so lately
left, and who without stopping to distin-
guish the trail. started for the fire which
they saw rising against the clear, blue
sky, and where they expected IN another
moment to imbue their hands, in the gore
of their unguardcd victims But Logan
had not been unweary. As soon as the
fire was lighted, he again mounted aud
rode on eight or ten miles further. and
kindled another fire just as they reached
the first This rather bewildered them
They dismounted and ex-nined the
ground. Logan, anticipating this, had trot-
ted aud walked his horse around it. so as
to make the appearance upon the grass as
| the treading of dozen horses and this
drew them into the belief that a small body
had fingered behind AMI kindled this fire
and then gone on to where they could see
the FIRE burning and so they followed
with renewed activity. The same thing
! happened as before. Logan had gone on
and another FIRE met their aston shed gaze
while the same sort of footprints were
about the one around which they were
now gathered Their suspicious we're now
awakened, They examined the ground
more closely, both far and near. and dis
covered that a solitary horseman had de
ceiyed them, and they knew it was for the
sole purpose of leading them off from the
| pursuit of the party whose encampment
/ they had first discovered.
/ Logan saw them going round with gla
! ring torches, and understood their object
and knew that his only chance of safety
was in immediate flight towards his home;
and he further knew that by the time they
could retrace their way to their place of
starting, and find the trail that his own
people had taken, they would be beyond
! the reach of danger.
The Sioux, in the meanwhile, had divi
ded into smaller bands, the largest of
which was to return and pursue the Oma-
| has. and others to endeavor to capture
the one who had misled them They knew
that he must be an Omaha, ard that he
would cit her go further and kindie anoth-
| er watch fire. or start for his nation in
straight line; and therefore one party
| went on a little further, and the others
| spread out towards the Omaha country
| for the purpose of intercepting him Lo
gan passed forward as rapidly as his jaded
| steed could bear him, until he thought he
| had entirely elnded them but as the day
dawned, to his horror and dismay, he saw
/ his pursuers close upon his track He
| turned his horse for ravine, which he
| distinguished at distance covered with
trees and under growth. He succeeded
| In reaching it, and just within its verge he
met an Indian girl dipping water from a
spring She startled and about to cry for
help. when he hastily assured her that be
needed her assistance. With the true in-
stincts of noble woman, she appreciated
his situation in an instant, and all her
syInpathies were with him She directed
him to dismount and go tt a small natu
raj bower to which she pointed him, in the
woods, while she would mount his horse
ard lead his pursuers away He obeyec
her, and she mounted his horse and dash
ed on in serpentine way through woods
leaving marks along the brushes By whicl
she could be traced. TIE pursuers soor
followed. When she had got some dis
, tance down the branch, she rode into tn
water aud followed its descending cours
for few steps, making her horse touc
, its sides and leaving footprints in tha
{ direction, and then turned up the bed {
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