The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-03

were about the one around which they were
now gathered. Their suspicious were now
awakened. They examined the ground more
closely, both far and near, and discovered that
a solitary hOrseman had deceived them, and
they knew that it was for the sole purpose OF
leading them off from the pursuit OF the very
party whose encampment they had first dis
covered
Logan saw them going round with glazing
torches and understood their object, and knew
that his only chance of safety was in immediate
fight 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 be-
yOnd the reach Of danger.
The Sioux, in the meanwhile, had divided
into smaller bands. the largest of which was to
return and pursue the Omahas and Others to
endeav0r to capture the one who had misled
| them. They knew that he must be an Omaha,
and that he would either 60 further and kindle
another watch-ire, or start for his nation in a
straight line and therefore one party went on
a little further and the others spread out to-
wards the Omaha country for the purpose of
intercepting him. Logan pressed forward as
rapidly as his jaded steed could bear him, until
he thought he had entirely eluded them /; but
as the day dawned, 10 his horror and dismay,
be saw his pursuers close upon his track. He
turned his course for a ravine, which he dis
tinguished at a distance, covered with trees
and underground. He succeeded in reaching
it, and Just within its verge he met an Indian
girl dipping water from spring. She start
led and was about to cry for help, when he
hastily assured her that he needed her assist.
ance With the true instincts of noble wo-
man, she appreciated his situation in an instant,
and all her sympathies were with him. She d.
rected him TO dismount and go to small nat
ural bower to which she pointed him, in the
woods, while she would mount his horse and
lead his pursuers away. He obeyed her, and
sine mounted his horse and dashed on in SER
pentine way through the woods, leaving marks
along the brushes bv which she could be ira
ced. The pursuers soon followed. When she
had got some distance down the branch, she
rode into the water and followed its descending
course for a few steps, making her horse touch
its sides and leave footprints in that direction,
and then turned up the bed of the stream and
rode above the place at which she entered it,
without leaving trace and back to where Lo-
gan was concealed. She told him to mount and
speed away while his pursuers were going in a
contrary direction down the ravine. He did
so and got long distance ont of sight, and
again thought himself beyond the reach of
danger, when in valley just in front of him,
he saw fifty braves coming up the hill and
meeting him. They were some OF those who
were retul ming from the pursuit OF his people.
He changed his direction and tried to escape,
but his poor horse was too much exhausted to
bear him with sufficient speed. With savage
yells they plunged their rowels in the horses
sides and gained upon him. AS the foremost
approached within good shooting distance,
Logan turned suddenly and sent bullet thro'
his brain. Then, loading as he galloped on, he
soon after made another bite the dust, and then
another and another, until four were strewed
along the plain. just then, however, as he
was again reloading, his horse stumbled and
fell, and the band rushed upon him before he
had we'll recovered from the shock. He was
shot with bullets and arrows, and gashed with
tomahawks, and pierced with lances; notwith-
standing all which, he arose amidst his foes,
and with his dubbed rifle and hunting knife,
he piled around him five PROSTATE bodies and
fell with his back upon their corpses and expi-
red, still fighting.