Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1855-09-06
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Correspondence Of the Missouri Democrat.
FoNTANELLE, THE OMAHA CHIEF

FONTANELLE, THE OMAHA CHIEF.
WOLF RIVER, Kansas Ter, Aug. t, 1855.
Logan Fontanelle, Chief of the Omahas, has
just been slain and scalped at Loup Fork, by
a band of Sioux. Logan was noble fellow,
and in this last mortal conflict he dispatched
several of the enemy to the spirit land before,
to herald the coming of his own brave SOUL
lie fought long, desperately, and with great
effect .ut numbers finally overcame him, and
hi, life departed through hundred wounds
lie died a martyr for his people, and his name
should be carved upon fa,ue's brightest tablet
lie was on his annual hunt with his nation.
\ number of his lodges were pitched upon the
plains near Loup Fork. As Il young warrior
one day rode around the adjacent hills, he cs-
picd powerful band of Sioux encampcd along
a stream in a sequestered vale. He hastens
to inform Logan of the plopinquity and power
of their natural foe. Logan ordered his peo-
ple to pack Immediately, and proceed in
straight line and with all speed for home, while
he would remain behind, and divert the Sioux
by false camp fires and other devices, from
direct pursuit of them. This was about twi-
light. The people got underway 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 examined
and found that Omahas had been there, and
then they returned to notify their chief, and
bring an adequate force to pursue and slaugh-
ter them Logan, from hiding-place, saw
a. to ba lost
drawing their attention from the trail, which
thew would soon discover and follow, and
mounting his horse, he dashed away at full
speed across the prairie, at right angles with
the route his tribe had taken, and strack fire
about eig ght miles distant, on an eminence where
the Sioux could distinctly see it. He had
scarcely done so before powerful band were
upon the spot that he and his people had so
lately left, and who, without stopping to dis
tineuish the trail, started for the fire, which
they saw rising against the clear blue sky, and
where they expected in another moment to I'M
bue their hands in the gore of their unguarded
victims. But Logan had not been unwary.-
As soon as the fire was ghted, heagain mount
ed and rode on eightor ten miles further, and
kindled another fire just as they reached the
first. This rather bewildered them. They
dismounted and examined the ground. Lo-
gan anticipating this, had trotted and walked
his horse taround it, so as to make the appear
ance upon the grass of the treading of a dozen
horses and this drew them into the belief
thata small body had fingered behind and kin
died this fire, and then gone on to where they
could see the new fire burning; and so they
followed with renewed avidity. The same
thing happened as before. Logan had gone
ON, and another fire met their astonished gaze,
while the same sort of foot prints were about
the one around which they were now gathered.
Their suspicious were now awakened 1hey
examined the ground more closely, both far
and near, and discovered that a solitary horse
man had deceived them, and they knew it was
for the sole purpose of leading them OF from
the pursuit of the party whose encampment
they had first discovered.
Logan saw them going round with glarlng
torches, and understood their object, and knew
that his only chance of safety was in lmmedl-
ate 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 divided
into smaller bands, the largest of which was
to return and pursue the Omahas, and the
others to endeavor to capture the one who had
misled them. They knew that he must be an
Omaha, and that he would either go further
and kindle another watch-fre, or start for his
nation in a straight line and, therefore, one
party went on little further, and the others