Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-08-20
The Experience Of Kentuckian i'm the
Far West.

Three of the passengers who arrived by
the mailbOat from Cincinnati yesterday
attracted no little attention. They were a
very tall man and two children. The man,
besides being the tallest among the passen-
gers, was dressed in manner well calcu-
lated to draw curious eyes to his really
well-prOpOrtiOned figure. Random esti-
mates put him at not less than 61b feet
high, and he wore an Odd-looking cap,
which enorted fully developed squirrel
tail, gil .lg him an effect not unlike that of
the trappers who figure in the wild Indian
romances of the weekly papers of New
York. His vest and trowsers were of
well-worn buckskin, and his coat was an
old black garment that had seen its best
days He carried in his arms child not
more than two years of age, and by his
side was sweet-faced girl. His appear
ance leading some of his more inquisitive
observers to question him, he told most
heart-rending story of the last few months
of his life.
He had emigrated with bis wife and
child from one of the interior counties of
this State to the Territory of Montana,
where he settled upon a piece of land,
building himself cabin home, and pre-
pairing to spend the remainder of his days
in that far-away region. There he lived
long time unmolested, and there another
child was born unto the little family from
Kentucky. Their neighbors were few and
lived long distances from them, but they
nevertheless felt little apprehension of
the dangers incident to their new life.
One day the father left to go on a hunt,
taking the little girl to neighbOrs and
leaving the wife and the baby at home.
When he returned a few days afterward
he found his wife dead upon the cabin
floor, near the cradle of her infant child.
Her head had been crushed in by some
heavy weapon, and the scalping- knife had
done its work The infant in the cradle
was alive and had not been molested
Everything valuable, including two or
three rifles, had been taken away, and a
partially burned corner showed that the
Indians had attempted to fire the building,
but that the flames had sunk and died
| away before they could consume any great
portion of the cabin or reach the helpless
| child in the cradle.
|; After giving all proper attention to the
| remains of his wife, the Kentuckian,
| taking with him his two children, set out
to return to his native State He walked
with them 20 miles before reaching point
at which he could secure conveyance
He was inquiring his way to the Nashville
depot on his arrival in Louisville yester-
| day, and is believed to have left here by an
afternoon train. A gentleman who heard
his story was about to offer him pecuniary
assistance, but this he abruptly declined,
stating that he had quite sufficient to take
him to his relatives, with whom he wished
to leave his children, that he might return
to the West and avenge his murdered wife.
He passed along Fourth street on his way
toward the depot, and many wondering
eyes followed him as he jostled along the
crowded way in his singular garb, with
his two children clinging to him as if they
feared they knew not what might yet
come of it all.-LoaisUile Courier Journal,
| August II.