, 1870-07-09
THE MYSTERY OF a BORDER
HORROR REVEALED.
Tho Fate Of a Missing Womou-Sbc
IL Shot, ScnIped, Tied TO a Tree,
and Left to Die OF Starvation.
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Tho Fate OF q Missing Womau-Sht
IL Shot, Scn1Ped, Tied to a Tree
and Left to Die OF Starvation.
Indian Territory {June 13} Correspondent Of III,
St LoHts 1inIe1.
For some time notices have been circulated
through the different frontier posts to the ef-
feet that Mrs. Dorathv Field had been al
Quoted By Indians from Mepard County, On
San Saba River, four milcs below NeKavett,
Slate Of Texas, and offering reward Of s750
ln gold for her safe return to any point in the
United States. In addition to this, the com
manding officers Of the different potts we're
communicated with, and every effort made to
gain some information Of the missing lady. The
following statement has been made before the
writer BY the Cheyenne Chief Little
Robe, and as circumstances go to prove tho
truth Of other matters which he tells, there is
no reason to doubt that part of lis story re-
latiDg to Mrs. Field, Little Robe, with other
Arrapahoe and Cheyenne Chiefs, YES invited
by the kiosay and Comanche Indians to nt-
tend a "medicine lauce y and council, held BY
the latter at point forty miles south Of the
Antelope Hills, in this Territory, and he
affirmH that the Kiowavs held ont every in
dnccment to their Cheyenne brothers to ac-
company them on the war-path against tho
These oyertures Little Robe SAYS thst ho
and some other old men Of his tribe stead
lastly declined. Saving that they had var long
enough with the whites, whom they found toe
numerous to cope With, and that as long aa
they were treated Justly they desired TO re-
main at peaee; that he advised his young
men not to involve themselves in another
war. which would Inevitably eud a. did the
campaign of l8GS-G9.
The Mowsye, finding they coufd not effc. .
general alliance, boosted they would commit
such depredationa aB would involve the Chey-
ennes e, IN spite Of themselves; then desired
7 Ia HehA A~ Ill !
who carried of Mrs. Field, and thoy wished We
should know it,
He says they described as her having beau
Efnl long hulr; that che was on horseback.
aud. when surrounded br the Kiowayg, kept
discharGiug revolver, with which, for con-
til at length she fell, having her leg broken by
a bullet, In thin condition they captured her.
carried her considerable distance, to where
there was some timber. tied her to q tree,
ton and her wounds. Their inhuman In
stircts told them that this would be greater
torture than any they could invent.
This is Little Robes" " story and Tho
events occurring Eince 70 to proTe that it is
most likely too troe. A half-breed, who is an
council, coz1oborates the statement, and It
only remains to decide whether the kioways
made An idle boast or have really petpetrated
his hendish Outrage.
Add to this the more recent entry Of the
mail l-station between Fort Dodge and Camp
supply, under the guise Of friendship, where
four men and Sergeant wero stationed, and
the treacherous slaughter Of three of the
party, tho other two only escaping By locking
themselves in room till rescued by the time
y ARRIVAL Of Major Kidd and detachment Of
the Tenth Cavalry, and trust that the senti-
mental friends Of tho "poor Indian" who
have never had other Introduction to their |
IDOLS than that given By Fennimore Cooper OF
Beaa1e, will remember these circumstances in |
:asa any Of their proteges donl happen to be !
'accinated, and DO happen to get hurt betWeen |
Ills and next Christmas.