Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-03-27

ufft ANNN AtA 1870
passed beyond their line Of vision.
During the confusion Burke escaped al
20.
AZ nirhtfall thsy encamped on the south
bank Of the Platte, and we're Al supper
when the troops wcre seen 70 sTproaeh,
weary and dispiriied, without their prison
ter.
The fellow has escaped u, said the OH
Ger.
You held on to the chase well, Lieuten-
ant said the conductor.
Il can't bear TO 20 back to the fort with
out him, was the quick reply. There's Ak
eitement al through the fort. Poor fullOn
ras nearly murdered, and was left fer
dead. He was flung over into Deep Canyon
and happened TO lodge in a csump OF bush
es. There he came to himself, an hour or
more aftorWard. aud more dead than alive
be climbed up to the ground above, and
fell down in a dead faint. A parry waf at
once organized aud sent in pursuit Of the
outlaw
The next day they encountered the par
ty Of soldiers that had been sent out in
pursuit of Blue Jack. They had found no
trace of the outlaw or his companion.
No use looking for Blue Juck' said the
officer in charge of the party, addressing
Landlord, There has been a party Of ST.
oux about this quarter for a few days past,
aud no doubt Blue Jack has fallen in with
them. The party is hardly large enough
to attack your train, and | understand
they have gone up toward Dakotah. Blue
Jack has an Indian wife up there some
where up there.
Upon the second day after leaving Fort
Mcpherson, the emigrants made their
mid day halt on the bank of the south fork
Of the Platte. at its junction with wide,
tree.fringed river that descended from the
northward, and here they concluded to
settle.
The site of the village was selected exact
ly at the junction of the two rivers, upon
low bluff overlooking the two streams,
Then a public square was laid out with
mathematical precision.
Then each mans lot was assigned &c him
Mark llcber's was next to Whitman's
on the eastern side of the square, facing
west, and his future garden ran down to
the edge ofthe bluff
Mark Heber did a mans work, aud from
the first day of this hard toll, Whitman
ceased to class the youth among the boys.
In the course of week, eight strong log
houses, each a story in height, and pierced
with loopholes. and each provided with
single capacios chimney, we're finished and
frouted the little naked square.
Mark Heber's house was SIMPLY arrrnged
built upon the plan generally adopted by
the settlers. There wers but two rooms,
one being entered through the other. The
inner room was to be Gay $. The outer
room was to be parlor. diningroom kitch-
en-, and Marks bedroom.
Tho house is your province, Gay" said
the youth, upon the morning after the
house was finished, ii shall leave you a.
lone to surnish it and transform it into a
hcme while work on the stockade. Ii you
need my help when the stockode and the
bock.house are finished, will transform
myself into house carpenter"
81 shan't nchd you, sir, said Gay sauci.
ly. "Y gu attend to the farm aud leave the
house to me-"
The shelter provided, the eight houses
were left hntirely to the women, the men
working on the stockade, which was con-
structed upou strict military principles and
was model Of worth and excellence.
1t required two week and the labor of
sixteen men to complete this work.
Whitman and his family had heen living
in their house for week. All the fami.
lies had moved into their homes save the
Hebers, but Gay with pretty tyranny
bad not allowed Mark to cross tho thresh-
old of his house since he ad finished it.
Now when Mark had unyoked his oxen,
turning them loose in his own yard, and
drew his wagon under great cottonwood
in his back garden, Gay called to him
with bright smile, saying that he might
enter the house with her
He came pleased and smiling, but paus-
ed upon the threshold in mute amaze
ment.
Wrs this the room with four rough log
walls which he had given into her hands?
Was this sunny home Lighthouse on the
plains?
1t seemed increnible.
For little clever-wited Gay. with her
delicate skilful fingers, had fashioned
lovely home out of her barren materials,
such an one as would delight the eye to
rest upon. and her sole helps had been
two kindly boys of fifteen years, who had
worked under her directions.
It's the prettiest room ever saw,
cried Mark, with enthusiasm There
isn't house in town like it. Won't the
people open their eyes? It's inst love-
ly? cried Mark delightedly. You are
regular home fairy, Gay You were
mean, for the frontier, and you are the
fairest flower on all the plains My pre-
cious little sisterr
He drew her to him and kissed her
tenderly- But Gay, most unaccountably,
from him blushing ike a rose,
III call Whitman in to see the house,
exclaimed Mark, not noticing Gays con-
fusion. I'VE shall sot up for the aristo-
Gratis of the town.
He dashed out in boyish exuberance
and called in the entire population Of the
village.
They all came in, and there was
general request tina, Gay should christien