Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-03-28

line finger over his shoulder to spot at
a little distance. where Blue Jacks horse
stood grazing, saddled for use.
In an instant the chief desperate
darted under the wagons toward the
waiting horse. He reached HIM anu
leaped upon his back.
And in the next moment that despe-
RADIO rose gracefully in his stirrups at the
distance of few rods, and with the
fierce defiant yell of wild Indian, dash
ed his spurs into his horses side, and was
away like the wind ;, 9
The troops gave an answering yen OF
surprise and anger, and the officer III
command led the swift pursuit
/ Blue Jack had the advantage OF good
/ start. and was splendidly mounted, his
horse being a seasoned animal, born and
bred on the plains, and endowed with
/ great life and spirit.
Blue Jack laughed aloud as the strong
/ animal bore him onward as if he had
/ been a feathers weight. He rose again
in his stirrups, and shouted back deli
| antly:
"Come on. Take Blue Jack if you
can :"
The pursuing officer shouted to the
outlaw to surrender, but the only reply
was hooking laugh. The officer then
fired a shot at the fugitive, but the bull
let missed its mark, and Blue Jack,
bending low to his horses neck, and
/ digging the spurs into the animals sides,
swept on and away with the rush Of q
tornado.
And after him swept the pursuers.
The emigrants watched the pursuit
with breathless interest until the fore
most figure upon the powerful Indian
stced hadpassed beyond the line of vision.
During the confusion Burk escaped
also.
At nightfall they halted upon thesOut
bank of the Platte, and were at supper
around their fires when the troops were
seen to approach, weary and dispiritcd-
without their prisoner.
The fellow has escaped us, 81 said the
officer.
You held on to the chase well, Lieu
tenant, said the conductor
Il cant bear to go back to the fort
without him, was the quick reply.
There's excitement all through the fort.
Poor Fallon was nearly murdered, and
was left for dead. He was flung over
into Deep Canyon, and happened tOlOdge
III clump of bushes. There he came
to himself, an hour or more afterWard
and, more dead than alive, he climbed
up to the ground above, and fell down
in a dead faint \ party was immedi-
ateIy organized. and sent in pursuit Of
the outlaw
The next day they encountered the
party Of soldiers who had been sent III
pursuit Of Blue Jack They had found
no trace nf the desperate or his com
panlJn.
No Use looking for Blue Jack, said
the officer III charge Of the party, adj
dressing Landlord. There has been a
party Of Sioux about this quarter for
few days past, and no doubt Blue Jack
has fallen Ill with them. The party Is
hardly large enough to attack your train,
ward DakOtaL. Blue Jack has an In
dian wife somewhere up there.
Upon the second day after leaving
Fort Mcpherson. the emigrants made
their midday halt in a grove of cotton
woods, upon the bank OF the south fork
Of the Platte, at its junction with a wide,
trce-fringcd river which dcCCnded from
the uOrthward, and here they concluded
to settle.
The site of the village was selected CX-
actly ut the junction Of two rivers, upon
"a low bluff overlooking the two streams
Then Il public square was carefully
laid out with mathematical cNactness.
Thcn each mans lot was assigned him
Mark IlcDcrs was next to W Whitman $,
on thu eastern side OF the square, facing
west, and hi, future garden ran back to
thg cd@o OF the low bIuil'
Mark Hcher dId a man WORK. and
from the ilrst day OF TINS har,d ton " Int
man ceased 10 class the No1lh among the
boys,
In the course OF a week: clght strong
Lighthouses, each 4 story III night, ana
pierced with look-holcS, and each pro-
vidcd with single capacious chimney,
were finished amt tront'| the H''l'
Mark Hc.9ers hoosSa was simply ar