The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-10
TIE BROTHERS. REVENGE.

A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press writes the history of a tragedy on
the plains in the Far West:
Riding out above Julesburg, a rock
was pointed out to me, at the foot of
which had been enacted tragedy, the
mere recital of which made my blood
run cold.
The place was in deep canon, sur
rounded by high bluffs, and there was
Il loneliness and silence ip the frowning
rocks that oppressed every visitor, and
made them glad to hasten their de-
parture from the gloomy dell. Many
years ago two young men came from
the East, and, ascending the Missouri,
engaged in the fur business. They were
bosom friends, and prospered in all
their undertakings; money flowed into
their Golfers, and they became wealthy
still they stayed III the West that had
been SO generous TO them, and finally
determined to make it their permanent
home. One of the young Inen had Il
sister, who lived in st. Louis, where the
partners went annually to sell their furs
and divide the profits of their business
The girl, infatuated by the tales of
adventure told her by her brother,
longed to visit the great West, and
begged so hard that her brother finally
consented. For whole year she lived
at the hunters ranch on the head waters
of the Missouri, and when the time
came for the partners to go down the
river and sell their furs, the brother
was sick and could not go. The girl
was 10th to leave her brother, but he
urged her to go home and see their
mother, saying he would soon be well
and followher. Intrusting his darling
to his friend and partner, the two set
out in Mackinaw boat, well manned
and provided with every comfort. The
brother grew worse, and the summer
wore away before he was able to travel.
In the meantime the partner returned,
bringing him news from home and a
division of the annual profits, which
were larger than ever before. The
brother, pleased with the manner in
which their business had been managed,
readily yielded to the suggestion OF his
partner to delay his visit home, devote
the winter to active operations and go
down III the spring with furs. All went
well until mldwinter, when the brother
received a letter from his home that
nearly crazed him. The letter was from
his mother, and gave long, circum-
stantial account of the ruin and seduc-
tion of his beloved Nina by his partner
The girl had confessed everything, and
told how ne had seduced her while
bringing her home down the Missouri,
and then abandoned her. The poor
girl, unable to bear her shame, had
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mother. The first impulse of the
brother on reading this letter was to
seek out at once and kill the villain who
had ruined his family, but he thought
the momentary suffering inflicted by
ball not enough punishment for such n
scoundrel, and so devised n plan for re-
venge that no Indian could have out
done for cruelty. Keeping the receipt
of his letter a profound secret, he went
on with his business as usual, and every
day met his partner on the same terms
of friendly intimacy as formerly.
When the skins were packed and all
in readiness to go down the river the
brother went to Fort Benton and there
had executed will, leaving the name
of the person who made it blank, after
which he returned to his camp on the
Jefferson Fork.
He then represented that on the
Platte great profits were to be made in
the fur trade, and proposed to his
partner that instead of going down the
Missouri they should go overland to
Fort Kearney and intercept the boats
at the mouth of the Platte, on the Mis-
souri,. The inducement was that if they
found all as represented they would es-
tablish a branch of their business at
Fort Laramie, and thus increase their
profits. The partner readily assented
to proposals so manifestly for the adj
vantage of both, and alone they set out,
taking with them only pack mule to
carry the -four and bacon to be used on
the journey. They travelled for many
days, and finally came to the Platte.
down which they followed the overland
trail to Demands Ranch. Under some
pretense or other the brother induced
his partner to accompany him into the
lonely pass, where, disarming him, he
securely tied him hand and foot, and
then bound him to the rock. At first
the partner thought it was some cruel
Joke, but when the brother produced
the letter, and read it, the poor man
knew too well his time had come. He
confessed all and asked to be shot, but
the brother had another fate in store
for his victim. Coolly encamping by
the rock, he sat down to see his partner
starve to death. On the third day the
ill-fated man signed the deed bequeath-
ing all his property to the injured girl,
and the brother attached a fictitious
name as witness to the instrument, by
the terms of which he was made the
executor of his partners estate. He
then wrote letters saying he had fallen
very i'll OF fever on the plains, and if he
did not recover these letters would be