The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-01
The -Anti-Mo7lopoliSt.

Fifteen or twenty rods ahead were
three dead ponies lying Close toget'ier.
The band of redskins had made charge
upon the lone man ut this point, ana
be had met them bravely. The snow
told everything. Standingin his tracks
and not lifting foot except TO turn |
around, he had whipped the whole |
gang! There were three dead ponies |
within a hundred feet Of the white |
mans position, and again the snow
was crimsoned with two great patch
es of blood where the warriors had |
| fallen.
Great God! but how lie lit i
| whispered the old hunter, as he saw
| how the snow had been trampied
down. but they wounded him
here"
| So they had. He had retreated slow
| lv. seeming to have no fear, and along
| lis tail was O track Of blood. The
first hills were mile away, and
straight for the hills ran the bloody
path through the snow. There were
no sounds of confict-no red demons
in sight. Which for who had met
early in the morning.and the tragedy
had been played before the sun was
two hours old. Again. between the
three dead ponies and the first hill the
white man had been charged by the
full baud. They had circled around
him and then charged at common
center. One lone man, armed with
! carbine and an AK, was that center.
Thirty, forty. perhaps fifty TO one, ana
vet he had not weakened in the least.
. On the right was dead pony, on the
left two crimson spots III the snow.
| Ahead toward the hill a horse had
fallen and struggled up, and halt a
dozen trails Of blood could be counted
The Indians had given way, and at z
: slow pace the white man had resumed
his journey.
. "You will see sight to make your
] flesh crawl, over in the hills wins
pered the hunter, land the party slowly
I advanced.
E The lone man had not hurried his
: pace. The yelling. bowling whooping
I. redskins galloping around him, hrlne
: upon him and sure of his scalp, hao
e not shaken his nerve. Over the hill
: across q little valley, up ravine, ane
q there was the end. The white mar
L could 90 no further and there he stood
II at bay.
T MAY the Lord have mercy on him,
G rasDed a miner, as the little hant
g looked over the field Of battle. Their
l. were dead and wounded ponies; Their
" were blood patches on the snow, an'
p four Indians stark and stiff, were iyins
to one side. the survivors not having
&c horses enough to carry OFT all thei
dead.
Il At the head OF the ravine the snow
p had scarcely color except red. tn
t, redskins had charged in body, an
1t dropping his carbine when the las
n cartridge was gone, the lone man ha
p used his axe with awful effect. me
had shot him and struck him wit
10 their tomahawks, and when life wen
e. out he had more wounds than coul
m be counted. There he lay, the ak
ID still clatched with giant grip, 81
II. eyes wide open, his body covered wit
1t wounds, and before him was q recor
al to prove more terrible fight tina
Clusters. He had fought fifty me
ne single. handed. lie had driven thel
ng back again and again, and doze
ne lives had been taken for his ONT
(Which for who" he had said, an
ng s.who'' bad won, but it WAS not vi
5 tory for the red men TO boast owe
ed When they rode out Of the vale
nj every horse had double burden
III living and dead, and yet some had
ID be lett behind.
The party could not dig mp the fro
ed en- ground TO give the brave man ou
tly ial. Fifty miles away the ganl
!: wolves were tearing at the bodies
-er wife and children. As the par
turned away from the horrible sigh
'ed gaunt wolves crept down TO strip the
re bones also. They rushed from corp
DC; to corpse, crashing their yellow fang
EN- and before the sun went down anoth
record Of the plains and hills we
nd hidden from sight IF the traveller.
Ids --s~ -
~ I'm the hhpaisr's Harem.
he The following extract from prlva
,he letter published in the London Tim
,ht describes the state reception OF I
ms harem of the khedive Of Egypt on t
occasion of the recent kurbans baiTa
are the great Mohammedan feasts OF t
to- year.
he This morning we went with
ron friend to the harem reception at a
. a deem palace--a modern, square-bu
building. with large central court.
,ec- front Of it the soldiers were drawn
lid in line, and in the court were bla
or regimen $, beside other soldiers, a
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