Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-05-05

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fifth. private Henry REYNOLDS. was ready
for anything desperate. and within
week the two men hsd picked up enough
s,raQplers, tesmsters and half breeds to
make up a band Of ttirty-six men. BY
hanging around the camps Of the cavalry
for = week or SD the outlaws succeeded
in stealing horses enough to mount the
whole party. and the band was we'll pro-
vided with arms and ammunition. There
was no railroad across the Great Plains at
that time, and Burton's object, as soon as
unfolded. was to haunt the overland trail,
and rob friend and foe. The hand was
large enough to have successfully at
tackled anything weaker than a govern
ment train, but before they had struck
blow quarrel arose between Burton and
REYNOLDS. The men took sides, two
were killed, and the soldier rode away at
the head of six Of the party, while the
rest remained with the scout. What be-
came Of this last party no one knows or
cares. but the career Of the band OF seven
was brief and bloody.
They were on the south fork of the
Platte River, near Longs Peak, when at
tackled by = war party Of Indians. Dur
ing the half hours fight four of the men
we're killed and the others captured. Two
were burned at the stake, leaving Rey-
nolds a. the COLI survivor. Heavers that
his life was eaved by his making certain
Masonic signals, which seemed to be
readily understood by the chief of the
war party. The soldier tells straight
story of his life for the next year. There
was little incident or excitement, he being
. prisoner in an Indian village, fairly
treated but closely guarded. He was
very handy at carving pipes, mending
saddles and brides and making mecca
sins, and was kept at such work most of
the time. In 1857 he was sold to another
band for two ponies and pound of pow
der, and during that summer he was
taken into Arizona near the head waters
Of the Rio San Pedro. He was in a
measure content with his situation, being
we'll used and having the same fare as the
Indians; still good opportunity for es-
cape might not have bern neglected. In
the spring of 1868, while yet on the San
Pedro, he fell and broke his right arm.
The Indian doctors had not the skill to
set the broken arm, and the band looked
upon the white man as useless burden,
since he could no longer use his best
hand. Part of the warriors wanted to
cell him for what he would bring, while
Others wanted to hold grand feast and
to torture him. Reynolds could speak
the dialect very well, and having over
heard enough to convince him that he
was to be put out of the way by sale or,
death he determined to escape. Rey-
nolds had no other tie to bind him to
home and civilization than an aged
mother 1T Grand Rapids, and, until his
life was threatened, he had no great anx-
iety to escape from the Indians. He was
leading free, wild life, had sufficient
for ali his wants, and had accustomed
himself TO the habits and customs Of the
red men. AT the time Of the accident he
vas in love with a squaw named Wind
That Whispers, and perhaps might have
been adopted into the tribe and become
. husband and father.
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be scld or tortured the sauaw came 20 !
him ard revealed the plan. and il Was
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