Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-07

Al1o ana De0th -JOnn Barr Has n child
ON His Hands.
Correspondence st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Fifteen years ago a young lad ran away
from a pleasant New Haven home and
Joined the army as a drummer boy. After
the war he returned, but his parents wishes
were not his. They wanted to make a "Yale
man" out of him, and his inclination was a
more active life. The boys inclination be-
came his resolution, and in 1867 he
started west. He was never heard from
until The New York Telegram brought into
the New Haven home a message, briefly re-
porting an engagement of 40 citizens at Cow
island, with Joseph's band, last fall, on the
far upper Missouri. zone killed. Edmund
Bradley" was the total list of casualties,
but that list turned a fathers head and filled
a mothers heart with indescribable anguish.
Intuitively they realized the lone dead was
their lost son. After official inquiry,
through military sources, their intuitions
were verified. He had gone out as one of
forty volunteers from Fort Benton to inter-
cept the flying Nez Perces, and was killed
in the skirmish at Cow island. He was the
only man hit. Investigation proved young
Bradley a frontiersman with an Indian wife,
leading an aimless sort of life. He was
above the average man of his class; and
showed his early culture and breeding. He
was very much liked. Major Ilgis, at Ben
ton, reported that Bradley had a Gros Ven
tire wife and little girl. He had once done
him excellent service in quieting the war
like feeling of his wife's people. T. G.
Power, of Benton has since showed his APP
probation Of Bradley by ordering a monu-
ment at his own expense. 1t is now build
ing in St. Paul. 1t bears this simple in.
scription:
IN MEMORY
EDMUND BRADLEY,
Killed in Battle at Cow Island, wiM the Nee
Perces,
SEPTEMBER Is, 1877,
One Of the Forty who Volunteered to Protect
the Frontier.
This monument will be erected in Ben
ton. The remains OF Bradley are now
coming down the river or the steamer Ben
ton, and will be taken by rail from Bismarck
to New Haven. The boat is past due.
A CURIOUS CONSIGNMENT.
A few days ago, or the steamer Helena,
there arrived from Fort Benton a little half.
breed girl, two and a half years old, con-
signed to Capt. j. G. Barr, of the Benton
line. Capt. Barr was puzzled to understand
the reason of the strange consignment, but
a few days later the mother Of the heroic
Bradley and grandmother of the baby In
dian, arrived from New Haven, all alone,
and in quest of the very consignment that
made Barr feel SO queer. She was a fine
looking old lady, and was touchlngly taken
with this singular grand daughter of the
Indian camp. 1t talked to her in
Gros Ventre, but that wa stran-
ger than all tine strange things the
noble old grandma" had yet experienced.
1t played with the other children about the
hotel, and seemed to know what play was.
1t cried like other children, but took to
bareback with far more grace. When
placed in the palace car, 1t expressed no
wild delight, but noticed everything as in
differently as an old stager. On the way
home, however, it found out what peanuts
and oranges were, and grandma" was near
" impoverished. 1t looked as If the young
native could break q national bank with its
appetite. The Gros Ventre mother sold
the child for six sacks of flour to Nj. Pouer,