Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-12-25
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RrMAKABLr ADVENTURES .
WOMAN AND HER Bon.

Deep ;nt2rss. Il spken here 20 . in
a;;osc ,,.,ssa.,,s II .M,e Charles jones, u
Washington county, Iowa, VT afr'vei
with her son las, night, and whose
story Of suffering ON tho plain, with
the astonishing revelations regarding
certain lndians oi the Yankton agency,
has lew parallels in frontier history,
Mrs Jones and her son, il is believed,
are tho sole survivors of party oi
twelve rtn,grants who lcit Washington
county last February for the Y,lIow.
stone valley The, reached Font kcar-
ney about March, |, 1873, and when II
Jew dnys cut from there, IN the river
bottom, they were surrounded by
party Of seventy Indians William
Brown, Joshua Brown and Joseph
Hyatt, brother OF Mrs. Jones, constr.
luling the men Of the party, were in
>tantIy shot dead. All the Others were
iaken inio captivity. All but Mrs.
loues and her son disappeared, and, as
he believes, were massacrcd.
She was made slave to the chief
named Yankton, cooking, picking ber-
ries and performing other menial offi-
es. She WAS never allowed TO meet
II talk with her son. Her cloths we're
,aken from her and she WAS allowed
,nly blanket and moccaslns. The camp
xas moved niteu, always northward.
rhe warriors several times left the
party and returned with clothing and
plundcr, evidently taken from murder.
I'd whites. The interpreter who was
with The party, named Chimes, stated
that he was captured from u party OF
rmirranis when he was only eleven
years old, and he is now forty. Hc
adopted heir life, becamca Cathol cand
was educated at Jesuit college. lie
told Mrs jones that the party were chief.
~ Yankions, from theYankton agency,
nut there were q few irom Red Cloud
aud Spotted Tail agencies. They were
nut always during the summer and ro-
turned 10 the agencies in the winter.
Their slaves are kept outside the
lg,ncies in conccalment Other female
white slaves in the party told her,
through the interpreter, that their
friends had been murdered, and as they
had 10 homes they did not desire TO
escape. Young Jones, who is aged 10,
hecnmc iavorite and was kindly treat
cd. AT the expiration Of two months
they reached the neighborhood of n
small village in Northern Nebraska,
where the Indians procured liquor, and
they had became drunk. That night
Mrs, Jones es, apcd, having on only u
ragged blanket and one moccasin. She
Travelled south, being guided in her
coursc by the stars, and subsisting for
many days ON raw artichokcs. After
five or six days she met occasional EN-
lgrant wagons moving northward, and
Mrs. Jones was given a dress. She
begged her way through the State,
reaching her old home in Iowa the last
day OF June.
Heresheprocured small sum of mon
ey. She became alarmed ut the uncer.
tainiy Of her sons tate and retuned TO
Central Nebraska, where she Travelled
from place TO place, watching for emil
grants from the north and living with
farmers. At the expiration OF many
weeks, sick and disheartened, she again
started eastward. One day last Oc-
tober she was walking through Kear-
ney, she met an emaciated lad, whom
she recognized as her son, who had
\ Just come in from long and terrible
Journey. Sheltered by James Car
michael, a farmer, she watched at her
sons bedside during long illness.
When the boy had partially recovered
they both started cart on foot, stop
ping with farmers and making slow
progress on account of their enfceb!cd
condition.