The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-11-08
me if was going to run away.

so much fun of him that he sneakcd off
and went over to frighten my mother. |
heard her cry "0h - and supposed that
she thought some terrible fate had befallen
me. shouted to her that was not hurt !
that she need not be afraid; that they were
only trying TO scare her. The night was
still, but heard no response. The Indians
looked at each other.
GALLANT PURsUNE.
All hands took drink around my bed I;
then they saddled their horses, and Pur-
sune led my horse to me, and knet down
on his hands and knees for me to mount
my horse from his back. lie always did
this, and when he was absent his wife did
it. saw Pursune do the same gallant act
for his squaw, but it was only once, and
none of the other Indians did It at all.
on THE TRAIL AGAIN.
We urged our horses forward, and jour
neyed in the moonlight through to the
Grand Mountains, with the Indians talk
ing in low tones among themselves. The
little three-year-old May Price, who was
fastened behind me, cried a few times, for
she was cold and had no supper, and her
mother was s-awaySin Jacks camp, but the
child was generally quiet. 1t was after mid
night when we made the second halt in a
deep and sombre canyon, with tremendous
mountains towering on every slider. Mother
was not allowed to come up. Douglass kept
her with him half mile further down the
ravine. Pursune had plenty of blankets,
which were stolen from the agency. lie
snread some for my bed, and rolled up some
for my pillow, and told me to retire.
MooEED BT THE sQUAws.
Then the sqnaws came and laughed, and
grinned and gibbered in their own grim way.
We had reached the camp Douglass had
chosen for the Indian women who had been
sent to the canyon previous TO the massacre.
Jacks camp, where Mrs. Prince was kept,
was five or six miles away in another cam
yon. When had laid down on the blan-
kets two s1uaws, one old and one young,
came to the bed and sang and danced fan
tastically and ioyously at my feet. The
other Indians stood around, and when the
women reached certain part of the recita
tive they all broke into laughter Toward
the end of their song, my captor, Persune,
gave each Of them a newly stolen Govern
ment blanket, which they took, and then
went away. The strangencss and wild nov
city of my position kept me awake until
toward morning, when | fell into doze,
and did not awake until the sun was shin
ing over the mountains. Next day Persune
went to fight the soldiers, and he placed me
in charge Of his wife and her three children.
THE CAPTIvEs BROUGHT TOGETHER.
That same day mother came to see me, in
company with little Indian girl. On We'd
nesday the next day, johnson went over tc
Jacks camp. lie said he had made it all
right with the other Utes. We did not do
anything but be around the varinus camp,
and listen to the talk of the squaws, whose
husbands wese away fighting the soldiers.
On Wednesday and on other days one oI
Supanzisvualrs three squaws put her hand
on my shoulder and said
"Poor little girl, feel SO sorry; you have
no father, and you are away of with the
Utes so far from home"
She cried all the time and said her own
| little child had Just died and her heart was
sore. When Mrs. Price came into camJ
another squaw took her baby, Johnny, into
l. ..
Ute that she felt very sorry for the cap.
Iives.
ANOTHER CANT.
Next day the squaws and the few Indians
who were there packed up and moved the
camp ten or twelve miles into an exceed.
ingly beautiful valley, with high noun.
tains all around it. The grass was two feet
high, and stream of pure soft water ran
through the valley. The water was 50 cold
could hardly drink it. Every night tn,
Indians, some of whom had come back from
the soldiers, had cnunclls. Mr. Brady had
just come up from the Uncompahgre Agency
with a message from Chief Ouray for the
Indians to stop fighting the soldiers. HC
had delivered the message, and this was why
so many came back.
On Sunday most of them were in camp
They saw the had the soldiers hemmed il
a canyon and were merely guarding them
Pursune came back, wearing Il pair of blu,
soldiers pantaluons with yellow stripes OF
the legs. lie took them of and gave then
To me for Il pillnw. HIS legs We're projected
with leggings and he did not need them.
| asked the Indians before Brady cam,
where the soldiers were. They replied tha
they were "still in that cellar" and th,
Indians were killing their ponies when they
went for water IN the night. They said
"lndians stay on mountains and St,
white soldiers; soldiers no see Indian
White soldiers know not how to Il isht
WAR DANCE.
One Of their iavorte amusements was /,
put on a negro soldiers cap, short coat anc
blue pautaluons, and initiate the negroes il
speech and walk. / could not help laugh
ing because they were so accurate in theil
pcrsonalions. On Sunday they made pill,
of sagebrush as large as a washstand ant
put soldiers clothes aud a hat on the pile
then they danced a war dance and sang az
they waltzed around il They were in thel
best clothes, with plumes aud fur dancing
caps, made of skunk skins and grizzly bca
skins, with ornaments of eagle feathers
Two or three began the dance, others joined
until a ring as large as hoUse was formed
There were some squaws and all had knives
They charged ON the Pile Of coats with thei
knives and pretended that they would burr
the brush. They became almost insane witt
frenzy and excitement. The dance LASTED
from two o'clock until sundown. Then they
took the coats and all went home.
AN ALI NIGHT COUNCIL.
On Sunday night Jack came and made &
big speech, also johnson. They said NOR,
troops were coming, aud they recited what
orders they say had been brought from Chic
Ouray. They were in great commotion and
did not know what to do. They talked al
night, and the next morning they struck
half their tents and put them up again
Part were for going away, part for staying
jacks men were all day coming up int
camp. They left ON Tuesday for Crane
River, aud we had a long ride
LONG MARCH Is THE DUST.
The cavalcade was fully two miles long
The wind blew a hurricane, and the dus
was 50 thick we could not see ten feet bach
on the line, and | could write my name ol
my hand in the dust Most Of the lndiau
had had no breakfast, aud we travelled al
day without dinner or water. Mother had
neither saddle nor stirrups, but merely few