The daily gazette., 1879-05-22
DEEDS OF HEROISM.
Jimmy'H Last Ride--WamlbO and
His Gold Three Devoted Mothers


James Trant, or, as he was better
na stage driver. Many years ago he
took the reins on the route betwe
Butte and Deer Lodge and served the
public faithfully. Jimmys horses loved
his affectlonate pat aud stroke about as
much as tley di,lt heir oats. He rarely
used the whip, carrying 1t, indeed, for
the purpose of playing tunes with the
lash in the sharp mountain air. On the
morning Of the 9th instant Jmmy's four
horses jolted on off Butte with coach
load of men, women and children. "A
passenger sat with him on the box. The
stage swept along the road At a good gait
and soon the frst relay, Girard's, was
reached. There the horses were chang
ed. Jimmy remarked that the new
horses were not his old friends, but
strangers to him. He directed the
stableman to arrange the harness
carefully, AZ the team was evidently
| spirited. When all was ready mischiev-
Gus boy called ont, "Now you go, jim
my" at the same time slapping one of
the leaders with his hand. The leader
reared and shot headlOng away. The
four horses sprung Immediately into
dead run. Jimmy threw his every mus
Gle into the lines. He called out, STEADY,
down there % for the benefit of the pas
sengers, gritted his teeth and bent to his
task The horses dashed on at the top
OF their speed They were crossing
level plain and making dead for mar
row gully, down which the road ran be-
fore it crossed an insecure, unwalled
bridge. Jimmy fixed hi, eyes on farm
house in tue distauce and on his route.
He knew that If he could rein his horses
through several piles of soft gra-s shocks
near the house he could save the passen-
gers. He told the men to he ready to
jump rs they ran through the giass.
Take the babies," said he, and as the
coach swerved under his powerful arm
and ran in among the shocks the passen-
gers leaped or rolled out, some bruised,
but none badly hurt. A few minutes later
Jimmy's body was picked up under the
bridge from which the coach had been
thrown to the rocks below. The poor
fellows legs and arms were broken. The
Montana Miner says that he uttered one
sentence: "Girard this is Jimmy's last
ride, but he did his duty" He died in an
hour.
This is not exactly heroism, but it
smacks of a certain nobility whence
sprilgs the heroic act Chief Moses and
a delegation of Iudian chiefs from Ore
gon and Washington Territory recently
visited Washington Territory to expIa' n
abovt certain lands that they wanted. On
their way hither these Indians Assem- bled
at Fort Vancouver, when it wa, found
that they had not the IN ans to come
East Moses said that the Great Father
would pay the expenses, and the trip
needn't cost the braves bead. In fact
they had been ordered by the Great
Father to go. Then up rose How'll h
Wampo, big Chief of the Cayuses. He
] held aloft a much-worn vaise, from
which came the sound of chlnking gold.
"Ugh p remarked Howlish w ampo, ,"me
pay for all; the Great Father know then
that his children come not for the ride
and for gifts, but as men; me pay for all
wagh p And HowIish Wamno, whose
thousand Cayuse ponies Craze ON as
many hills, shrugged his shoulders and
threw down handful OF $50 gold pieces
Ellen R0ony, a woman 80 years of age
was fouEd in the streets Of Boston few
days ago with five small children cling
ing to her skirts. The ages of the child
rem were 2, a, 6, 7 and u years respec-
lively. Mrs. Mooney lived in Kingston
Mass, until recently, when her husband
deserted her. She made up her mind to
go to her fathers house in Boston. She
was without penny. About a week
ago she started for Boston and walked
ali the way. She carriei two of the
children in her arms, the others running
by her side. She received but little food
along tho way, out with a mOtherS
devotion clung to her children and first
attended to their wants.
According to the Toronto Globe of last
week, a half breed woman, accompanied
only by her little boy, by her little boy
walked all the way from Gu Appelle tO
Winner eg-350 nil 80 try and reclaim
two daughters who had fallen INTO evi
courses in Winnipeg. AT the united
, persuasions OF their mother, Father La
combe and the police, the girls consent
, ed to return. A tribution was takeI
up by Policeman Lawler, and the re
united family made the recipients oi
i meat, -four and other provisions for the
, trip westward, aud a start was made fol
. home, the mother proud and happy thai
!, her mission had not been in vain and
|. forgetting all her cares and troubles il
the rest sioration of her long lost child
, rem.
, Emma, a promising young Indiar
girl, became violently i'll at the schoo
,, in Red Lake, Minn., on April %. A
runner was sent to tell her mother, who
! was making sugar, thirty miles away
|, The runner reached her at sundown ant
the woman at once started on her lionel,
march to the agency, through forests o
pine, through swamps and over deep
Il unbridged rivers. The night was dark
but, now fighting her way through thic
: woods and now swimming the watei
courses, she reached the agency at day
I light. Emma had died during the night