The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-03-23

The Federal soldiers In pursuit Of the In.
dlaps. Encouraged by this faint hope and
fortified by strong will not 10 die, lac and his
dog continued their Journey for SIX day 10 aud
nights. Several times he saw Indians, and
his dog came very near betraylng him. He
would at such times hold his hand over
lhe dogs mouth to prevent his barking:
When too faint to go further, he would
make ~ fire, take rock and
can on The fire and make his coffee;
He travelled all night the sixth night, and
ut daylight lay down under u large tree,
thinking II help did not come, and that
soon, he must give up. He had, IL was
afterwards found, covered with his
bleeding body distance of twelve miles.
He began to realize
now HELPLESS HENwAs,
and the sight OF an Indian IA friendly one)
would have been refreshing. while here
sleeping with the canopy OF hel avdl as his
only covering, the advance gualrd n How
ards army came upon him! Je
thought dead. Upon finding There was iSe
the surgeon, DR.. Hall, was GALLO ID and was
bending over the wounded mah when he
awoke. General Howard ridiht up in
CURED why they delayed, and, khen told
he said 1--WE cannot delay hi .e or fool
away any of our time with ctizensE,' Cowan
had told his story to DR.. Hal. and n
sympathy being aroused, it was DECIDED IN
make provision to. send him back to Boze-
man. He was PLACED in a wagon VITA
a government blanket for a bed,
and started on his long journey. He had
only been out two days when INF passing
through one of the canyons so coIhmon in
that country, the wheels ofhis wagon
SLIPPED FROM THE PREcrfIoB y
and threw him upon the ground. One of
the horses was jerked over a high embank-
ment and killed. After some delay another
was gotten, and the journey continued
the party reaching BozemaI the seventh
day. Mrs Cowan. was si3t miles from
of Cowan's fate. A messerff was at once
sent, and she came on the Iiext coach. 1t
was sad and yet joyous sight to see the
reunion. For days and weeks both had
lived in utter oblivion of what had been
the others fate.
A little incident occurred while they
were probing the wounds of our young
hero at the hotel in Bohemian, that illus
trates the GOODNESS and
FoRTITUDE OF gHE NAN.
The bed gave way and he was thrown to
the floor. He looked up and said: doc
tor almost everything iaEbeen tried; now,
if you think can't Nj killed any other
way send to the fort 1f2 get a cannon"
Under skillful treaYhht the hardy young
lawyer was SOOl Ou ulo lSCbs anu
to his home at r. and entered upon the
practice of his profession.
Miss Ida Carpenter, when we last heard,
was a charming voting lady and had many
admirers. Mr.. Frank Carpenter left
Montana and visited his fathers old home
in Wisconsin, wlerl he was induced to
publish an account Of their capture and
MARyELQUs ESCAPE.
This was done, and, while it was full of in |
terest, he did not calm for it any merit as !
literary production. Frank undertook |
the sale of his book himself, but did not |
succeed very well In, 1878 he made
trip to Texas, ahditwas here the writer re-
newed their fomer acquaintance and
heard from bwn lips the account of
their adventuI TO- IS here given, and while l
am writing fin ID memory, the facts herein
related are stantially true, and the
parties who's nhes are herein mentioned
are now livi and are real characters.
Before clio &, will mention
LITTLE INCIDENT
that Frank ated to me, that occurred to
him in the dian Territory, while on his
way to Te He had heard that some OF
the India aptured at the termination of
the Nez les war were kept at fort In
the terri He wanted to see them, to
see if he bid recognize any of his captors,
and, VIII talking to buck, he saw big
camp-k in his belt that had something
familia bout it. He reached forth his
hand, it from the Indians belt, and
found his, and proved it by pointing s
to his cut on it. 1t had been taken
from while he was prisoner II