The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-03
CHAPTER XVIII.

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CHAPTER XVIII.
There was party Of ten people from
Helena, Montana, at the Yellowston'
| Falls an Of this time, and on the morn
ing of the 25th they packed up and start
ed for the Yellowstone Lake. When a
Sulphur Mountain they discovered In
dams and riding back to the timber nea
the falls cached themselves.
Their camp was found about midday
by the Indians, who crswled upand firet
. volley At camp which killed one maj
(Kenck) and wounded another namet
stewart. The later fell as ne was kit ant
the others escaped 10 the woods. As thu
Nez Perces came to the camp, Stewar
begged for his life and gave them hi
watch and money, and they let him go.
Two of the party were out on q scout
When coming home they ran into the
Indians and received volley, and one o.
them named Weikert, was slightly
wounded in the shoulder. Finding the
camp deserted and things destroyed, the
two started for the Mammoth Ho,
Springs. After travelling few miles
they overlook Stewart, the wounded
man, snd Stone, the negro cook, who was
assisting him along, and together the
four went down and arrived at the
springs that night. During the night
three more of the party came in. The
other two wandered through the noun.
tains and were four days without food
then came out on the Madison river op-
posite Henry's Lake and there had their
necessities relieved by some of Howard's
packers.
On the morning of the 18th of August,
Mccartney, proprietor Of the buildings
At the springs) and Weikert, went to the
falls to look for the missing men. They
found and buried Kenck, and finding no
signs Of the others, came back. When
on the plateau between Blacktail creek
and Gardiner river, they we're attacked
by about thirty Nez Perces and ran for
dear life. They succeeded in getting in
a.patch of brush, at the head of coulie
that ran from Mount Evarts. When
near the brush Weikert's horse was shot
from under him, but he ran to the shelter
and from it, the two stood the Indians
of, who soon afterward left.
Dietrich, Stoner and Ben Stone had
stayed at the springs to await the return
of Mccartney and Weikert. The same
Indians that attacked these, had in the
morning came down Reese creek and
finding Henderson's house (where the
branch road now ends) deserted, pillaged
and burnt it; then on to the Mommoth
Hot Springs When they first came in
Sight Stoner and Stone fled to the timber
up the gulch. Dietrich, thinking them
to be scouts stayed, and was shot dead.
Ben Stone told pretty and amusing
story of being chased by an Indian and
that being hard pressed, he climbed tree,
under which the Nee Perce came and
stood peering around, and at last went
on without discovering the scared negro.
But the story is considered apocryphal
by those who were near by and knew
the circumstances.
Gen. Sturgis, with the 7th Cavalry had
come up the Yellowstone and Oarke's
Fork and ON the 10Th of August arrived
at Heart mountain. He Immediately
sent three couriers to Howard, with the
information of his whereabouts. The
couriers 1.-TWO white men named Lenard
and Cough and an Indian boy) did not
know where to find Howard, and when
the came to the Yellowstone at Baronett's
bridge, on the LIST of September, went
down it. As they were passing around
the head of the Little Blacktail creek,
they were saluted by volley from con-
cealed Indians, who had seen them COM
ing and hid. The Indian boy fell, and
Cough, who was hit in the neck, ran
with Lenard to point Of rocks near the
trail; but out of sight of the boy. After
q few shots had been exchanged the In
dams went on. Nightsoon came and the
two scouts went on afoot without looking
for the boy.
About noon of the next day Jack Bar
onett and John Works, who were scout
ing with Lieut. Doane came to where the
fight had occurred, and finding trail of
blood leading toward the Little Blacktail
followed it. The Indian boy had recov-
cred consciousness and scrawled a half
mile. Near the creek the trail was lost
and his body was never found.
A man named Shively was captured
by the Nez Perces in the gevser basin.
The Indians found that he had little
knowledge of the country across the
Yellowstone and took him with them as
guide; for not one of the Nex Perces had
been on the upper Yellowstone.
Shiyely, through intention or igno-
rance, led them the worst possible way;
they nearly doubled on their trail and
for two days were marching through
fallen timber. At last they. came to and
crossed the east fork of the Yellowstone
and going up each creek crossed the
high mountain that divides the east fork
waters from those of Clarke's Fork and
down its slopes to the latter stream. =.
When camped on the mountain the
guide escaped and went down the Yel-
lowstOne.
On Crandall creek "a tributary Of
Clarke's Fork were four Germans, who
had, but few days before, left the
Carke's Fork mines on a prospecting
trip. They were surprised by the ad-
vance of the Nez Perces and three Of
them were killed in camp; the other es.
cal ed to the timber and was found the
next day by Howard's scouts, nearly