Omaha daily bee., 1884-12-09
never wore anything on HIS feet but

never wore anything on his feet but
mocca5irs.
Here ism aN,r, ,rouuAi of his if, a,
given by hus.li. - was born, i~.ussg.
s,mow here adou. 1872, which m.aes me
about 90 yrarS ald, tuooyh ] don't look
~. lily btg,nplace vas Springfield, Mo.
When | .ugua3 six the CherJl'ee Tudiqrs
mSdn n laId on our utj.hboyNood. end
carried mo % with them. ] was taken to
taG as 'ryaJiou Of ,hg SIX Nations, and
remained there about eight years. Of
COURSE | learned tho elk lujian dialects.
Shall giyo you a cpecimen2 "Toma
wowa To-" 'Icpy don't" / garpad
to Him. "Nvcll,' continued Seelsy, al
got tired Of Indian life after eight years
were over, aud ran away from the reser.
walton. II was pretty young, but !
knew how to take caro- OF myself. Later
on | joined Fremont expeditions; tho
frNt, in 1912, up the Platte river, and the
othnr that went all tho way from Kanaas
to Fort Suffer, on the Sacramento. I'm
not going to tell you anything about those
expedi tons, because you've only got to
open any history of tho United States to
find out 81 about them. But what you
can't find in history 10 just thil: Here,
just draw your finger tins way, scroas my
head, DO. Now YOU feel that three inch
AGAR running across my akulll This 10
how l got Tint When the Texns reyo.
luton broke out l was the frat TO volun-
tecr, and whcn tho war or Mexico WAS
declared | also volunteered. ! fought
under Zach Taylor until after Bucua
Nieta, thon / was under old Scott. just
40 we were storming the portion Of tho
city of Mexico abnvo Puerto del Key y u
bit Of shell struck me on Sho foot and
iloored me. felt pretty uncomfortable
and ~grosned SO loud that ono of my pRrd1
asked il didn't want 60 DO put out of
my misery. | thought he was going to
give me- his flask. and go | Frightened up.
well, he began fuubliug in his cnrtrid-
ge.box-a curious place for n flask, it
seemed to mo. Then inc hauled out "
solitary cartridge, his last one, but it was
wet and he throw it away. After q
second or two | heard him mutter: "D
--this business" and before l could
give another Rroan | got my skull split
open with tho QUIT of his musket.
That's what he called putting me ous of
my misory, but no only made Il worse,
and told him so after | came out Of the
hospital.
''Did l ever drive = mail2 You bet /
did, and tho first ono that ever ran be-
tween Fort Loayonworth and San Fan
cisco. The indians were tough customers
in those days, ! can tell you, and it's
many a time they went for the coach,
but they never got much out Of 1t while
'Yuba Bill was on the boN-exoept bul.
lets. These they received gratis in un.
limited quantity. They got square on
mo once, however. My homo was on a
ranch six miles from Topeka, and after
each return trip l paid my old woman
and the Children u few hours visit. One
night, Oh nearing the homestead, l heard
heavy firing, and when | reached it l
found my poor children dead and the old
woman standing over their bodies, the
sight of n eye gone aud u smoking
musket In her hands. She had Just aad
n three hours' fight with half q dozen
Indian attle-lifters. The same night |
started in pursuit with some friends,
among whom wa5 Kit Carson, and before
tho sun went up the next morning three
of the tiends were swinging from q tree.
My old woman is still living, minus an
eye. (Faot).
"Atter ak years of mail coaching l
took to hunting, mining and all sorts OF
things. When tho war broke out l
served as scout under Gen, Thomas,
When that war over | got Into Jim Fisk's
employ at 500 u month, board, lodging
and pin money. This old velvet coat I'm
wearing now belonged to jim; see the
name in the collar. lining. IIssAfter Fisk's
death | became q truckman with Fuller's
express, and later on with Garner Il Co.
Mr.. Garner, you remember, was drowned
with his wife and child and o number Of
friends, by the onpsizing of his yacht
Mohawk In New York bay, opposite the
club house at Staten Island.
There, now, you've got it all out of
no."
"Ynba Bills" daughters are very CON-
fortably married, the husband of the
latter holding a very good position on
the Now York Daily Graphic, aud q right
good follow he is.