Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-08-13
AN UP.c0UNTRY COMBAT.

Cow Boys and Horse Thieves Indulge in u
Lively Fight.
Bismarck Tribune, 10th.
Capt. j. O. Barr, who came down with
the Benton, Friday evening, reports a
lively skirmish between COW boys and
horse thieves near Pauchet Point on the
west bank of the Missouri. On Sunday,
July Goth, Granville Stewart and his COW
boys, numbering fifteen, came upon
gang of horse thieves in pursuit of whom
they had been for several days. The
COW boys found the horse thieves forti.
fed at Bates wood yard, near Pouchet
Point, and by careful maneuvering sue.
ceeded in getting into the brush between
the two scouts, whom the thieves had
placed on watch during the night, and
the shack. Atdaybreak the horse thieves
discovered that they were surrounded,
but we're confident that they could hold
their own, and one of them cried out
that he'd like to see the color
of the mans hair who could
catch them. The fun" then com.
menced, and lasted about two hours and
thirty minutes. It was not known how
many of the thieves we're killed, but it
is supposed that six of them we're shot
The COW boys made it 30 warm for them
that all who were not killed escaped and
took to their boats, getting down the
river as rapidly as possible. The COW
boys then left the battle ground leaving
two of their number to watch the shack
and all movements about it. When
they found that it had been deserted
they set fire to it and burned the wood
pile as we'll. They then went back up
river to place called Long Point and
burned shacks and wood piles there, con.
tinuing in their upward course until
they reached the James wood yard
which they also burned. The two scouts
which the thieves had placed on pickle,
duty found that they could
aei fghting ee' oommenced, IN ".sef so the, ae,
remained outside and watched the fight
They rode up towards Rocky Point, bu
were 80 closely pursued that they aban-
doned their horses and footed it back tt
Williams wood yard, where they tolt
the story OF the fight and started in
, boat down the river. The night the,
left in the boat it was very stormy, bu
they said they would travel by night un
til they got out of the cauntry A
J Poplar river two men were captured il
one boat and three in another. One O
these three half breeds was wounded il
the arm. They were taken to the post o
Poplar river, and the commanding Office
, telegraphed to the various civil authori
3 ties giving q description of the thleve
captured. He received an answer fror
authorities up river to the effec
1 that they would be down after the prit
oners as they answered the description
Of noted horse thieves who had moleste
t that neighborhood for some time. Thos
I of the gang who escaped are suppose
to be about Deer Tail, six miles aboy
: the post, and one Of the three at Popla
9 river is thought to be "Dutchy" the M
8 torious horse thief who murdered b
4 partner. There were three of the gan
in jungle on the banks of the rive
l. having tied their boats out in the strean
Joe Culbertson, half-breed scout, swal
out and cut the boat loose, but the me
Q could not be captured as the jungle We
impenetrable to their pursuers.