The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-24
A FIGHT FOR A CHILD.

Nod mountain IS airily situated in the
stish POSSESSIONS, about IL miL=s north a
ss..uri river, ami r'ss,hsSt by am lnlian
N from WOif Point, Montana Why it
Is re.,ch.,i originally by anyis.iy Is ques-
M tlle di~,us,i.A II whsh wouli projet q
Ma into e!sli,,s Inquiry, but s.aii.'t-.ly got
Pr a,ll the result WAS the establishment of
lort. ,rasli ossi by a magtifs~nt army OF
Rem mounted loliceulen, over whom Maj
kule, Walsh, If much deserved fam, pr
Is with dignity and results.
~ frequently do around p.st whersn peo-
are not GA particularly harsh wsrhka
rms with any other Isopt-, hut one ill
Arred LAY a rel party by the name u Sit
h Bull follri his way mto the territory
M s.,m.. 3,1S eompanians, ami climbing
strril. SHE II Wod mountain, lo'at.,i
nis-lf ami his dissoluts aSs.riat.s at point
out eighteen mitfs from tn. past.
II is MT diitisult 10 arrive at the reasons
ut induced this Sitting Bull 10 60 there, ~
PAGES II frontier history suggest the in
renee that he experienced mtnh trouble
Aerever else he went. Anyway he settled
Awn on the sile II the mountain, AMI in u
NJ DAYS the barren buttss AMI co,,hss fairly
nnsl with the buffalo skin hodges of him
n ami his trils This man Sitting hull was
measure circumsril.sl. On the top If
2 mountain were the forces ii Maj Walsh
aall numerically, hut weighing tons Of in
y. AMI prepared to make him behave
nS,lf with some reslsS't 10 the preju,iies
reope around him On the south IA multi
Vie If United States truolS were making
tniiyious arrangements % thump him Ills
trouly should he APPEAR within their lail
kck TN the east AMI west alone We're k'tis
" the display Of his prowt~s, AMI taxing al
nntage Of pressing opportunities, he swasl,l
round among the buffalo with eminent sat
factory effect, AMI his sluaws f.sl well AMI
" babies slept snund
/ As a MATER Of coure man u business
bust have Q market for his wares, AMI Sit
,ng Bull who, having ac'luir'si some prop
|rty, should now be r~'ogniz,si as Mr. Bull,
bunl large quantity II rolss AMI skins IN
n, hands. He could eat the meat, hut tho
\nles and furs We're worthless "a him save IN
he way OF trade He dared not not sssk
hart at Poplar River or Wolf Point, lst h.
b. knocked On the head by an Indignant
military, and ~ there WAS no other
batlt h. was in what might w. cautiously
)rrmel hole. At this juncture up
sre Edwin Allen, formerly an officer in the
bolice, but who hal resigned his commission
Fore-Ssing literal trade with this Mr. Bull,
b. straightway started u store, stuksl II with
Aa,l tack, sugar, tolacco, blankets anil
brinkets, AMI entsrrd upon barter with thu
Isi-skins Fos bong time h. dill famously,
Exporting valuable furs tn Che American
bile, the prWsssis Of which enriched him
n,axingly. Finding themselves honestly
lealt with, circumstance which pro,hl~l
Ihem with much entertainment for original
nv, the savages latronizsi him literally, AMI
Mr. Allen found himself ain,ssing rapidly
amL growing up with the country at an tx.
hilarating pace Fortune leam'sl I'm him
with lnth eyes, AMI the happy redskins, who
Donged to clean him out, d''sisteh out 81 re-
bpect for the gcnteel manner in which h. a.
romplished the square thing. At length it
occurred 10 Mr. Allen that he ought To get
bmarrissi. Years before he hal left u yellow
hair,si bright eyed girl in Montreal, AMI now
that he hal put himself In II position to ms.
Dulnc a responsibility with that color 81 hair
mil class VI optic, h. made up his speculative
mind to take her unto himself AMI, leaving
the store with a young man whom the In.
rlians aiYectionately termed 1.-TWO Bellies"
presumably from tho phenomenal area of his
only one, Mr.. Allen started ON his 5000 mile
Journey In ssarch II tho Montreal laly. H.
,li,l not conceal mach from her Frankly
H. told her that the best bloHl In
Wool mcuntain socisty (outsiIc the post
was rel instsad Of blue, and she dutifully
put her han,i in his AMI sang the German
songs he loved to hear, with chorus lol,l and
cleur-Iarhaps that isn't quite 81, Anyway,
I've forgotten the rest Of 1t. Nevertheless sha
agreed 10 go with him. AMI 50 they werc mar
rie,l "Not much of a prospect for bride"
the average city woman may say Perhaps
not, more especially IL you stop to consider
that she MAS the only white woman tor woukl
le when she got there within 100 or 'aO miles
of the mountain, for ut that time old man
Bird was the agent at Poplar River and he
hal no wife, 50 the nearest was at Fort Blu
ford, away down east at the mouth If the
Yellowstone.
After three weeks Of pretty rough getting
aroilnd she found herself comfortably located
in the little log house on the top Of the noun
tain, with squaw for a maid, and fine
view Of the country. One can Se a hong dis
lance in that neighorhool The air Is ~
cl,ar as the average city wolnan's complexion,
an Pinto Hore butte, eighty five miles from
the mountain. looms up like an oyster
in church stew It's fine place
to live, II one can stand IT, A
healthy, clear, bracing atmosphere; days that
commence at ? a. m and last till 10 at night;
billiards that howl in the winter like thirsty
dor, and mosquitoes all summer averaging
tO,DU 10 the square inch. Maybe I'm mis-
taken about that. PerpbaIs the pressure II
only 5000 Anyway, they're thick, and,
moreover, they bite In spitr Of all this, she
got there. The troops were glad to sc her,
AMI the Indians disguised their surprise and
welcomed her with characteristic row in her
honor 1.-TWO Bellies" had q good account Of
til state Of trade b. offer, AMI Mr. Edwin
Allen was conspicuously happy. The world
for him was a. bright As n new skillet, and he
hIl only u push onward and upward, sing
ils tra-la-la to get somewhere before oil agc
an all cut him down in the legs AMI leave
h.sl burst on the sands Of time, which some
worn ami weary brother sSing, would take
hart again.
Antelope and buffalo furnished their table
and they hal water from two springs, one
enormously supposed to possess great medical
prDterti,s, and the other mile and half
off There was neat little bedroom a neat
li,tI4 ,linng.rvoill, a neat little kitchen and
l.. at little loop-holes all AROUND the sides Of