The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-26

Thirteen years passed with no tidings OF the
little girls tate, and the parents many times
gave her up as dead: but the story came 10
the ears of the department at Washington
and search was ordered. 1t may here De
remarked that when indians steal white
child the captive is carefully concealed, AID
though sometimes almost III sight OF clvlllza-
ton the prisoner is carefully guarded and
concealed on the approach Of pale face.
Gen. Phil Sheridan took the matter IN
charge, believing that the child still llved,
and after the expenditure OF thousands OF
government dollars, news was received
the girls whereabouts, and she was rescued
on August z, 1884. The chief scout and
guide was Dosh Kensington, and, naturally
enough, for the fit ending OF the romance,
he was smitten with the charms of the
pretty young miss, and married her.
The lady's story of her life among the In
dianS is even more dramatic than her capt
ure. She tells of their marauding expedl-
tiOns and graphically describes the fortunes
of the faggot and stake and the tomahawk.
just like the story in the dime novels,
big brave fell in love with her when she
was thirte, n aud coolly announced himself
as her future husband. She refused the
proffered but doubtful honor, and then
process of coercion was tried. 1t was, to
say the least, annoying at first, but 1t grad
ually increased to such littfe persuasive
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bearing no less than sixtesnwounds on her
person. r. She still remained obdurate, and
from then on to her rescueishe was treated
as kindly as possible, but always kept under
the strictest surveillance When she had
been rescued, the young lady was taken to
her former home only TO find that her step
father had been killed by Mexicans on the
Rio Grande. Since then she has Travelled at
ease, being ward of the government and
well provided for
Her husband, Dosh Kensington, was born
in Colfax, Col, and his parents were killed
while he was an infant by the Modoc In-
dians. The child was taken prisoner and
passsd his life in captivity until he was 10
years old, when he was rescued by Col.
Cheatham and placed in the government
school at San Francisco, where he remained
four years. For sixteen years he was in
the employ of the government, and was
with Gen Custer just previous to the battle
with Sitting Bull, but he was sent to
Reno with orders just before the massacre,
and thus escaped death. He started with
Gen. Grant on his memorable tour around
the world. but was recalled from Lon
don. He was with White Cloud, Big Bear
and Golden Eagle of the Umatilla tribe,
when arranging for the transfer of their
reservation to the government. Afterward
he was detailed to look up moonshiners in
the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee,
and since then, at various times, has been
detailed on government business.
Mrs. Kensington is quite pretty and very
healthy looking. She has not as much educa-
ton as is the lot of young ladies of the
day, but she evinces an intelligence on cur
rent topics that amounts almost to intutive
knowledge. On every point she talks freely
except the one relating to her allowance
from the government, which she refused to
divulge, and this leaves an impression that
Uncle Sam has perhaps been rather more
generous with her than with other wards.
AS an illustration of her untutored ma
ture, when the reporter presented his card
she scanned it attentively and naively asked,
"What is this for, aud it required the ex-
PLANTATION of the other ladies present to let
her know of its use.