Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-02-01

ed. on hearing the details. in the inevitably
exaggerated form in whichal such narratives
must travel, ~ declare the title She has as
stunned seems to fit her-Quecn Of Bedlan,
indeed -
".
The doctor was giving little dinner in
honor of his friend, MIR. Holmes Two days
now had that gentleman been in garrison.
where his advent had created more OF fiut
ter than the coming Of an inspector general.
He had large cattle range further to the
south. beyond the Chugwater and compare
lively removed from the scene of Indian hos
tility and depreciation, but, such had be
come the laXity Of discipline on the part of
tine bureau officials or such was their dread
of their turbulent ch9rges ut the reservations
that, from time to time maraudlng parties of
young warriors had been raidincy from the re-
servations during he month of April crossing
the Platte river and dashing down ON the OUT
skirts of the great cattle herds south of Scott $
bluffs and in the valleys of HOrSehead and
Bear creeks. One party had even dared to
attack the ranches far up the Chugwater
valley at the crossing of the Cheyenne road,
another had ridden all around Fort Laramie
fording the Platte above and below. and
several OF them had made away with dozens
of head of cattle bearing the welI-known
| brand of MIR. Holmes of Chicago. IL was to
see what could be done towards preventing
the recurrence of this sort of thing that
brought Mr. Holmes to Laramie. AT least
he said 50, but there were ladies in the gar
rison who We're quick to determine that
something worth more to him than n few
| hundred head of cattle had prompted him to
take that dangerous ride up from the rail
I III n. 4 l,nt-
worth while" said Mrs. Wells after day
of quiet observation, had Nellie Bayard not
been here. "
Another thing to give color to this theory
was the fact that, yielding to the importm-
titles of Major Miller and his frequent telc-
graphic reports of Indian dashes on the
neghbOring ranches, the division command
or had ordered a troop of cavalry back from
| patrol duty around the reservation and The
| GIaysN had marched in the very night be
| fore a scouting party of an officer and
! twenty troopers rode forth that morning
with orders to look over the ChuSwatcr and
the intervening country around Eagle :
| Nest. If Mr.. Holmes were in hurry to get
! back to business, here was excellent oppor-
| tuuity of driving half the way TO Chey enne
under escort. But Mr.. Holmes, who had
| been somewhat emphatic in his announce
mcnt that he could only stay one day, was
apparently well content with his comiorta-
Die quarters under the doctors roof He
might now stay. he said, for while up III that
part of the country he might just As wei
look over some mines in the Black Hills, pro
vided there We're a chance of getting tMthei
! alive Except for heavily guarded trains
| all communication was at an end between
the scattered settlements of the Hills and the
III. Il A .
railway The Indians swarmed out from the
reservations, attacking everything that ap
peared along the road and sometimes captur
ing the entire ''outtt;' after plunderin}
and scalping their victims they built lively
fires of the wagons and cheerfully roasted
alive such of their prisoners as had the il
luck not to be killed in the first place. Tit