St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-20
LIVED ON A PONY.
A Dinner to a Famous Frontiers
man and Government Scout.

A Dinner to q Famous Frontiers
man and Government Scout.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
A novel dinner was given at Miildale
yesterday by Fred Kinsfnger, the we'll
known distiller, who enjoys such affairs
with greater zest than any living man.
The guest of the occasion was Law
renee D. Kingston, who enjoys the
strange distinction of having spent the
, most of life Of thirty three years on
the back of an Indian pony.
MFR. Kinsinger officiated as chef of the
meal, which was prepared in true back
WOO dis style, with apparatus that every
experienced Nfmrod carries with him
on an extended hunt.
7 The menu was not very prOfuse in
the variety of dishes, but all that was
presented had about it the charm of a
plain, open-air tin-pan repast.
And as the weil-f0aSted veal and the
] brown-fried catfish disappeared, Kings
ton recited in the unvarniSlied style of
( the scout the details of life as exciting
|. as Monte Cristo's.
Kingston had been on his way to
Washington with lot of trappingS,
when by accident at Chattanooga he
/ lost them. He came to CovingtOn to ar
f range for settlement with the railroad,
and to call upon young lady who had
been engaged to his twin brother, a
scout. who was killed in an engagement
with the Apache chief Geronimo. In
Covington he met Mr.. Kinsinger's en-
gineer, Charles Fulmer, who had been
soldier during the MOdoc war, and had
then known Kingston, and visit to
MiIldale was the result.
KinUStOn iS a native of (QIfqY Ynha
county, Cal. When he and his twin
brother were mere babies, not year
old, their parents were maSSacred by
the M0d0cs, but for some unaccOuntable
reason the infants were saved by the
red devils and carried away with them.
They were raised by their captOrs until
twelve years of age, having become pro-
ficient in all the traits of their adopted
people. A company of United States
soldiers, under Col. Cheatham, raiding
the Indian retreat one day, rescued the
two youths and took them to his camp,
where they were placed in charge OF
Donald Mckay, chief OF the Warm
Spring Indian scouts, to be educated as
such.
Two years later, then being in his
fourteenth year, young Kingston began
what has proved to be very eventfu1
career, being placed on the trail of the
PiuteS in Nevada, who had been on the
warpath for some time. Since then
Kingston has scarcely been out OF the
saddle, and so valuable have been his
services to the government that he has
been in constant demand, both in the
north, south and middle of the Wild
West.
He has repeatedly covered tue famous
| great trails of that country and has
done scouting against all the noted
| tribes and rebellious chiefs. He saw
active service in the Modoc troubles in
| 1883 and was one of the party with
| General Candy when he was assas-
| Slnated. After the capture OF Captain
| Jack he was transferred to General
| Towards command, which was then
engaged in subduing the Pfutes. He
| had a hard struggle with the Chief
Winnemuce. The latter was killed by
young bugler when he appeared to be
| having the best of the scout.
He performed secret service duty
during the Mormon troubles of 1875 and
was with General Tacoma when he was
killed by the White River Utes. In
| 1876, year that will always be famous
| In the history OF the far West for the
terrible Custer massacre, young Kings
ton was sent to that general
with dispatches and was ordered
to report to the latter and
chief of scouts, Bill Campbell. He
reached their camp at O'Clock in the
morning of the fatal day. His descrip-
ton of that awful carnage is truly hOr
rifying. The indians were like locusts
in flight. so numerous, and every hour
after they opened the attack seemed to
swell their numbers. At 1 O'Clock in
| the afternoon Custer, seeing that the
situation was getting hopeless, started
him to Maj. Reno's camp for relief, he
having been expected for some time.
The mission was certainly not a pleas
ant one. surrounded as the brave COM
pany were on all sides with the feIoc1ous
Indians. He managed, however, to get
through the lines, but not until he ear
| ried with him several wounds, one
very severe one on the head. He
reached Maj. Reno. who was seven
miles away, and when he returned two
hours later the terrible slaughter was
over. Not an Indian was in sight, but
they left some narrowing evidences that
they had been there. The dead were
piled everywhere and surrounded by
barricade of bodies, 9th Of savages and
whites, they found the remains of Gus