The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-12-27

entire tribe was in state of excite.
ment and terror. | heard of his
doings occasionally through half
breeds and trappers. He came and
went like shadow. Sometimes he
left trail, but if it was followed
one or more of his pursuers would
be killed. He killed old and young
and knew no mercy. Parties were
made up to hunt him down, but
they could not find him. AS soon
as he got the reputation of being a
white spirit" his work was easier,
as there was no ardor in the pursuit
of him. The Cheyennes felt them
selves accursed and two or three
different medicine men who tried to
charm the spirit and failed were
banlshed or put to death.
The greatest slaughter Sanderson
ever inflicted at one time was on
the band of a sub-chief called Swift
Horse. This was in July, 1864. A
camp of about sixty lodges was
driven out of a valley in the Lar
annie mountains by a cloudburst.
Everybody and everything had to
run before the coming food for
about mile, when people and po-
MES DETECTED to the left and found
safety in gorge. The walls of this
were almost perpendicular, ,and their
crests covered with shrubbery.
While penned in here Saunderson
opened fire on them from above,
and also rolled great rocks upon
their heads. Many of the Indians
were unarmed, and those who had
their rifles could not use them
against him. They reported that
he killed twelve people and injured
many others. Iafterward met with
Cheyenne whose left shoulder was
badly Topped" and he told me
that it was crushed by one of the
stones flung into the gorge that day.
Saunderson had now become
such terror that the tribe, instead
of splitting up into five or six bands,
consolidated for mutual protection,
and large number of young men
were always scouting and on guard.
If war party left the village it was
dogged and harassed, or the avenger
took advantage to attack the village.
One night in the spring of 1865,
while war party Of sixty-four
Cheyennes was encamped on the
North Fork of the Platte, in Ne
braska, Saunderson got among their
horses during furious snow squall
and killed twenty-eight of them
with his knife. One of the guards,
was called Bear on a Hill," whom
| saw at Fort Laramie during a
truce, ran upon the white man as
he was doing his work, and was
killed and scalped. The war party
at once returned home.
On July Is, 1865, Saunderson ap-
peared at the fort for the last time.
He had an Indian pony, and brought
in five Indian rifles and fourteen
scalps. He had at this time up
ward of 100 scalps, and had killed,
Is he told me, at least 14O Indians
md sixty or seventy ponies. He
vas in the best OF health, but wanted
! new suit of buckskin and sup
ply Of ammunition. He had no
dea of abandoning his quest for
'evenge, but, on the contrary, was
more determined than ever. He
'emained with US eight days, and
hen left the fort one midnight, say
ng he should probably come in
gain about the 1st of November.
lie was not seen or heard of again
~ any white man. nor yet by any
# the Indians. What his fate was
10 one will ever know. Had he
allen into the hands of the redmen
hey would have boasted Of it, and
lad any white men encountered
i'm word would have been passed
long to us. 1t is likely that he
net with some fatal accident in the
lountains.-N. Y. Sun.