Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-03-13

1oked about him-had Galen himself cast his lot with them, he would have had to run the gauntlet of their boisterS ous wit: for from Colonel to drummer boy not one was there whose name was; not perverted to some rough soubriquet.;
 "Ah, Bnly's a broth of boy" said, another, knocking the ashes out of his, pipe. "Did you ever hear how he served the Irish navy, when we were in camp at Sedalia?"
 'No, what did he do9'' came in a chorus.
 A PERLoUs SITUATION. The Act of Q Bravo Woman Who Faced
 Danger-A "Reminiscences of Wild Bin.
 Away back in the ''sixties," before She buffalo, deer and antelope were killed and driven from Kansas, in the middle and western portions of that State, the settlers made ''dugouts'' for their habitations. The settler would dig into a hillside one or more excava- tions, twelve or fifteen feet square. In front and around the sides he stood cottonwood logs, which would be kept firmly in place by stamping earth in the trenches. The roof would be made of poles covered with branches, earth and sod.
 One of these dugouts was constructed in hill which sloped to one of the streams tributary to the Arkansas river. It was of better class than was usually found in that new region. It had a panel door and two windows of upper and lower sashcs.
 In this house lived an Eastern gentle man named Wentworth, with his wife. He had invested in sheep, and was obliged to go to a store few miles from his home to look at some blooded stock which an importer had for sale He left his home without fear of inn pending danger, as the Indians in Kan sas had been quiet for some time. The day was passed by Mrs. Vent worth in a woman's usual home pur- suits. Toward evening she stepped to the door to see if her husband was re- turning. Her large Newfoundland dog, which was standing near her, growled and looked toward the thiclzet bordering the stream at the foot of the hill. Upon looking that way she saw an Indians face peering through the bushes. She called her dog to her and shutting and fastening the door and barring the solid inside shutters to the windows, she lighted lamp and prepared for the at 1 tack she knew must come. Her husband always kept a gun loaded with buck shot to defend his sheep from the large grey wolves, which in that day were SC destructive to the hocks.
 In few minutes Nero, the dog, de tected the approach of the Indians They broke the glass in the window and strove to push the blind open Failing, they went to the door and ham mered on 1t with their weapons. Mrs Wentworth made no reply. They pushed, and the frail lock yielded. Tht door flew open and the brave woman discharged both barrels of the gun intC the group of savages. The dead anC wounded fell on the floor of the room and the porch outside. The dog 1ev among them, and must have hllet those who fell only wounded, as som of them showed marks of his teeth, ari he was covered with blood when hi master returned.
 The Indians who were not injured re tired after their comrades fell, not know ing what might be their fate were the to attempt to enter the dugout.
 Mrs. Wentworth was thrown upon tn
 floor by the recon of the heavily charged gun. In falling her head strucl the wall, and she was so stunned tha she became insensible.
 As the Indians were reconnoiterin
 preparatory to another attack, Went
 worth, accompanied by Wild Bill,
 wel1-known scout, leading some twent
 ranchmen, all heavily armed, rode IF
 Wentworth and Wild Bill threw them
 selves from their horses at the dool
 and, leaning over the slain, raised Mrs
 Wentworth, placed her on the bed an
 applied restoratives. She was soon abl
 to tell her husband of the attack. Tn
 pile of dead attested how she had de
 tended her home.
 Wild Bill left them, and, mountin his horse, was soon engaged in follow t. ing the now flying savages. Few C
 them escaped.
 The boy who herded the sheep wa killed and scalped ty the Indians, br
 the sheep were brought in by the sheI , herd dog that night.
 . Had it not been for Wild Bill, Wen worth would have known nothing ( . his wite's perilous situation, and h would have returned to find desolate , and burned home, his wife slain, ( worse, a captive.
 Wild Bill was on his way to Fol Riley to procure troops to intercept
 band of Cheyenne Indians who had le their reservation and were on the wa path. He went to the store whel !. Wentworth was, to inform the owne : so that he might warn the ranchme in the neighborhood. He knew tl 7 course the Indians had taken woul lead them by Wentworth's ranch, ar
 on hearing that Mrs. Wentworth W;