The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-10-10

In absence OF nearly three months.
They afterwards had incontestible
evidence that the band OF Crows
which first attacked them followed
them for 400 miles lowering around
and awaiting favorable opportuni-
ty for another attack, but the inces
SAINT watchfulness and superior gen
eralship of james Stuart outwiited
and disappointed them.
In 1864 he again organized sec
ond expedition to the Yellowstone to
prospect for gold and avenge the
deaths of his comrades.
The party contained 70 men who
elected Stuart captain. The spring
was late and stormy and they suffer
ed greatly from snow storms and
found it impossible to prospect on
account of the frozen ground. Their
horses grew very poor and many had
to be abandoned. Now that they
were looking for Indians and wanted
to find them not one showed up.
James returned home after an alb
sence of few weeks but the others
broke up in small parties and strag
geled back, some one way some an
other all but two-one was captured
by Indians and another was shot
while fishing and crawied into the
willows where he died though his
body was not found till late in the
summer.
In 1864 Stuart was elected to the
Legislature; in 1865 the Blood In
dams having murdered ten men on
the Marion river he was commits
stoned Lieutenant. Colonel by the
Governor with authority to call out
and organize the militia. In 1871
he was appointed post trader at
Fort Browning. He was also
Warden of the Grand Lodge of Ma
sons.
In 1873 he removed to Fort Peck
where his thorough knowledge of the
Indian character, his courage, cool
ness and excellent administrative
abilities were invaluable assistants
in the control of the warlike Sioux.
The dangers and hardships he had
endured had begun to weaken his
constitution. On the morning of
Sept. 30th, 1878, he was found lem
ing with his arms on table with
his head resting on his hands, but
the brave spirit had He'd.
He had requested his body might
be buried at Deer Lodge where he
had first wintered on entering Mon
tana, and his brothers bore his body
through the wilderness distance of
five hundred miles in order to carry
out his wish The journey occupied
twelve days During the trip 60
Sioux warriors suddenly appeared
and inquired the meaning of the
strange procession. On learning
that the coffin contained the body of
Pc tie has-ka or Long Beard as they
called him each Indian dropped his
head, clasped his hands and made
expressive signs that a great war
rior was dead.
The Rocky Mountain Gazette of
that year says in speaking of the
funeral: MIR. Stuart was native
of West Virginia, and a member of a
well known and honorable family.
He was educated for the medical pro.
fession. He was man of fine intel
lectual capacities, extensive reading
and close observation" He was a
man who accepted hardships uncom-
plainingly and was possessed of cool
and undoubted courage" He was
pioneer of the West, leading the
way with dauntless front to the hid
den treasures of Montana-an in.
trepid champion of civilization and
order against all foes-a public spir-
tied citizen who aided every worthy
enterprise friend whose fidelity
was measured only by the possibili-
ties of life in whose life and charac-
ter we recognize the highest attrib-
utes and worthiest ambitions of man
| hood"
The Helena Herald said "The
grave of James Stuart will always be
one of the treasures of Deer Lodge
county?
"Never over one more brave
Shall the prairie grasses wave"
1t is heralded far and wide that
the Secretary of the Interior has APP
pointed "Helen Cloak" full blood
Indian to be Allotment Agent for the
tribes in Montana.
Let me make the New DOMINION
the medium of a correction. Her
name is not Cloak but Clark. She
is not full blooded Indian. Her
mother was Blackfoot squaw Her
father was Col. Malcolm Clark, born
at Fort Wayne in 1917 where his
father Lieut.. Nathan Clark of the 9th
U. S. Infantry was then stationed
He was known among the Indians as
"Nesokin" or the Four Bears, be-
cause he had once killed four griz-
lilies before breakfast. He had
ranch not far from here where be
lived with his Indian wife and rear
d numerous family. He was
murdered by the Blackfeet in 1869
just prior to the breaking out of In
dian troubles because they feared he
would side with the whites. Miss
Helen Clark is finely educated and
was Superintendent of Free Schools
of this county for several years. |
have seen her frequently. She is a
large sad faced woman with Indian
features and dark complexion. Her
straight hair is nearly white perhaps
owing to hard study Heads only
used for grinding grub seldom turn
gray at an early age. l have been
told that she considers her culture a
calamity and thinks that it cuts her
off from the red race while her color
sets her apart from the whites. She
probably feels that while of two races
she is really with neither in color,
tastes or sympathies. but this is prob-
ably morbidness as hear her highly
spoken of among the Palefaces as a
woman of correct character and ex-
cellent sense.
Granville Stuart, a brother of
James, married squaw and after he
was elected to the legislature he
brought her and lot of papooses to
Helena to live. Some of the elite of
the city went to call on the new ar
rivals one day but this modern Min
pehaha was as shy as wood pigeon
and only came and peeped through
the crack of the door and then ran