The Press., 1891-04-09
inc same and their villages had not been

the same, and their villages had not been rxoved. We must bear more to the west and search among the Sioux.
 It must not be imagined that we went riding boldly around the country on our errand There were days and days that we lay in hiding. If we moved at all it was by night, and then only short dis tances. Fhe country swarmed with red skins, and there was never an hour that we were not in danger We gradual ly working toward the villages on the Smoky Hill ford and its territories, and our game was to play hide and seek. AS both of us understood the Sioux dialect, we picked up bits of information let fall now and then by parties passing our hiding places, and such were our precautions that we worked our way over sevenyT miles into the Indian country without leaving trail anywhere.
 We had one close call as we neared the villages We had advanced about five miles during the night over ground so hard as to leave no trail, and were lying up for the day in dry ravine. About 9 in the morning, as I was on watch, I espied a couple.of Indians to the east. They had been sent from some war party with a message to one of the villages. They were riding at q gallop when I first saw them, but of sudden they halted, held a council, aud both rode into the ravine about eighty rods above our position. They could not have seen our trail, nor had they reason to sus- pect our presence, and never could rathom their action They were coming right down upon us, and had Tom awake in jiffy. Just above us was a sharp bend, and here we took our stations, revolvers in hand. The ponies of the Indians came scrambling along the rough path, one closely follow ing the other, and the first rider never knew what hit him. The second saw us, but was dead five seconds after, and we at once secured the ponies. We were bit anxious for the next hour, fearing that the reports of the revolvers might have reached the ears of Indians riding about; but no one appeared, and the day wore away with out the slightest alarm. This was the fourteenth day of our advance, and the thirty fourth day of Mrs. Cherry's capture. Let us now return to her.
 The prisoners were marched across the country to the villages on the Smoky Hill fork. The first idea was to put them all to the torture, but the chiefs finally de- cided to hold them for while and see how events would shape. Two sons of promi nent chiefs and great medicine man had been captured by the whites, and it might be that they would have to be ransomed by giving up prisoners. Mrs. Cherry and the Lawton boy were kept in one village, while all others captured with them were sent to another. They were made to carry wood and water, live on the food thrown to the dogs, and every hour in the day were told of the fate in store for them Both were beaten by Indian women and boys, but they did not feel their lives in peril. They slept in a tepee with an In dian boy about IS years of age and an old hag of a squaw.
 On the afternoon of the day we killed the two Indians in the ravine Mrs. Cherry secreted tomahawk under the dried grass composing her bed. It belonged to the h. dian boy, but he did not miss it. She heard them talking that day about nov ing camp, but nothing was done because no orders came. At midnight, when every thing was quiet, Mrs. Cherry crept over to the Indian boy and sunk the blade of the tomahawk in his skull. He raised his arms, but made no outcry, and was dead in two or three minutes. She disposed of the old woman in the same way, and then waking up young Lawton she took him by the hand and walked out of the village. At 1 o'clock in the morning, as I was scouting on foot to locate the village and was within 8 mile of it, I met Mrs. Cherry and the boy. She had the Indian boys bow and quiver, and Lawton carried the blood stained tomahawk. We pushed back to the ravine as fast as we could go, and after reaching it we lost no time in mount ing and heading to the south. We were not followed from the camp, as an order reached it at daylight to move to a distant point, and we dodged the war parties until another two hours would have carried us into post. We were then suddenly con- fronted by 8 band of thirty warriors, but after race of two miles we beat them in I securing possession of grove, and for three hours we held them at bay. Troops from the post then came to our rescue. I had been hit in the arm, Tom in the shoulder, Mrs. Cherry in the cheek and the basy lost two fingers by a bullet. We had killed three warriors, wounded two or three more and knocked over four ponies The Indians were scared away from the post very soon. What they did with the captives among them we never learned.-New York Sun