The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-05-15


any more credit, telling them buntlY
that it was doubtful whether Government
would ever pay them what 1t owed, or at all
events would not pay them more than half
the instalment due. and that this amount
would probably be the last payment, as the
Government was IN great peril and could not
sustain itself.
Then came the call from the President
for 800, COO more men, and our patriots arose
everywhere and Hocked to the front.
Among those who enlisted were Il number
Of haf-bTeeds from the reservation, ana this
strengthened the idea OF the Indians that
the country had about exhausted its fight
ing material and was going to ruin. With
this idea began TO dawn the other-that the
growing weakness of the whites would rem.
der it possible for them TO rise. exterminate
the intruders and recover their lost terri
tory. This idea was freely discussed among
them for months, though the whites were
ignorant that they entertained any such
thoughts.
Everything about the agencies was quiet
and peaceable up 10 the very day of the
Outbreak-that awful 18th of August, 1862,
that is now one Of the bloody dates of his
tory. On the day before my husband had
started for the capital on a business trip,
expecting to return in week. No thought
OF danger was in our minds, and it seems to
me | can see him now as plainly as though
IL were yesterday, riding away on that
lOF6l9 august utOIulHE. IIe Cdlitu pub W
the little boys as he WAS leaving, BE good
children and don't let any harm come 10
mamma while Pm gone" and then TO me,
Don't be lonely. andy way of joke he
added-"don'tl let the Indians carry YOU OF.
He had not gone days journey before
we were in the midst of such awful peril
as ne did not dream Of.
The next day. the fatal one, was one OF
the most beautiful / can remember, and
there was nota sign by which we could have
forelold the awful blow that was just about
10 fall.
The trading station was on high. steep
bluff. A road led up to It from the ferry
and then wound around the bluff, quite a
distance along the other side aud down 60
where the mills aud our house were, at the
foot. There was no road along the river,
but fo0tpath went up the side Of the bluff
from the mills TO the station, the distance
by it being about half q mile The ferry or
station could not be seen from the house,
and that is how it happened that the whole
settlement was RACED before / knew any
thing Of it. Something had happened to the
machinery in the mills, and the men who
were usually working there we're all up at
the station. save one, who was busy some
where about the place.
was working away cheerfully In the
house. my two boys playing just outside
the door, and the baby inside on the floor,
when an Indian passed the house and went
on 10 the barn. | thought nothing Of ii,
thinking the man was there, and the two
older children followed after him to the
barn. BY and by he came out leading my
husbands two horses Still suspecting
nothing | stepped to the door and called
OUT
'You mustn't take those horses away !;
they have to 60 to Yellow Medicine this
afternoon"
The Indian gave a grunt and said. mo
60 to Yellow Medicine now; my horses
now"
hurried out and sought to prevent his
taking the horses, but he pushed me aside
saying: Folks up at station all dead. You
better run. Indian kill you, too" young
girl who was staying with me gave scream
aud turned and fled. Even then my worst
thought was there had been fire. but filed
with anxiety l turned and caught up my