Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-12
ATrue Tale Of Genuine Indian
Adventure.
AN ElGRT-wtEKS' FIGHT
Twslve Cold Hunters Who Fled and Fought
WhOlo Tribe Of Understanding
Suicide 10 Save Themselves
from Torture.
For The Sunday Gazette.

marvellous" said a quiet man with a
gray beard and n stout frame to a group
Of friends In the Manhattan club one
night last November who had bceu talk
ing with him about pioneer life. but
what would you think Of M experience
of eight weeks fighting and flying from
Indians Of great superiority in num-
beers 20 party Of white men who en-
counterod Thorn. an incident Of which
was the deliberate suicide Of two Of the
white men by shooting themselves after
they had been mortally wounded their
object being to let their comrades ca.
cape the terrible dangers that enyiroued
them instead Of giving TO the wounded
mon the care and attention they re-
quircd for last dnysI II would have
been death 90 twelve men. III they hud
been kept for twrnty-four hours tO nurse
the victims Of Indian warfare, and yet
they were willing TO stay IN that posi-
ton
The speaker had a western air. and
spoke az VI lac had undergone pcriis on
the frontier nt some stage Of bus NE
which wcrr both marvellous and terrible.
He was Ex-Governor Samuel IT, tausrr
OF Montana, one Of tie WCulthrst men
Of the state president OF the First Ma
tionnl bank OF Helena. and engaged iu
nearly every industry IN the country sur.
rounding Helcun, whore he rcsidcs, that
is of a money making character lie
has large investments 20 railroads gold
and silver and copper mines, mud holds
the largest block of stock in the sap.
phirp mines that were recently sold 20 nu
English company of any investor ON
either side OF the Atlantic. He owned
about Onp-hnlf the sapphire beds. when
the English capitnl sought TO buy and
consolidate Dll the beds. The estimated
wealth ri Governor Ilauspr is &S.OOO.-
900 10 $1OODO.uOO. yet hc is unasaumiug.
and whom asked to tell some tales OF
western life, let himself boz persuaded to
give un outline uf tho story herewith
presented and since giygl boy him in fun
10 the writer of This article.
con April o. 1863. nn expedition
started out from BnnnOck CITY said tho
governor. "thc purpose uf which can be-
learned from this copy of uu agreement
that wus long since lost but is preserved
in q journal kept by tHptuiu james
Stuart, who was the leader OF the baud
of men.
Having determined 90 explore a portion
of the country drained hy the yellow
stono' for the purpose of discovering
gold mines and securing town sites, and
believing this object could br better ace
cumplishcd by forming ourselves into "a
regularly organized company, we hereby
appoint James Stuart cuptliu agreeing
upon our word Of honor tu obey ull orr
dcrs given or issued hy him or amy suh-
ordinate Othccr appointed 10y him. lu
case Of any members refusing Co obey am
order or orders FROM said cuptuin hr
shall be forcibly expelled from our camp
II is further understood and agreed
that We all dO our uuuul portion of work,
the captain hclng umpire iu ON eases,
sharing equally the benefits of said labor
both as 10 the discovery of gold aud So
curing town sites, tSigucd1
james Stuart, Samuel n. Inusor.
Cyrus ID. Watkins Henry a. Bell John
Vanderbilt William Roach James y.
York, a. Stcruc Blake. Richard Nc.
tgifcrtv. George II Smith James lluuE-
hurst Henry H. Gcrry Dwwyor Under
wood Ephruim BustwiokF
'l'hc fifteenth man, George Ives, did
not sign The agreement, because he did
not oyertuke the party until the next
day and II was forgotten.
our party expected tO hp Joined hy
six other men no Sinking Water river
ON the 18th, but We could find up uuoo
Of them either on that date or tho 18th
teCy and McIahcrty got "a splendid
gold prospect on a high bur in the Suuk
iug Water valley, but the captain would
not let thUm tgll Va for tcnr of brcuhiug
up thp expedition ON the lith we toll
lowed up Granite creek, which was a
forI; Of Ajdru Gulch river Near tho
divide wr utt two BannOtk Indians. ud.
vnncc guard of Do main camp, who
were returning frSm winter buffalo
hunt ON the Yellowstone Tho CumI
came up 10 "a few minutes with AFRO.
knkcO, 0n French la Grand C0qOm, iu
Euglish, the zig Rogue uump cmi
nently appropriate to his q - feet OF
height and 30 pounds uf weight as
chiet He had compguion SuW-a-hoJ
Win-an or Standing Cottonwood who
was q good Indian, although not deud
an exception 10 the general rule. They
told ua ~ we would camp with them
they would send hucl, and get the bic
DO.
with us ON tlr little creek, We agreed
aud one Indian went back to the cnml
while we moved slowly on. the captain
riding ulongsidc Of his 'WnWhaW ol
'cuemy The captuln called the hil
chief hy that name because hr knew tht
Big Rogue bad insticutod some of h,
followers tO kil some of our vuttip Mhet
we attempted to winter about the moutl
uf the Sinking Water m 1860
About forty warriors ON horsphacl
met and escorted us lutu camp, where
Big Medicine requested us 90 pitch on
tents near his lodge He gave us soml
ELK ment and we gnye him some "a
1acc0 Tor medicine smoke, The 90
hacc0 was worth Sia n pound ut Ban
mock City aud W. had only small
supply, but We had 20 give him q nc
De pioCe, with which they dld some tul
smoking and heavy sitting around %
plight ON separating for the nigh
kNnlNlN NlNNFL fNlilNuNu NNr luNluN
not 90 come around our horsps in th
plight as We tied and guarded Thorn to
keen che good ouus tom being stolen ant
Va the night we did not know good I'm
dlnus from bad lndiana. They did no
trouble W. after that Winnemucci
mud the Banu0ck Indians asa not agre
very well. Tie called them thieves AM
bars. They were afraid Go retaliute les
he should cast an evil spell over then
The fool BannoCks believed that Bi
Medicine could DO AN SORTS of imposs
ole things make gamo plenty Or scarce
make persons inyulneruhle 60 bullets
give an Indian power 90 catch ride ball
w his hands and go on Fine time n
Indian would have stopping bulc
from the Sharps rifles no our hand.
WinnemucCn. by the way was IN
father Of the somewhat talented Sara
Winnemuoca who married a lleutenan
IN the army and wrote letters occasion
ally Tor the Nevada papers. Duringth
night IN their singing and dancing, Oh
3nnocks bCAsted Of having found tw
lodges Of Flntheads hunhng hctwce
Beaver Greek and Spokane bar hello,
the Ncrmilion Butte on the Missouri
They had Killed seven Flaiheads au
captured thirty-iyc horses Such wa
Indian warfarca massacre aud rol
berry.
We got away from the Bannocks I
the morning and travelled daily nlOn
what we supposed was the Shields river
IL was SET down Ia leWis aud Clarke
maps and notes. but we could h0ye save
-four days riding IN coming from Bar
paal f.ifV "a fla Xafiatssatap ~ ~. h.,