Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-12

iHhttlhNHL fltulh OF lnt u'ite ahut tut
| timc undauntcl savage that stood before
| him in al the splpudor of perfected ma
| tive manhood aud chicfninshlp. For
several seconds 10 was doubtful whether
/ the Oh warrior chief would COVER be-
fore hts white foe or meet bis fate then
and there
Our captain. with eyes riveted upon
/ ihe snynge. was fercply and clOGuenuy
approaching him with his bud fifth to
| The pale faces and their Great Father,
winding mp by saying. iu o voice OF stern
est determination:
signal your warriors VI, or III send
you TO your last hunting ground!
For an instant the suspense was be-
| yuud description A deHthllike silence
| rcigncd Tho dark. fierce. snakc-like
| eyes Of the hends about us were enough
10 unnerye most men. The delay was
/ awful TO mo. / could not decide from
the dcfunt air Of their chief whether nc
was going t0 give the snvuges the signal
10 cease their fight or would die. At
last % wave Of his hand relieved all our
doubts. and lis braves nll lowered their
weapons uf death. and sulleuly sought
| their robes and ponies.
Upon the chiefs giving the signal. our
captain had called out 90 us: Boys. he
has weakened. His expression was SO
changed and peculiar and the remark so
unexpected from his sublime and noble
appearance of moment before, besides
| being such welcome news and great re-
lief. that ! throw up my hat and shouted
with laughter though only sixty seconds
had elapsed since ] had been under the
most Intense excitement OF my life This
hlnrty caused the serious aspect 90 turn
into one Of mrth for the next three min
uics, and absolute f0rgctfulucss of our
dangerous position
The second chief, who was @ straight,
tai, iiuclUuaiug young warrior, and as
IL a..Hs|. H.H| fa
palo with rage because the old chief
had not siuUlcd the fight The cXultant
laughter which / emitted only increased
his anger and passion Rushing up TO
uc i'm "a white heat. De placed his finger
on my nose and then ON his gun, and
pointing TO ono side. 10 was q plain
enough challenge To % inglc-handed COM
bat between u.s. While ] did not "scc
IT, the other follows did. shouting with
laughter aud saying; "Go iu, Hlusor'
"lou can get away with him. aud
other equally hilarious phrases The
young brave nevertheless had 90 retire
without satisfaction, which lac got after
wards
u was a little after sunrise on the Goth
that We started oil, accompanied by the
| two chiefs aud six others, who also con.
cludcd Go go our way. We went six or
seven miles. campcd 10 let the horses
| feed and gct breakfast, or rather dinner.
| ON the road Captain Stuart talked TO
| the old chief like stepfathcr, and &c
made some impression, for when we
| gumpal the Indians seated themselves ON
/ % log ANA remained perfectly silent until
| we were through cutting, when the trag-
uruts were collected and they wHro u-
| yited to pIrlgkc ol tho different mcsses.
uor the head chief threw down hlg robe,
| Hu example followed 10y all che others
! except two. and hc told us that they gave
! the robes tu our great chief To- show that
! we would Doc friends hereafter The
! captain refused CO. TAKE The robes be-
! cause we were $50 poor thut we bud moth
| ing Go give iu return for the gift and
! they could keep them until we met again
/ and could exchange presents.
! After the meal they went huck, and
| we travelled un down the river
! About shutdown, wye saw Z 80 Indians
| coming The captain concluded there
| were more bohud. We drove In and
! tied up our horses and lct them como
! Into camp without moving on snyiug %
! word. The hrud man asked for Our
! chief and the captain responded, where
! upon The Indian dismontcd, pulled or
| IBIS saddle, 500 down ON &C. pulled of his
! Int, took % roll OF something out Of t.
| uulid sundry wrappers and produced and
| displayed a paper. 10 wac nude hy
| NchOouuyer. Indian agent at Fort Union,
! mo the mUuuth Of the Yellowstone river,
und stated That the bearer was Red
Bear one OF the principal chiefs of tbe
! Crow nation We gave them some sup
! per and me- presented Che captain with n
| black horse and claimed tu be our friend.
! Whom we went to rest that night the
captain gave orders 10 the guards not 90
| NIL, lint take prisoners any Indians they
might discover proWliug around after
| uur hursos. About II D. m. they dis
covered ono crawling mp 10 two Of our
! best hursps that wore tied at the same
tree. They watched and waited until
they got dead wood on him aud thpu
captured Linn and called mp the captain
Tho captain introduced him 20 Red
Bear us one of his good Crow Indians,
who hc had just been telling would NOT
annoy us amy more. He said the man
was crnzy, had no hearing aud wa,
| otherwise disabled. ~ was the old lu
dian habit of trying 10 mike ont any
| thing TO excuse him. 10 WAS the old
! story, We turned the thief loose, and
curly Zoo the morning they an started
back leaving as alone iu our glory.
About / O'Clock %. me- May !, BOst
wick had his roam horse stolen while he
and Geery were ON guurd. IL was don,
uy two Indians, one of whom showed
himself plainly enough 10 have been sho
at While the Guards were both witch
ing him 90 get a shot ut him. another
cruwlcd into the other end of the camp
| ont the horse loose and went his way
Tho second man did not attract their az
tvutun IN any great degree This too
when the moon was fun without cloud
| Verify we found the Crows the world
hCutors as thieves
We travelled the general course OF ia,
river To- the northeast, with low hills Ot
both sides of ID for thirty or forty miles
until ON May 3 we cumped at l'omppy'l
Pillar, un which were found the names o
Captain Clarke and two of his men Cu
ia the rock with the date of July 2l
1905 ON the an we noted that for tvs,
days we had seen mo- sign of Indians
but thcre is always q culm before
storm On May Z. after considerable
prospecting we started mp the Big Horn
river, ON the Sth saw fresh lndaI
signs near cnmp. Everybody goes on
the lookout DO not intcud 10 let an!
mora of Them cone into camp WOul
rather Eight than have lrcnds stoa
everything we have, and it is imposed
hlc 90 let more than two of them com,
/ In without their stealing aud an of MS ol
guari nc that On May H., we hN,
passed and crossed BON- Elder crccl
about sis miles from camp, rhore Wew
plenty of fresh Indian signs near camp
Sixteen horses tracks were counted mi
for the day and there Wvro probabl!
more tracks, we did NOT Ree. The can
tain said we would be- Obliged 10 look on
for squalls
The morning OF May ~, broke on
desperate b0,ly of white mon who ha,
hocu through an awful fight with th
| trOW hand uf SaVOgps. who bad iullnWVj