The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-01-26
III saw By the sun that Il Wa vel,
along In the afternoon.

-" " the sun that u WA vel
along In the afternoon.
when did stop. 1t was when = cave
opened up SO big that / ran right into
IL and there fell. almost dead. ON =
rock damp with the lime water tha.
was dropping from above. 1t seemed
like ] was almost insane from frioh,
and exhaustion. but still knew
enough 10 look out and see that there
were no Indians in sight. and then fell
asleep on the rock. That night I
dreamed the fight all over. only think.
ing that II ended in our clearing ont
the Indians. instead OF being whipped
ourselves. Then l thought that We
had found the gold bars and had rone
overland to Omaha. and there struck :
Tram OF yellow cars which carried rs
To New York. where we had time.
You can imagine my feelings when I
woke up on that rock, wet through
with lime water. and SO sore and tired
and hungry that almost wished tho
Indians had got me.
We'll. got out Of there finally to get
something to eat, but there You see
was In another fix / had dropped nv
gun IN order to run easier and had no
matches or way To start fire even il
! had anything to eat ! found few
berries which ! ate. thinking maybe
they were poisonous, but not caring
much, and there was nothing else in
sight Then ! started boldly down the
canyon, having decided to take INV
chances with the Indians instead Of
starving TO death there. l knew il was
no use 10 go back for the Indians had
taken everything. and my only thought
was to get out of the blamed canyon
and strike for Bozeman by the direc-
ton OF the sun. for my compass was
gone with the rest of the outfit. That
night ] camped again without having
found anything to eat. and another
miserable night il was, and in the
morning was about ready to die.
However, / took bath in the alkau
water of stream running through and
made another start
About noon that day / reached
what looked like an outlet from the
walled sides of the canyon, and fol-
lowed this in the desperate hope thatit
might lead somewhere. All day long l
climbed up the wedged rocks. SO that
The buckskin shirt was nearly torn off
rom me- When night came the moon
arose, and by the faint light could
zee enough to worry along. Along
about daylight ! saw the top, and after
10 end Of elm bling. until my feet were
bleeding and my hands torn from hold
Eg on TO the rocks. reached the top.
Utmost the first thing saw was bush
Il Rocky Mountain plums. and the way
went Tor J. was caution. eat |
nough of 'em to give trainload of
aen the cholera morbus. but l was
Traced up considerable and able to
tart along again, having sighted the
un for the north.
considerably to my surprise / had
cen no Indians, and judged that the
mes that attacked us must have been
wandering band. or that big coun-
IL was being held somewhere. The
ext day, however, came square into
open plo. protected by . small
rove of mountain pines, and what do
on think? Right in the center, on .
rec behind a pile Of burned-out ashes,
as the body of that Brule cook, tied
18th deerskin throngs and cut and
ashed in . thousand placeA The
cart had been cut out and the ears
nd nose slashed of, 50 that, alto
ether. II was . horrible sight. It
ade me culver to look at il and thank
v lucky stars that they had never
ltched ne alive. tell you, go. out
there mighty quick after finding a
" slices of dried deer meat on the
'ound. which tasted mighty good. and
guess saved me from starvation
Ut had a tough enough time after
at II was a good ten days travel
horseback from the nearest white
an. and l had given up all hopes OF
Getting anyone on the way. was
city well satisfied after seeing the
'ule that nobody but myself had got
way alive
TO make long story short, got I
I OF the country after such sufferinQs
never want to have again. ] lived
berries and grass and fish which I
ught by making small dam on the !
'llowstone and letting the water run :
until the fish were stranded. :
lied them in one of the hot springs '
altered over the country. and worried :
ing one way and another until had :
gun To think that was lost Then 1
e morning / felt kick in the ribs, .
d right there before me was trap q
r called Long Henry, on account Of
size. He fed me up and took me to =
zeman, and there found that not = b
n had been seen of the rest Of the 2
rty. The next spring a party Of =
ppers came back reporting that they :
1 found three skeletons and the q
ces Of the wagon and rest Of the b
INT around an old camp fire. OF =
lrse that settled it. though I was \
isfied before that they were all
u. Anyhow, I made . report to the .
and to Maloney's father,
o came out in the summer and q
med to feel pretty bad over the =
IS death, aging that he hadn't used =
. right n
Well. all this happened thirty years
}, so long that IL had dropped ont OF =
mind until last year when went q
vn to California to see IL the climate pI
uldn't help an old knife wound that u
ot in the Wolf mountain fight OF "