The Princeton union., 1894-07-26

About 10 o'clock went into the garden
and :. while there saw an Indian coming out
Of the stable with the horses harnessed
He hitched them to the wagon and drove
along toward the house, my two boys fol-
lowing him. I observed that he was a
stranger, and as he clnle opposite the door
lie replied that they We're his horses, aud
that everything else thereabouts was his;
that that a all the white people had been killed
of TRis Was sad in 0e hs hsetsng sogx out or
Dakota language, which had learned and
stop, stop but drove on toward the ferry. Lucy,
the half-breed girl hearing what he said,
began to scream that we would all be
murdered; llluld re .. l told her did not. believe
the horses, and that if the whites had
feen Killed we would have heard the guns
+. nd the shouts. The German girl hurriedly
..adled un her clothes and started with
g. speed for the ferry, and never saw
her again. Lucy. the half-breed, urged me
to ~ SO taking my sick boy out Of his
As As soon as we reached there I saw that
the Indians story was all too true. The
agency aasa buildings and the traders stores
savages were. surging about the govern1cent
warehouse, shrieking and brandishing their
hsd weapons ons 1T seemed incredible that all this
place. " Jul
r. faralyzed tEn: with fear, knew not where
so,v 90 turn. looked toward the ferry and
nuW d uenSe crowd surrounding it. and
knew that all hope was shut of in that
Quarter; L could not reason or hone thai
e+iom1aia me co1id escape, but while stood there
S1ghh5Man Sglho ola squaw, the Chief Wacouta's
.uo.ner, ..D,, came running up and cried out:
sacba soGh@i s Pueka ehee! Dakota nepoWa
tuLuians rn ms VIII Kill you, white squaw! Fly0.
she,,,deW She threW my four-year ?old boy over her
nmUnfaer moment ana kept on, hardly stopping
,.nG piiIo we al ran towards Chief Wabasla's
nolllaSe' VI which was down the river abonf
u mile away. o- "Oou'
"aoasha on the Warpath and to
the Rescue.
. Just }as1 before we reached the village we met
d large body of Indians in war naint armsS
W. WI guns, BOWS and arrows, tomahowEs
Sau,l Sau war clubs. Every Indian had a toma-
about IN nno an war roit club which he brandished
sbo ,n, ~ an: an excited manner. Chief Waba-
in| w W as =; sittlnS on large white horse. look
Is % as IL Just out OF one of Catlins pictures
head MaS Gres ressed "a in fuI chiefs costume, with
pEutGchs pen4G,s horns and eagle feathers, wings of
haineis hoai over MS shoulders and down his
neck agd sbtIingS bef ot OF beads around hs
lfiafnged 1iaag bucksIin. He carried beantifnI ~
in er acrGsS MS lap and be had two pistols
aslaii e a. OF MS appearance seemed to strike me
dS II Photographed, and in fancy I can see
hnranyae, ham yet, sitting s like Centaur as he he
Hth1ouinted, thoin and. drawing his pistols from
dnelr holsters, approached US. I felt that
Iell on my knees and implored him to save
our EVes, asking him to remember what we
nad M done for his sick child the past winter
Inc Indians, sullen and scowIing. croWdei
around closer and closer, raising their tom.
ahaWks as if ready to strike. when Wa
Dasha thrust them back, and presenting his
pistols told them should not be Killed
He SAID that was a good squaw and called
tnem towards and squaws for wanting to
XII women and children. They were verv
angry, and determined but after long
speech In which he told them he would nnf
I1 pe accessory to what had been done nnd
@ that he should protect and defend the
Whites as long as he could, they mounted
their ponies and rode off. Wanconta,s
mother-in-law had disappeared, and seeing
we were still so much frightened Wabashs
told us to follow him. We entered a homse
near 6y In which he said we would be safe
as all the Indians had gone nm to the
agency, and he would ride up and see what
mad been done. He told me it was the nm
per Indians (the Wapetons and Sissetons>
who were doing all the mischief, but that
ne would always be a friend to the whites
and would see that we were not killed, He
then rode away, and did not see him
again for nearly two weeks, when he came
to bid me goodbye before he started with
the Indian soldiers on an expedition some
where below.