The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-08-01

| They brought her il to the Yellow
Medicine river, and turned her over
to me on the 2lst Of May This lo-S
Gated the hostile camp exactly, and
after paying the two Indians $500
each for Mrs. Marble, / called for
volunteers to go and get the others.
Iselected three whom / knew well
and could implicitly trust, and fitted
them out with horses, wagons, goods
of.all kinds that would tempt the In
dian and started them on their march
on May q. Il
! The Indians who brought in Mrs.
Marble were two brothers, Max ply
ka-ho-ton, and Se-ha- ho-ta. The ex
pedition sent out for the balance
Of the women was composed Of Ma
za-ku-ta-ma-ni, An-pe-tu- -tok-cha and
Chau-tay- y-marza. The latter named
is with US today, proudly taking part
in the dedication of this monument,
and all of whom well deserve to have
their names handed down to- poster
ity for their fidelity to our people,.
Although their names do not appear
on this historic shaft, they are all
worthy Of an immortal fame.
Mrs. Noble and Mrs. Thatcher had
been killed before the arrival of my
expedition. .,.,<
| As there were no railways or tele
graphs in those days, the news of the
legislative appropriation did not
reach me until after my expedition
had departed, so / had to provide the
ways and means from my own re-
sources. ran my credit with the
traders, who were all very ready to
aid me, and Rev. Mr.. Riggs, the chief
missionary at my agency, and my
self, issuedia bond for $500 on the
faith We had in the humanity of the
people of Minnesota, which, ] am
proud to say, was honored at maturi-..
ty. The whole expense was little
over $1,000, all of which was repaid
to me by the.state out of the approp
ration. At the last session of con-
gress a. bill was introduced by one Of !.
our members to reimburse the state,
which, in all probability, will pass at
the.next session.
From what what we have learned
of the career of Miss Gardner since
her rescue, Hthink I bought her very
Echeaply, and the only complaint Il
IhaEe q make, il that having dsyels 81
|oped 50 much ability, she IS not; q
citizen of Minnesota.
As to Mrs. Marble she left St. Paul
shortly after delivered her to Gov.
Medary and I have never heard from
her since, until recently learn that
she is married and living in Califor-
MIA.
It has often been asked why the
government never did anything to
punish these marauding savages.
The answer is plain. Col. Alexan-
der and myself had a we'll matured
plan to attack Ink-pa-du-ta the in
slant we learned of the fate of the
captive women. We had five COM
panies of the Tenth infantry at our
disposal and could have easily de-
stroyed his entire band, but fortu-
nately, just before we were ready to
move on the enemy. the whole garri-.
son was ordered to Fort Bridger in
Utah to aid Gen. Albert Sydney
Johnson's command in the supres:
sion of an anticipated Mormon out
break, and before any available
troops came to our frontier to replace
them, Ink -pa-du-ta and his people
had passed out of recollection.
These malefactors did not, how
ever, so entirely unwhipped Of JUS
tice. About the latter days Of June
of the same year of the massacre, [
learned of the presence of some of
Ink-pa-duta's people at Yellow
Medicine river, who ha6 come over
with large force of Missouri Sioux.
I at once fitted out volunteer force
of young fellows about the agency,
got fifteen soldiers and lieutenant d
from the fort, attacked the camp
where they were located and sue
ceeded in killing nk-pa-du-ta's
who had been active in all "
The mischief, and so ended very
interesting episode in the early his #
;ory of Iowa and Minnesota.
It is safe to say that our. Indian