The Anaconda standard., 1896-03-15
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pencil ana carbine with equal facility.
Finerty wants the name of the man
who killed that Indian. and learning
from the eager voices of the men that
IL Is Paddy" Mill, he delightfully."-
heads a new paragraph of his dispatch
"Nihil Fit" shakes hands with his
brother Pathfinder and scurries of TO
take a hand in the uproar on the
left.
Finerty's next important work for
the Times was in writing up the Mich
ols-Packard troubles I'm New Orleans.
He witnessed the evacuation of the
Louisiana state house, April %, 1877.
the act that really terminated the civil
war.
In July of the same year ne wrote up
the fierce Pittsburg railroad riots, and
also those that occurred in Chicago.
In August he proceeded to the Rio
Grande, penetrated into Mexico as far
as the Cedral mines and wrote up the
border troubles as viewed from both
sides of the boundary river.
In the fall of 1878 he visited the riot
Gus Louisiana parishes along the Red
river and sent to the Times full ac-
counts of the massacres that occurred
in that region. Thence he proceeded to
New Orleans, where he Joined the
American commercial expedition and
sailed for Vera Cruz, arriving in that
port Jan. IA, 1879. He proceeded with
points of interest in the valley of Mex
leo, but did not return with ii to the
United States. He remained for two
months in and around the City of Mex
fco seeing everything worth seeing and
then accompanied Senior Enrique Null
Ter and his party by ambulance through
the northern portion of Mexico, emerg-
ing at the Fort Bliss crossing of the
Rio Grande in April. He ran the gaunt-
let of the Apaches up through New
Mexico to Colorado and returned to Chi
cago only to be sent Immediately to
the Indian territory to describe for the
Times the operations of the boomers"
and the United States troops on the
Canadian river. That done he was or
dered to explore the Bad Lands along
the White and Big Cheyenne rivers in
Dakota and Nebraska, accompanied by
the late Prof. E. r. Paige. Having
completed this assignment he was or
dered to join General Nelson A. Miles
column near old Fort Tecla on the up
per Missouri and accompanied that en-
ergetic officer to the British line. He
was present at the last regular hostile
encounter with United States troops, in
which Sitting Bull fought, on Milk
river, Montana, July IL, 1879.
From Miles camp, Immediately after
the fight he visited the village of Sit
ting Bull at Woody mountains, being
the guest of Major Walsh of the North
western mounted police, and made a
speech to the assembled chiefs, advis-
ing them to act peaceably toward the
Americans. His remarks were well
| received" and a storm of Howl howsr
and Hey heys!" greeted their close.
Then he smoked the pipe with the saw
age warriors and listened to the tale of
their woes. Among the auditors were
Sitting Bull, Spotted Eagle, Broad
Trail, Low Dog, Rain-in-the-Face, Lit
tie Assiniboine. Long Dog. Big Neck
| lace, Stone Dog, Lone Bull, Bad Soup,
Charging Bear, Bull Eagle, Tall White
| Eagle, Strike the Tree and many others
more or less well known to fame. While
in the hostile camp some fighting took
place between General Miles Chey-
ennes and White Eagles band right on
| ''the line" Two of the latter perished
in the encounter, and there they de-
! clared that vengeance would be taken,
| according to Indian custom, on the
| Americans within their reach. Never
| theless. the correspondent, accompanied
| by two mounted policemen and a half
breed, who was carrying dispatches to
| General Miles, rode in safety to the
camp of the latter, some 12o miles dis
| tant.
September, 1879, found Finerty back
| in Chicago from the second Sioux ex-
pedition, and he had hardly reached the
General Merritt's expedition for the re-
lief of the survivors of the Thornburg
massacre in the wilds of Colorado. He
reached General Merritt in due course
and remained until the campaign was
finished in November of that year.
The year 1880 was mostly devoted to
home work, but in the fall he made a
| complete tour of the southern states for
| the Times and wrote UP everything of
| interest concerning them. In Decem-
ber he was appointed editorial tele-
| graphic correspondent at Washington.
In May 1891, Mr.. Story dispatched Mr..
| Finerty to write up the Canadian and
Northern Pacific railways-the whole
| extent of the latter to be explored. As
the road was only completed to the Lit
| tie Missouri, the correspondent was
obliged to travel by blackboard or on
horseback to the Pacific slope, proceed
ing by Clark's fork of the Columbia
river, by the old, blind trail, accompa-
| MED by one attendant, to Pend d. Reille
lake, reaching, by boat. what was then
called Washington territory. Thence
| he proceeded to Portland. Ore; thence
| to Vancouver's island and, finally, to
| California. He was enjoying himself
thoroughly in San Francisco with
| Charles Colehour another Chicagoan,
when an order reached him to depart
post-haste for Arizona, where the
| Apaches were in arms and had killed
an official and some soldiers of the
Sixth cavalry. By this time he was
dead broke" and had no time to draw
on the home office. as he had to leave
| for Tucson, Arizona, on the first train.
| He therefore borrowed $500 from his
old friend, Newton Higgins, of the San
Francisco Call and proceeded on his
| way.
Once more from Wilcox, Arizona, to
Fort Thomas he had run the gauntlet
of the hostile Apaches at night in a
| blackboard. with only the driver a
most adventurous person. for company.
| However, he got through all right and
joined General Carr at Fort Apache in
time to take part in his second expedi-
ton against the White mountain rene
| gades.
This was about the last extensive
trip he made for the Times as, mean
while. Mr.. Storey, who seemd TO have a
strong personal liking for his Hiber-
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