The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-02
And they had!

anu Iney Uuu!
Soon human voices, mixed with
those of the dogs, and lights could be
seen-not fitting to and fro, as in a
soldiers camp. but set to glowing
from a score of camp fires. Right well
defined in the moonlight, too, appear
ed the ~silhouetted group of Indians
not this time "elk antlers'-and they
gave "the view halloo' as they took
q s'snap shot" of the paleface trespas-
serS.
prairie Dog" Dave and campadre
wheeled about their horses and took
to the sand hills as never did the
I~sraelites to the sand fiat on the bor-
derS of the Red sea, as related of old.
Two men fed on travel-tired horses
before d double score of savages well
mounted on fresh ponies. Is 1t any
wonder if the Canadian was looked
| upon as the River Styx, and that the
moonlight was regarded as an internal
! illumination that guided and directed
the Indians on their course?
And to add to the "desendus In
averno,' Gen. Miles black horse be-
gan Over-reaching as he was speeded
through the sands, and shoe hitting
shoe, there began "a click-clack"
which helped the Indians in their pur-
suit when even the moon lent the
shadows of the dunes to hid the flu
gitives from the pursuers.
But the Indians gave over, but not
before the lieutenant, chafed and tired
out, had pleaded with Prairie Dog
Dave half a dozen times to make a
stand, die"
keep up, lieutenant" was the
scouts adjuration, never once believ-
ing life was a failure, though death
so near impended.
The pursuit abandoned, after ten
miles of yelling on the part of the In
dams and a discretionary silence on
the part of the white riders, the mesa
Tor divide) on the left or north side OF
the Canadian was reached, and Adobe
Walls became again the OBJECTIVE
point of the expedition.
AS morning came on, away on the
south side of the Canadian, the lights
of half a hundred camp fires were dis
cernpd. and the unweicome and hor
rible thought obtruded: The countr!
is full of Indians!'
Fearful of discovery, scout and com
rade sought a cul-de-sac among the
breaks, and there, waiting until full
daylight. q sQuint was taken through
the glasses at the camp.
.'Tbe blue of troops" was seen, ant
''old glory" in miniature as a caviar,
guidon. A rub of the glasses to dispe
possible a~chromatism and a bee lin
was made for the camp.
1t was Col. Buell's command OF tn
Ninth United States cavalry.
After Il hearty reception, a generou
breakfast, during which the advent
ures of the night were told and til,
proximity of the Inlians reported
Prairie Dog" Dave and comrade left
departed for Adobe Walls. Col. Buel
put his command at the same tim
after the Indians who had so murder
ously pursued his visitors the nigh
before.
\ ride of th~irty-five miles, unevent
full. and "Prairie Dog Dave and com
Tade dismounted, or were lifted OF
their horses at Adobe Walls. Col. ne1
bert NJ. Bristol and Lieut.. Hobart Is
Paily. Fifth United States infantry
being the reception committee.
At II o'clock in the forenoon tn
ride begun at Il o'clock the day be
fore was ended-120 miles travelled.
Next day Gen. Miles black hors
died.
The lieutenant is believed to be stil
alive.
"Prairie Dog" Dave died with hi
boots on" several years after this rid
while trying to make one like it TO
Gen. Miles in the NorthWeSt.-Chicag
Herald.