The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-07
HOW CULVER WAS AVENGED
LITTLE STORY OF INDIAN LOVE,
MURDER AND RETRIBUTIoN.

Pai-o-tah Follows the White Des-
peradO who Shot Her Husband at
Her side and Makes Him Pay
Life for a Life-A Frontier Trng-
edy Described by One Who Saw IT.
From the New York Sun.
The winters trade was over, and nearly
an the Indians had left the vicinity of
our little trading post on the Missouri
TO pass the summer back on the prairie
and along the foothills of the mountains.
We had shipped all our furs and robes
on the last down steamer, and now there
was absolutely nothing for us TO do but
kill time as best we could until another
seasons trade should begin Situated
as we were some 300 miles from the near
est town, our post was not very lively
place in summer, and our only neighbor
was a saloon man, who had built place
fifty yards above US. But with him we
had little to do. He was a surly, unkempt
fellow, and there were generally hanging
about his place a set Of men who came
and went mysteriously, whom we more
than suspected were members of a gang
of horse thieves and road agents that
used to ply their trade along the HelloW-
stone and Missouri rivers.
My partner had gone east with our snip
nent of furs, TO dispose of them and or
der a fresh stock of goods, and l was
alone. except for the company OF good
father. a broad and liberal-minded priest
whom I had persuaded to stay with me
until my partner should return ne
bishop of the Saskatchewan had sent MIN
south the nreceding year to minister to
a part of his flock, the plains Crees, VINO
were in our vicinity.
one 'drovvsv afternoon in June the father
and / sat out in the shade OF the over
hanging roof, smoking ana tanning Ool
selves, for it was not DAY, ~ , LIZ c5o-
loon lust above us poHer game was ~
ing on revealed TO outsiders by the SUI SUI
dued hum of voices and the ceaseISss, az AZ
tie of chips. AS said, most Oh the a.
had gone out on the summer ; HuHts -
two or three families were sun WIN us,
and presently a young man NAMED Og g 81
came along with his wife ana saL Gown low
by the father in the grateful shade. Dur
ing many years passed with the lnuldl5s
on the plains, L think this was the naLu
soonest couple l ever saw Tue Mo iitsll /
much lighter cOlOred than many a SPaIllsA
woman had a singularly graceral ISurei
and her features were Well-nlgh IauI ?
Her eyes were exceptionally large am
brilliant full of expression, ana were
shaded by long sweeping lashes. Hel
hair neatly braided, hung in two MASSIVE
strands almost to the ground QuIyel
would have served an artist lot hOue
Of Apollo What liked best about MN was
the broad high brow and square-cut chm chin
which even in a savage deholeS hSSL
intelligence united with force Of character
This couple, CULVER and his wire, F4 tllar
tah, had been married a little more thaI
year. They We're as yet as deeply in love
with each other as ever. on the hunt OF Il
the camp working or resting, they were
inseparable. CULVER thought there wa
nothing good enough for his beautiIu
wife. All the robes he secured, all TN
beaver and otter he caught, We're tradel
Tor fine blankets, soft and bri8ht-coIore(
dresses, and for jewelry with which u
adorn Pai-o-tah. He wanted nothing 70
himself except little tobacco and rev
cartridges for his rifle. The couple sat viii
Us half an hour or more, ,;lking with tn
father about affairs in their own far north
ern home. Riel, he who later created IN
Canadian rebellion, had lately been amoni
ne Indians urging them TO return nom
and wrest their ancestral lands from tn
relocated usurpers, and CULVER was anx
Gus to get the fathers opinion OF IN
iqatter. The good man plainly told hin
mat il was a Visionary scheme and coul'
not possibly succeed. He explained tina
he Indians not only would have to tigh
ne Canadians, but that if necessary ship