The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-01-19
cToRT RAYNE
lW CAPT CHARLES KING USAS
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CHAPTER XVI.

Platte had overIeaned it's bounds and
was raeinp like some mad mountain
torrent FAR az The eve could see. Tae
fats to the west Of tho post were one
broad. muddy lake. The grassy bench
beneath me- inffs TO the east was par
italy torn away. Part Of Bunko Jim's
frontier stronghold still ciung to the
opposite bank, but some of it was dis
.tributed In driftwood long leagues down
stream. Across the river, at O point
half a mile above the ruin of the ferry
horse. n troop of cavalry. caught ON re-
trrn from scout. had pitohed its tents
and pjcketed its horses and was waiting
for the falling of the waters TO enable
&c to return to its station, and with that
troop. the maddest man In all Wso-
ming. was I~ieutenant Will Farrar.
six or seven weeks p~reyiousIy an or
der had come to Fenton to send two
troops to scoutt the western slopes OF the
Bio Horn and keen tho peace between
the settlers and the Shoshones. Time
was when these latter rarely yentured
across tho Big Horn river. partly
through fear of the Sioux. who claimed
ooyo,e;onty ouer all tho lands eaet NJ tho
Shoshone preserves in the Wind river
valley, partly through regard for the or.
ders of their loyal old chief, Washable.
who for long, long years of his life had
kept faith with the great white father,
held his people in check and suffered
the inevitable consequences of poverty
and neglect, the policy Of the Indian
bureau being to load with favors only
those Of it's wards who defy it and deal
death to the whites. Settlers seldom
enoroach upon the Sioux, those gentry
being abundantly able and more than
willing to take care Of themselves, but
the shoshoncs had known long years Of
enorvating peace and, being held in
subsection by their chief, became the
natural prey OF the whites, who mistook
natu.ai q" enaohor. Sa1enoe' as 40
na.!fal 10 ,reeporn americans ana as
easily adopted by fellow citizens of for
eign birth and who o began to en-
shoshon on or enelr ,n own mace account, stealing
oioho oiops "i'u ca.sie ana pro1nptly
"oousins 'ne army olhcer on uuty az
agent OF cattle stealing n all around
fascal'ty "he ne rescued the captured
stook.
Then while this badgered official was
de1endlng himself in court, the Sho-
snnnes1 ad- sc II5fe2d themselves In the
Aeld. and that peripatetic buffer between
the oppressor and the oppressed, the
corporations and the cranks, the law
and the lawless-Tthe q bedey1led
army-was sent ont az ueuai to receive
the slings and arrows of outrageous for
tune aud Of both Sarties, Finding ii
difficult to swindle thSShohones SO long
"a their new a~gent--tAh army agent
remained in power, thy obvious thing
was to down him by mSepresentation
at Washington Anton ns work,
by dee % they didn.G ae ooaflaw.
O. GusSy of anything. bnt pfSse
Ny" ,-St against lying, and tho Iva WE
no n to come info oouiu
CONNIE, IN, Innocent and Law ano
prove b;msclts the mercy of tho IN
armed wards ,&ne, and so itbo.i
in the mcantinhigh jinks mn tha Ws'e
than there werot,"'",s .yona". Lnd
-9i4es VALLEY sad ..uAs .nuso
ranges in the wild valleys of the Gray
Bull, the Meeyero, the Meeteetsee, north
Of the Owl Greek mountains, and, the
cavalry having long sinceN1b been with.
drawn from that section, that was how
tho detail fell on old Fort Frayne.
"You can straighten matters out in
a month";, " said the commanding officer
to Major Wayne, who had hastened
back from the east to take command,
and when it came to selecting the troops
to &C, even though it lacked less than
two months to his wedding day, Will
Farrar gloried in the fact that his was
n Of them. 1t is hard to conceive of a
lot in which a spirited, soIdierly fellow
Of 81 could possibly be happier than
commanding q troop Of cavalry on an
expedition through so glorious a coun.
try. Amory's troop and Leale's were
designated, and, the latter captain being
still in Berlin and the senior subaltern
on staff duty in the east, Farrar his
own captain and troop commander and,
despite the troubles Of the Christmas
season, long since buried SO far as he
was concerned, just about the happiest
Fellow that wore the army blue.
The expedition had proved even Ion
ger'than was planned, but. at last, while
wayne with Anlory and the recaptured
cattle NC rounded up S~hoshones, went
over the owi greek mountains t render
account OF ms stewardshlp at Fort
Washakie, WIN was told 10 make the
Dest Oh ms way homeward with his
commando ana marohing ieisureiy
along IN n radlan spr1ng mornings
.hroueh country uhmatched 1orsWlld
Deau'y III ali america shooting, nsh.
ING, .plunging in mountain streams,