The National tribune., 1898-04-14

what had been discovered, fed the country
But one. named Salers. was known to be
still in the hills. and orders were given to
get him. dead or alite and it was intimated
that the firstnamed condition would
| make the thing surest though there was
no thought Ct summary disposing OF him
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After long patient and dangerous search
he was at length located at cabin stu
AID several miles from any highway,
among the hills, and on the top of one,
where was a clearing of some two or three
| acres, and to which access was had by q
path only wide enough for the party TO
pass singly, and so rough that the men
dsmounted and led their horses.
AS they emerged from the timber they
were seen, and Salers attempted to es-
cape but was run down and captured by
one who had mounted before gaining the
cleared ground.
In the house-if house it could be called
were four women, and the whole lot was
squalid beyond belief. All the belongings.
persons included, were mot worth half n
dollar" as one of the scouts remarked E.
After the prisoner had been secured, one
of the females recognized the scout who
had marked down" the game, and the
torrent of abuse and profanity poured upon
him is probably by him remembered still.
At little riverside hamlet six or eight
miles up the river from Gallatin the Union
forces had taken possession of sawmili
and were running 1T to supply lumber for
use in town
A man named Pollard, who had deserted
from the rebel army, started in to, bush
wliack the man employed to work the mill
and one morning the latter, badly scared,
went to Headquarters and asked to have
Pollard hunted down, as, owing to the situa-
ton of the mill on the river bank, the OPP
posite one lined with thick allows, al
fording the would-be assassin good cover,
he was at any time exposed to fire.
The Sergeant was ordered to take as
many men as he thought necessary and
make the arrest. The little town was a
moral Gehenna. Situated at the foot OF a
steep hill it could be closely approached
without much risk OF discovery.
Two men rode to the river bank to pre-
vent escape in that direction, two more 10
the house OF Pollard mother, and with
two more left in the streets for general 90
servation went with the remaining Jour
to a GROCERY kept by one OF his friends,
and where the scouts expected to ina MIN.
The movements were made at a ftli run,
and the horses had scarcely halted before
we were inside the building AT small
table sat three men, each with hand OF
cards. while a fourth hand lay on the floor.
All denied any knowledge OF the present
location of the fourth man, and the search
began When all the rooms had been
looked through the attic, a dark hole
reached by a scuttlc in the ceiling, was
carefully searched, q candle in one mana
and pistol in the other of the hunter, and
access made easier by a box placed on
pile of dried hides under the aperture.
But the man was not found, and search
of his, mothers dwelling was ordered. A
blcar eyed woman, mad with drink ana
armed with a club, met the party at the
door. and refused to admit them. When
pushed aside, she aimed a blow at the
foremost man which, had it reached his
head. would have ended his soldering; but
her arm was CAUGHT and the catastrophe
saverted The culprit could not be found,
but under the straw Of his bed loaded
Enfield rifle, cavalry saber, and gray
uniform, were found, and duly appropri-
ated; the u1ifotri, las it fitted one OF the
scouts, was later I'm used as a disguise,
and clad in itia little Frenchman fwho,
when he had e ont was from louisiana
ordered several good dinners "for South
ern soldiers" Only 20 have US come along
an hour later, Rapture him and fill our
stomachs with ti;e best the house afforded
and be withheld" Lby the angry sympa-
thizer'S looks.
Pollard was captured few days later,
and said that Re had lain in the corner of
the room, curled up like a rat under the
dry hides. whiie me climbed over them in
our search He clhimed treatment due
toward a prisoner of war. and after a long
delay was sent Ncrth to prison for ex-
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