The sun., 1898-01-31
THE SURVIVOR LIVES HERE.
John Guth hrie Who Was at the Fort
Phil kearney Massacre is II
Resident of this City.

Resident of this City.
John 7. Guthrie, of COZ King street,
bears distinction of which he is very
proud.
He is the only survivor of one of the
greatest Indian massacres Of late years.
He is an old fighter and has been ser
iously considering the advisability of
rushing into the fight for Cuban liberty.
In speaking of wars and fighting, Mr..
Guthrie said yesterday
"The war now in progress i'll the
lonely little colony OF Cuba and the
many Cubans who have been massacred
by the bloodthirsty Spaniards has brought
to my mind the following massacres
by the Indians who had the same brute
spirit that isexhibited by the Spaniards "
The familiar knowledge OF portions OF
the frontier and its military posts in the
region of Yellowstone Park the opportu-
nifty to make pen pictures OF notable
places and disasters in the military SER
vice of United States as follows:
The Fort Phil kcarney mas
sacre of which John Guth-
ri 's is the only survivor of Co., {, Sec
ond Cavalry and who assisted at the
scene after the butchery and also de-
scribes the following places in this man
ner. Fort Fletcher, on the Smoky Hill,
AMI the old Butterfcld Mail Route, which
was an old dug out fort. Here the sol
dicrs relieved the Fourteenth Alabama
Regiment in 1865, which consisted OF gal
vanizedYanks-a galvanized Yank is a
rebel prisoner who took the oath of al
ligiance and enlisted in the United States
Army, was placed on the frontier to kill
Indians during the late war. At this
Fort was the first occasion to hoist the
glorious Stars and Stripes.
By permission of the command, the
rebels were received under the unfurled
Confederate flag. They having no other
and in their patriotism glad to be re.
lieved, manifested their cordial welcome
under the bars, after which they blended
the stars and stripes with a shout. At
this fort we wintercd during '65 and '66
and suffered great hardships, by reason
of the extreme cold. 1t was here they
lost Lieutenant Allen and eight men and
twelve horses. The snow being six feet
deep, they made snow shoes out of
cracker boxes, and fed the horses on
cottonwood brush. These are memoir
able days, and trials that tried the souls
of the very stoutcst men.
The following spring Of 'GG, they
marched over territory Of wilderness,
of mountains and of streams to what
is now one of the Dakota states, at Fort
Casper, where the North and South
Platte make acquaintance.
The Platte River at this point is about
as wide as the Delaware at this place,
though generally fordable. At this
fort is where Lieutenant Bingham took
command. They were restocked with
horses, the old ones had all their names
and tails worn off for lack of fodder
General Palmer said that they looked
like lot of wild gorillas. From this
wilderness they were guided by old
Bridger to the Rockies to Fort Benton on
the Yellow Stone. Brdger was chief
guide of the plains-employed by the
government, ranked as Major, all old
Forty-niner
This Bridger was st. Louis boy, was
orig finally a trapper out there and famil-
lar with the Wild West, and afterwards
became Big Chief of the Crow Indians
He had two licutenants as guides at his
command.
IABonte, first lieutenant, was a trap
rer, was MAJ ricd to a squaw and had a
stream named after him (LeBonte), and
vas killed at the Phil kearncy massacre
His second lieutenant was Jack Steel.
He was called Buffalo Jack, and was
killed at the battle Of Big Medicine Bow
Mountain, and stream called Steel
Creek, was called after him, being near
the Sweet Water. This was before the
notoriety of Buffalo Bill.
Before reaching Fort Benton they
stopped at Fort Laramie. Here they fir t
saw old Red Cloud and Sitting Bull
who had come here to make a treaty
with General Palmer. After treaty was
e,,cled, the Indians were given a lot
q, old flint lock nuskcts, which they
used tp shoot the United States soldiers,
the regular Indian style-"a treaty i'll
one hand Il scalp in the other"
After he hutchcry at "Phil kcarncy
Fo't' the Indians were seen at Pine
Ridge, wearing ''Nompany" C's second
Cavalry cothcs-onc Indian beng
vi IlDiH'i III N'i''iNi t'iiiiHii = iliil-
form and also equipped with the arms
captured lrom oar slaughtered com.
radcS OF Company &C."
August l>'ij-light Companies "f gal
vauiz,d Yank 5 at TT. Lara;;ir We're dis
charged from tn" Military Service Of the
United States. That seems to have given
rise tu titr order or proclamation of An
drew Johnson, then acting President OF
the United States, that the late war was
not ended until the date Of such dis
charge, August 18th, 1866.
About this time was the trouble wnE
tn indians in that they butcllercd cni
grants by the wholesale at a point
twcntv-iour miles from TT. Reno, al
Crazy Woman's Fork-5O families were
slain by Red Cloud and his band, the
burial OF these murdered clngran,s bcin,
performed by Go. "C' Of Second Cavalry
by direction OF United States Govern
mrnt.
Then the Government opened an order
that no enigrants be permitted to cross
tie plain. unless the train embraced one
hundred wagons and was accompanied
by a United States military force
Wunll remark that the said Graz,
Wyu,n'S fork is historic place-qnit'
numt cr Of iory-niners being bnrcC
there also soldiers of United States arm,
rest there.
I',}lMnS To HEART DISEASE