The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-26
FOUGHT WITH "BUFFALO BILL
R. T. Walker of Waterbury Was a Comrade of the Great Scout on the
 Plains 30 Years Ago,

| 1 Plains 30 Years Ago
 Robert J. Walker, a salesman for the
 L. F. Haase company of this city, is 1T receipt of an autograph letter from Col William F. Cody C'Buffalo Bilp) witt
 whom he fought Indians out Wes
 years ago. In the letter Col. Cody says;
 My Dear Walker-Your welcome Ia | vor brought to memory the scenes of 3t years ago. when we were fighting nos 1 tile indians on the plains. Times have | changed, as you say. Come out to the | Wild West that I will bring to Water l bury and witness the familiar scenes of
 Indian fighting and the battle of San
 Juan-a great battle scene the best
 ever produced. Your old friend and
 comrade,
 "W. F. CODY" MT. Walker fought through the war
 of the Rebellion, at the close of which he
 was a member of the Fifth Cavalry.
 Soon after the suppression of the Re
 bellion the Indians through the differ
 ent regions and territories inhabited by
 them exhibited a disreputable desire
 and disposition to make trouble for the
 white settlers in those sections and for
 the government. Some of the worst of
 their actions occurred in the spring of
 1S69 Among other of their hellish acts
 was that at Medicine Bow, Nebraska,
 as early as May I, by burning and pill
 laging small settlements and isolated farms on which new emigrants had started their little home on land grants under the hom estead law of the United States government. Just before that
 time the Fifth regiment of United States Cavalry, of which Mir Walker was a member, were sent to those fields to subdue the fiendish redskins, whose mode of warfare upon defenseless set tiers and women and children was un- worthy to be, called American Indian warfare.
 After a deal of severe service and some reinstatement to the troublesome redskins a fair subjection of them was considered wrought by the breaking up of a large band of Sioux and Chey- ennes. Later serious trouble broke out again at Summit Springs and vicinity in Colorado, to which the Fifth Cavalry had been ordered and which they reached after many hard march over hills. mountains and prairie under the guidance of Buffalo Bill" who was then comparatively unknown to the people in the East, but who is now famous in two continents surely and known as a born gentleman and loyal hero.
 The Indian camp at Summit Springs (before mentioned was attacked and fought four hours, resulting in com plete defeat to the Indians, a total of 1S6 of them being killed many wounded | and 1900 head of stock and 80 lodges | Cor tepees) and all of. their stores of dried meats, of which they had abund- ance, were captured. In this battle the | troops were under command of Gen. F. | A. Carr, famous fighter Two white women also who were prisoners were one Maria Weigel, a Swede who had but very recently come over from her native home to join her husband with her four children; the other woman called Susanna, who had been captive for about two years. She vas shot and killed by the redskins when they found that defeat was cer- ain and that she was to be recaptured. Mrs. Weigel was shot in the breast. meaning to kill her, as they had killed Ter husband and her four children; put she was captured alive, and so ared for as to recover from her wounds liter about three months The boys of he Fifth Cavalry contributed to her elief a purse of $500. Susanna" was ,iven Christian burial the next day liter the battle. Her body was in the finest buffalo robe selec- ed from the great number of the many hat were captured from the Indians. The story of Mrs. Weigel concerning her reatment at the hands of her captors ntitles them to the title of "hellish red kinned fiends, only to be compared with the being once known as "Wirz" hough he performed the desires of his those who he only excelled q nerve to execute hellish deeds con- eived by them. l