Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-09-01


us stopped to inquire where the bulle
come from. We knowed there wan
nothin but Indians doin that sort O
business, and SO we Lit out
There was only one place to go, ant
that was up the mountain, and so W.
went up there. 1t amt a high noun
tain, but UT 80 the top it's kind of like
fort. The sides, except one Of them
run straight up for so feet or so, and
! no one can't climb them. The other
side slants down pretty steep, but sc
you can get up all right. We had all
seed the place and had talked about it.
casuallike, before, sayin as how il
would be just the place to go if the In.
dams got after us.
! They was after us now, and we was
there. The only trouble was that we
didn't have nothin with us but our
J guns. We had lit out 50 fast that all
7 the grub was left in camp. We knowed
that with the shape Of the mountain
there want no danger of the Indians
getttn to us, for we could stop them
as fast as they tried to come up But
we was worried as to the grub cues
| ton.
Indians amt no fools, even if they
| act like it sometimes, and them Naya-
| joes soon made up their mind that we
had mighty little grub with us. They
| found that out from the looks of the
camp, and, as they knowed that noun
tain as well as we did, they didn't try
to come up 1t.
"For a couple Of days we got along
all right. We was hungry, Of course,
but we amused ourselves poppin at the
Indians whenever they showed from
cover, and when we hit one, as we did
now and then, it was almost as good as
meal. At least we tried to think it
was.
but an empty stomach is 8 pretty
tough thing to forget, and we were be-
ginnin to wonder how long we could
hold out, when one mornin we seed
the Girl Of Wild Horse Run She was
a-comin along our trail at the foot Of
the mountain. 1t was evident that she
didn't know that the Indians was there,
but knowed they was out and was
comm to warn us in a general way.
''As soon as we seed her we did our
best to let her know that she was rfdin
into quick trouble. We started a |
smudge with blanket and fired cou-
pie Of shots to attract her attention.
She saw we was on the top Of the
mountain, and she knowed we was
there for our health, so she turned and |
lit out.
'The Indians seen her about that |
time, and they took after her. She had
good two mile the start, but her pony
had been on the road for some time.
lots of spunk in q good mustang, and +
we all hoped that she would get away |
all right. AS she went down the valley |
we could see that she was not headin
for the Run, but for the stage station,
which was a good 20 mile away. We
was doubtful about her pony holdin
out ag'in the fresh ones of the Indians
for that distance, but there want moth
in we could do to help her, and SO we
staid where we was.
ut seemed to make the Indians kind
of wrathy to have had her comm round
that way, and they began takin chance
shots at us. They didn't hit any Of us,
but they made us lie low where before
we had been standin up and movin
round pretty much as we pleased.
"All the rest of the day we didn't do
much but wonder how that there girl
had come out of the fix she was in. 1t
was all done to help US, and we know
ed it, and that made us feel like we
was responsible for her. Wonderin
didn't do no good, but we was still at
it when we heard shot down the val
ley. 1t didn't come from where the
Indians had camped, and we lighted
fire as signal like. When the fire
blaZed up, there was some more shots.
''1t was kind of dusky in the mornin
then, and we couldn't see well, but we
soon made out about so men comm up
was white men, and then we knowed
we was all right.
"We come down from that mountain
almost as fast as we went up it, but
he Indians was gone. They had va
noosed durin the night. When we
come up to the men, we found they
was lot Of freighters from the sta
ion. The girl was there, they said.
She had beat the Indians out in the
ace, but she was in pretty bad shape.
.or she had one bullet clean through |
Ter, and another had broke her arm.
1--WE went to the station as fast as
We could. When we got there, we seed
here was nothin we could do. 1t was
90 late for anything but to tell her we
moved we owed our lives to her. She
vas too weak to say anything in an
;wer when we told her. So we just