Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-12

 Into the open country and there sur round and slowly annihilate it, while then, or at their leisure later, his chosen ones should set fire to the un- protected stockade and bear off those of the women or children whose years did not commend them to the mercy of the hatchet. Soldiers and thinking men soor saw the colonel was right and that the only mistake he had made war in allowing any of the garrison to go forth at all. But this verdict was not published, except long after as un- important news and ia some obscure corner. The Laramie column, so the news ran, was hastening down tho Powder river to strike Red Cloud. The Indians would be severely punished, etc, etc. But old Folsom's face grew whiter as he read that such orders had been sent and that the general himself was now at Laramie directing matters. "In Gods name,'' urged he. If you have any influence with the general. tell him not to send a foot column chasing horSemen anywhere, and above all not to follow down the Powder. Next thing you know Red Cloud and ell his young men will have slipped around their flank and come galloping back to the Platte, leaving the old men and women and wcrnout ponies to make tracks for the heap walks to follow"
 And Stevens listened dumbly. h. fuence he had never had. Folsom might be right, but it was a matter in which he was powcrless. When a depot quartermaSter. said he, could dictate the policy that should govern the command of q colonel of the fight ing force, there was no use in remon- strance. Noon came and no news from the Cheyenne sheriff. The com- handing officer at Russell wired that he, too, was stripped of his troops, and had not even a cavalry courier to send after the general with the startling news that Maj. Burleigh had vanished with large sums, it was believed, in his possession. At one o'clock came tidinGs of the fugitive. He, together with two other men, had spent the late hours of the night at the lodgings of one of the party i'll Cheyenne, and at dawn had driven away in a rig" hired at local stable, ostensibly to follow the gen eral to Laramie. They had kept the road ncrthwestward on leaving town were seen paSsir. along the prairie beyond Fort Russell, but deputies, sworn in at once and sent in pur- suit, came back to say the rig had never gone as far as Lodge Pole. At six p. m. came further tidings. Lieut. Loring, engineer officer of the de- partment, had reached Cheyenne and was in consultation with tAe com 1narding officer at Russell. The rig had been found at Sloan's ranch, far up Crow creek, where the party had taken horses and ridden westward into the Black Hills. In anticipation of big reward, the sheriff had dep uties out in pursuit. From such in formation as they could gather it was learned that the name of one of the parties gone with Burleigh was New hall, who claimed to be a captain ill the army, -'out there looking after in yestments"-a captain who was too busy, however, to go and see the few fellows of his cloth at the new post and who was not known to them by sight at all. The engineer, MT. Lor- ing, was making minute inquiries about this fellow, for the description s his interest.
 And so the sun of the second day went down on Gate City and Emory, and everybody knew Burleigh was gone. The widest rumors were ahoat, and while all Fort Emory was in mourning over the tragedy at Warrior Gap, everybody in town seemed more vividly concerned in Burieigh and the cause of his sud den flight. As yet only certain army officers and MT. Folsom knew of the startling discovery at the stocllade that the package was a bogus affair throughout. But all Gate City knew Burleigh had drawn large sums from the local bank, many citizens had heard that John Folsom was several thousand dollars the poorer for his sudden going, and all interest was centered in the coming from Chicago of an expert summoned by wire, to open the huge office safe at the quar- termaster's depot. The keys had gone with Burleigh. At the last moment, after loading up with all the cash his own private safe con- tained, for that was found open and Soi his sitting-room, and when he had evidently gone to the office to get the funds there stored, he was confound- ed by the sight of the two employees. He could have ordered them to.leave and then helped himself. but con- science had made coward of him, even more than nature. He saw accusers in every face, and fled. Burleigh had lost his nerve.
 Two days went by and excitement was at it's height. All manner of evil report of Burleigh was now afioat. The story of the bogus package had been noised abroad through later messengers and dispatches from the Gap. Lieut.. Loring had come to Fort Emory under the instructions of the department commander, and what those instructions were no man could find out from the reticent young off, cer. If ever 8 youth seemed capable of hearing everything and telling uOthinr it was this scientist of a dis