The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-10-12

the cadets would have taken the
slightest notice of her, mere chit,
with three years Of school still ahead
of her. But all the same it was some
thing TO live over and over again, and
dream of over and over again. and the
seashore seemed very stupid after the
Point. Next year--next June-when
Marshall graduated Jessie was to go
and see that wonderful spot and go
she did with Pappoose, too, and though
it was all as beautiful as Pappoose
had described, and the scene and the
music and the parades and all were
splendid, there was no deliriously
lovely hop, for in those days there
could be no dancing in the midst of
examinations. There was only the one
great ball given by the second TO the
graduating class, and Marshall had so
many, many older girls to dance with
and say good-by to he had only time for
few words with his sister and her
shy, silent little friend with the big
brown eyes to whom he had been so
kind the previous summer, when there
were three hops n week and not so
hOBlSib lOhk hItbbtbs plllls
Marshall had one dance with each, and
introduced nice boys from the lower
classes, and it was all very we'll. only
not what Pappoose had painted, and
Jessie couldn't help thinking and soy
ing It might all have been 80 much
sweeter. II II hadn't been for that odious
Miss Brockway, about whom Marshall
lowered altogether too much, but, like
the little Indian the girls sometimes
said she was, Psppoose looked on and
said nothing.
AL the same, Mr.. Dean had had 4
glorious graduation summer of it.,
though Jessie saw too little of him,
and Pappoose nothing at all after the
breaking Of the class. In September
the girls returned to school, friends
as close as ever, even though little
cloud overshadowed the hitherto un-
broken condolences and Marshall
joined the cavalry, as old Folsom had
suggested, and took to the saddle. the
prairie, the bivouac and buffalo hunt
as though native and to the manner
born. They were building the Union
with dozens of others scattered along
the line, were busy scouting the neigh
borhood, guarding the surveyors, the
engineers. and finally the track-layers,
for the jealous red men swarmed in
myriads all along the way, lacking
only unanimity, organization and lead
ership to enable them TO defeat the
enterprise. And then when the whist
ling engines passed the forks of the
Platte and began to climb up the long
slope Of the Rockies to Cheyenne and
Sherman Pass. the trouble and disaf-
lection spread to tribes far more nu-
merous and powerful further to the
north and northwest; and there rose
above the hordes of warriors chief
whose name became the synonym for
deep-rooted and determined hostility
to the whites-Machpealota (Red
Cloud)-and old John Folsom. he whom
the Indians loved and trusted, grew
anxious and troubled. and went from
post to post with words of warning on
his tongue.
Gentlemen" he said to the commits
sioners who came to treat with the
Sioux whose hunting grounds adioined
the line of the railway, ITS all very
well to have peace with these people
here. 1t Is wise TO cultivate the friend
ship Of such chiefs as Spotted Tail and
Oldham Afraid of His Horses. but
there are irrccoucilablcs beyond them.
tar more numerous and powerful. who
are planning. preaching war this min
ute. Watch Red Cloud. Red Dog. Lit.
tie Big Man. Double, treble your gar
risons at the posts along the Big Horn;
get your women and children out of
them, or else abandon the forts entire
~. | know those warriors well. They
outnumber you twenty to one. Re
enforce your garrisons without DELAY
or get out of that country, one of the
two. Draw everything south of the
Platte while yet there is time"
But wiseacres at Washington said
the Indians we're peaceable, and all
that was needed was a new post and
another little garrison at Warrior Gap.
In the eastward foothills of the range.
Eight hundred thousand dollars would
build 1t, provided the labor of the
troops was utilized" and leave good
margin for the contractors and "the
bureau" And It was to escort the
quartermaster and engineer officer and
an aide-de-camp on preliminary survey
that c troop of the cavalry, Capt.
Brooks commanding, had been sent on
the march from the North Platte al
Fetterman TO the headwaters Of the
Powder river in the Hills. and with IT
went it's new first lieutenant, Marshall
Dean. .,..,.