Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-05-31

.,Tbare was only one place TO go, and
,bot was up the mountain, and so we
.-.ort M there 1t amt high noun
+ain but up TO the top it's kind of like
FORT The sides, except one of them,
r,,n straight up for 30 feet or so, and
~ onp can't climb them. The other
side slants down pretty steep. but so
rou can get up all right. We had all
Good the place aud had talked about it,
cosualike. before, sayin as how it
would be Just the place to go If the In
dians got after us,
"lbev was after us now, and we was
there. The only trouble was that we
admit have nothin with us but our
,,rns We had lit out so fast that all
,ba Grub was left in camp. We knowed
-bst with the shape of the mountain
.bpre want no danger of the Indians
ceftip to us, for we could stop them
AZ fast M they tried to come up. But
,ra was worried as to the grub ques-
ton.
"Indians amt no fools, even if they
act like it sometimes, and them Nava-
i,as soon made up their nina that we
fad mighty little grub with us. They
fonud that out from the looks of the
camp. and. as they knowed that noun
rain MS well as we did, they didn't try
10 come up it.
"For a couple of days we got along
all right. We was hungry, of course
Int 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
q neal At least we tried to think it
was
But an empty stomach is a pretty
touch thing to forget, and we were be-
ciuuin to wonder how long we could
hold ont. when one mornin we seed
tbp Girl of Wild Horse Run She was
a.comin along our trail ut the foot of
tbe mountain. 1t was evident that she
didn't know that the Indians was there,
nut knowed they was out and was
comm to warn us In a general way.
"As soon rs we seed her we did our
best to let her know that she was ridin
into quick trouble. We started a
smudge with a blanket and fired a 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
a good two mile the start, but her pony
had been on the road for some time,
and it was gettin tired. Still there IS
lots Of spunk in a 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 good 90 mile away. We
was doubtful about her pony holdin
out 9g'n the fresh ones of the Indians
for TINT distance, but there want moth
in We could do to help her, and so we
staid where we was.
at seemed TO make the Indians kind
of wrathy to have had her comm round
that way, and they began takin chance
shots at MS 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
il when we heard a shot down the val
ley II didn't come from where the
Indians had camped, and we lighted a
fire as a signal like When the fire
blazed mp, there was some more shots.
ut was Kind of dusky in the mOrnin
then, and we couldn't see well, but we
foon made out about 80 men comm up
! Ae valley. In a minute we seed they
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
The Indians was gone. They had va
mooSed duun the night. When we
come up to the men, we found they
was a lot Of freighters from the sta
uoa The girl was there, they said.
Nhe had beat the Indians out in the
uea, but she was in pretty bad shape
l'f saa had one bullet clean through
us'. aud another had broke her arm.
We went to the station as fast as
we could. When we got there, we seed
ueIe was nOthin we could do. 1t was
100 late for anything but to tell her we
14oWed we owed our lives to E'r. She
was too weak to say anything in an
s"| when we told her So we just
~. around and wet her lips when they
''l a'y and tried to do what we could
Y make ner easier
Ssh. seemed to know all that was 20
f 0ar aud one OF the eastern men
...s.t 1t might make her feel easier
aa9ay prayed So he, bein the
WY .ae VINO Enowed much about IL
~. IT, and we all kneeled down. lie
o'A us how we all knowed that the
-. WIS arln because she had give hel
save ourn, and he told the Lord
"" hoped that, IL il was possible