, 1900-06-23

SHOW III our l1CeS. Inc tuerIlUHltueT
dropped about 40 degrees and it got
colder than a Klondike Christmas.
The snow piled in great drifts over the
trail, and it was with difficulty hat we
found our way. 1 had a horse, but |
let the men ride it, one after the other,
as they got too tired to push on. In
spite of all the obstacles we made
about thirteen miles a day, blowing
through the snow, and the cavalry did
not overtake us until we were within
twenty miles of the rendezvous Of the
Indians.
when the colonel came up he was
riding in a sleigh drawn by two horses
and bundled up with as many robes
as a Russian prince. He told me to
hurry up, and went on with his sleigh
bells jingling in the frosty air like the
chimes OF a cathedral. l asked him to
take the bells off his horses, INT he
finally did so. If he had refused we
wouldn't have found an Indian within
| wv 4 VI DN"l llNNls We SlODDtAl
fro the night about five miles from the
canyon where the redskins were To-
Gated. and pushed on in the morning a
little before daybreak.
When we got to Bear river we
found the cavalry already there and
they were hanging awav with tbair
carbines as If thew were slauphterinp
the enemy Inv hundreds Nv men
laughed at the idea of fighting Indians
in that fashion and asked where the
Indians were One of the canta;ns
of the cavalry renIied that thew were
on the other side of the river in a
gulch If was the most r~idicuIous
thing O ever saw for NOT one Of the
copper-colored rascals was in sight.
being wasted TO have exterminate the
whole tribe. The colonel turned to me
and said.
".Cantain take vour comnanv
across tbe river and drive the cusses
ont of the canvon bevond'
81 knew that there were about 400
Indians oyer there and T had only
forty or Bftv men but 7 didn't wait IN
he told n second time. went down IN
he river to reconno;tar and found tho
stream about 100 feet across with hi,
cakes of ice floating down its swift
current The Norman guides said If
was fordable and 7 took nv comnany
down NV horse came in good NAV
for he carried about twenty men across
in four trims either astride Of him or
holding onto his tail to keen from
lbeinp swent awav nv the current
made a rim for the canvon which was
hout n ouarter nj a mile on the other
side When we reached II the Indians
who had been living in ambush. gave n
veil and LET us have If Some of them
had rifles and The rest were armed
with bows and arrows The way the
bulIets and arrows whistled around us
made rs get to cover had been in
the Indian country too long to stand
I'M and get shot inst for the sake of
saving that T was not afraid At tho
very first whooD all of lis burrowed in
the snow and got behind rocks and
trees and tonight the Indians in their
own fashion
"Tben followed a fight that would
do vour heart good to see. There was
not n man in the bunch who could not
draw a head fine enough tn knock the
every time an Indian showed his head
he vas bowled over with a bullet
+ broug his skull No one fired fill he
saw his man and very frequently a
]nuietus would he mt to a redskin by
two of the bovs at the same moment
There was no ceremony about the en-
counter 7 didn't have a sword. It
would have ben as useless as a lady's
fan Rut 7 used nv rifle and the old
Colt "A hat 7 had carried through the
Meyican war I'LL the barrels were as
hot as II thew had been mt in a fur
mace
mot n man was killed nv the In
dions The cavalry kent firing over
from tbe other side of the river and I
had to send a man out to tell them to
stop it. Their bullets kept pattering
among ,s till il looked as though they
were more anxious to win us out than