The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1901-04-11


Point. Next year--next June-when
Marshall graduated Jessie was 20 20
and see that wonderful spot, and 20
she did with Pappoosc, too, and though
IL was all Ms beautiful as Pappoose
had described, and the scene and the
music and the pnrndcs 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 tile
graduating class, and Marshall had so
many, many older girls to dance with
and say good-by to he had only time for
a 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 week and not SO
many hoppcrs In long dresses. Still,
Marshall had one dance with each, and
introduced nice boys from the lower
classes, and II was oil very well, only
not what Pnppoose had painted, and
Jessie couldn't help thinking and say
Ing IL might all have been so much
sweetcr II IL hadn't been for that odious
Miss Brockway, about whom Marshall
hovered altogether too much. but, like
the little Indian the girls sometimes
said she was, Pappoose looked on and
said nothing.
All the same, Mr.. Dean had had q
glorious graduation summer Of II,
though Jessie saw too little Of him,
and Pappoose nothing at nll after the
breaking of the class. In September
the girls returned to school, friends
as close rs ever, even though little
cloud overshadowcd the hitherto un-
broken condolences, and Marshall
joined the cavalry, rs 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 | hion
Pacific then. and he and his troop,
with dozens OF others scattered along
the line, were busy scouting The n igh-
borhood, guarding the surveyors, the
engineers, and finally the track-la, crs,
for the jealous red men swarmtl in
myriads all along the way, lacEing
only unanimity. organization aud l,ad-
crship 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 d. ,af'
fcction spread 20 tribes far mere nu,
merous and powerful further. to the
north and northwest; and there lose
above the hortlcs of warriors a ciiei
whose name became the synonym fol-
decp-rooted and determined host, ity
to the whites -Mnchpcalota liict
Cloud) and old John Folsom. hc wi on
the Indians loved and trusted, grew
anxious and troubled, and went from
post to post with words of warning OF
his tongue.
Gentlemen" he said to the commits
sioners who came to treat with tn,
Sioux whose hunting grounds adjoine,
the line of the railway, "its all yer,
well to have peace with these people
here. II Is wise to cultivate the friend
ship OF such chiefs as Spotted Tail AM
Oldham Afraid of His Horses, bu
there are irreconcilablcs beyond them
far more numerous and powerful, VIII
are planning, preaching war this min
ute. Watch Red Cloud, Red Dog, Lit
tie Big Man. Double, treble your gar
risons Mt the posts along the Big Horn
get your women and children out o
them, or else abandon the forts entire
ly. | know those warriors well. The
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