The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-05-04

Lieutenant Dent made up a detail con-
+ sistfng Of myself was a corporal and
acting sergeant-and four prlyates, tor
a little trip into the mountains thirty
fFe miles away, because word had
come that there was "a station up there,
and the occupiers Of it might get trout
blesome.
$50 the six OF US started, the lieuten-
ant leading. You have to be mighty
careful when you're trailing the willy
little brown man. We made camp That
night all right, and ate cold grub lne
next morning we reached the nils
About noon We began TO climb through
Payo pass.
That was a beautiful place for an
ambush. The trail was just wide
j enough for q. mule 10 walk IN and hea-
! vily wooded on both sides--yOu couldn' {
see through the underground Tor ten
1 feet. We Went right into that, taking
I our chances I was bringing up the
I rear guard, about 100 yards back.
Z knew Il was mighty ticklish for me,
/ and / guess I brought nay Krag 10 my
l shoulder every time a leaf moved.
4 .Fhen 1 heard a move, for sure, inst
I ahead of me, and before / knew It the
/ trail IN front and on ali sides was nlled
( with little men, griHing to themselves
I and waving their bol0s. OF course. /
thought ii was goodbye Cor me, and I
1 don't know what I thought Of; tfley, say
/ men always think Of something ia such
! a. crisis. I believe / thought I hadn' Z
/ time 10 bring my rifle up before they
/ were on me. All j could do was to
/ jump against a bank, use my rifle as a
! club and take them as they came.
They came AL righr, and came all
i together I took a short grip, and we
i had it out 1t was swing, cut and
i swing for US all. know ]. got a cou-
i pie Of them. but could feel them get
ting me They We're all after my neck
| the F1hpinOs always so Tor the neck
and 1 could tell every time they
y F.,f1.-
Lone side Of me, swinging together and
II / could feel them three times that they
II got me on the shoulder.
Then, one fellow behind them was
i after my waist He was 50 crowded
that he couldn't get a fair swing; but
I felt him once. when he landed good
and hard. Then another fellow, a
/ black man, tried for my legs. 10 cut
me down. He swept up with his bOlo.
and Just as he caught me ON the inner
side OF my leg / caught him. ] saw ]
/ WAS getting mighty weak by this time,
but j wanted to get some more You
see, they had sea tered out, and were
trying for my head. i was one, Two,
three on my head, and if I hadn had
my campaign hai6 on it would have
I been all up with nae. See here's my
1 first three" jackson showed three
. deep fluctuations on the right and left
sides OF his skull They were each
+ more than an inch long.
Then. the first thing knew, r got ar
awful one in the back Of the neck. Z
: thought the top of my head YVES gone
Look at that one, JUST at the base OF
: 1.-THE skull was wound three Inches lona
and an inch deep. But / kept gofng
and then / got a fair one on the top OF
my herd and went down and -Our
: These things ''-he held up both hands
showing vivid red scars across tht
backs which leave him only the use
{ OF his thumb and first finger-s'thes
gave me after I had fallen. You see
they had started to trim me up anC
they would have. done SO had not Lieu.
tenant Dent suspected something and
come back.
the gang that they scO0ted. But thel
: left seven dead behind them. There Il
Z / where that bOl0 i showed you came in
[ It belonged to The man I got in from
OF me. The rust omit is my blood.
Everybody. said, of course that
was gone But pretty soon / recovered
cOnscI0uSneSs asld said I would wall
= BACK TO the river They couldn't bottle
III WITH litter in that country. Se--
E !, walked back, and Il was pretty hard
guess if it hadn't been for the rneI
7 holding me up / never could have don,
Z It, We got to a little settlement and i
2 was decided TO take me back TO Viral
+ III a boat Virac was the. nearest 0l acr
= where there was a surgeon and band
2 ages and mad TO wait fill we SO
z That was only six days trim. I
: was l56 miles by river and for six day
remained in that boat I was out o
: my mead most Of the time: butenot
:. bandage or dressing for a single burt
:. All this time the other men were ii
\ night and day to keep. from getfin-
q surprised
We'll, we got back to Vifac.s and "a
y surgeon had hold of me They said
a hadn't a chance in the world. but
8 fooled them. I was in theeh osBitaF froh
J. OCT p TO Dec. 4, and came out ii1st a
r you see me now. I was 40 good am
more for soldier, and they sent M
y there is to il. I don't know ~ st r ~
+ gong to do nOAE What can DO VII
e THESE things 2'f and Jackson looked a
II bis manned hands