The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-03-16


dictate the policy that should govern
the command of colonel of the fight
ing force, there was no use in remon-
STRANGE. Noon came and no news
from the Cheyenne sheriff. The COM
| handing officer at Russell wired that
he, too. was stripped of his troops,
and had not even cavalry courier
to send after the general with the
startling news that Maj. Burleigh
had vanished with large sums, it was
believed, in his possession. AT one
o'clock came tidings of the fugitive.
He, together with two other men, had
spent the late hours of the night at
the lodgings of one of the party in
Cheyenne, and at dawn had driven
away in orig" hired at local
stable, ostcnsbly to follow the gen.
eral to Laramie. They had kept the
road northwestward on leaving town
were seen passing along the prairie
beyond Fort Russell, but deputies,
sworn in at once and sent in pur-
suit, came back to say the rig had
never gone as far as Lodge Pole. At
six y. m. came further tidings. Lieut..
Loring, engineer officer of the de-
partment, had reached Cheyenne and
was in consultation with the COM
handing officer at Russell. The rig
had been found at Sloan's ranch, far
up Crow creek, where the party had
taken horses and ridden westward
into The Black Hills. In anticipation
of big reward, the sheriff had dep
| ~,
formation as they could gather it was
learned that the name of one of the
parties gone with Burleigh was New
hall, who claimed to he captain in
the army, 'sout there looking after in
yestments"-a captain who was too
busy, however, to go and see the few
fellows of his cloth at the new post
and who was not known to them by
, sight at all. The engineer, Mr.. Lor-
ing, was making minute inquiries
about this fellow, for the description
given him had excited not a little of
his interest.
And so the sun Of the second day
went down on Gate City and Emory,
. and everybody knew Burleigh was
gone. The widest rumors were
- afoat, and while all Fort Emory was
=, in mourning over the tragedy at
; Warrior Gap, everybody in town
:. seemed more wildly concerned in
!, Eurleigh and the cause of his sud
=. den flight AS yet only certain army
:. officers and Mr.. Folsom knew of the
;, startling discovery at the stockade
- that the package was a bogus affair
:, throughout. But all Gate City knew
:, Burleigh had drawn large sums from
= the local bank, many citizens had
= heard that John Folsom was several
- thousand dollars the poorer for his
!. sudden going, and all interest was
> centcred in the coming from Chicago
d of an expert summoned by wire, tc
~ open the huge Office safe at the quar-
! termastcr's depot. The keys had
, gone with Burlcigh. AT the last
J.. moment, after loading up with al
,f the cash his own private safe. con
h tanned, for that was found open ant
>. practically empty in its corner o.
+. his sttingroom. and when he hat
II evidently gone to the Office to get the
g funds there stored, he was confound
if cd by the sight of the two employees
II lie could have ordered them to leav,
~ and then helped himself but con
4 science had made coward of him, ever
20 moro than nature. He saw accuser
i. in every face, and fed. Burleigh hat
10 lost his nerve.
ID Two days went by and excitemen
n was at it's height. All manner of evi
u report of Burleigh was now af1oat
. The story CT the bogus package ha,
been noised abroad through late
messengers and dispatches from tn
r Gap Lieut. Loring had come to For
Emory under the instructions of tn
| department commander, and wha
| those instructions were no man coul
find out from the reticent young off
Ger. If ever youth seemed capabl
of hearing everything and telling
nothing it was this scientist of a dis
tinguished corps that frontiersme
knew too little of. What puzzled Fol
som and old Pecksniff was the pei
sistence with which he followed u
his inquiries about Capt. Newhall. H
even sought an interview with Par
poose and asked her to describe tn
rakish traveller who had so unfayol
ably impressed her. She was lookin
her lovclicst that evening. Jessie wa
radiant once more. A long letter ha
come from Marshall-sad because @
the fate that had befallen his CON
panions. stern because of the ev
Ct dence of the deep-laid plot that s
y nearly made him victim, but moo
III estly glad of the official commend1
rs ton he had received. and rejoicin
u over the surgeons promise that h
could be we'll enough to make tn
I'd march with n command ordered bac
t. to Frayne. Red Clouds people ha
r. scattered far and wide, said he. go
Ell grant they may not turn back to tn
p, SOUTH" He was coming home. H
ne would soon be there. The papers ha
ne told their readers this very mornin
tn that the general had plainly said hi
Ell force was too small to risk furthe
m. assault upon the Sioux. Alarmed 8
ne the result of it's policy, the burea
IL had recommended immediate abal
OH donment of Warrior Gap and til
IT. withdrawal of the troops from the Bi
lie Horn country. The war department
lis therefore. had to hold it's hand. TT
IN Indians had had by long, Ion
'se odds the best of the fight, and pc
RS haps would be content to let we