Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1901-01-10

and he stuck to it closer than al
brother. Early in the day aleather-
lunged Sioux yelled at me that hes|
knew that Bat and / were there, and
they we're going to have great fun
with us particularly me. | knew
what that meant without a map, SO |
told every soldier to save good
cartridge for himself before surrend-
ering to the fiendish tortures, for the
Sioux have very original methods
of making a man die by the most
painful method possible.
Along about the middle Of the
afternoon my red friends who were
waiting to entertain me began to get
very gay and we're growing boldei-
every minute. They had killed all
our horses but five, and thought it
was impossible for US to get away;
in fact, | heard them say so quite
frequently in the gutteral language Of
the. Chesennes. White Antelope
and band of Cheyennes had joined
the war party and his chief began
riiing closer and closer to our trees.
Finally he and another chief, who
was riding about FIVE yards behind
him, came into fairly good range. /
could see the color of his eyes as he
came toward me. | pulled the trigger
of my rifle and both Indians went
down together as a result of the SIN
gle shot. 1t was the first shot from
our party, and the double tragedy
confused tn e Indians. Then our
whole party poured in withering
volley, and l told ssibley it was our
only time to take advantage of their
confusion and get through their line
back to the gully. l waited until
they we're all started back through
the heavy timber, then, taking the
lariat from the saddle OF my dead
horse, followed.
I 1t was a mile from where We
made our stand to the main fork Of
the Tongue river, and the woods
were full of terrible windfaiis and it,
was awfully hard to travel The
first 200 yards the men had to simp-
ly squirm their way through the tinl-9
Der and keep very low. The saw
ages had a comparatively thin line at
our rear, as they knew the character
of the country and thought we would
be helpless without our horses.
"When joined the men | sent
Bat in the lead and covered the
rear. The soldiers took off their
boots and stepped from rock to rock
in order to leave our trail as blind as
possible. About dark heavy rain
storm. with much wind, came up
and soon drowned out the firing that
our foes kept up on our camp. Our
policy of holding our fire SO fooled
them that they did not rush our
camp until the following morning,
fact that / learned later The storm
was wild and terrible, we were
drenched and the timber began to
/ fall around US. We kept in a terri
tory where horses could not travel,
for reasons of our own and we hit an
unblazed trail over the mountains for
/ the following forty-hve hours withorr
a moutliful to eat, Sometimes the
squirrel path was so steep that Bat
land had to pull the soldiers up
lover the rocks with our lassoes.
The following morning at 8
O'Clock we forded Goose creek, the
lcold water coming up to our arm
pits. and at daylight fell in with a
scouting party Of the and cavalry.
Then we went back over the trail
and picked up two OF our exhausted
soldiers that had given up. We had
been under a heavy fire nearly ten
1 hours, had travelled fifty miles over a
terribly rough mountain country,
land during all that time-had not en-
1joyed the luxury Of a ration, as we
were forced to abandon everything
when the Indians sighted US, except
our hope and our ammunition. Yet
4 we never lost a man.
Poor Little Bat! He was in the
lead. Just 10 think Of ii! Nov he
lis snuffed out as the reshlt Of a
cowardly misdeai in a miserable sa-
loon fight.
The speaker cast aside the stump
1.of his cigar and said: where do