Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-08-15
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vantage ground.
He was led by the chief into the
prairie about four hundred yards from
the main body of savages, and turned
loose to save himself if he could
A tremendous yell let him know that
the whole pack of blood hounds were
off in full cry.
Golfer flew, rather than ran, but he |
had six miles of prairie to traverse
before he could reach JeFers.n's fork
of the Missouri; how coul., he hope to
hold out such a distance with the
fearful odds of several hundred to
one against him?
The plain, too. aboundeG with the
prickle pear, which wounded his
naked feet. Still he fed on, dreading
each moment to hear the twang of a
bowstring, and to feel all arrow quiv-
ering at his heart
He did not even dare to look back.
lest he should lose az inch uf that
distance on which his life depended.
He has ran nearly half way across the
riain when the sound If pursuit grew
S, mewhat fainter, and he ventured TO
turn his head. The main body of his
pursuers were a CONSIDERABLE distance
l. Of h1
were scattered in the advance, while
a swift-footed warrior, arme! with
spear, was not more than one hundred
yards behind him.
Inspired with new hope Golfer re-
doubled his exertions, but strained
himself to such a degree that the
l'ood gushed FROM his mouth AMI
nostrils and streamed down his breast.
He arrived within mile of the river.
The sound of foot-sters: gathered upcn
him. A glance behind showed his
pursuer within twenty yards and pre-
pairing to launch his spear.
Stopping short, he turned round and
spread out his arms. The savage con-
founded by this sudden action, at
tempted to stop and hurl his spear;
but fell in the very act. His spear
struck in the ground and the shaft
broke in his hand. Golfer plucked up
the pointed part, pinned the PROSTATE
savage to the earth and continued his
flight.
The Indians as they arrived at their
slaughtered companion, stopped to
hover over him. Golfer made the
most, Of this precious delay, gained
the skirt of cottonwood bordering the
river, dashed through it and plunged
into the stream. He swan to a neigh
boring island, against the upper end
of which driftwood had lodged in such
quantities as to form a natural raft
Under this he dived, and swan below
water until he succeeded in getting a
breathing place between the floating
trunks of trees, whose branches and
bushes formed a covert several feet
above the level Of the water He
had scarcely drawn breath after his
tolls, when he heard his pursuers on
the river bank, whooping and yelling
like so many fiends. They plunged
into the river and swan to the raft.
The heart of Golfer almost died within
him as he saw them through the
chinks of his concealment, passing
and re-passing, seeking for him in all
directions.
They at length gave up the search,
and he began to rejoice in his escape,
when the idea presented itself that
they might set the raft on fire. Fortu-
nately this idea did not suggest itself
to the Indians. AS soon as it was
dark, finding by the silence around
that his pursuers had departed, Golfer
dived again and came up beyond the
raft. He then swan silently down
the river for a considerable distance,
when he landed and travelled on all
night, to get as far as possible from
that dangerous neighborhood.
BY daylight he had gained a suflci-
ent distance to relieve him from the
terrors Of his savage foes; but new
sources of inquietude presented them
selves.
He was naked and alone in the
midst of an unbounded wilderness;
his only chance was to reach a trad.
ing post situated on branch Of the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Even should he elude his pursners,
dave mIist e1anaa ehefore he co,1ll'