Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-01-22

tling there before 1860. He hailed from Kentucky, was over six feet and straight as the barrel of his long carbine, fact well known to his enemies both in Ken lucky and the west He was an aboli- tionist, who left his southern home be- cause of slavery. When he went to Ne braska he had wife and six children, a number later increased to eight by the birth of twins. The oldest was a boy about twenty The next oldest was . girl of sixteen.
 Wiseman built a log cabin on the side of hill near the Missouri river in a re- zion that is still wild and romantic. Woods are dense in the valleys. They abounded with game in the early days.
 Indians were numerous They passed up and down the river in their canoes and roamed by hundreds over the hills.
 At first Wiseman lived on friendly terms with the red men, some of whom were his guests daily, and life in the wilderness was enjoyed by the Wise man family. But the friendly relations between the Kentuckian and the Indi- ans ended in an awful manner, giving place to a deadly hatred and ennity.
 When the civil war broke out Wise man sent his grownup son to the front to fight, and the boy fell in battle
 Wiseman himself Joined a regiment of soldiers to protect the settlers on the frontier against the Indians. who be- came warlike and bloodthirsty when hostlities began in the south. Thus Mrs. Wiseman and seven children were left at home unprotected.
 During the summer of 1862, while the family was in this precarious situation, Mrs. Wseman WAS obliged to 60 to Yankton. N. D., on business. The dis tance she had to travel was not great, being less than tilsyty miles, bat lrog- ress through the wilderness wRs eUw, and she was gone two or thrae days.
 When she returned to her hpu1e an awful discovery swalJ 6 nps 1oaa wRHe door knob was skaaued eah hlGud. The alarmed woman &d pot~daee etAe.. but walked around to the rear 1 the'beuse to look n through window.
 The worst feaps toak posaAsstun of her. Where wese her cfGadre20 Why did they not come BuxktQg ,sEk to unuak her end why did ahe not haat acy sounds fxom than?
 Behind the hoNse lAV 8 hlaN444g A- dian ct the point of dafffh. Re ,hAd ta2t strength enough to roase he an lAs elbow and nasea Ars. Aasenm Qe3th 6 look of u0speAkatle mpAee aeh an. guaah. That look was >neaer el1aad from hermemoxy.
 F1l,ad with textor am, not haN4qg nae hsaFt to &ook Into eae hanse, 1a. QnAe- man-ded fyom me pAae.md A0nAaaetor help to at. James, 2 tso1tser Aepest th1ee m11es away. 4 &aw haRs hlaae she Sefuued wi<h aunpnnV q maa. Thsy entered the hnasa when they 3ound st1e4ched upon che hanr the dead bodies of the Eve osdaat ch11aan Ihe co1pAes were nofrSbly disdeR1nal. stnw. iog that the victims had been hHscbansd an a most brutal manner.
 The two youngest cfdldsen. the sw.iuS could not at first be found. and it was believed that the Indians had carried them away alive to be reared by SQuaws. But such was not the case In searching about the house one of the men opened the door of the oven of the Kitchen stove, where lay, roasted to crisp the bodies of the infants.
 The effect of these shocking disclo- sures upon Mrs. Wiseman was 80 crushing that she broke down both