The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-14

dian. She instantly recognised him as the slayer of the elder Parker. With out charge, judge or jury, the red skin was given quick passage to his happy hunting grounds.
 William Donohoo. big-hearted American merchant In Santa Fe, N. Ne aided by some traders on the old Sam
 ta Fe trail, redeemed Mrs. Hummer
 from an unspeakably brutal captivity. These traders found her in the wild fastnesses of the Rocky Mountains so far. north of Santa Fe that 1t took sev- | enteen days to reach that frontier town After a year and six months of | awful captivity. she was given a royal reception. In a short while. MT. Don ohoo and his good wife carried her to her brother-in-law, a MT. Nixon of Independence, Mo. Tn 1858. MT. Nixon took Mrs. Plummer to her fathers | house. Twenty-one months of un5 ! speakable captivity had worn away. | During all this while she did not know | the fate of her baby from whom she
 was separated, and the child born six | months after her capture was brutally | murdered in her presence.
 | There Is a remarkable thing about l the history of Mrs. Hummer. She was
 born on the 18th. married on the lsth, | captured on the 18th, ransomed on the | 18th, reached independence on the 18th and died on the 18th. Her baby. lost l in the fall of Fort Parker. was ram somed and carried to Fort Gibson late
 in 1892 His grandfather reached homo with him February. 1S43. He grew to be one of the most respected citizens in Anderson County. This leaves Cynthia Ann and John Parker, who were held in captivity by differ ent tribes--the girl by the Comanches, the boy probably by the Kiowas.
 John Parker reached manhood and
 became a noted warrior. His tribe
 planned a campaign beyond the Rio
 Grande On that raid John captured a
 beautiful. dark-eyed senorita and made her his wife. While yet a captive, she fell madly in love, as only a Spanish maiden can. John became desperately i'll with smallpox The whole coward
 ly tribe fled in consternation, leaving him to die alone--and took his beau tiful senorita But this Spanish girl
 was haunted by visions of her suffering warrior-love Not counting danger and distance, she escaped and ned to his
 side He got well-and' In periect dls- | gust. quit his tribe to make his home | forever with the people of his faith | full captive wife in the land of Mexico. In all the romance of our carly his- | tory there is no page like this US the story of loves conquest over the | heart of an American pioneer schooled | in the savage discipline of the Kiowas
 and Comanches-the Arabs or the New World.
 Capture of Cynthia Ann. At the fall of Fort Parker on the morning of aMy 1s. 1ss6. Mrs. Parker
 was forced to lift her little nine-year- | old girl, Cynthia Ann. up behind heartless savage. He rode away to
 the hunting grounds of the wild Co.,
 manches. Twenty-four long years and
 seven months rolled by before she
 was recaptured December is, ieoo. | Tn other words. Cynthia Ann was | thirty four years old when seen again | No word was had from her in this awful lapse of a quarter of century. | Long, long before her recovery she had been given up as one dead. But we must know some events that strangely brought about the purely
 accidental discovery of Cynthia Ann by which she was once more restored to a civilization from which she was long since weaned.
 Ii was now 1858. Major Earl Van Dorn, with some United States dra- goons, was preparing to leave Fort
 Belknap. The famous Van Dorn cam
 paign against all the hostile tribes was opening.
 Sul Ross, afterward a household
  on his college vacation. He took command of l35 friendly Indians--Wa- coes, Tehuacanoes, Toncahuas and Cad does. Van Dorm readily accepted their | services when rendered and they en- tered on the famous campaign. Ross and his command took the lead; Van Dorn. with his supply trains, brought
 up the rear. When Ross reached the
 Wichita Mountains he sent trusty
 Waco and 8 Tehuacano to scout the
 Wichita village seventy-hve miles
 east of the Washita river. He hoped
 to find the camp of the savage Coman-
 chss whose raid had worked such ha"
 voc on old Fort Parker. The scouts
 were amazed to find that Buffalo Hump
 and his band of Comanches were in
 the village trading and gambling with
 the Wichitas. When night fell they
 stole two Comanche ponies ard hur-
 riedly carried word to Sul Ross. Buf-
 faio Hum pwas the one chief among
 all the hostile tribes against whom
 Van Dorn's campaign was directed.
 Ross had a hard time to make him trust the word of his scouts. At last, he persuaded Van Dorn to make forced march with his draSoons asaihst
 the village.
 The sun was just rising on the first
 day of October. Van Dorn with his
 dragons, and Sul Ross with his l35
 redskins, struck the Wichita village like thunder bolts out of clear skies.
 Buffalo Hump and his powerful band
 were almost wiped from off the face
 of the earth in the first assault. Van Dorn's command fought like demons. for they saw afresh the tragedies Of
 old Fort Parker Many prisoners
 were taken. Among them was Liz
 zie." She was a white girl for whom no relative was ever found, uor sol
 itary soul that could give the faint
 est recognition. Sul Ross adopted.
 educated and reared her with all the
 tenderness of q father. She reached
 a graceful womanhood, married hap
 oily, and died among the flowers and
 sweet perfumes of California.
 Rattle of Pease River,
 The next great epoch in frontier
 history was the battle of Pease River
 where, after the sluggish years of
 quarter of a century had gone by. Cynthia Ann Parker's form lifts itself
 above the horizon of "ivilisation
 from which it had long since faded
 away.
 When the leaves began to fall in 1860, & powerful band of Comanchss
 made a terrible raid through Parker
 and adjacent counties. Under the
 leadership of Chief Nooona they
 spread ruin and disaster along the
 war trail Sul Ross, now captain | of the Texas Rangers, with a force of forty rangers. twenty dragons from