The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-07-02
TsE FIRST WHITE SETTLERS
BURIAL IN TEXAS COUNTY.
OKLAHOMA. MAN AND WOMAN.
CHEYkNNES AND ARAPAHOES
a Posse Went After the Cheyenres
and Arapahoes in the War Party,
But Failed to Get Them-Aorses
Detected Them First.

Guymon. Okla, July Is o. Nu.
brcy. who lives at Capitol hin. Tex
as County. was one Of the pioneers
Of the Kansas frontier Writing
lately to local newspaper hc re-.
lated the story of the burial OF the
first white man and white woman
in what is now Texas County, then
a part Of NO Mans Land" i'm June
or July in the early COS lie wrote.
Dodge, Kan, that the Indians had
raidcd wagon train at or near
the Wagonbed Springs ON the Cim.
arron. Colonel Dodge called for
volunteers to 20 after them and about
sixty mon fell in line at the buglo
call, all mounted and spurrcd and
armed. But TO think of the arms
We had in those days-two horse
pistols. paper cartridge carbino
and a long sword in an iron scab.
bard that ratified and iinglcd as we
went We left Fort Dodge after din.
ner and went about twelve miles
TO the Mulberry whore We went into
camp for the night
''We saw. just before night. what
We took to be Indian signs. as
smoke started up i'm spurts in differ.
ent directions, meaning. so the
h.t
Arapahoes had discovered that
scouting party was out. therefore
we herded the horses until Q or ~
o'clock and then brought them in
20 the picket rope corral and turned
In with a vidette posted and a horse
guard at camp.
Just after midnight the horses
became restless. and the colonel. too.
and as he was an old Indian fighter
and understood the signs pretty well.
he slipped around 10 each one Of
the boys and punched him until he
awoke, when he told each man the
Indians intended to stampede the
horses About o'clock out of the
darkness there came yell from
hundred throats (to the tenderfoots
in the party II seemed n thousandl.
but here they came heltcr skelter.
yelling like so many devils, but we
were ready and let them have
volley-alas, too soon-fOr II we had
waited we might have killed some
but as II was the Indians circled
around and pulled off into the dark
ness and kept us in suspense for an
hour. when all al once another ont.
burst of war whoops was heard. and
while we were all watching in the
direction OF the yelling and expect.
Ing a charge at any minute, some
one happened TO look around the
other way and saw great ball Of
fire coming toward us like light
ming.
''Tt was not long coming, but in
those few moments there was scaj.
tering among the boys for their
horses. and had the Indians charged
then we surely would have been
routed. They were not after any
thing but the horses, and when the
fire ball came close enough and we
had time 10 look we saw a pony
with a bundle of flaming gross
tied to the saddle, the Indians cal.
culating that the pony would run n
among the horses and stamped,
them, but every man had his horse
and the poor brute ran by bucklns
and squealing and plunged into a
water hole and drowned The mdilne
having failed again they gave up
and everything was quiet the rest
OF the night, but no one slept nat
night-yould you?
THE next morning we took the
old Body Trail down Crooked Creek
and camped ar the Thre. Bars
about where Meade Ceuta~ now H..
and all was quiet during ,he night
We then turned west and southwest
crossed the Cimarron and camped
Had great sport killing buffola and
antelope, but saw no Inlans The
next night We camped on Shops
Creek, whore all was quiet, In the
morning when We fell in line the
colonel told us that he thought the
Indians who had attacked the train
had gone south, that he was going
west and would keep on the plains
away from the Beaver breaks ana
he wanted everybody to keep a
sharp lookout that day, but We saw
none.
.Camnnd that nlght ON the nlains