Milford chronicle., 1909-02-12

as I was, and one OF their horses in
particular, a spotted animsl, was
gaining on me all the time, Nearly
all the other horses were strung out
behind for a distance Of two miles,
but still chasing after me.
The Indian who was riding the spot
ted horse was armed With rife and
would occasionally send juliet whis-
tling along. sometimes @riking the
ground ahead OF me. ! saw that this
fellow must be checked or a stray bull
let from his gun might hjt me or my
horse. so. suddenly stopping Brigham
and quickly wheeling him around. l
raised old "Lucretia" TO my shoulder
took deliberate aim at the Indian and
his horse. hoping to hit one or the
other. and fired He was not over
eighty yards from me at this time
and at the crack Of my rife down
went his horse Not waiting to see
if he recovered. turned Brigham,
and IN a moment we We're again fair
ly hying toward our destination. We
had urgent business about that time
and were i'm hurry to get there.
The other Indians had gained on us
while / was engaged in shooting at
their leader. and they sent several
shots whizzing past me- but fortunate
liz none Of them hit the intended mark
To return their compliment I occasion
ally wheeled myself IN the saddle and
fired back at Them and one Of my
shots broke the leg of one of their
horses. which left it's rider horstel de
combat. as the French would say.
Only seven or eight Indians now re
mained i'm dangerous proximity TO me,
and as their horses were beginning 70
lag somewhat I checked my faithful
old steed Il little to allow him am op-
portunity 90 draw an extra breath or
TWO bad determined, if it should
come 20 the worst. to drop into a buf-
falo walow. where ! could stand the
Indians off for awhile, but ! was not
compelled to DO this, as Brigham car
ried me through most nobly.
The chase was kept up until we
came within three miles of the end
of the railroad track. where two com
pauies of soldiers were stationed for
the purpose of protecting the work
mon from tine Indians One Of the
outposts saw the Indians chasing me
across the prairie and gave the alarm.
Tn fpw minutes I saw. greatly TO my
delight, men coming on foot. and cav
alrymen, too, gallopins to our rescue
as soon as they could mount their
horses. When the Indians saw this
they turned and ran i'm the direction
from which they had come ln a very
few minutes | was met by some OF
the infantrymen and trackmen. and,
jumping to The ground and pulling the
blanket and saddle of Brigham, / told
them what he had done for me. They
at once took him in charge led him
around ana rubbed him down so vigor-
ously that l thought they would rub
him to death.
Captain Nolan OF the Tenth cavalry
nov came up with forty Of his men,
and upon learning what had happened
he determined TO pursue the Indians
He kindly offered me one of his cav
airy horses. and after putting my own
saddle and bride on the animal we
started out after the flying Indians,
who only a few minutes before mad
been making it so uncomfortably five
~ for me Our horses were all fresh
and Of excellent stock. and we soon
began shortening the distance between
ourselves and the redskins. Before
they had gone i've miles we overlook
and killed eight Of their number. Tha