Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-05

as l was, and one Of their horses In
particular, a spotted animal, 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 a rifle and
would occasionally send a bullet whis-
Ting along, sometimes striking the
ground ahead of me. | saw that this
fellow must be checked or a stray bull
let from his gun might hit 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 n or the
other, and fired. He was not over
eighty yards from me at this time,
and Mt the crack of my rifle down
went his horse. Not waiting to see
If he recovered, / turned Brigham.
and In a moment we were again fair
ly flying toward our destination. We
had urgent business about that time
and were in a hurry to get there.
The other Indians had gained on us
while l was engaged in shooting at
their leader. and they sent several
shots whizzing past me, but fortunate
ly none of them hit the intended mark.
To return their compliment I OCCASION
ally wheeled myself In the saddle and
fred back at them. and n of my
shots broke the leg of one OF their
horses. which left It's rider hors(e) de
combat. as the French would say.
Only seven or eight lAians now re-
NAMED in dangerous proximity to me,
and as their horses were beginning to
lag somewhat l checked my faithful
old steed a little to allow him an OPP
portunity to draw an extra breath or
two. / had determined, II 1t should
come to the worst, to drop into a II
falo wallow, where l 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 W COM
panies of soldiers were stationed Tor
the purpose of protecting the work
men from the Indians. One OF the
outposts saw the Indians chasing me
across the prairie and gave the alarm.
In a few minutes l saw. greatly to my
delight, men coming on foot, and cav
alrymen, too, galloping to our rescue
as 1901 as they could mount their
horses. When the Indians saw this
they turned and ran In the direction
from which they had ONE In a very
few minutes l was met by some OF
the infantrymen and trackmen. and.
jumping to the ground and pulling the
blanket and saddle off Brigham. l told
them what he had done for me. They
at once took him In charge, led him
around and rubbed him down so vigor-
ously that l thought they would rub
him to death.
Captain Nolan of the Tenth cavalry
now came up with forty Of his men.
Akrna upor 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 Oh the animal we
started out after the flying Indians,
who or,y q few minutes before had
been making it so uncomfortably live
ly 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 five miles we overlook
and killed eight Of their number. The