The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-02-24

He reached the side of the wounded Dodds raised him
and started back with him the strip of hell Twice
he staggered voleys rang out but he reached the
side of his comrades and placed Dodds between Nelson
and the unwounded trooper.
Then Hans Mueller fen dead.
Relief came to tho surviving cavalryman. The two
wounded lived. In the little cemetery at a post in the
far northwest there is headstone which is inscribed
Hans Mueller. Trumpeter and Soldier His courage
was bullet proof"
There passed through the gates of Fort Myer the
other day a man with coal black face and white
hair His bearing military TO a degree, notwith
standing the fact that he limped painfully His shout
ders were thrown back and his head erect and carried
with probably conscious air Of pride The limp in the
gait. however. marked that observer, If he
gave the subject thought at all, would know that
this negro would never step in his life
The name of the Fort Myer visitor was and is Henry
Johnson time of Troop X. Ninth United States
airy II certain of the soldier officers and enlisted
OF the coored outfit OF Uncle Sam had known that the
thought that this lmping ex.solder would never run
again had entered into onlookers mind. he probably
would have said mo- Johnson will again. but
II he could have kept up the gait that he showed
these loGyard sprntng records that hear so much
OF In this day Of sports would be headed by another and
the name OF the holder would be Henry Johnson"
There isn't the slightest doubt among cavalry officers
who have long memories that the worlds champion
Splinter was lost to track fame when Henry Johnson
colored trooper went lame % years ago
In the month OF November, 1879, band OF Ute Indi
ans surrounded small command of United States
lars. composed for the greater part of Troop K Ninth
kind of fighting and at close quarters Finally the reds
retreated little way but still held their Gordon OF
braves intact The temporary withdrawal for short
distance did not give the troops a breathing SPELL for
they set to work at to ntrench They succeeded
with their horses and impedments and by vigorous
of the shovel in forming and in throwing up fairly
strong defense bulwark After this had been done small
parties under Of the rifles OF their comrades
out 20 considerable distance from the entrenchment
and there dug rifle pits at intervals circle about the
inner and stronger defense.
Into these well-covered rifle pits guards dropped
with a plentiful supply Of ammunition and such little
water and provender could be spared There
one man In each pit. They were absolutely protected
from the front and they put there to perform the
usual useful duty expected where troops thus be-
sieged. Unless tho Utes actually succeeded in getting
into these pits. the men there safer than
those behind the extemporzed fertilization center
After the pckets had been placed In the pits and the
fatigue and posting parties had returned the central
point OF defense. the Indians drew In The red circle
was drawn closer and closer and the bullets from tho
Ute rifles tore through the fra parts of barricade
and soldier after soldier was killed wounded.