The daily Alaskan., 1911-12-04

were repeated cases 0f white children being carried away by indians and brought up 10 the n.be Those that were raised be red nitu were boys, Al any rate. I never read or a giri having received such treatment. Doubles any girl failing Into their hands wns killed SavaEes are ilot oyerburdened with respect for the value of women
 Some forty years ago ] was a young lieutenant in the -tb [. S. cavalry. and my principal business about that time was fighting Indians. In uue oi our skirmishcs with tse Sioux we cap tured one of tae while boys who had been brought up as an Iudiun He was handsome liitie fellow. lall and straight. about fourteen years old. and his originally white sk'n from having been exposed bad tururd brown. ilc could speak only the Sioux laylrua@r' could not remember sHy ife bui thnt Of an Indian, any father or mother or other relative. When guptured he was lighting like a little devil
 The colonel turned hlm over Co me to see 1T l could discover his identity I questioned the Indians who had been captured with the boy, but they knew nothing of his antecetlents, since they had captured him from another tribe when he was about four years old. | then questioned the boy himself through an interpreter-and found that he had once been shown the clothes 10 which he had been captured and some trinkctS that were taken from those to whom be had bcloulyed. These were a pockctbooE. gold watch and chain and various other things the boy could not remember They had been kept by an old squaw. who received them at the boys second capture from an- other squaw. Co whom they had been given bv the chief of ile tribe who had taken thc baby from his parents.
 Having reported this Co the colonel, he directed me to ride under flag of truce Go the main body of the Sioux. secure the articles and bring them back if possible He authorized me to nav $50 for them. if necessary. went to the Sioux camp, purchased the ar. ticles for a song and brought them back with me
 Besides tho watch and the pocket book was tfntype of bahy, and resemblance could be traced between it and tho boy. There were also some lace and bunch of keys on a silver ring. ! examined the contents of the packetbook lt was 8 long leather one such as is used Co carry unfolded bills. IT there had been any bills in it they were not there when [ looked into it There were papers tho use ot which were very plain tc me. but would mean nothing to an Indian. For in stance. there was a deed Co a lot In the county Of Cook, sttatc Of Illinois. There were a draft on bank In San Francisco and two little books that recognlsed as savings bank books
 | reported toe ind to the colonel, and he forwarded my report 10 Wash inrt5n. Aner long period, during which we kept the boy-much against his vill-at Fort G., to which we re- turned after ihe camraign. the colo mel received an order to detail some one Co take the boy to the places indl- csted by the deed and the savings bank hooks. with view to learning who ne wns. The colonel gave me the Job,
 Looking on the map of Illinois, l disooversd that Cook county was the site Of Chicago. One of the bank hooks indicated an account in a bank at Peoria and another in Quincy, both in the same state.
 ! set ofT iu company with the boy, who by this time had learned a little English. and on reslshing Chicago found the lot in questiop Co De 10 the heart of the city, The deed vas in the name Of Edgar Kyle This also was the name on the savings bank books and the draft on San Francisco. The draft was for s300o. the accounts in the savings hanks amounted to an a sgrrer-s-e of Sc T4s. and tbe lot in Chi rsro had within a few gears become worth ahont SiO0o0o.
 Pursuing my investigations. discoy- cred that Edgar Kyle some twelve or thirteen vrars before bad emigrated or started in Q plains schooner for cal fornla with he wife and baby, but had never been heard from after leaving the Missouri river.
 I felt very sure that they had been murdered by Indians. their baby car ried otI. that ! now had him under my care. and he was doubtless heir to very good property Bbt ! saw very little hope Of bis possessing it
 On his baby clothing 'tere the initiai letters ~E. E.,r and on this evidence | collected the draft and the amounts In the savings banks for hlm- Wiih tbis as a starter [ succeeded in having 1 the court og ehancery appoint a guard ian for him. and proceedings were be gun to secure the lot, which had been ' bought in under a foreclosure of e mortgage for S2,J00 X flaw in the foreclosure was discovered which en-
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