The daily Alaskan., 1912-11-16

The rapid advance of civilization in America has placed far in the back ground the stirring events Of Indian warfare that lasted from the first occu- pancy of the continent to the annihila- ton of General Custer and his ill fated command. Yet this last great event of the long struggle with the aborigines of the country occurred but a genera ton agone.
 There still lives a woman more than ninety years of age who passed through one of these Indian events. At twenty she was married to a lieutenant in the army on duty In the east, but who had been ordered to a small fort fin what was then the far west Immediately after the wedding the couple started for the officers station, pursuing their way by canal st8gecoach and, lastly, an army supply wagon.
 At that time there were white men in that region who were worse than the Indians in that they often melted the latter to pilaCe and bloodshcd They were not the settlers, but a class of despcradoes that are always found lounCing about the sEirmish line ot Che advancing army of civilization
 Mrs. IIcutcu8ut-we shah cal. her Whittlesey found herself in a one com. pany post. and, the Company's captain being absent and her husband being the ranking officer, he was comman- dant Indeed, there was but one other officer there. and Mrs WhIttlcsCy was the only woman among some sixty men. Indians now and again would come into Che fort, and their appear. ancc was quite enough Co scare @ woe man out of her senses, for of an Che names most appropriate Co these nco. pIe-ndIans, redskins. s0vogcs-thc last Is the most appropriate. They looked savage and acted savage, were toTre in tncir natures and m1do themselves hidcous Co correspond with what they were
 One day dirty white man clad in skins came into the fort and, claiming to hc a settler, told a pitiful story of s wife and children at some distance from the garrison who were having a hard time. His little girl had been shot by an Indian with a harhed ar- row and thc father wished tO cut '. out Would the surgeon let him have some ChIoroform2
 The surgeon gave him the chloro. form. telling him how Co usc it and the precautions he must take. Then thc man wont away.
 Though the redskins were at peace with thc whites. Mrs. Wh.tUesoE would not trust them. She did no. ! consider tho post free from danger of attack at any time. lt was nothing more chan a hIockhouso or st"o5adr with a raised platform for tho sontr.e7 to pace upon and IttIe towers with ! loorhoIes from which they might fire upon an enemy 1T attacked
 one night Mrs. WnItt'oscy stole ont of bed. leaving hcr husband asleep. and. putting on some clothing, she went out to inspect thc guard Sho ! found one sentry uot5ng and another ! fast aslcen She took the sIooncr.s muskct and awakened him to 500 him, self covered by a woman with h'sown ! gun.
 Mrs. whittIcscy told her husband in the morning that she had gone ont and found thc guard nwatchrul Though | knowing that sleeping on post is death Co sentry. she made no definite l charges. The commau1ant cn3oavor. ! cd Co arouse his guards to greater Cfi. ! ciency. but his efforts were short lived. and discipline soon relaxed again. Mrs. whittlcscy. being a woman, was ] dlscrcditcd in tho matter and her hus. band told her Co make no more visits Co the guards lest she put him, as commandant. In a ridiculous position.
 One night the lady. not having a mans confidence in the pcacefuIuess