Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-11-09
Buck Barry and Jones seemed instant.

~ to accept this necessity.
"Give them two or three of the sad
die blankets" suggested Barry after
moments thought. 1--WE will have sew
eral light bosses going out, and if we
have to PAD the saddles we can git
along with skins or something"
We gave our visitors the blankets
therefore. They seemed we'll pleased,
arose and shortly made a primitive
sort of a camp a short distance out
side our stockade We did no more
washing that day. About o'clock our
hunters came in with the best meat of
blacktail deer. Bagsby listened at
tentively to our account of the inter
view. Then lie took hind quarter Of
the newly killed buck and departed for
the Indians camp, where he stayed for
an hour.
Il don't think they are out for mean
ness" he announced when he return
ed. ''They tell me this we're is on
sort Of short cut from some Of the
Truckee lakes down to their villages.
But we got to keep a sharp eye on our
uOISoS, anu we SOl 10 Slauu SudIu 10
night
Very early in the morning, when we
were just up, several Of the elders
came over to tell us that some of the
! young men would stay to work for us,
if we SO desired. We replied that we
had no goods with which to pay for
work. Shortly after the whole tribe
vanished down river.
! \ week passed, and we had almost
| forgotten our chance visitors. One day
! the two Spaniards, Buck Barry and
were at the cradle. Bagsby, Yank and
McNally were the hunters for the day.
| Johnny and Missouri Jones kept camp.
! We had had. "a most successful morn
! ing and were Just stacking our tools
| preparatory to returning to camp for
/ dinner. Buck Barry was standing near
! some small sage bushes at the upper
end Of the diggings. He was just in
! the act of lighting a freshly filled pipe
when he stopped as though petritied,
! the burning match suspended above
| the bowl of his pipe Then he turned
quickly toward the sage brush, and as
he did so bow tWanged, and an ar
row sang past his head, 50 close as ac-
! tlally to draw blood from the lobe of
his ear. With a roar of anger Buck
Barry raised his pickaX and charged
| into the bush. We saw a figure rise
! from the ground, dash away, stumble
fiat Before the man could get up
again Buck Barry was upon him, and
| the DickaX descended. At the same
and two shots in rapid succession from
| the direction of camp. Buck Barry
came bounding out of the sage brush
and seized his rife from under the
| bush where we had kept them.
"Come onr' he painted Lets get
out of this!'
! We ran as hard as we could for a
! hundred yards, or until we had reach
! ed the flat of the river bottom. Then
we paused, uncertain as to just what
next to do.
"Wait a minute" said l. I'm just
take a look" and hurried up Il little
spur knoll to the right. From that ele-
! NdlIOu INSTABILITY CduSuC olShL VI "a
crowd of Indians coming up the valley
at full speed. Most Of them were on
horseback, but a number loped along
on foot, keeping up with the animals.
One look was enough. | raced down
to my companions again, and we hasti-
} ly took refuge in the only cover near
enough to conceal us-a little clump of
willows in a small damp WatercOurse.
There we crOuched, rifles ready.