The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-07

spent practically all his time in the
employ of the government in various
capacities. Before being confined in
the hospital by his last illness he was
stationed at Fraser as an agency en-
ploye.
Thrilling War Trip
Shortly before his death he told of
one of his early day experiences in
Montana as follows:
Always will 1 remember a trip
1 made with my father in 1872 to
the camp of Old Chief Red Stone who
then was camped on Snake creek,
where in 1877 Chief Joseph, one of
the greatest Indian generals and
fighters that ever roamed the plains
of Montana fought and surrendered
to General Miles in 1877.
Little did / believe when on this
trip with my father that 1 would
afterward become one of General
Miles scouts, In 1877 my father was
a close friend of Chief Red Stone and
we had gone to Snake creek for a
visit with the chief and his people,
the Assinniboines, who always had
been friendly with the whites, and
also for a buffalo hunt.
while we were in Red Stones
camp a war party numbering about
$50 Sioux Indians came from the
Missouri river en- route to the Bear
Paw mountains in search of their
enemy, the eros Ventres Indians,
who made their hunting grounds on
Beaver creek and in the Bear Paw
mountains.
Out for Blood
This war party of Sioux Indians
raised the ire of the young Assinni-
BONES, the fighting men of old Chief
Red Stone, and they joined the Sioux
on the war path. At this time the
Gros Ventres we're camped on Beaver
creek, just below where Fort ASSN
niboine now stands. These Indians
always had plenty of good horses and
were well armed with Henry rifles,
which had just been manufactured.
after the Sioux and Assinni-
BONES had a feast and a council they
started on the trail. From the place
where they started on Snake creek
it was not much more thar so miles,
by the route they took, to Beaver
creek.
Some of the Sioux and Assinni-
BONES we're mounted, while others
were on foot. There were a number
of women in the party. One of these
women still lives in Poplar. She is
the widow of the late Jacob Wirth.
Shield also was in this party.
still lives, and is a great friend of
the agency office in Poplar.
1.-The scouts who had been sent out
by the Sioux and Assinniboines dis /,
covered the camp of the eros Ven
tres on Beaver creek at a point !
known as Bull Hook, south of the !
present city of Hayre. After the .
scouts returned with their report it
was planned to attack the eros Ven
tres camp at night. The Sioux and
A-ssinniboines ran off the horses be-
longing to the Gros Ventres and then |
fired into their camp. No one was :
The eros Ventres picked
up their horses and soon were on the
tran OF h enemy, running them like :
~buffaloes. The Gros Ventres, being
better armed than the Sioux, s
made quick work of killing a |
lumber of the Sioux and Assinni-
BONES, and retaking nearly all of '
their horses. 1t was a great victory
for the Gros Ventres.
Celebrated Too Long I
After returning to camp with a s
large number of scalps they had the {
time of their lives for three or four !
days dancing the scalp dance.
1t was a pitiful sight to watch the
and Assinniboines returning
with the1 wounded into Red Stones
camp. OF all the sights / ever wit
messed 1t was in that camp when the
was brought back by the re-
turning wal party of the killing of
young braves. The squaws wept,
cut off their hair, and also chopped
off the first joints of their little fin