The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-09-11

W LID plt OCLA1N
al this Indian massacre" His state
ment was challenged. Clark's pride
was hurt. He took the matter to
Congressman Tom Stout who OBJ
tanned for him a copy of the records
of the war department showing that
Clark had appeared and given testi-
mony against Colonel. C~hivington.
The battle of Sand Creek" still
lives in the memory of the people of
Colorado. More than thirty years
afterwards Colonel Chivington be-
came a candidate for office in the
Centennial state. The opposition
newspapers at once dug up the old
records and charged him with be-
ing a squaW butcher.
Some P~rovocation.
"Maybe he didn't do right" says
Clark, ''but he had lots of
ton. The Indians had butchered
white women and had scalped many.
1t was giving the red man a dose of
his own warfare. I felt it was wrong
when it happened. Those Indians
were under the protection of the
United States at the time they were
attacked"
Clark came into Montana over
the Bozeman trail in defiance of the
mandate Of the Sioux that there
should be no more travel by that
route. 1.-THE soldiers told the In
dams had declared the trail closed,
Clark said, $50 we stopped at Fort
Laramie until we could pick up a
force of so men. I was only a fair
scrapper myself, but the other SO
were a slime a bunch of riflemen as
V e shot out the eye of a Kentucky
squirrel.
go through over the Bozeman
trail? The whole Sioux nation could
not stop that gang. Every man of
us slept with both eyes open, his rifle
in his hand and his ammunition dry.
There vas one woman and one girl in
the party. There we're a few pill
grims, as the old timers called the
tenderfoot, but they were clean grit
and knew how to shoot. Captain
Reed was in charge of the party. I
carried the names of that squad of
men for many years but lost it. 1t
would make interesting reading now,
for everyone of them won a name for
himself as bold, fearless, clean citi-
ems of Montana, Idaho and other
states-except those of them who
died with their boots on before the
state was named"
Slightly Different
Blacksmithing in the eos was
slightly different than it is today, ac-
cording to Frank Day, aged SO who
has had more than his share of hard
luck and a record of whose injuries
reads like General Foch's celebrated
dispatch in which after reciting that
the Germans had rolled back his
right wing, crushed his center and
driven back his right wing, declared
81 am about to attack"
Day, a powerful man, looking not
more than 20, says: "My right foot
is crushed out of shape, my left ankle
is broken in two places and my
shoulder on the left has ben shat
tered so that 1 can't put my arm to
my head, but with this hand''-hold-
ing out a hard and calloused right
with this hand I can hold a rope
with anyone, and jump four feet to
my hold, too, on these broken
81 never mined gold," said Day, a
Durham Englishman with a tang of
the heather in his speech. "Brack-
smithing was good enough for me. I
shod o oxen than mules and
horses. The best days earnings 1
aver had as a blacksmith was when I
shod Captain Stafford's four yoke
If oxen, steeled a pick and shod a
horse. The oxen shoeing paid me
S48-$6 an OK. I got six dollars for
he pick and four dollars for the
lorse, total s58, and had almost the
lay to myself at that"
"Oxen," Day said, "were shod with
i split shoe and were always put in
! frame of stocks when being shod.'
The New President.
Thomas r. Moore, the new. presi-
lent of the Montana Society of Pi-
,neers, is probably the youngest of
he society's members, being younger
wen than Miles j. Cavanaugh, who is
,nly So. Moore, the record shows,
S Sc. He was born in Virginia City
n 1868, and like Jim orion, he plan
led his arrival so as to get in under
he dead line, December 1, 1868.
Ioore's parents were among the first
arrivals. They moved to Raiders
,urg when he was still a boy. He is
low engaged in the gas and oil bust
less in Lewistown.
""This years convention has been :
wonderful gathering" said Presi-
lent Moore at the close of the ses-
ions, "and the pioneers are as a unit
n voicing their appreciation of the
shown them"
During the convention an old
was voicing his lack of appreci-
tion of some of the present-day
fontanans who, after striking their
.uto camp, drive off and leave half
heir utensils lying about or drop
heir tools along the highway.
1--WE old-timers learned to take bet II
er care of our few possessions" he
aid. "We had to-"
Don't tell me-" said Ben Hatfield,
imself the son of an old-timer.
Well I remember meeting with John
Yellowstone Hubbell and Sid
irwin at Big Timber some years ago.
hey were swapping "reminiscences
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