The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-09-11

2 was hurt. He took the matter Il
S CONGRESSMAN Tom Stout who OBJ
S tanned for him a copy of the record.
of the war department showing tina
Clark had appeared and given testi
mony against Colonel Chivington.
The 'battle of Sand Creek still,
5 lives in the memory of the people OF
Colorado. More than thirty years
afterwards Colonel Chivington be
came a candidate for office in the
i Centennial state. The opposition
newspapers at once dug up the old
records and charged him with be-
ing a squaw butcher.
Some Provocation.
maybe he didn't do right" a y
Clark, "but he had lots of provoca-
ton. The Indians had b%utchered
white women and had scalped many.
1t was giving the red man a dose of
his own warfare. l 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. s'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. / was only a lair
scrapper myself, but the other SO
were a slime a bunch of riflemen as
ever 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 was one woman and one girl in
the party. There were 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.
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-
zens 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 COS 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 70, 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 I 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
she heather in his speech. "Black-
;mithing was good enough for me.
LIZ OAS1 1aCh hlulCo Jill Al
horses. The best days earnings I
aver had as a blacksmith was when /
Captain Stafford's four yoke
If oxen, steeled a pick and shod a
lorse. The oxen shoeing paid me
'48-$6 an OK. I got six dollars for
he pick and four dollars for the
lorse, total $58, and had almost the
lay to myself at that"
fsOr1~, - .o.I f.
split shoe and were always put in
frame of stocks when being shod."
The New President.
Thomas R. Moore, the new presi-
ent of the Montana Society of Pr
neers, is probably the youngest of
be society's members, being younger
ven than Miles J. Cavanaugh, who is
My 58. Moore, the record shows,
Sc. He was born in Virginia City
1868, and like Jim Orion, he plan
ed his arrival SO as to get in under
ne dead line, December /, 1868.
parents were among the first
rivals. They moved to Raiders
urg when he was still a boy. He is
ow engaged in the gas and oil BUSH
ess in Lewistown.
s'This years convention has been y
wonderful gathering" said Presi-
ent Moore at the close of the ses-
.ons, land the pioneers are as a unit
l voicing their appreciation of the
.indnesses shown them"
During the convention an old
mer was voicing his lack of appreci-
lion of some of the ~present-day
.%ontanans who, after striking their
ITO camp, drive off and leave half
leir utensils lying about or drop
leir tools along the highway.
eve old-timers learned to take bet
r care of our few possessions he
i'd. Eve had to-"
Don't tell NO." said Ben Hatfield,
the son of an old-timer. lii
Well I remember meeting with John
enfro, Yellowstone Hubbell and Sid
win at Big Timber some years ago.
hey were swapping "reminiscences
ID Renfro said: 'Hubbell, do you
member that time down at Ben
MS landing when you got lit up,
I'LL