The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-04-15

Indians Killed Mate
The captain had gone on down the river
in a mackinaw boat with some Of the crew,
and had taken the silverware from the
stewards pantry and such other TaluaDleS
as they could conveniently carry. The mate
had been killed by the Sioux while hununS
The following morning Colonel Norris.
went down TO the boat, which was tied mp
explained his mission to the engineer. The
latter studied over the matter a Jew min
utes and then gave possession or the DoaE
to the colonel. The latter went aboard the
almost deserted craft and fixed up a sleep
ing room for himself which opened out on
to the after deck. There he was destined
to remain for tire next five or siI months,
but, as it turned out, his visit was not 10
be a peaceful one.
It happened that when the TacOny was
forced to stop at Fort Peck because or the
low water in the Missouri, the passengers
gOund for Fort Benton and other points In
, Montana we're obliged to remain there Tor
a couple of weeks until the freight teams
from Benton arrived to take them up the
river. Among the tenderfeet from the east
was q husky young Missouri lad, VINO was
much in love with a girl among the pas
sengers, who was accompanying her parents
to Montana. This boy, whose name COlOneI
Norris has forgotten, determined to go out
and kill a buffalo, Notwithstanding that he
was warned of the LANCER from Sioux war
parties who were constantly hanglnS
around the trading post and occasionally
! dLLaEkAlE IL AIAAAN AG a A0AAGA a AAN4
Z~le-lOading Springfield, of a typ that ha0
Just come out and he started off on foot
I down the river toward Gilpin nat, some
three miles below. to kill his buffalo.
TenderfOOt Gets a Sioux
He saw a number Of old bulls hanging
around the chOkecherry patches along the
river, and spent all of his ammunition 04a5-
ing away at them, but killing none, as he
did not know where to shoot them. At
last, with only one bullet left, he threw his
gun over his shoulder and started back to
the fort, his mind on his girl and the life
they would lead together in the new cOun-
| try if he could win her. Suddenly he
heard the beating Of horses hOOfs on the
grass and looked around just in time to
see three painted Sioux braves charging
down him at top speed.
One Of the Sioux fired at him and grazed
his face and ear, making a slight wound,
the boy shot at this Indian and hit him
in the body, blowing a hole through him
that a man could stick his arm through.
The other two Indians had dashed on a
hundred feet before they could pull up
their horses. The MissOurian raised his
5 gun, as though to take aim again at them
2 and they rode off. The exhibition Of marks
e manship he had given was enough to con-
l vince them that the youngsters medicine
was good.
The plains Indian frequently used to ride
a his horse with a short rawhide rope half
hitched on the animals lower jaw for a
bride, and tie the other end Of the rope 60
q his own belt. Then, if thrown from the
= pony or shot off, the animal did not get
Q away and leave its rider afOot. The dead
2 Sioux had done this, and as he lay on the
y ground dead. his pony stood beside him
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