Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-09

north. But it was an Inflated expedition, since
near the present boundary line between North
and South Dakota 1t was treaeherously At~
tackled by the Arikara Indians and lost Is men
killed and IL wounded, o loss that compelled
1t to retreat down stream. Reinforcements
came along, and about two months later an
other battle was fought. This time the Arikaras
fed, but as they remained hostile and as in
a sense they controlled the passage of the
Missouri, the expedition was again compelled
to retreat.
1t was toward the end of September that
the trapping party already referred to set out
for the West and 1t was in March, 1924 that
1t crossed South Pass and reached the Green
River. The next Is years constitutes the active
period Of the beaver trapperS, and most If not
ALL Of this time Fitzpatrick was in the noun
tains. By the beginning of the 4Os the fur
trade had collapsed and the surviving trap
pers had gradually left the mountains. Fitz-
patrick became a guide. In 1841 he led Father
De Smets missionary party (Which was &C
companied as far Fort Hall, Idaho, by the
first emigrant wagon train for the Pacifc) all
the way to the Flathead country in North
western Montana. Reaching Fort Laramie on
his return in the following year, he guided
the Oregon party of White and Hastings the
second of the emigrant trains, as far as Fort
Hall. In the following two years he was the
guide OF FremontS second expedition, which
performed the incredible feat of crossing the
snowbound SierTas in Midwinter. He guided
Kearny's column to South Pass and Abert's
surveying party through the perious region
along the Canadian border In 1845 and in the
following year piloted Kearney's Army of the
West to Santa Fe and on to Socorro whence
he was sent back East with the dispatches
brought from the Pacific by Kit Carson
He returned to the settlements to find him.
self appointed Indian agent for a newly estab.
liShed agency. to deal with the CheyenneS the
Arapahos and the plains Sioux over a region
Fort To Arb
and from the bend of the Missouri to the
mountains. In 1851 he brought about the
great Indian council held near Fort Laramie
negotiating treaties with all the tribes in at
tendance. and two years later he induced the
predatory ComancheS Kiowas and plains
ApacheS to sign treaty pledging themselves to
deSlst from raids along the Santa Fe Trail.
Called to Washington for a conference, he came
east by way of New York City According to
his grandniece, Mrs. M G. Mccarthy of 1921
S street northwest, a newspaper announcement
of his arrival at New York hotel was noticed
by Mrs. Mary Fitzpatrick Leonard her grand
mother An infant when Thomas Fitzpatrick
left Ireland, she had grown up in the belief
that somewhere in the wids of North America
she had brother. After her marriage she
had emgrated, with her husband and children,
to the United States. On seeing the name she
at once surmised that the man was her brother.
Her daughter called at the hotel only to find
that he had left the city. But she left q
note for him, which was forwarded He re.
turned, and brother and sister had a happy
reunion. Learning that she was living in rather
straitened circumstances, he gave her 81 900
to start her sons in business
He arrived in the Capital on January 4,
1854, and registered at the nationally
known Browns Hotel, on Pennsylvania avenue.
Business with the Indian Bureau doubtless
took up most of his time during the next two
or three weeks. and journey to New York
and back may have followed. Late In the
month or early in February ne took severe
cold, which resulted in pneumonia. HIS NJ