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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
Major "Chain" Features
TODAY.

IOOAY.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. from Lon
don, England - WMAL
and o. 3. 8. network.
Iio0-Ccnclave Of Nations: pro-
RTaVn In honor Of the
Iriah free Gtate-vVAKAL
and q. .. o. network.
o:O0--New York Philharmonic
Symphony Orchestra -
WA6AL and O. b. s. net
7:sO-Capitol Theater Family:
variety program = WRC
and n. B. G. network.
S:OO-Enna Jettick melodies;
Nine. Schumann = Heink,
Mary Hopple, mixed quar-
tet and instrumental en-
semble WIZ, WBz,
WBAL, WJR, WLW and
others.
s:ao-ChoraI Orchestra: popular
program with MurieI WI
son, soprano, and Mary
Hopple, contralto - WRC
and N. b. @. network.
e:AS--Jesse Crawford; organ re-
cital-WMAL and G. ,. 8.
network.
o:i6-Atwater Kent hour: Gio-
vanni Martinelli, tenor
WRC and N. B. @. net
work.
1i:oo-Back Home hour; sacred
music by soloists, quartet
and orchestra - w NJ A l.
and @. D. o. network.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
Amos n, Andy in Talkies.

Amos n Andy's talking picture,
"Check and Double Check" Is TO be
released In about 200 theaters october
as. It will be introduced by the black
face pair themselves the night before
in a special broadcast during the R-K-O
hour on the NJ B. c. network. Those
who have seem previewS of the hlm are
highly enthusiastic about 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19

and Hoeing Air Transport lines. Sta
tons are "a b Installed over thu lines
o. National AIR TFanspcgt and Aviation
Corporation.
Operators claim triple Dement'S from
the use Of radio-weather information
while In the cir, an airline course di-
rectly along their routes and emer.
gency messages from ground personnel
to aircraft ~ hight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19

Twenty-four municipalities and two
States have been licensed by the Fed
eral Radio Commission to operate police
radio stations for the broadcaSting Of
orders to squad cars and outlying sta
tions, Twenty other cities have been
issued Federal permits for the con-
struction of such stations.
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sss.s-WyR--7SO.

6:15--Song Singers.
6:30-The Welcomers.
T:O0-Shadows.
T:l5-Sweethearts.
7:3O-Garden Melody.
8:0O-WJz (1H hourS).
o:l5-Quartet.
e:3O-Same as WIZ.
Observation-Disclosures.
1O:I5-Sponsored Program.
10:30-Heaven and Home.
l1:00-Same as WIZ.
12:0O-Variety Il hour).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
WINK HAS HIGH MARK
Relay League Station at Hartford
Converses Over World.

HARTFORD, Conn. H1.-Short wave
station WINK, operated by the Ameri-
can Radio Relay League here on 500
watts power, has been able to maintain
two-way communication with similar
stations In all parts Of the world.
1t transmits on frequencies ranging
from 1850 to l4,300 kilocycles, and is
On the air each night except Wednes-
day and Friday from pm. to am.
eastern standard ttme).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19

AsA.s-WEAF New YOrk-660.
IN. B. C. Chain.)
S:OOar-Melody Hour.
9.OOa-Balladeere
o:3Oa-Recita
l0:00a-Lew White, Organ.
IL :30-Pro-MCsica.
1:15-Sponsored Program. -
1:30-Neapolita Nights.
2:O0-The Pilgrims.
2:3O-N. B. G. Artists Program.
3:O0-String Quartet.
3:aO-Southlan Sketches.
4:OO-Dr. 8. ParkeE Cadman.
5:O0-Hour Of Variety Music.
6:O0-Catholic Hour.
7:0O-Big Brother Club.
T.30-Theater Family.
S.30-Choral Orchestra.
9.0O-"Our Government
9:15-C Classical Concert.
10:15-C Champions Orchestra
at Seth Parker's.
11:15-Sam Herman, Xylophonist.
IL :30-RusSian Cathedral Choir.
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s0e.s-WBZ-ss0.
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN
STATIONS,

428.3-WLW-7OO.
6:00-Orchestra
6:30-R. F. D. Program.
7:00-SponSored Program.
7:SO-SaYTle as WIZ.
8:00-Variety.
S:l5-Same as WIZ.
9:15-Jolly Time.
9:30-Same as WIZ.
10:00-OrcheStr
IL :00-Same as WIZ.
11:30-Orchestras.
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S4S.e-WABC New YOek-see.
&C. B. s. Chain.l


S:00a--HeroeS Of the Church.
9:OOa--Morning Musicale.
10:00ar-Tony's Scrap Book.
i0:I6a--In Land O'Make Believe.
1O:5Oa,-Dr. Charles Fleischer.
IL :OOar-Presbyterian Church.
I2:OO-Melody Vagabonds.
I2:30-London Broadcast.
I2:45-Jewish Art Program.
I:30-Conelave Of Nations.
2:OO-Cathedr Hour.
3:l5-Philharmonie Symphony.
5:0O-Rev. Donald Farmhouse.
5:30-Comedy Trio.
5:30-The French Trio.
6:00-Fur Trappers.
6:30-The Dandies.
7:00-Shrine of the Little Flower.
S:00-Talk on Worlds Business.
8:15-Home Music Club.
S:30-H. v. Kaltenborn, News.
S:45-JeSse Crawford, Organist.
9:00-Theater Of the Air.
0:S0-Toscha Seidel and Concert Or
cheStra.
10:00-Mayhew Lake and His Band.
10:30-Around the Samovar.
11:00-Back Home Hour.
12:00-Coral Islanders.
12:30-Ann Leaf at the Organ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
Today on the Radio
Gan time pm. unless otherwise Indicated
LOCAL STATIONS.

WRC $50 'I KiiOcycies.
s:ooa-Tone pictures.
9;00a--Children's hour.
1000 to 1O:s0a-Organ recital by Lew
White.
12:S0-Pro-Musical.
1:l5-Elgin program.
l:S0--Neapolitan Nights.
2:oO-Roxy symphony concert.
3:oo-American Pro-Arts String Quar-
tet.
3:30-Southland Sketches.
4:oo-Religious service by DR.. 3. Parkes
Cadman.
5:00-Davey hour.
600-Catholic hour.
7:OO-Iodent Big Brothers Club.
7:30-Correct time.
7:Sl-Capitol Theater Family"
s:SO--Chase g. sanborn Orchestra.
s:oo-"Our Government" by David
Lawrence.
9:15~-Atwater Kent hour, featuring
Giovanni Martinelli.
-Studebaker Champions.
Sunday at Seth Parker's.
11:15-Weather forecast.
11:16-Sam Herman, xylophonist.
IL 80 to 12:00-Russian Cathedral Choir.
Early Program Tomorrow.
6:45a-Tower health exercises.
S:OOa-The Quaker Man.
8:l5a-Morning devotions.
a:30a-Cheerio.
o:00a-Morning Melodies.
10 :O0a-Hits and Bits.
IL :OOa-Blue Streaks.
ll:15a-Radio Household Institute.
IL :45a-SWeet and Low Down.
12;00n-Farm flashes.
12:l5-Organ melodies.
l2:SO-National farm and home hour.
1:30-Organ recital.
2:S0-The Melody Three.
3:15-Current events.
3:30-Musical cantata-
WTCV 1854 Meters.
WJoN 1889 KiIocycles.
zoos to 12:3O-Service Of the Fourth
Presbyterian Church.
AIS TO 3:45-Patriotic Protestant Evan
gelical Association.
6:00-Gospel Spreading Association.
7:00-Myra Marshall, soprano.
T:S0-Tinae signal.
f.Sl--HOlanQ wheeler, tenOr.
7:55-Serviee Of First Church Of Christ
Scientist.
e:05-James Marshall, tenor.
9.30-Edwin Mcleod, pianist.
9:50-Henry Nestor, baritone.
l0:l5-Leslie Coyle, tenor.
1890 to ll:00-Violin recital.
Early Program Tomorrow.
e:00a-Down South in Dixie.
9:lOa-The weather man.
9:15a-Musical program.
9:45ar-Menu for Today.
10 :O0a-Romantic Desserts.
DISSATISFACTION flashes.
IL :00a-Gospel song service.
2:OOm-Correct time.
12:05-Farm news program.
l2:20-Farm chat
l2:45 to 1:00-Sermonette
2:OO-Afternoon musicale.
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27O-WRYA-I.I30.

The Arab is eminently satisfied with
his own religion. and he shuns religious
controversy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
dorean government. Fred Mejia oper-
atas yS1@M, che Of tha best knowu
'Aasn" stations n Latin America.

Running 10 welcome her father home,
Joan Smart, aged Q. Of Bath. England,
was killed by q steam lorry be- was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19

WMAT t75.S Meters.
WMAL $50 KiIocycTes.
1000 to ii:ooa-watch tower service
12:00n1-Melody Vagabonds.
1880 to INSTANTANEOUS from Lon
don-Talk by Mary Agnes
l:30-Conclave Of Nations.
2:00-Cathedra hour
S:00-New York Philharmonic SYM
phony Orchestra.
4:00-Evensong service from Washing
ton Cathedral-Sermon by Right
Rev James e. Freeman, Bishop
of Washington.
S:00-Sermon by Rev. Donald Grey
Farmhouse.
$50 to 6:00-French Trio.
7:00-Correct time.
7:01-The Golden Hour of the Little
Flower, religious service from
Detroit.
S:00-Correct time.
"Simplihcation and It's Mean
ing" by Edwin w. Ely Of the
Bureau of Standards.
8:15-Home Music Club.
8:30-Kaltenborn Edits the News.
S:45-Jesse Crawford, organist.
s:0O-Majestic Theater Of the Air,
9:30-ToScha Seidel and Concert Or
chestra.
10:OO-Mayhew Lake and his band,
10:30-Around the SaIlovar.
IL :00-Back-home hour, from Buffalo,
12:00-Correot time.
Early Program Tomorrow.
8:0Oa--Organ reveille.
8:30ar-Morning devotions.
8:a5ar-The Melody Parade.
9:O0a--Opening the Morning Mail.
9:S0a-Blue Monday Gloom Cnasers.
1o:soa-"All Sorts of Toast" by Grace
1o:soa-"Walied In" by Joan Barrett.
1O:45a-"Keeping Fit" by Carolyn Cor
11:00a-"After-T heater Suppers," by
Ida Bailey Allen.
11:15a-The children's corner.
IL :3Oa,-"How to Blue" by Grace White.
11:45a-"To a Mans Heart" by Radio
Home Makers.
12:00m-Columbia Revue.
12:30-Manhattan Towers Orchestra.
1:30-AmbaSsador Orchestra.
2:00-Columbia artists recital.
2:30-Ann Leaf, organist.
3:00-Columbia Salon Orchestra.
WOT 1883 Meters.
WOA 1910 KiIOcycIes.
10:00a-Musical program.
II :00a-Service Of the New YORK Avenue
Presbyterian Church.
12:00-Birthdays.
1880 to 1:00-"TIe Biblical Drama
by A. Whitfield Hoeny.
4:30-Musical program.
500 TO o:00-Catholic radio hour,
broadcast from the Church Of
Immaculate Conception.
Early Program Tomorrow.
7:30a-Musical clock.
S:Ooa-Birthdays.
8:l0a-Musical program.
1o:00a-Talk by Peggy Clarke.
10:30a-Musical program.
II :00a--Helpful hints TO parents.
11:30a-Half hour with great COM
poSers.
12:OOm-Musical program.
100 to 1:30-Luncheon music.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
4O5.2-WSB-74O.

7:00-Studio Program.
7::30-Same as WEAF.
8:00-Same as WIZ.
8:15-Baker Boys.
8:30-SaIne as WEAY.
10:15-Same 90 WIZ.
l0:30--Journal Review,
10:45-SaSne as WEAP.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
ssS.e-WHAS--s9A

S65,6-WBAD-SbS
T:o0-University Of KENTUCKY.
T:30--Same as WEAR.
S:00-Same as WIZ.
S:15-Same as WEAY.
10:16-Cellist.
10:30--Institute.
10: 45-Same as WEAF.
IL :15--Violinist.
IL :30-News; Home Program.
461.3-WSM-650.
6:00-Hour from WEAF.
7:00-Sacred Concert.
7:30-Sponsored Program.
8:O0-Same as WIZ.
8:15-Church Services.
9:15-Same as WEAF.
15:15-WSM Symphony.
l0:45-Same as WEAF.
11:15-WSM Symphony.
270-WRVA-1,130.
6:00-Same as wEAF.
7:00-Music Program.
7:30-Feature Program.
8:00-Same as WIZ.
8:l5-Church Service.
9:15-Pianist.
9:30-Radio Addition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
394.5-WJZ New YOrk-76o.
IN. B. @. Chain.l

IN. D. We CnAIn.I
8:00a-Tone Pictures.
9:00a--N. b @. Children's Hour.
10:00a-Ensenble.
12:30-The Nomads.
l:00-Metropoli Echoes.
l:30-Echoes of Orient.
1;45--John Barclay, Baritone.
2:00-Roxy Symphony Orchestra.
3:00-Youth Conference.
4:00-South Sea Islanders.
4:15-Musical Crusaders.
4:45-Feature Music.
5:00-National Vesper Services.
6:00-Raising Junior.
6.00-Margaret Olsen.
:l5-ShakeSpearean Hour.
7:00-Harbor Lights.
7:30-Josef Koestner's Orchestra.
8:O0-Mme Schumann- Heink.
8:15-Uncle Henry's Magazine.
9:l5-Vikings
9:30-Floyd Gibbons. Talk.
10:OO-Deane Sistera.
1O:l5-Pete's Stories.
10:SO-Lew White.
ll:0O-Slumber Music.
IL :30-Reminiscen
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a7a.S-WGY-7aN.

0:OO-same as WEAF.
T:00-Sponsored Program.
7:30-WEAF (4Is hours).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
OUT.OF.TOWN STATIONS.

nred by the Associated Press Eastern STANDARD time
Meters left of call letters. Hlocycles right
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19

6:30-Globe Trotte1.
7:0O-Choir Invisible.
T:45-Ensemble
e:3O-Entertatners.
e:OO--Musieale.
s:SO--Lacquer and Jade.
1O:00-Iewish Charities.
lO:30-Playhcuse.
II :30=The MoonbeanS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
aSs.S-WCAU-l,17s.

o:O0-SaTne Is WABC.
e:0O-pioneers.
S:30-Same as WA3C.
9:30-Feature Hour.
l0:30--Sane as WAHO.
11:00-The Brothers.
11:15-Quartet.
11:30-EnseEnhle.
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sOy.S--KDKA-aso,

6:00-Sarne Is WIZ.
0:15-KDKA Players.
6:30-Chroniclers.
T:O0-Mozart Trio.
T:S0-Sarne as WIZ.
o:j6-Rangefs.
0:3O-Sane Is WIZ.
10:A5-Sports; WIZ.
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272.e-WPG-1,11e.
6:iS-Organ Concert.
6:40-GoSpel Hymns.
T:00-Concert Orchestra.
9:15-Same as WABC.
9:30-Musical Program.
10:00-Wandering Poet.
l0:30-Same as WABC.
2S2.8-WBAL-l,060.
5:00-Hour from WIZ.
6:00--Romany Trail.
6::30-Evening Reveries.
7:O0-Baltimoreans.
2S2.S-WTIC-1,O6o.
S:00-Penrod Boys.
S:30-Eame as WEAr.
9:O0-Chronicles.
o:30-Orchestra Gems.
iO:15-Same as WEAF.
lO:45--Vocal Program.
1O:55-News Events.
IL :O0-Merry Madcaps.
26O.7-WHAM--1,IS0.
6:O0-Travel: Piano.
T:Oo-WJZ 6 hourS).
lO:Oo-On Wings Of SONG.
1O:45-WJZ (45 MINIS
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-02-13

weather's party had found gold there.
They found a busting mining camp.
Mrs. Donovan's father carried on his
trade as carpenter in Virginia City.
They lived there several years and ex-
perienced all the hardships of pioneer
life.
She was we'll acquainted with the &C
tivities of the Vigilantes and was
among the crowd Of %on-lookerS who
witnessed the hanging of five desper-
ADDE'S in January, 1864. She knew Slade
and Boone Helm personally.
While in Virginia City, Mrs. Dono-
van married and moved to Boise, Ida,
where she lived for a number Of years
Later, upon the death of her husband,
she moved to Hecla, Mont, then a
fl%ourishing mining camp.
She married James Speelman and
moved to Melrose where they lived for
many years on their ranch near town.
Mr.. Speelman died in 1900.
In 1908 she married James Donovan,
who with her nephew Monte Clark, OF
Melrose, are her survivors.
Mrs. Donovan was a long time mem
Der of the Montana Pioneers. She had
not been able to attend the annual
meetings for several years because OF
her failing health.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-02-13
RETURN of Mamdam Chief
From Washington Proved
Hazardous For Explorers

TITLE did Lewis and Clark realize
the magnitude of their promise to
return Big White, the Mandan In
dian chief, to his home after a trip
east to visit the great father" at
Washington. Perhaps If they could
have foreseen the future they would
not SO readily have undertaken such
a proposition.
When that noted expedition Of
American trail blazers with Lewis and
Clark reached the habitat of the Man
dan Indians on the Missouri below
the Knife river in 1904, great friendli-
ness was shown by the chief, Big
White. So impressed were the Ameri-
cans that the leaders presented the
chief with a medal as a token Of ap-
probation and promised to visit the
camp on their return east.
Remindful of this former friendship,
Lewis and Clark stopped at the Man.
dan camp OF their way east in 1906
and proposed to Big White that he
and his family go east to visit their
great father at Washington, the
president. Being assured of a safe re-
turn, Big White, also known as Gros
Blanc, and Shahaka (the Coyote) ac-
cepted the invitation.
Included in the party of the Man.
dan chief was Yellow Corn, his wife,
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-02-13

and his son, later White Painted House,
and the interpreter, Rene Juseaume,
and family.
After visiting in the east, where he
was introduced to President Jefferson
and presented with many gifts, Big
White started home in May, 1907.
Accompanying his party were two
noncommiSSioned officers and II pri-
Yates under command of Ensign Ma
thaniel Pryor, who vas sergeant with
the Lewis and Clark expedition. This
escort of the Mandan chief was
strengthened by a party of "a Sioux
who were also ascending the Mis-
souri,.
After a tireSome journey, during
which all progress made was by pad
ding against the Missouri current, the
party neared its destination in Sep
TENDER. Sept. 9 it was learned that
during the absence of the Mandan
chief war had broken out between the
Mandans and the lower Arikaras.
The latter, upon seeing the chief of
their enemies, Immediately demanded
that he be given up or at least set
ashore, for the obvious purpose of pro-
tAAA116 i Wy OOAt01C AAAC
demand was refused and was enforced
we'll as arrows from the ambushed
Arikaras along the shore.
Ensign Pryor retreated and sug-
gested that the remaining distance of
three days travel be covered by land,
much to the dismay Of Big White, who
refused, knowing that death was an
immediate certainty if he stepped up
on shore.
Owing to the hostility Of the Arika-
ras, it was necessary to retreat over
the entire distance covered since May,
when the expedition left st. Louis.
Reluctantly Pryor turned back in the
face of an Indian whim that nullified
much hard labor.
After lingering at st. Louis and
making the most of his trip, Big White
and his family again started for their
home on the upper Missouri. This
time it was a matter of strict business
and war, if necessary, for the escort
was actually a small army, bent to do
or die.
His excellency, Meriwether Lewis, as
governor of the territory of Louisiana
and Indian agent as well, appropriated
S $1,000 to assure safe arrival of Big
White, who was now fully aware that
he was an important character. The
Missouri Fur company agreed to I'M
dertake the trip and employed $50 men
as a militia. This escort was prepared
for battle and had small cannons
aboard their barges.
In June the escort left st. Louis and
in September the chief of the Man
dams returned to his tribe, after an
absence of almost three years. Peace
now again existed between the Man
dams and the Arikaras and $50 men
we're looking for foes where there we're
none.
For many years Big White told of
his trip east and how the white mar
lived. Not without merriment did he
tell how the great father" had de-
sired his company and paid well for 1t.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-02-13

was necessary that one be constructed.
PlankS were cut for a mackinaw boat,
which was then built by the carpenter,
Saucier, and on September IA Maxi
milan set out on his voyage.
There were seven in the party, Maxi
milan, Bodmer and a crew Of five. The
cargo consisted of a number of cases
filled with a collection made by Maxi
milan, bedding and provisions and
large cages containing live bears, which
Macmillan desired to take east with
him. Fifteen days were consumed in
the voyage down the river to Fort
Union, where Macmillan remained
four weeks.
Obtains Larger Craft
There he traded his boat for a larger
craft, in which he set sail October 80
for the rest of his journey back to
civilization. At a winter village Of the
Manitaries, or eros Ventres, some dis
lance below the old trading post OF
Manuel Lisa, above the mouth OF the
Knife river. he found Charbonneau OF
the Lewis and Clark expedition, then
acting as an interpreter for the Ameri-
can Fur company, whom he induced to
accompany him down the river.
Macmillan died at his ancestral
home in Germany in 1867.
Fort Mckenzie was maintained until
1874. In that year Chardon and Har-
hey, who we're then in command, took
summary vengeance upon the Indians
for theft by ~discharging a cannon into
a party who had come to the fort to
trade. Several we're killed and many
wounded. This act melted the Indians
to such hostility that Chardon and
Harvey were forced to abandon the
post and to retreat to the new post,
Fort Chardon, at the mouth of the
Judith river. Following their departure
the Indians burned the fort, which was
afterwards referred to as Fort Brule,
meaning Burned Fort.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-02-13

a large quantity the old accounts
state.
Pat Largey Shot
Some years afterwards Pat Largey,
founder of the State Savings bank and
the Largely Lumber company, as well
as several mining enterprises, was shot
in his office in the bank by Tom Riley,
who had lost a leg in the explosion.
Largey IA a stakeholder in the Ken
yon-Connel company and Riley held
him responsible for his injury. Riley
was given life Imprisonment. Since
his incarceration at Deer Lodge in the
winter OF 1878 he has mastered a
knowledge Of law and occupies him
self at times in preparing papers for
fellow convicts who need the assistance
OF an attorney.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-02-13

shots, on which we arose in haste,
dressed ourselves and loaded our fowl
ing pieces with ball. When we entered
the courtyard of the fort all the people
were in motion and some were firing
from the roofs. On ascending it we
saw the whole prairie covered with In
dians on foot and on horseback, who
were firing at the fort; and on the hills
were several detached bodies.
In the fort itself all was confusion
If the men had been o and then
mustered and inspected, it would have
been found that the engages had SOLD
their ammunition to the Indians, they
were, therefore, quite unprepared to
defend themselves, and it was neces-
sary, during the combat, to distribute
powder among the whites as the In
dians."
when it was learned that the attack
was directed against the B~lackfeet, and
not against the whites, orders were
given to cease firing, but the Black
feet were not to be restrained, and 10
or II Of our people" continued the
narrative, among whom were Dou-
cette and Loretto, went into the prairie
and fired into the ranks of the Black
feet, who were assembling, and every
moment increasing in number.
"Loretto had shot, at a distance OF
Sc PAGES from the pickets, the nephew
Of the As%sinniboine chief, Minohanne
CThe Left-handed), and this was the
only one of the killed whom the enemy
were unable to carry away, for we saw
them lay many others on their horses
and take them off. The Indian
who was killed near the fort especially
interested me, because l wished to OBJ
tain his skull. The scalp had already
been taken off, and several Blackfeet
were engaged in venting their rage on
the dead body. The men fired their
guns at it, the women and children
beat it with clubs and pelted it with
stones. Before 1 could obtain my wish,
not a trace of the head was to be seem"
Enemy Driven Off
At the beginning of the engagement
the Blackfeet had dispatched a mes
senger to the great camp of their ma
ton, eight or ten miles off, and in
due time the warriors began arriving,
their horses covered with foam, the
force in time becoming sufficiently
great to drive off the enemy.
While Macmillan had intended to
pass the winter in the Rocky noun
tains, fear of the hostile Indians COM
PEELED him to %relinquish his desire. "A
great number of the most dangerous
Indians surrounded us on all Sides" he
wrote, land had in particular occupied
the country towards the falls of the
Missouri, which was precisely the di-
rection we should have to take"
He accordingly determined to return
down the river, but as all the service
able horses at the post had been sent
to Fort Union, and there was no boat
at the post which could be spared, it