The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-06-04

including enough for the Indians. To
the red men sitting on the hillside they
carried the food. The Indians ate it,
then mounted their horses and rode
away. The white men at this time num-
bered six, two men having joined the
party after it had Travelled east to the
Musselshell.
When they broke camp on this morn
ing after the Indians had driven in
their oxen for them, three of the men
remained behind at the campfire smok-
ing. When the team had gotten a half
mile away, the Indians came up and
attacked the three. They fought back,
killed three Indians, and the Crows re-
treated. The men then Joined the
wagon.
At the mouth Of the Musselshell they
sold their furs and skins to Clenden-
ming & Powers. They had been on the
road from Thompson gulch just a
month, they had traded with the In
dians one day: They sold their furs and
skins for $4,000. They remained at the
dition to the C~lendenning & Powers
post the Northwest Fur Co. had a large
stock of provisions stored there. House
and his companions stocked up with
provisions and returned to Black Butte
to camp for the winter and there they
remained, killing wolves mostly, until
FeDruaTy, 1oiU.
Wintered at Black Butte
The party had established its winter
camp in one of the gulches near Black
Butte and in a thick patch of brush
along a creek, not only for the protec-
ton offered in a of attack by the
Indians, but from the weather as well.
Deciding they had killed enough wolves
for the time, they sent two of the party
to the trading post at the mouth of the
Musselsheu for a team with which to
haul the skins to market, the traders
having agreed to take the skins at the
camp at market prices.
The two men made the trip and re-
turned within a few days, but before
the wagon could arrive the Indians
raided them, stole their horses and
killed their oxen, and the wagon never
did get there. The attack occurred at
night. The next morning as the whites
were eating, the Indians attacked the
camp again, but the brush was so thick
they were beaten back by the hunters.
During the remainder of February and
until the middle of March the hunters
were beSieged by the Indians, of whom
there were so Or 60.
On March IA, the white men made a
sally and stampeded the Indians, kill
ing one of them, but were unable to
get clear Of the Indian lines. For three
days longer they remained in their be-
On the hight of March IT., during a
heavy snoWstorm, the white men, with
their guns, a supply Of ammunition and
a blanket apiece, managed to creep
through the Indian line and escaped
to the Musselshell stockade. 1t took
them three days to reach that place,
during which time they were without
sleep and had nothing to eat but raw
buffalo meat.
And they reached the mouth of the
MuSSe1Shell Just in time to help the
force at the stockade there beat off an
attack by the Sioux Indians.
House and his comrades lost all of
their belongings and the results of
their winters work.
The Indians were so troublesome
remained forted up at the stockade for
two months. At the end of that time
q steamer came up the river and took
them to Fort Benton. From Fort Ben
ton House returned to the mining
camps. He went to Helena and from
there joined in the stampede to the
Cedar creek-Hellgate diggings the lat.
1917. The new camps, however, didn't
pan out and House went to Missoula
and settled down." as he called it,
intending to remain there permanently.
He farmed, gardened and prospected
and lived there until 1877. He then be-
came interested in the Wallace, Idaho,
country and went over there. He re-
manned there for a long time, but even
tually. drifted back to Montana.
Strangely enough, although House new
er benefited from the mining develop
ment which he predicted for western
Montana, 1t came to pass much as he
had p~hophesied.
Although he had been a rolling
stone" to a greater degree than most
Of the early-day pioneers, House over
the years accumulated considerable and
IN 1899, acquiring what he considered
q desirable and promising group Of
claims in the Wallace area, with which
ne was familiar by reason of having
spent several years there previously, he
went there to stay.
REHEARING Is DENIED
Application for a rehearing Of the suit in
which the supreme court held the new state
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