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Our last quotation left Mr. Olney
Ln a very critical position, which
continued to grow still more critical
as he retreated. Ills story continues
as follows:
"The Indians were by this time
close up to them and seemed by their
exulting yells to feel certain of both
of tbelr Intended victims.
Olney
ran over ridge and gulch, aiming to
get Into the 'brushy bottom of the
creek, about a quarter of a mile
above the forks. Many a time he
thought to get behind a tree and
I stand bls ground, If only for a short
time, for he felt that death was cer
tain. The Indians seemed to know
his thoughts, for every time ho made
for a tree the savages fired furious
ly at It, thinking that when be pass
ed behind it some one of the many
bullets would certainly hit him,
while he, seeing their object, gave
up the Idea, but with no intent to
fire, only Intending to make them
take to trees for shelter, which they
[did in every Instance, thus giving, as
; be thought, a little advantage of
J them in the race. But this kind of
I running would not do. for back be-
| hind him a few hundred yards he
saw a squad of mounted Indians
coming at full speed towards him.
He had distanced the footmen, but
he had no hopes of escaping from
those who were mounted. Wright
( was out of sight. He was all alone
save his pursuers. Suddenly stop
ping he took deltberste slm and
fired, with a splendid result; the
savage fell sprawling on the ground.
But there could be no more loading
and firing, and the gun was a bur
den. besides, he expected to fall any
moment, and then the Indians would
get a splendid gun. So cocking the
gun, ho struck It against a tree as
he ran, and broke the lock, and then
dropped it on the ground; his bullets
he scattered broadcast; his box of
caps were cast Into a pool of water
In the bed of the gulch.
•'As he descended Into the creek
flat, be camo near Wright, who was
still In his saddle, but was holding
on to the pummel apparently to stea
dy himself, and seemed to sway from
side to side. To Olney’s Inquiry If
he was wounded, he answered with a
groan. Hi« gun. a double-barreled
shot gun. was gone; the mule was
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still running, but slowly, no faster
at least than Olney was, so they ran
side by side up the creek bottom for
nearly a quarter of a mile, the
mounted Indians slowly gaining on
them. The Indians on foot were
left far behind, and seemed to have
given up the race, but still they sent
tbelr bullets after the fleeing men,
In showers; the deathly ping, ping,
zip, of the bullets gave a continuous
and urgent stimulus to the pursued.
“Across the creek bottom ran a
line of thick stunted crabapple and
chaiparral.
As they neared it
Wright called out to his companion,
as if to give him a fresh stimulus,
•Run now!’ At the sound of his
voice—for It was the first time he
had spoken since the first separa
tion—Olney looked towards him on
ly to see him fall from his Baddie to
the ground with a dull thud and
gurgle. Life had fled, and the noble
Wright lay on his back, his limbs
quivering in the last agonies, while
the Indians yelled louder and more
hideously than before. Olney was
alone now in the flesh, but still the
spirit of his murdered companion
hovered around him and completed
in the Invisible, what was begun in
the visible body. Diving Into the
thick brush he made his way as fast
as possible up the dry creek for a
quarter of a mile and then, exhausted
almost at death’s door, with a bullet
through one foot, a sharp dry etick
run into the flesh between the toes
of the other, the bottoms of both
frightfully lacerated by the sharp
stones over w-iych he had been run
ning, he cast himself under a pile of
driftwood and listened, with no hope
of eecape, to the approaching foot
steps of his savage pursuers.
"Let us now go up to the top of
that low, sparcely timbered hill on
the left, near the trail and we shall
soon see five men of company ’E’.
Olney’s messmates — John Davis,
Shellback Smith, John Gould, Char
ley Abrams and J. Sargent, who had
been stopping at Hay* ranch as a
guard, and who had been told by
Willie Hay and the Others who bad
succeeded in reaching the ranch,
that Wright and Olney were killed—
come running up the hill as fast as
their horses could be made to go,
In the direction of Slate creek. Thoy
have oome to recover the body of
their murdered messmates. They rise
the hill and descend at a rapid pace
the steep ridge down which the
trail ran towards the forks of the
creek. Half way down, and they are
saluted by a hundred rifle shote
from front and both flanks, accom
panied by the two well known In
dian yell. ‘We’re In for It now boys'
shouted John Davis, the leader of the
party, ‘jump off and take a tree and
we will give them a fight If they are
on ft.’
"Dismounting and tying their
horses to the brush, with the bullets
and yells growing thicker and louder
the brave little party boldly went
Into the fight. Taking each a tree,
they loaded and fired with good ef
fect. as was plainly Indicated next
day when the battle ground was vis
ited. Louder and fiercer grew the
unroar; the Indians, numbering near
200, soon gained the rear of the lit
tle party, and poured upon them a
hail of rifle and pistol shots. *We
must get out of this,’ shouted
Gould. ‘They’ve got us In a tight
place, come on.’ He ran to his
horse, and all followed but Davis,
who. seeing a number of Indians
running towards them, shouted to his
companions, ‘hurry up boys and
mount. I'll keep those devils away
until you are ready to start. Char
ley. untie my horse and hold him
until I come, and,* almost In the
same breath, he added. *Go ahead
boys, I’m shot right through the
turn turn.’
■tAa Davis spoke he dropped his
gun from hfs hands and fell forward,
npon his face. Shellback Smith and
Charley Aibrams ran to him. hut he
was fast stiffening In death, and
they left him lying on hfs face, for
they could do him no good. And to
take away hfs dead body was not
possible, for the Indians were press
ing around them, and retreat would
soon be Impossible. As It was It
was extremely difficult. They were
on a narrow ridge which was quite
steep on both sides, and as they dis
mounted their horses, that of Char
ley Abrams was shot through the
body and rolled down the steep side
| of the ridge, rider and all. some 20
yards, nntll ft struck the bottom of
the gulch. Trickily Abrams <was on
' top, and easily extricated himself.
¡The animal regained hfs feet and
Ahrams again mounted him and
i turned his head up the hill to regain
his companions, who had again dis
mounted and were bravely fighting
¡back the Indians until they could
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‘‘In the sudden change of affairs,
Gould, who had secured Davis’
horse, let him go, so that he would
better 'be able to take care of his
own, and use his gun in the fight.
John Sargeant had Davis* gun, and
Both Loose and Mounted
in the retreat carried It safely to
the ranch. As soon as Gould loos
ened his hold on the bridle, Davis’
horse ran wildly down the hill Into
the midst of the Indians.
"Abrams had no sooner mounted
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to be mounted, came running up the
road towards the little party, from
the direction of the Indians, and
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This is a snap
moment as Abrams did. He ran
gently towards the mule calling
coaxingly. ‘whoa! whoa! which the
mule well understood, and stopped
till Aibrams had secured It and
mounted it. Then away all scam
pered through a line of smoke and
fire on each flank, and forced their
way through the savages who had
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Holding
One or two drops of tincture of io
The a rerage dairy cow In the Neth-
their guns in the bridle hand, with dine will destroy all germs in a quart I erlands produces more than seventy,
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trail to the ranch, closely followed
by the yelling and disappointed In
dians, who were but a few rods in
their rear, when they reached the
gates of the palisades surrounding
the ranch.’’
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with the Southern Pacific holdup in
which a mail clerk was killed.
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