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M o r o , S h e r r n u ii C o u n t y , O r e g o n , K r id a y , J a n u a r y
E x s ta b lis h o d 1 8 8 7 . _
THE ONE
SURE W AY
1 8 0 9 —T h e
L in c o ln
gave Abraham L i n d a birth we could
have a like revival o f interest in his
nplrlt, bis Ideals and his aims! He w as
C e n te n a ry — 1909
not aloue a nmn for one crisis, bat for
all. Ills fidelity to the public good,
his refusal to permit private conalder-
I atlons to stand In the way o f duty and
i principle, his tender solicitude for tbs
I poor and humble und his placing of
i man above wealth, of humanity above
, things und of popular rights above In­
By James A. Edgerton
stitutions, his faith tu the masses, his
devotion to the doctrine of equality
C o p y r ig h t. 1908. by th e
and of the rule of*the m ajority—all of
A m e r ica n P rese A ss o c ia tio n
these things are needed now and ever
In the republic. W hat a splendid op­
portunity this ceutenary presents to
study Lincoln’s spirit, the Innermost
AI the tim e Mr. Collier bought “the o f the man that gives. him his hold
little farm that raised a man” the pn the people of Ills age and all ages!
historic rock spriug from which it
W hile associations are making beau­
took Its nam e had degenerated into a tiful memorials o f the material spots
hog wallow, w hile the cabin in which that knew him and are arranging pro­
Llucoln w as born had
taken grams to act a s - t h e machinery of
north for show purposes and was praise, the form and shell that carry
housed In a Ix>ng Island basement. the substanl*^ iirfd ttfe; w hy showM not
This w as rescued from the blight of the millions of men and women who
com mercialism , like the farm, and love Lincoln devote their leisure to a
sent back from Its wanderings to rest study o f his life and utterances and
In honor In Its own place. The Jour- an attstnpt to define the genius that
uey to Kentucky w as one o f triumph. anim ated them? Then why not crown
The little one room log cabin was es- all by a resolve to give to the affairs
corted Jo Its destination In greater o f the nation the name unselfish devo­
stute thtm most kings and conquerdVs tion, the same high regard for truth,
The fallronds carried It free; the the sam e love of the rights of man,
Wnnamaker store In New York dec­ the sam e spirit of righteousness, the
orated the car; the governor o f Ken­ sam e hatred o f tyranny, fraud and
tucky detailed an officer and four sham and the name faith In God and
militiamen to escort the old logs the common people that he gave In
through w ith safety; Mnyor Weaver such full measure, even to the sacri­
of Philadelphia received It with hon­ fice o f life Itself? -
I t th is centenary, this dedication of
or; Baltimore, through which Lincoln
had to pass In secret to keep from the birthplace farm, this worldwide
being assassinated, greeted the cabin cerem ony in his praise, could beget
that gave him birth with speeches of a spirit like that It would be of un­
welcome; at Altoona the school ch il­ told bepeflt to the nation and to the
dren decked the ear w ith flowers; at race. Could this people once truly
Pittsburg the Grand Army, took It In comprehend Lincoln, and follow the
<Jiarge; at Columbus the mayor nud lines, he marked out, they would make
superintendent o f schools made stir­ o f this such a republic as has never
ring addresses; at Indianapolis appro­ been known In the files of time. Wo
priate exercises were held, and at have never had a democracy as yet.
Louisville
former -V ice
President W e have never incarnated In a gov­
F’e w n so n sjioke for the stnte o f 1111 ernment the principles of the Golden
rot pod Henry W atterson for the Rule and the sermon on the mount.
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K ittle Farm That Raised a Man
To have money is to save it. The one sure way to save it
is to deposit it w ith Wasco Warehouse M illin g Co. bank.
You w ill then be exempt from the annoyance of having
it burn holes in your pockets; Aside from the fact that
your money w ill be safe from theft; the habit of saving
tends to the establishment of th rift, economy, discipline
all a general understanding of business principals essen­
tial to your success.
M em orial M u .e u m Marks (ba
Kentucky
M a rty r
Log
B irthplace
of the
P re sid e n t— The O ld
C a b in
K estorod
«d
zp
IIE little rocky farm that
Thom as Lincoln
w as too
poor to pay for baa now lie-
com e the property o f the
lovers o f his son. When the new ar­
rival reached the Lincoln cabin on
Feb. 12, 1809, the last dream (hat
could have entered the mind o f tho
father w as one com prehending the
glory that had thus cèrne to these
barren acres. What shall the pawn
say when the Master moves It, or
what can It know o f the result of the
move? Most parents think their sons
may be<ort»e pie M int, e x c e p t th o s e
who ,• sons actunlly do becom e p resl
dent. They are frequently so poor
they think little about It. The wind
hloweth where It listeth, and a soul
that com es Into the world Is blown by
Expert, Experienced, Registered Pharmacists
the wind o f the spirit to w hat heights
fledicines Carefully Compounded.
or depths It may please him who
sends the wind. As for the rest o f
Complete Assortment of Silverware and Jewelry
us, w e tiiunot foresee one single hu­
man destiny, and It Is Just as well
that we cannot. When w e plant an
acorn we know an oak will grow-,
and when we sow corn or w heat we
can foretell what the crop w ill be.
But .when a man-child eiders the
iM M M t A M lH it .V tt
Any and all K lnda o f P a te n t M e d ic in e A lw ays in Stock world we know naught o f the harvest,
whether It to to be o f sham e or of
glory. There are no signs to tell of
th~ com ing of genius. The deity that
p r Ides at the birth o f great souls
may mi«s all the homes o f wealth and
culture to light at a stable or a cabin
In the wilderness. The wind hloweth
where it llutetli, and none can teil
where the spirit w ill carry the germr
of Cod's purposes.
Lincoln w as born on the very outti
rim of civilization, yet the spot Is now I
?»«af the center o f population o f the
, (Jutted States. That sh ow s bow far
each century goes ahead to pitch Ils
tents; 1S09 stopi»ed w ith Kentucky,
and 1999 lugs moved on to Manila; 2000
may go around the world and come
A modern hospital for tha treatm en t of * a ll m edical and to rg io a back to Kentucky again. Who t'rfoWs?
There Is little to that Kentucky farm
except the fact that Lincoln w as born
»diA^Aee, exoep t su ch an a^o oontagioue.
there. It Is not m u c h ,fo r crops or
R ates, fro m $10.00 to $21.00 per w e e k , a c c o rd in g to room se tm ry . There Is a rock spring on It
and a creek. The m use o f history has
Ambulance will meet all train« and boate if hospital is notified.
very little eye either for fertile soli or
landscape effects. B attles are usually
For F u rth er In fo rm a tio n A d d ress
fought am ong m ost uninviting sur­
roundings, mid the Immortals are Ha­
and
ble to be bom alm ost anyw here except
M e d ic a l D irecto rs.
where we would expect I hem to be
burn. If we were choosing a spot for
one o f the greet ones to com e Into tho
World w e would seek aH .tl,e modern
oeawenleneea and a ' combination of
seashore and mountain to furnish in ­
spiration. That mereTyproves th at w e
know how to ralso crops and blooded
stock, but we do not know how to raise
great men. This Is a branch of garden­
Nea-eet Hotel to Burinees Center, Banka and Depot.
ing that God does not leave to bun­
glers. H othouse methods may be all
right for forcing plants, but they are a
Sunday D inner 35 cents.
failure for forcing genius.
The preservation o f this shrine to
First C lasyB arber Shop in the Hotel.
the memory of Lincoln w as made pos
ilb le by the tfenerosity o f Robert J.
Collier o f Collier’s W eekly.
There
were several enterprising gentleman
who desired possession of the farm for
advertising purposes, and had It not
been for Mr. Collier one o f them prob
ably would have succeeded In hip
sham eless design. Among the bidders
w as a liquor firm that had already
prepared posters announcing “Lincoln
Birthplace W hisky.” The agents of
this firm Imbibed too freely of their
own wares, which permitted Mr. Col­
lier’s representative to steal a march
on them an« bid In the place before
they arrived on the scene, for It Is a
sad an<f hum iliating fact that the farm
on which our greatest president w as
bom w as allowed to be sold for taxes.
This, coupled with the further reflec-
r
.
* * * *, a a a a a a ]
tlon that but for the Interest and pa
trlotlam shown by one man this price­
less shrine would hnve been used for
selfish and base purposes, should make
the American people feel quite proud.
When It w as too late there would
y Q
oAsrs M« p»opU »top
doubtless have been raised n great cry
of Indignation which would have In­
creased In pitch as the centenary of
Mr. Lincoln’s birth approached. W e
T h e D a lle « , O r e g o n ,
are saved from this humiliation by the
thoughtfulness o f one man—rather of
Electrlo Lights
E lectric Call Bells.
Steam Heat.
two, for Rev. Jenkln Lloyd Jones haft
advocated buying t h e shrine before
... H OTEL RATES TO S U IT YOU.
Mr. Collier took the matter np. T w o
men out o f over 80,000,0001 It Is so
Ood finds his agents, even though men
All O R & N Trains Stop at Front Door
are blind.
Railway Ticket Office in the Lobby.
The birthplace farm is not the only
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Lincoln shrine saved from a degrad­
ing use. The old log building at New
T . N . C R O F T O N , P r o p r ie t o r .
Salem In which Lincoln lived and had
his store, together w ith the ground on
which the historic village stood, w as
purchased by M r,.W illiam Randolph
Ilearst and made a present to the Old
Salem Chautauqua, the second largest
Chautauqua In America. A whisky
firm w as also bidding for this to ad­
vertise som e o f Its wares. ’ It woffld
seem that the whisky men appreciate
All kinds of Reservoir and Cistern work in con­
the great liberator, w hatever may be
nection with water systems installed fn first
said for the rest o f us.
class style and all work done guaranteed.
It Is a romantic fact that the only
building left o f the New Salem In
Dynamit« and powder work on-all kinds of Rock Excavations
which Mr. Lincoln spent his young
manhood Is that which he him self oc­
cupied. All the rest o f the town has
disappeared like a dream village, as
though w ith his departure It had per­
formed Its function and gone back to
the slem snts, leaving only hla oabto
To W wishing such relations we heartily citent our services.
W a sc o W a r e h o u s e ’
M illing C o .
M oro
BANK
MORO PHARMACY
FORMALDEHYDE. RUBBER GOODS. PERFUMERY.
_ BRUSHES. COMBS. SPONGES. CICARS.
T H E 'D A L L E S H O S P IT A L '
Drs. Ferguson
H
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R euter,
M
oko
Opposite Post Office
Moro, Oregon.
A “WANT”, ad in T he M oro
O bserver will reach more
people in Sherman County than
> by any other medium available.
The Umatilla House
PLUMBING ¡S STEAM FITTING
Stuart & Miller, Moro, Oregon.
P lasterihq . B rick and C oncrete W®B?
, aa a msmsnto.
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Lincoln Birthplace F aro Memorial, Hodgenville, ly.
Llucoln bodied forth both of them,
lie was the genius of these divine ut­
terances made flesh. Herein w as his
strength. This it was which made
his utterances shine with the light of
love, tempered his Judgment with
H e w as Inspired of Ood. for now hero mercy, and gave him such sw eet hu­
else could he h ave acquired th a t w isdom mility In wielding his unequaled pow­
and virtue. W here did Sh ak esp eare get er. Democracy, the equality of man,
his genius, M osart his m u sic? W ho w rote
th e lyric o f the S cotch peasan t? A s Ood have their origin In the spiritual.
raised up and Inspired them , so did he ( Men are net equal outwardly, but only
L incoln. W hen, a th ousan d years hence. 1 ajn th e (r Fund«mentals and In the Innef-
th e tru th o f h isto r y sh a ll have le ft no. most. God and nature treat all alike.
room t* doubt, no dram a w ill be follow ed
w ith dFeper fe e lin g than th at w hich tells Here is the model for human govern­
th e etory o f hie life and death. Ood laid ment, and It was on th is, model that
hie hands upon there rough hew n logs, Abraham Lincoln worked. Ills code of
and th ey brough t forth a n a tio n ’s hero.
principles consisted In the doctrines of
Thus the plain Kentucky cabin, the the Naznrene crystallized Into politics.
humblest birthplace of a great soul We need both them and him. We can
since the manger of Nazareth,-return­ have him only by looking through his
ed to Its home to grace the centennial
words and acts to the soul beneath.
o f thnt advent which had come to
To find that and give It forth univer­
earth through Its door. Both the farm
sally to humanity would be a centena­
and the house were turned over by
ry worth while, would be of more help
Mr. Collier to no association headed
than all the birthplace farms, all tho
by Joseph W. Folk of Missouri and
formal programs, all the panoply and
having on Its board of trustees such
trappl/igs and state. Not that we un­
representative men and women as
derrate these outward things. They
Henry W atterson, Cardinal Gibbons,
are necessary, but they are not pre­
Wllllnm II. T a f t Ida M. Tsrbell, Jen-
kin Lloyd Jones, Charles A. Towns, cious In them selves, only for what
they represent. It Is the mighty, the
Mark Tw ain and Alliert Shaw. Tbs
m ajestic and tho merciful spirit of
fund for the work was made a c o m ­
mon people’s offering, and tens of Lincoln that gives them life. It Is that
thousands of these became members which w e honor and that which we
need. Show It to mankind, body It
and gave each his mite to honor the
man who In his origin, words and <<m. forth In all Its whiteness and beauty,
stant attttnde had so signally honored and we shall lend a glory to the out
ward show which will make It an
them.
On the farm the little cabin has been event to be remembered forever. W ith­
out this It will be hollow and mean­
placed at the exact spot where It I h »-
fore stood and has been surrounded by ingless. It is for us to meet the crises
a strong and sim ple edifice. In which o f our day with the same spirit In
It forms the sole exhlbjt. This build­ which Lincoln met the crisis o f hl«
ing, with Its Greek columns, stands day. Otherwise w e are not worthy of
upon a hill and Is approached by a him; otherwise all our praise become«
broad sw eep o f steps leading from a but so much lip service that Insult
plaza, from which also descends the rather than honors him.
have our Lincoln farms and
path to the old spring. The remainder
o f tj»e farm has been left as before, tombs, our Lincoln homes and shrines,
even to a gnarled apple tree said to be onr Lincoln statues and ceremonies.
Now 1st us have the Lincoln »pint,
the last o f Tom Lincoln’s orchard-
stute of K entucky. One of the strlk
Ing utterances o f Colonel Watterson,
who was Introduced as “the greatest
living student of the life of Lincoln,”
la worthy of reproduction. O f Un-.
coJLn the orator said:
How fortunate U would bo If with
feto wtvaiot totortM to tto
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Quick and Cheap I
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Supplies, Ribbons^ ¿to.
1909.
F iv e C e n ts
PRAIRIE
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A RACE FOR LIF
BY BUFFALO BILL
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TALBS OP 1W PIAD»
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N tbs fall o f 1800 General Sherman l'odo cu iu this way until, approaching
and the Indian commissioners '»Ìr.TTo-rTiinù W è'pralrlc. T*5T<I7 ,fGcff-’
who were to make a treaty with eral. u h n veil get to that *iunll rjdgs
the Arapalioes and Comancbee in up there y o u ‘ will look down luto a
south western Kansas came to Fort tow defi.ra. (.11 of the pruirle and see
Zarrah. on the Arkansas river. From C oe .( 11 Springs und the Indians.” The
there they were to go to what was Spila,;» rii? jp this vast pl.il', and
known as Council Springs, a distance they run for ouly about fvuf or five
of sixty-five miles from Zarrah. Be­ mil; 3. v. hen It becomes a small
tween Zarrah und the Springs Is a flat, stream o f water sinking Into the sand.
levé! country, but no water Is to be Alien v.c gained this ridge, there l>c-
had. Consequently there was no water fore I he general’s eyes were hundreds
carried save for drinking purposes, and hundreds of h o n es and a large
which was carried In canteens In the Indian ' lllage.
T raid: "There you are. general.
ambulances, for the general's orders
wère that he would leave Fort Zarrah There., ore your ludlans, CAJnpvtL
at 2 a m. so as to get a good start
over this dry country
Our chief of scouts und guide at that
time was Dick Curtis. The outfit was
composed of three ambulances, with
saddle horses for the general mid In
dlan commissioners, und wheti the gen
eral pud coinm lssloners were riding In
the am bulances their saddle horse*
were led By ofderlles The general
had three or four staff officers, a coin
patiy o f cavalry as un escort and about
thirty scouts and messengers well
mnuuted These scouts’ and messen
gers’ duty was thnt Whenever the geu
eral Wished to send any quick dis
patches ba< k to Fort Riley, at that
time the nearest telegraph point, those
men were to carry them I was at the
'^ 4
time a you u j scout employed for this
purpose
It wns about 2 o'clock In the after
noon, nfter leaving the fort, thnt s
young officer, one of the general’s aids,
was riding along talking to me end
asking me alxint when I thought we
were going to get to Council Springs,
where the Indians were I told him
that If we kept on In the direction we
wers going we would never get there
He asked, “Why not?” I replied that
w e were not going In the direction of
the Springs; that we were bearing tog
far to tb« w est.
He said: "Why don’t you tell the
general thia? Ha la op there In the
ambulance." I told him (the officer)
that I was not guiding General Sher­
man; that Mr. Cnrtls was the guide
and that I had no right to interfere
with him whatever, nor did I Intend
to do so. This young officer (1 have
forgotten his -name) tumbled to the
sltuatten. and. galloping ahead, he rode
alongside the ambulance and told the
general jyhat I had eald and explained
to him my reasons for not mentioning
the situation. The general appreciated
It at <«nce and called ■ halt, climbed
out o f ’ th £ ambulance, sent for Mr
Cnrtls to come back to him, and also
for the scouts to corns op» o f whom I
was one. He laid out a large map on
the ground, and when we all got near
him he said to Mr. Curtis:
“I wish you would show me on this
map Just where we are.”
Mr. Cnrtls told him. which was per
fectly true, that the maps were all so
incorrect that It was Impossible to go
by them. ~
The general rsranrked: “Well, then.
Mr Cnrtls. how far are we from the
8prtngs? From the distance we have
traveled since leaving Zarrah at 2
o’clock thia morning we should be
very near Yhsm."
.
Mr. Curtis replied: "General. this la
a very level country, as you can see
There are no landmarks, and there are
so many thousands of buffaloes all
over the prairie th st It la pretty hard
to tell Just where we are and how far
we are from the Springs. Further­
more. I have not besn over to the
Springs for several years, and when
I last went there I wae not acting as
guide. Consequently 1 feel that I am
rather lost m yself.”
The general, looking at the other
ecouts, eald. “Do any of you know
where the Springs are?" The young
officer bad pointed me out to the gen­
eral, and ho waa looking straight at
me when he asked the question.
I said, “Yes, geuersl; I know where
the Springs are "
“How far are we from them “ askeu
the general. I told him about eight­
een m iles.K
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v
He aeked In what direction, and I
answered, saying they were d u osou th
from us now and we were headed
dead w e st Dick Cnrtls spoke up and
said, “Billy, when were you ever out
to tho 8pr1ngs?”
I told hlm I had been there on two
or three different occasions with Char­
lie Rath, the Indian trader, and had
killed many buffaloes all over this coun­
try. The general called for his horse,
mounted It end said: “Young man. yon
come and show me the Springs. I will
ride with you. Mr. Curtis, come along
No disrespect to you. sir. 1 appre­
ciate how hard It Is for one to find his
way In a country where there are no
landmarks, level as ths sea and cov-
»red with buffaloes.”
I headed due south, the* general rid­
ing by my side, and during this ride
the geuersl asked me many q u sstlo n e-
how 1 casas to kuow this country so
well. etc. I told him that my father
had been killed In the border ruffian
war of bleeding K ansas àhd thst sines
bis death 1 bad grown up on the plalna
with t t e freighters, trappers, buffalo
hnntera, Indian traders and others
and I was quite familiar with all the
eountry lying between the Missouri
a mt ws can build a nation that will to rtv « aa« tto to « O » « u to ^ to
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1« I was, and one of their horses in
j articular, a spotted animal, was
gaining on me all the time. Nearly
all the other horses were strung out
behind for a distance of two miles,
hut still chasing after me.
The Indian who was riding the spot­
ted horse wns armed with a rifle and
would occasionally send a bullet w his­
tling along, som etimes striking the
ground ahead of me. I saw that this
fellow must be checked or a stray bul­
let from bis gun might hit me or my
horse, so. suddenly stopping Brigham
and quickly wheeling him around, 1
raised old “ Lucretia” to my shoulder,
took deliberate aim at the Indian and
his horse, hoping to hit one or the
other, and -fired. He w a s not over
eighty yards from me at this time,
and nt the crack o f my rifle down
went his horse. Not waiting to see
If he recovere^, I turned Brigham,
and In a moment we were again fair­
ly flying toward our destination. We
had urgent business about that time
and were In a hurry to get there.
The other Indians had gained on us
while I was engaged In shooting at
their leader, and they sene several
shots whizzing past me. but fortunate­
ly none o f them hit the intended mark.
To return their compliment I occasion­
ally wheeled m yself In the saddle and
fired back at them, and one o f my
shots broke the leg o f one of their
,b<M>sos. which left Its rider hors(e) de
combat, ns the French would BAX. .
Only seven or eight Indians now re­
mained In dangerous proximity to me,
and us their horses were beginning to
Ing som ewhat I checked my faithful
old steed a little to allow him an op­
portunity to draw an extra breath or
two. 1 hnd determined, If It should
come to the worst, to drop into a buf­
falo w allow , where 1 could stand the
Indians off for awhile, but I was not
compelled to do this, as Brigham car­
ried me through moet nobly.
The chase was kept up until we
came within three miles of the end
of the railroad track, where tw o com­
panies of soldiers were stationed for
the purpose of protecting the work­
men from the IsdhfM .— One o f the
outposts saw the Indians chasing me
across the prairie and gave the alarm.
In n few minutes I saw. greatly to my
delight, men coming on foot, and cav­
alrymen, too, galloping to our rescue
as s o o o , l i they could mount their
horses. When the Indians saw this
they turned nnd ran In the direction
from which they had come, in a very
few m inutes I was met by some of
the .Infantrymen and' trackmen, and.
Jumping to the ground and pulling the
blanket and saddle off Brigham. I told
them w b st he bed done for me. They
at once took him In charge, led him
around and rubbed him down so vigor­
ously thnt I thought they would rub
bin) to death.
Captain Nolan o f the Tenth cavalry
now came up with forty o f his men,
and upon learning what had happened
he determined to pursue the Indians,
n e kindly offered me one o f his cav­
alry horses, and after putting m y ew n
saddle and bridle on the animal we
stnrted out after the flying Indians,
who only a few minutes before bad
been making It so uncom fortably live­
ly for me. Our horses were all fresh
aud of excellent stock, and we soon
began shortening the distance between
ourselves and the redskins. Before
they hnd gone five miles we overtook
and killed eight of their number. The
“General ¿Uaniaaig rullny bg mg vide.
atked rne m any quentiant.’'
around the Springs.” n o patted me
on the hack in a fatherly way nnd said.
“My boy, I am golug to know you bat­
ter."
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The general and the peace comrnls
sloners counseled here for three days
and In the evening o f the third day an
orderly cam e to me and told me the
general wished me to reixirt to him at
his tent. The general kindly Invited
me In and said: “Billy, I want to go
from here now to Fort Kearny, on the
Platte river. In Nebraska. How far Is
It?” I told him the way thnt he would
have to go to have g o o d camping ¡»Inces
and that It would be about 800 miles
He asked. “Can you guide me there?”
I told him 1 could, and he said: “All
righ t We will start tom orrow for
Fort Zarrah and from there to Fort
Riley, and from Fort Riley I want you
to guide me to Fort Kearny.” Which I
"did, and on arriving at Fort Kearny
the general complimented- me nnd said:
“From here 1 am going to Fort Leav­
enworth. I wish you to guide me
there." I told him that would be easy,
for there wns a big wagon road from
Kearny to Fort Lenveuworth. He said:
“That Is all righ t It- will make It
easier for you. You have guided the
safely for over 890 miles where there
were no wagon roads, and I am not
afraid to trust m yself with you on a
big wagon road.” On arriving nt Leav­
enworth I parted with the general,
and he said General Sheridan wns com­
ing out to take command In a short
time nnd thnt he would tell him of me
This was the liwt tim e I saw the dear
old general for several years He was
one of the loveliest men I have ever
had the pleasure of knowing
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One day In the spring of 1S<’>8 1
mounted Brigham nnd started for
8raoky Hill river
After galloping
about twenty miles I reached the top
of a small hill overlooking the vnlley
of that beautiful stream As I wns
gszlng down on the landscape 1 sud
denly saw n band of about thirty In­
dians nearly half a tulle distant. I
knew by the way they Jumped on their
horses that they had s y n me aa soon “Jtl (As crack of r*v »t/U down went A(s
koras."
ns 1 came In sight.
The only chance I had, for my life others succeeded in making their eo-
On com ing np to th s place
wns to make a run for It, and I Imme­ cape.
diately wheeled and stnrted back to­ where 1 hnd killed ths first hors«—ths
wn rd the railroad
Brigham seemed spotted o«to—on my “home run” 1
to understand what wan up. and he found thst my Bullet had struck him
struck out as If he comprehended that In the forehead aud killed him Instant­
It was to be a run for life. He crossed ly. He wns a nobis animal and ought
a ravine In a few Jumps, and on to have been engaged In better busi­
reaching a bridge beyond I drew rein, ness
When we got back to camp I found
looked back and saw the Indians com ­
ing for me at full speed and evidently old Brigham grazing quietly and con­
swell mounted. I would have had little tentedly on the grass. He looked up
or no fear of being overtaken If Brig­ at me as If to ask If we had got aw ay
ham had been fresh
But as he was with any of those fellow s who had
not I felt uncertain as to bow be chased ua. I believe hs read the an­
swer In my eyes.
would stand a long chase.
My pure Cera seemed ts he gaining
on me a little, and I let Brigham
■hoot ahead again. When we had run
about three miles farther som e eight
or nine df the Indians were not bver
209 yards behind, and five or sis of
Tb s Meekest W om an.
these seemed to be shortening the gap I Munday School Teacher—William, can
at every Jump. Brigham now exerted you tell die who was ths meekest man?
him self more than ever, and for the William— Yea. ma’am; Mossa. Sunday
next three or four miles he got right School Teacher—That’s right Now.
down to business and did some of ths Tommy, can you tell ms tbs nams off
prettiest running I ever saw. But the ths meeksat
M wata a to to • • w w « mmumm j ma*i
womaa?