Pace 6. THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, APRIL 15, 1909. COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY WILLIAM I. CODY BY BUFFALO BILL FROM TRUE TALES OF THE PLAINS FTER the Custer massacre Gen- Miles was left coms: mand on the Yellowstone and ted huts for his troops and brought from the He bulit two Tongue river and one now eral in ered stores, which were Missour! river by Posts, one on tl on the Yellowstone n the « ity of Glendive were completed, instead of waiting for spring and he tel planned to ke red foe. The Indians greatly annoyed ply tralns, and on one train bad to return on ace ptrength of the Indlans. This and ad teamsters he equip y wagon, ee where 1s ear As soon as these sumimer, p up activity ount roused Rhe general's ire, demoralized ith soldiers as sucl fo accompany them. Sitting self notified Colonel Otis that and Miles got q agnting er old Bull a creek. The wily truce, as he wish comfortably 1 to hunt and tr: did not att: jwould not that there vas by subi of truce they Ww r I have of this part of the count Although tl Indlans attacked they lef geld, v contin: miles, n ¥Yood, lodge ponies, Eventually 2.000 Indians sent to their ag Sitting Bull Reft the mal ward, where they 1 by Gall and some other chiefs, This bitter ex perience was an astonishment to Sit Ring Bull and the SBloux, so that it left ghat section free from thelr immediate depredations After a return to the Mongue river post and a short rest the determined expedition to trail northward erated | had opened e cour his hostile cronles and escaped north- , were joines nander made up an Bull's 1s obilit w Sitting it was by the winter anaer old Ba it so Drove Ma bayonet clean throu dian's body Canadian border Miles even made application for permission from the two governments to follow him to a finish, but for some res er authorities did not permit ting Bull's Influence had ably seconded by Gall as a fighter, and here 1 want to say that everybody In the "know" recognized Gall as one of the bravest and of fighting men that history has produced, white or red. On In an fight with the troops, he was shot down and ridden over by the cavalry, and It Ia $tated that an infantry soldier, In the excitement of the moment and to as General son the high It Nit always been ga ment one occasion, sure his death, drove his bayonet clean | | Httle known east of the Missour! through his body and left it there, ac tually pinning him to the ground teath seemed assured, Afterward a ralastorm came up, which revived him, and he eventually erawled off in the darkness and lived to lead the fir ing line In the Custer and Reno fights, Noars after I saw the evidence of the wound In his stomach, His | | shadow This Montana winter, almost contin ually and at that the mercury froze solid, soldiers severely. below 80 cold the ero times tried le equipment and oldiers hb irs and buff skins ad to be rea alo robes, deer had to be trading posts on rencles. 11 kinds Further expl: long to relat hat the winter e It to say ve 14 ~t1 no $ 1 vas effect! waged and a vely t with Crazy H } w » * M the agency disaffected, It was the This brough to leave some of of the best to arrest him with th worst « ne at } th 1 any » under great Jim White culties, met his fate falo Chips A package of winter clothes had ar rived for me b the river r } ind in parting | had hin best overcoat, a hat and other togs, and his death for awhile caused the Indians to report that Pe Ha-Has- Ka (that Is my Indian name) had fallen, and In sey eral tribes there were held premature obituary rejolcings. While sorrowing for Jim, 1 was always proud that he made a good showing and that he brought honor to his western nick name, which was given to him In a spirit of ralllery by no less a person age than General Phil Sheridan him given self I will let General Charles King, who was present, tell the story, which he has done in his history, “Campaigning With Crook" “This time it is not my purpose to write of ‘Buffalo Bll’ but for him of another whom [I've not yet named The last time we met, Cody and I, he asked me to put in print a brief notice of a comrade very dear to who was | him, and it shall be done now White was his name, 2 man but was ‘Ruffalo Bill's I had met him for the first time at McPherson Eiation, In the Platte valley, In 1871 when he eame to | me with a horse and the simple intro. | duction that he was a friend of Cody's. | “On many a long day's march after | that White rode by my side along the “James on the plains he flanks of the column, and I got to south and wi know him well, A simpler minded, | and got everyth gentler frontlersman never lived, He | attack we knew was modesty and courtesy combined, | in full force conspicuous mainly because of two or “Half a dozen three unusual traits for his he | tO BO over never drank, I never heard him swear of us were and no man ever heard him lie “For years he had been Cody's faltly ful follower, half servant, half ‘pard ner.” He was Bill's ‘fidus Achates,' Bill was his adoration. They had been boys together, and the hero worship of extreme youth was simply in the m He copled BUY galt, hls carriage, his thing he could copy proportions “Poor, hearted ‘Chips ral OOK 1 story brief after we trance launched out from where Cody left ug caval to carry for ‘Chips’ remained scout, though he class someting heard was and si the tering for co IW ground--shot and It LwWo becca ntensified but a dozen in 3 dress, hig OE where in speech—evers nl the move to ge Lieutenant starr carbine honest was a one rvmen followed, w some di patches went caution in Terry and others bank, peering warlly his ‘pard: “It was Just struck the Si head o the lodg keep on down te two weeks after at Sih "ux i jogged umn Genet south opening warnh T! ore a . t ther rend) BpPrang hand, ar of the captured village | Lo would got hi KOON make perm resist about 1 look down As yet he was protected fire by the bank itself, his distinctly outlined against sky He reached a grew on the very and he close under to alm and then ral to his feet, lifted his he high Ir ni Th quick, e upon the the | the stunted of Si0U Lhe rest edge there halted, his shoulder brought in ised h peered over igor Heht sh sharp me he were shoulder, wher smoke flonted ravine the nl bres in NEXT WEEK and "A GREAT CHIEF from lean tree the Indians beneath their form eastern that A mat discover w! motor and out wi gorge, and | his rifl readiness mself slowly THE INDIANS SIDE S DEATH’ London Free from Alcohol Since May, 19068, Ayer's Sar- saparilla has been entirely free from alcohol. 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