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. MY WMmiKR STia»m3»a half a mile away hunting up «umc Mock, aittl !»•• had a gun with him. A * poor father fell mother rushed toward* him unly to receive a shot from another Imlian who fired at her liraJ, hilling her alnnwt in-stantly. My father «.v not killrtl at ornv, h»r hv moved hit* ann aU»ut a- he was scalped by one of the parly. They al*o ■cal |s*d my mother. An old mjU*w picket! up our ax and -tuck it in my latlicr'* head, leafing it fixedIX HD* SKI’LLI hiring the time thin wa* going cm, one party rode after Stephen and idiot and »calped him. My *i»tcr, Roliceca, made a hrave defense with an ax, she knocked down one of the Indian# and would have killed him if the had not been tomahawked frv»tm lehiml. While half in-cnsible, ami scarrvly alive, the Indiana—live or six of them —«!.*i|*.ihd her pm*»n, and after that they ***a;|H*d her. They then carried her near the wagon. tore of! her clothed, piled tfceni up over her, with some other things from the wagon. and while ahe wm* siill alive wet fir* to the pile andBrnxKi* HER it.”Here the lir-kcn-hearted girl broke down, and the reporter waited M*me time More ►he could jtwcwl. Am ids soba ami tear-, and in broken utn rnmvs. she continued as follow*. occasionally assisted by Sphia :“After aJI were killed hut we five »i*ter». they gathered around us to ace which one shnuid !-• put Oil* of the way. and they »*id they could only take four along. thic Indian, win* »*vni(tl to he a rhief, came up, and looking at Johanna ami me, suiidculv drew up hi* gun ami -hot aisterV head oft 1 wa* fu frightened that 1 could not -tir for mmc time. An *«-n a* they got everything they wanted they ** i tirr to the wagon and killed the cattle; then made Sophia and i get on horse* and tied u* on. took our two little *i*er up in front of them, and started at! an fast an the hor-e* could go. We traveled all day.going due «uth, 1 should lodge. tne squaw tried to wave Kclwcva's life, but the Indian die hit with the ax •aid l»e would have her acalp, and ax the wa* ihot“In about a week when encamped on Wolf Creek, iIm* woldier again made the Indian* run. 1 did not *ee (hem, but heard the gun-. AH thiw time I wo* on honv-back. and a good deal of the time rerv wick; had to ride ail the time, and at night wa* OFTEN WHIPTEI* and beaten, because I could not carrr a* much wood and water a* some of’ the ■qaaww. All this time I wa* under charge• I ►IMI'IIover her shoulder*. giving her an extremely youthful appearance. Having been unit***! in the indissoluble formula of the flrvek church, which allows no divorce. any effort on the part of the Czar to annul the marriage would doiihtlew* prove futile. In the mean time the hanpy pair are residing in charming simplicity at Ito'-dcn. calmly awaiting a decline of the iui|- ri:d displeasure.—.V )'. tinijJ.ir.The Black Mills.11 abbey's Peak, Bea« k IIills, Feb. 2, T\KtUar Mraiw, t \iff:A party of twenty-four men, one la»ly amia U.y left Sii»nx City, Iowa, on the 6th **f «Vtober, and arrived hen* on the £*l of «V'toher. We find Custer* reports to be true in regard U the disrorery of gold. We have got the “color from two feet under the surface down, and up to fifteen cent* to tin* pan a* far as prospected. 1 find gold to Iw very extensive in the I Hack Hill*. 1 think there are also extensive U*d* of silver, einnaliar mn«l plumbago. Tl»e gold found here i- o»arx and line, and very pure. I w ill lv in Cheymne a I out the 1st ol March, and will undertake to pilot jwirtics through. The distance to tlieyenne i* miles, and to Sioux City 7*k» mile*. 1 will bring sample* with mr. J. Niwtux Warkex.It Might Have Been -Several day* ago an account appeared in this paper of the drowning of Mrs. Koguc in the Big Muddy crcvk. Since that time we learn that when the not* unfortunate woman wa* finally dragged from the swollen stream, die wa* yet alive and able to speak. But the pour, ignorant negro. who had labored so hanl to save lier life, had raie queer idea* about the authority of the coroner, and left the body lying on the bank of the stream all night, fearing to remove iLWe believe, from w bat ha* beca told us that the unlorlunate woman might have been resuscitated, but that she (aimed from exhaustion, and died from exposure and want of proper attention. No lt;«e is to blame, bin tlii* is a simple ea*e of the evils of ignorance.—SetSaiin, t J/o.) DmoemL—It is -taird that Flymowth rhurrh is supporting Mr*. Tilton out of the general fund. She ha* hern hoarding at Oring-ton's, and her l»ard paid regularly by tlte church. Thus i* afforded the apectat£c of a church supporting it* pa*W* paramour, while that pastor is on trial for tbe crime. ReUgums degradation ha* no lower than thia.—fkpefci Biode.depth
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The Leavenworth Weekly Times
Leavenworth, Kansas, US
Thu, Mar 25, 1875
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