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Show HE FOUGHT IN .TWO WARS. A Kansas Mau Wlia- Saw Service with (ion. Soott Id Mexico. -There resides in Junetioa Cty a vet-. vet-. erau of twoHtara.- John; Black, . who until very recently endeavored to gain a livelihood on a farm, now liv-- oom-fortably oom-fortably upon the allowance granted by the govornmeut. He was bora in Ireland Ire-land sixty-aevtu years ago,. hut canio to this country when a mere boy. Arriving Arriv-ing at Uie age of maturity he entered the regular army,' serving- twenty-one years in . the" ' Seeond dragoons under tien. Harney. He was in most of the battles In the Mexican war, and carried the first shell to the battery that commenced com-menced the operations against Chapul-tepeo. Chapul-tepeo. This aet was recorded and stands to his credit in Washington. He was Gen. Scott's orderly when the triumphant triumph-ant entry was made into the City of Slexico. After the Jlexiean war closed Slack was with his command in the Utah expedition. His company was the one that first visited the scene of the Mountain Meadow massacre, where he helped to bury the bones of tho unfortunate unfor-tunate men, women and children who were killed by the Indians under the leadership of Mormons. He secured from a thorn bush a long tresa of silky, brown hair, which told a sad story of some poor woman who there ended her journey. In 1859 he was stationed at Fort Riley, where he served six years as ordorly sergeant, his days of active field service being over. Ending a long and honorable service he retired to a farm in Bile? county. -His eyesight failing be has at last moved into town, here his faithful wife, who has followed fol-lowed him twenty years, now cares for him. |