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Show PIETi?? AExE). i86.: VOL. I. Heber;' WAsatcii'- County', UtauV 'Monuav.' 'Ji'.nko - i without avjpl. Alcan tune the winter OuU " fin mmr On A w cnrutre Vi.l, (?inH Wi - THE WHIXE.INDIANTRINCESS. rs TAKEN FROM S- . g I r YOUNG PEOPLE. the mountains. c the White- Princess wheld her court deep witliiri the Rockies, a large body" of' Crow Indians attacked her camp while most of her guards were out on" a hunt. The few guards at camp were soon overpowered or killed,: the camp destroyed,, and the v White Princess and her women carried off. They took her far over the mountains to the Crow lands on the Big Yellowstone. As soon as the Sch'osho- - . nbes heard of the fate of their Princess they were greatly excited, and the whole nation .wished to go to. war with the - . . ' t All winter theSehoHiehonW? mourn- ed forjtheir lost Princess, and i if the' , - t , ' v .. . .. . early spring, w hen the snow s v ere thav;-- ed out a little in the passes, they sent a white man who lived with the tribe and several Indians over the mountains to see if they could find anything about the lost Princess; The white man was authorised, to offer five hundred ponies as a ransom for her if she could he found. The embassy was gone all summer, but returned in the fall without the Prin- cess, saying they could not find her. The Crows denied all knowledge o of her of her whereabouts. ; Crows. The next spring the Schoshonees The women tore their hair and cut again sent an embassy over the moun-- j in flesh their show their to great gashes tains, and so on for several years, but "shot and the warriors grief; many ponnever heard Anything of their lost they Princess the was White ies, believing Princess. ... . ... a them and on would need her jourdead, surmisses have been indulged Many ney to thp .happy hunting-groundin as to what became of this white wo-- 1 ' The desire of the Snake nation to go man, but. nobody ever knew, or, if they to war with the Crows was, made known ., knewvwoitld not tell. Some think she to the white corpmandant of the nearest is .still living among the' Crows, and military post, butjie forbade them from married tohi Crow chief who had seen demanso. then The .Indians doing f her, and fallen desperately in love with ded that; they should have their White her; others, think Prin cessre tii riled teth em. a'1 wrote with all her women by the Crows, and letter ,todhe:commaridarit of Fort Ellis; ;v buried in the mountains; others, again, O in. Montana, which was then the nearest say she was sold to the Blackfeet, who the Crow to Reservation military post inhabit the northwestern part of Monand asked that a dull investigation of the tana up next to the British possessions. be' the and. white. made, matter;1 might Whichever theoreis may be true, it is woman, if found, be sent to Camp Brown j certain ilic.WJine Princess is lost, ana After a long time the commandant at probably never will be,, found or heard Ellis replied that he had made ' every efh of again on this.earth. fort to recover the White Princess, but ' THE END. , . WMV y s !!hne summer while - - naif JTV arMwairiifei sNo2.- . . , . , -- i s. i : J : : s p- - 1 A she-was-.mur- derd 3 r 4 1 r 4 . . -- - I ? I a S . . I i |