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Show HERO .OF INDIAN WAR3 DEAD. Patrick Drlce, Plorleer of Montana, Dies at Anxconda. Aniconda, Mont. -Patrick llrlce, well-known pioneer whoso bravery In tho Ncz Porco Indlnn cnmpalgn con gress rewarded with n medal, died on Monday of bright' disease. Ilrlco was an argonaut of tho early '50s and was tho hero of several Indlnn In-dlnn warn. Taken capttvo by tho Nex Forces ho was given n chance to en-capo en-capo through tho frlcni.hhlp of a chief. whom Ilrlco had bofrlcndcd whllo nl'k. Whllo making his way through tho Indian camp Ilrlco heard tho do spAlrlng cry of a white child calling "Mamma." Hazarding recapture by hostile redskins, Ilrlco wormed his way through the bush to tho captive an fnind her to bo the, slx-your-old daughter daugh-ter of an army officer named Manual. Aftor several days of i.juch privation and suffering, Ilrlco safely reached Captain Perry's roldlors with tho child. |