Show one day with black hawk 11 I 1 I 1 continual continued from lait last week I 1 will now procter to five irive an ac aunt of the redmans revenge this lay day the indian indians having ai its Indic atoll above thoe those who had chased captain peter isaacson and Us boy boys out of Otter stroms canyon took their position on a high hill north of the wrist amt will A ill near the mouth of the can un on overlooking all the surrounding rounding country north anil and south thus they could cunningly ri retreat treat if by any chance our men hould should cut them off T and hinder thim from retreat bak balk up the canyon in which cam cast they would have had to make their getaway get set away three miles farther routh south up willow creek canyon a much morn more difficult route these those scout scouts stuck faithfully to their trust not even making signs of their presence ence at leant least none of the white whites understood until later when they played their part they were in ay shooting thoo ting distance of the grist baor nill mill where sam wire the miller was dally daily playing his hi part that we might cat bread however jensen the Pt fluttering uttering man had rot got to the mill and wae was trying to tell wire that which was WAL quite impossible for him to understand tand alt all jensen could hitter stutter wa was 1 1 I 1 1111 dia neri nerl which was the danish for indian so wire told in a joking way year years after but wire as a well ai as oth cr ors were oon soon to know what black hawks plana plans were for that day the most of the warrior warriors came down the main canyon wagon road about four teen of them who took quite a circle auth south leaving the grist ri it mill quite a X distance to their right hz when they drew near the county count road they en countered several individuals black hawk ran into old father christian Will ardeen who had three beautiful roan hone horses staked on some privat ve land on the east side of the lane undertook to release them from their iron picket pegs to which I 1 black hawk objected thi this chief was not elow slow to make nuke hie his wants known lie ile too laid claim to these i splendid horses also was I 1 quite persistent but the chief shot an I 1 arrow r mighty close to him he heed ed this mild notice and reluctantly gave them up father willar Wll lar as a the hawk called him owned the grist g I 1 mill and many had been the time in more peaceable day days that he had i filled his flour pack the indian wai was not ungrateful this no doubt had been the thought of this wild untamed manof the rocky ribbed mountains of elk and peer fuh fish and all that an Ind indians lAns heart wished and cared for the balance of the indians led mostly by jake Arrow the hawks older brother encountered andrew A whitlock h and C G larsen ag as 1 I knew him coming from manti they also had an old lady doctor mane snow aith ith them then she was in the back of the buggy covered with ome bedding they did jot pat see her whitlock was generally A known m n cap he ile was also a rood good ute inter prefer N reter he ile had all confidence in in lans hence when the indians die dis mounted he a friendly talk as there hati been a it rumor that the indian bere err negotiating neolia lint for peace but how horrified were they when the indiana leveled their guns to shoot the team they were wire driving wag was no ordinary team and nd as they were both tace horse and not well vell broke wagon they readily responded t to and the indiana indians were nonplussed to by y this gallant dash however ono one yen er cr erwert werts wert a fat short bl big headed glutton stayed on his horse and rode up oo 00 the left hand aide side of the team and emptied mp tied his hi revolver at lanen larsen who jumped over the dashboard onto the tongue and the last bullet intended for larsen hit the horse in the flank and it fell dead in charles whitlocks corral I 1 saw the spurts of blood W that oozed from his wound eve jump he made until he landed his pre pro cious freight in safety the indian then used his bow and arrow at capi cap he ile wounded him severely edithe in the left Rh it always hurts more to withdraw an arrow than it does to have it enter he suffered with I 1 all his life after yen er werta werts had doce Mii rent vorst he crossed into west field where he encountered a family of four usually called the dragoon far farrally rilly gorgensen Gon rensen by name they weri wert treat great cleaners gleaner every fall there was the mother and two daughters a young ion son into the brick kiln a little way ways from the town thit eved saved them as the indian was too lazy to look for them he lie now began looking for tor fat oxen tows and a few hone borses en ere he ran into father pear lehnon oar our trusted old cow herder who had no feet as a he had lost ahm in a storm while loit lost in early lay days between nephi and manu when there wan no ephraim ills eon son peter who war was with him at that time euf an as a boy no so that he went to tally deaf leaf before he died fled hut but the poor old man escaped this time also diack black hawk on his round rounds ered soren II 11 Sor rensen Sor Sorren rensen aen put U t hill hand on the horn of 0 f the ill hawk aks addle paddle while talking to him black hawk indicated that he wax was afar some cattle his friendship for Sor wae was due to the fact that cne parent parents had been kand to the hawk when quits quite a young man here an are at least two tao cates where Willarda ons and Surre nien lives were spared for kind fully vindicating president loun glit policy ta ts better to tied them than to fight them now I 1 come to another sad ad event on which good intentioned historians differ the killing of burne and wife and a young girl by name of peterson Pe tereon after seeing whitlock wounded and the gorgensen Gori enen family safely in the brick kiln I 1 and eight other boya boys mounted old father has ras busseni mus seni little log cabin to bo be able to set what WM wat toini going on at that time thia this house was the farthest wet west of any in town ton from thi this place we aw saw jake and shi nav igan I gan or white hone horse chief and two young indians bout about twenty years of age commuting committing the terrible temble deed thee these people were trying to dig a few potatoes potato ea still till left in the field when they discovered dicov cred the indian indians they started to get got to town there were some willow willows hiding them from our light sight the man was hot shot by b three of the indians who fired their pun guns he lie fell on hie his face in a dead furrow as an we call the last furrow made with a plow he lie was arrain ar his only child about two years year old when he fell the mother took u up the preciou precious burden suddenly tac the indians took up pursuit and killed the pirl girl with two arrows the poor woman till still clingi lini tiny nir to lier ier aaby 1 cried help three times di bitin tin h hi I 1 tremble all over even now fifty eat yeara years later while I 1 writa I 1 could no longer stand it I 1 jumped off of the house and ran toward towards her after etting a young buck hoot shoot her in the back or hallow of the net nek it the hul let coming out under the left eye two older men then picked up the little boy after ascertaining the of the child they threw him bint back to hl his dying mother all this time I 1 was m makina kink haste to assist in any way ay possible something impelled me to go fear never entered my soul help was the word that rang in my I 1 can ears and sorrow and borrow horrow I 1 able filled my soul the indians were moving slowly amay aw ay and I 1 always be i llevad that they saw me coming si q ter burne was not dead when I 1 reached hr eide side she v aa ws rasping gasping her last breath in this life the little boy was craw line ling all over her he ile had a blue dress on well saturated with blood 1 when I 1 arrived he said india mama 1 india manaj with difficulty I 1 pulled i 1 him from hi mother I 1 carried him 11 i very short distance when an old lady b by the name of buel anderson took b mm r m and carried him away who I 1 lever ever else may hae hane had anything to do with a ith him since is beyond my know lede ledge immediately after rny effort a i big lumber wagon with a home made box on came and hauled the dead de ad to town with father peter thompsons mules that he called tack yack and binney Yin ney I 1 think sorren jensen drove them other others who came at this time were marten bensen benson jim jimi han xen and young dragoon gorgensen Gorp ensen there may have been ethers but let me insert right here had if it not noti been for our mutual friend the late john williams of emery bounty none of the persons whom I 1 have mentioned would have been here today to telli tell this ad sad story he ile deliberately but forcibly took a revolver tr from mrs sorren kielion Ni elion nj mother of blind mass on the south side of the willows lone the ditch ditc h the four indians were returning but john headed them off who may surmise what might hae haie happened mrs nielsen was panic like all the rest of the th people sho she was fortunate indeed to have ave a ri volver this family were adulte rich h other others were going koan round and 9 bourd u r d with pitchforks axes and some with scythes the mayor of the city hod had locked his family securely upstairs had not yen yener er werts followed whitlock and larsen right to the first house in town those old danish soldiers who had b fought in prussia war in 1848 knew how to use a bayonet and nd were capable of making a stron throng defense should the redskins invade the town it was the intention of these tha old aldien soldiers to fight to the death to be concluded next week |