| Show stories of jay B rimo great scouts watis 5 0 newspaper New paper union lt JOSEPH E RANKINS kide RIDE TO ro SAVE HIS COMRADES I 1 one of the greatest rides in frontier history u was am that of joseph E EL iwankin a scout with maj Z T thornburgh when hen that was ambushed mid and killed by the ute indians indian september W a 1879 and his command surrounded on oil the tile milk river in northwestern colorado when capt 3 EL payne of the fifth cavalry took look command of the beleaguered troops and called for volunteers to tor ride for help rancid was vas the tle first to offer all of the horses in the con command imand had been wounded but taking one of the east injured rankin made a dash along the back trail and succeeded in getting through the indian alnes tuen then in the darkness he headed for wo miles away tho next morning bo he met a party of soldiers diers bringing up a q cattle herd lierd for thornburgh exchanged horses and pressed bcd on ills tie hei mount soon son failed tatted him wm and he be uns ns forced to continue bis his journey on foot luckily ho he soon reached a hay camp and there obtained another mount on this horse lie rode wearily eari into rawlings with his news that evening lie had crossed three mountain ranges had led his horses over oer trails too rough to ride la in die the dark ness or because the animals were too tired to carry him and be he haa uie the distance of miles mile in exactly 24 hours troops were at once put into motion motton to rescue payne col wesley merritt with four troops of or the fifth cavalry reached son on the morning of october 2 rankin immediately offered his services as guide and by noon hl erritts command was on its nay uny when they camped at midnight they had covered 40 miles it was the morning of october 4 eighty aty miles away awny payne and his comrades bere ere holding off the utes and ad praying roetha arrival of beep ho tie k know now that tits co colonel loinel we would u id spare no effort to come to bin his rescue and be he bell believed eved it juat just barely possible that merritt reach him film by dawn of october IL it was a custom in tho the fifth cutill ry for ono one troop of tho me fo to guide another into camp campat tit night by t sounding officer coll call surrounded 1 by hs lifs wounded meth la in i tile trenches they had dur dul listening i eagerly as tho the elret streaks of light appeared in tho the east suddenly the ho j notes of a buelo burle were heard board and ot call calp floann out on tho the morn inc air in iq a tow few ral minute tho the ules yero re treating sullenly befaro tho the steady nd ad vanco of Merrt It erritts tte dmit dust covered troop ere ra ride of ot miles 0 over or t tho tile roughest country in america and lita its faithful guiding of men ufa men bud saved payne and his comrades tho the kerpon who keepe his ills mind on tho the future seldom grieves oer over aho lie past even tho the blackest cloud haa has ite its crystal linings lining soon now wo we vill bo be paying it to tho the ico lee man instead stoid In i no mauer lov wicked wo we may bo be we never fall to remember the sabbath day Wo dont havo have to work america we are told haa has annexed tho tile cold old supply of the world duta but at that we appear to have slipped a cog wo we have havi still to collect tho silver and copper I 1 tho tile fello fellow who lives up to hi his a reputation often jt difficult to live it down tho the maid it appears Is not the only one who changes her name whon when she marries tho the bachelor becomes a benedict the deml demi wets are too modest both ways they only want halt a snort we have strong hopes that cooperative marketing will bo be an established e fact within the next fifty cars the honorable senate Is div ing ing it consideration day by day the war time profiteer Is pacing pasing into history but history 1 Is 1 it has to take whatever comes comes along |
