Show historical reminiscences samuel amuel tarwater the missouri misouri pen pan rimer logger M mentioned antio ned in last night nighta a NEWS vr W one of the noted doted samuel bogardo mob and received his hi wounds in the ste memorable morable fight at crooked river where when david patten obanion and other ahen fell tarwater received several terrible sabre abre cuts on the head neck aad d agop one oae of which severed revered his bia law and upper teeth in this thi condition on he wag wa left on OB the field for dead but afterwards afterward recovered and till still our bur viver thomas H lloyd of the mob was also left on the field for dead but recovered and was living a few years yeara ago panic stricken the mob fled and the wildest wildcat excitement prevailed through out the county ray bay amos reese beese and wiley E williams Will lame hastened to jeff Jen jenerson arson ereon the governor the there result was the calling out of the militia and boggs famous order to exterminate the mormons cormons or drive them from fren the state after the surrender r at far west and the militia were withdrawn and most moat of the cormona Mor mona had left the state bogart and his mob still remained to quarrel over the spoils they now had full possession of the town an election was held to fill all offices icea off bogart and aed wesley hines were candidates for the same office county judge I 1 think bogart said raid something against hines and hinesl nephew a young MILD man named beattie called bogart a liar bogart pulled his hia p pistol astol and shot beattie beattie was carried into james holmans store doge close by and died in a low lew minutes bogart la in the meantime had bad mounted his hia horse and started on his famous ride across aarom the prairies southward pur aed by eight 0 ther riders only one of whose horses was fleet enough to close up on the fugitive and he had bad no arms when bogart pointed his bia pistol at him he had to fall back out of reach of it thus continued the wild ride of the pursuers and pursued over the prairie until they came to crooked river A heavy rain had fallen the night before the river was booming and dangerous bogart drove his horse into the flood holding on to the tall and in this way swam the river here the pursuit ended this was the last of bogart in missouri he escaped into texas in october 1882 1862 the writer of this thin met with general A W doniphan in richmond mo and in a conversation with him at that time he said bogart died think he be was killed fifteen or twenty years ago on the brazos river la in washington county texas yours 8 B R SALT CITY aug ath 1892 |