| Show A HEROINE i The saying flaying that that Truth stranger then than fiction waa was never nevermore flier ore correct than in the case cf o two persons who arrived in this city yesterday a yesterday a woman in fn life and her son Bon a boy of some 15 pears eaIS Last March the Herald d account of J certain certain dead d d lk Odie having beep be Jl found othe on the Pl f north of Kearney it if U baing JuS 8 84 sa t d that they wey were murdered y tramps tramps- tram if it f tl t the e w waters water's me mem yi Serves erv s rightly some 0 W U but co c i MT l 6 proven proven Now how colones a n flood of light On tm this T l murder lul r anu t at t tt e hands of Indians w ich it s ible thata that apy iy y h human bean eing otil Survive If is told as as gwen given a evening ening by the our sut Mrs Charles lODe Jonee Joneas of Ington Wa h- h Count County A V a J left J 1 early in pany of emigrants who who were sta start start- starting start starting t- t ing J g for Montana for the yellowstone Yellow Yellow- Yellowstone Yellow stone stone Valley VaHey There W were te twelve of us Wm Brown wife and three em Joshua JOB ua- ua wn n wife nd two hUdren children lb 8 Hj J my er a eon Joel H Tones Jones Wb i Jd d three t te e wa wagons o laud and Oa ah through wen through our oj We We fe i r rn n D west and i U W tt t b 6 ame R e-arley e in la in going soing to t Fort lt Kearney an and then and en striking out dut i the plains pJ IDS low w Jis direction we w were wei-e traveling Th men n had a compass and used ed guide themselves by oy it but I t didn't see it very y Ye often often One day bout March 12 12 while we were wera traveling along a Jl little te stream several days journey i ti A in s I 1 reining coming to a II hollow where there wad wa a a bend m Abu stream a aLoa et ro b Ii t 1 I hb u shoat 0 Loa u qa 14 a l metro t Bho an r a fe I in tnt sh fl a I Ime me bre her bre tiler in to co cold blood 41 and the other two DIeD men sparing and and myson son Some Borne of the Indians were armed arm with gans W J mc-Jl mc f end and d t r r l 1 J t g v e e I r I er i ev m b r 1 r i t Sat r fA Cn i 0 t alb eq i o T They Tt o nothing iMI J nOth g t a pair Eta tid was ib 6 error Wot tiD ll la I d ri Wo au t Upward arde wb wire wire- JI i I l think tie t e a r l hd aidt i O S kiteS bh 1 I l nave Mcf ir M ld g abou about about 1 me t t 1 r t- t ta wa a OD ho bO a q ii it ito tl Sr li liL 1 L I wo ha if it he be hadia t Th waa 1 04 d Often n hunting bunting D and andrj logo Dg They They ey gave ave me a tepee next net Dei j r z to the head chiefs chief's tepee His is n name wa was yankton He had bad a wife and children I bad had to cook for them wash tb their ir clothes wash them comb b their h hinds heads ds and d do alT ff the work of that kind When I nothing eye eife J e Mi jf to dp m flent ae out to pick berries All AU tl the e cloU clothes es that I 1 had war w r n h alai i std n X pair of moccasins There was one iB In tn t Hew Se Wa a m lor pr or 40 J y eais af ara Q old Id and dt t tola old ld me me be lie e w is f BRt red 1 when h was 11 it l years Y years lUs lU's c d dand dand and D that t he Ite e had Jaad Ja d been beenu u with the tb Y i 11 dia thane Js ev eve ever since e except t pt ta a lit litt e yule when fi he n fie EJ was Wa WAS flit nt StIo s educated edu The 1 1 be India s wouldn't Allow him mm to t talk wilh wi me c nd he wouldn't tell teJI e what they had done with the other th r women and the childre children He lie told me they wouldn't hurt hurl my my my so so- so and d that they w were going to ke him as one of them and 00 wi that Would educate him Mm at t at St Loin He said JD moot mo t of the Indians Indiana in party were fr from m the Yankton Y A eney At-eney Ii and were Yankton 1 bat but till ti t there were some from R Red Bed I Clo Cloud li Tail ciel niI Bull Bult 1 Y Her r d they Were ut ut- ut j sill all JP 8 r and nd wea i b bAek- bAek k ito o gene m in to tall foti nark and i 8 art j d through t h winter He said theft ivre were re C Oath Cath tb lies J i i They The treated me ant kindly idt a abu bu o e ahe m i Tbt The en WM were WI pd good d l kinder th than l the tho om and didn't treat me with eo so nril bRt p They e it t my face 80 tt I looked tin k the feat teet- of the I w was ve happy except t W I one alone fit lf I L ever yf ever ny of f th tb other white wom women women n came Tt out with me they we were painted ups ur There were two were tWo Fr ome with them but but nit they told me me through the interpreter that they had no homes and no DO friends lerf el and aDd didn't want to get awl j away IlOne i iOne lOne One day we cam P ne neara near ra a fit t 1 village and the In Indians gota a lots l w whisky We had all th the time the told me been making our way t the Black HUl Hills The Ih a al became dead drunk the r having to wait until tile the e Il nf were through before they efrank fran 1 Finally everything was as aa as 88 it could dould don ct Be and anal Jl 1 that bat night t started for f r th the ra ro d Whoa When I I got out oot of the camp amp I hadn't II a ai i stitch of clothing thing on n beside tb blanket andone and one ne moccasin That was in May I came to the wagon waton five live or six days days after J 1 started and aDd traveled with I Ithem them one day the only time I 1 rode or traveled in the day daytime time until I got to the rail rail- ral railroad railroad road I- I I worried d my way along by th the stars that's I tHat how I kept my way I had hard W t Work rk to get enough to eat A About out All t r had Was wa wild artichokes without cook cook- cooking ing mg and I haven't any ny y t teeth th I saw sawa sawa sawa a good many emigrant emig nt wagons but they were all aU gO going the wrong Way lap When I got Where I met mt people dressed as aa I was I didn't didn aVe any any comfort to myself I 1 do dont don't dont don't ka know w ly hoW ow tong long t- t I was Vas traveling just tjust when r I got to the railroad c aut you dont don't know k about about it when b stet there hasn't a any y business to s start of ari a ofa r f did I traveled pretty faSt but I dont don't know how I stood it it 1 I I ft- ft finally fi finally nally nalty struck the r railroad way be- be beyond be beyond yond some time in June Tyne and started stared for Iowa lows Som Sometimes Corr c n 2 doctors conductors Save gave gave me a short rIde rider ride but not Dot often and anti folks helped me a little I got bao to Iowa Iowa the he I last t ot of June I was almost lilts like li e a wild woman but brit a farmers farmer's wife wiTe had given me JIle some clothes long be- be before before be before fore Of Space will allow the comple- comple com comple le- le tion tio of f the story in detail d l The Woman woman became unhappy p ever herson's er fate and to return to Central Nebraska Nebraska wit Wit with a vague idea of getting information iron from er her er son sou and perhaps being able 16 tb get hint him fr from m She procured the necessary me ps and returned to a a point beyond Co- Co Cozad Cozad tad Co-tad zad she is unable to t gt give e the name of oft t the place place f She went from place top to place plic J stopping with Farmers and Witching watching for lor emigrants from the n north nh She 8 saw W one party wh who stated that they had seen seen her son Bon but bot could give her het no definite information tion from station statton to eta sta- sta station tion on oI on the tl II P 1411 Ra dad Oad and watching every incoming g party anti and every tramp P she had bad drifted to Kearny I was as fast becoming disheartened at ed when with ith a Joy her r quiet v i and quiCk tears team best conveyed to To the be t reporters reporter's porters porter's mind she odre one thy day about two months ag ago met her boy in t the e streets of earney alck and Worn if ut out with wi hit hie hu long lo g t oj o- th the re iou n Shelter b by a Kearney a Kearne armor ler lerI pawed named I J the boY bo was ae oared cared for fer during an ill ill- Beth aee Mother r and son 1 ib r old d fanne te m 1 owe WL The T moved along MII g heft std lJ And wal w t nn ri th b 0 c Armer on the route They f r-qI- r M d bo pt th railroad a d 8 on Thursday found shelter shelter Willi a aDane Dane 25 mite miles of of i Jj ki d a t them Jt Info t the ci r yesterday an lei j litre 1 l at t once once a attempted 4 to finds fin Mr Samuel an old friends j acid like Ilke herself herliert a native Of 01 Richmond end Ind She oAy ly fo id d that 1 fr rJ J Jenney had bad je left th the ctt but in ld her search met another er tams t I of f good iaD bt no ho hogaTe gave gave gaTe herself e err elf and son son a le e 8 the night night and net will will will tee Bee p On the north w tram train tta morning I She tS s a simple I hard hard- t u oma r with ith a clear ho 1 h set t eye ey Y Beth Both t and she and her B A fa haf edo e blOW by their 1 irE I ty of J t r Un 4 ble hards h P g iiI it a t W iva e ei given i t to tb R t 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