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Show HEBER t t h , ? " ' - FIEIIKEvE). r - -- i sNh THE WHITE INDIAN PRINCESS.' TAKEN FICOM , j HARPERS YOUNG 'PEOPLE. i ' AilVsummer while 'the White Princess held her court deep within the Rock-- 1 ies, ajarge body of Crow. Indians at- tacked her camp while most of her guards were out oh a hunt.' The feV guards at camp were soon overpowered oV killed, the camp destroyed; and the White7 Princess and her women carried off; They took her far over the mountains to the Crow lands on the Big Yellowstone, As soon as the Schosho-nee- s heard of the fate of their Princess they were greatly excited, and the whole nation wished to: go to war with the Crows. The women torts their hair and cut great gashes jn their flesh to show their shot, many pong grief; and the warriors ' ies Believing" the White' Princess was dead, and would need them on her, jour- u ii ds; . l,, ney to the happy hunt ip '.The desire of the Snake nation to go to war with the Crows was made known to the white commandant of the nearest, military post, but he forbade .them from doing so. The Indians then deman-- ' ded that they should have their White 5 ; " r ? 1890. No 2. TRBNnimgiTmsgffaaigsr without avail. Meantime the winter came ont and the snows .fell deep upon the mountains. v All winter the Schoshohonees mourned for their lost PrincesB, and in. Mu? early spring, lmi the snows were thaw-- 4 ed out a little in the passes,, they. sent a white man who lived with the tribe and several ndians over ilje mountains to see if they could find anything about the lost Princess. The white man was authorized to offer five hundred ponies as a ransom for her if she could be found. The embassy was gone all summer; but returned in the fall without the Prind cess, .saying they could not' find her. The : Crows denied all knowledge of her or her whereabouts. The next spring the Schoshonees again sent an embassy over the moun-- : tains, and so on for several yean!, but they never heard anything of their lost Princess. : f Many sur misses have been indulged in as to what became of this white woman, but nobody ever knew, or if they knew, would not tell. .Some think she is still Jiving among the Crows, and married to a Crow chief who had seen her and fallen desperately in love with her;. others think she. was. murderd with all 'her wdinen ljy the Crows, and buried m the mountains ; others, again. say she was sold to the Blackfcet, who inhabit the; northwestern part of Mptt- tana up next, to the British possessions, Whichever, theoreis may be true, it is certain the ATite Princess is lost,'. and probably never .will be found pr. heard of again on this earflg ;t , , : ... . -- ' g-g- r ' t 1 -- I I . t ro j t 5 j 1 j , j Princess returned. tc them- - He wrote iv-letter toThc commandant of Fort Ellis, in' Montana which was then the nearest military post to the Crov; Resercatio n and asked that a full investigation of the matter might be made hnds the white wbmanfit fpuhdbe sent to Camp BrownT After a long time the commandant at' Ellis replied that he had made every effort to recover the White Princess, but : ! I , County, Utah, Monday, June 30. VOL. I. H eber,- - Wasatch- j r I , -- 1 ; ; : . . THE END. : |