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Show BILLY ROWS EXPLOIT. Alone and Unaided He Took Twenty Horses Right "From Under the Noses?' of Eleven Indians. t - Indians ud to call Billy Ttowe "Black Beard, ' because he had long whiskers that reached to his waist, and these he ktpt braided and the ends tied with red flannel tilings which were torn from the nether exlremlt of his tunnel shirt Ills beard was a black as Jet. und those who lemember him In those times jy that ho piescnted a very llerio and plrutlcal np- He was out hunting on the Milk rlier, near where llnire now stands, In the winter nf 6S 9 with Charlr Howe, Dick Kernell nnd two others The purtj had a flno lot of horses which the Indians had run off and left tho owners afoot Bills promised himself then anl thero that ho would steal the horses from the next war party that he met or die In Ihe attempt lie did nol want another mans property, but the Indians hod laken his good horses and he decided to take either the ones he lot or others equally as goo I If he coull tlnd them. And all Indians looked alike "lt''woi a lerj cold day in December, and as tho hunters could not follow the buffalo un foot tliei were without meat. Hilly look Ids rltlf and sinned out tar ly In ihe morning lie walked through the enow for nluo miles nn 1 suicecded in kill-lug kill-lug n biiffnlo tow lie stripped as m it h meat from her as ho could earn and started for ciinip it was almost i, lnhlfal when he tanm n slkhl of tho bl", ' "; as he iipproached he siw on a ills lint hill what Iho thought was nnother herd of buffulo llu hurrlvd as fast as ho ic-u d to get nuolher ehot be foe dark, and driwlnk near, he illncoiend that It was a war iiirtJ of Inllans with a down loose horses The party pisxd down by ihe lalfn and dl.ameired In the falling night lllllj asked the men at Ihe cabin If tliey had not seen the iiart I s Ihy said tint tiny had and that they did not c re to allude, as there were too manj Indians In-dians n ihe parly Ullli '"''"' what ho thought was cowaidke on their part. and. rtfuslnr supper, started on foot arter the sit ages He soon found that they hs I madi a tamp about three miles down Ihe creek tlolng boldly lip to tli.tr fin he asked for something to eat. no had his own and his hi other Charlei s six shooter strupi'ed to his bell and a J hort "losklns rlito under his sourdough fuat llio Hull ins were very friendly and guie him a good supper ft.r the meal wns oier he talked wllh th.m and founl mat t''v w"o Crow, that lm Just mndo a ra m somo Tie-nius Tie-nius and captured a small d of h irses I Ii explained to them th w was uftir horses ad h Intended iko tn- llrst nm s that he found, as ho i e.l them and In fuel had tohiiiethtm i .lenltcmio 1 irtiime II 111 tried to make his bed at lie it on the right and tlie on the left of iiieir guest Ihe eleienth msn was de- Lfledo watih the lire and keep It burn. iSl in light, and of course keen his eje ,n,n for anything that might turn .up. i .v.V nf the best horses were tied In sight nVThollroYnd the olher. were In a rope ,nfl,,?riUrt8oonk-'.rniyheC"u,!lllon a, best h-niul h-niul and lav down ns If to alien thrpi gh She night Ho n"frt about an hour and FSaS3H iSfHH'o .VVS-feSelnrerKfl. "iTrke,.iol.'!''o.,;r;,r,lew.oY fflSfclnWr! i.L including Iho eenlr, . u,i?e'!l'rr.tlunl!od"tl.e two horse, at Ihe inmn and saddling one he turned the .SH1tani'V.ebU;aocwelVv having to almost drag some, of them over C" ii.i falls lis got a safe leal on the ?ndlins and tv". mere thin twenty miles nnny when they oiertook him with horses that the. had borrowed from the main war part, th it was rnmped below them As the approached his cumn he nrrsngid his horKts In a tlrcle with htmself lu the center, and told Ihe In Hans hot to tome nearer unless they all wanted In die There were the nmi eleien Indians In tho parti Knowing thnt Illllt wns well armed the tried to pirlei lhe offered to let him keep half of the horses If he I woil I ae Ihe other hllf back Then they I wantel one horse, nnnllj llirj sail that' Hies would go awa If Bills would onlj l glie them a halt dozen gun caps ' I II glie jou no gun caps except I snap them nt sou," said Billy, 'and I dot. t tare whether jou go away or not You inn stns there or go back to sour camp as sou like, tut the first man that takes a step nearer here Is a dea I Indian The parts turned back and tho chief shouted that tries wero going to get a larger parts and surround him nnd re. roier their, horses No sooner wero thev out of sight than Bills mounted ond made for the opposite direction as fast as horse flesh tould earn him The chief of the pans was des.ri.de 1 hi the tribe to whit I. Iio belonged and eomiulled In hale his hair cut orf close to his head nn I for somo time ho was made to work Willi the lie ill! not feel mil bitterness Inward Howe, though for thei often met In liter sears In fact the whole tribe of Crows seemed to think that If Bills mill 1 steal ii ba.nl nf twonts horsta from elesen In- ' dlans who wtro the best brines nf the trlle ho must le a sort of a magician and twice after th it when Hit opportunity oil. red thes soured his life when the coull haie kilted him as easily is not The chief exnl lined to Billy tho next time he siw him that the reason he lost Hie horses so easily was that his medicine medi-cine was bad Trom thnt tlmu up until the Indians beenme peaceful ' Blink Henri' wns Immune fiom Indian raids Anncondi (Mont ) btnndard |