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Show a. , m H Kept Peace Witli Indians fl John Mltcholl, ox-sergeant of tho army, scout and Indian fighter of tho early days of Cuiter, Wado and Miles, takes enro of tho guns In the armory over at tho University of California. To tho chosen few wuoin he delights to honor ho recounts stories of the plains which should find their way into a book somo day. Tho other day bo grew reminiscent. "It, was in '67," said ho, "when I was still nn enlisted man and was with my regiment out In Wyoming, whero tho Sioux wero keeping everybody every-body on tho Jump. There wero fifteen of us, under a sergeant by tho namo of Brannlgan, and we had been away from tho post on a littlo scouting expedition ex-pedition and wero returning whon this incident happened. "Wo had been riding hard all day without anything to cat, for wo wero only fifteen, you know, and In that caso a man don't stop to tako anything any-thing like a course dinner on tho plains. Well, wo camo up to a littlo stntlon called Cedar Creek Just as night camo on, thinking to spond tho night there Wo found about 150 Rappahoe bucks camping thoro, too, "Well, sir, you should havo neon B that sergoant'B faco when ho saw H thoso Rappahoos. No sooner had wo- ' fl unsaddled whon nbout twenty of thoso 3j bucks walked over to us. Thoy wero n awfully arrogant and carried riflos. I Sr.ld thoy to Brannlgan, 'Grub.' That m was all. "And, do you know, that Brannlgan a stood there and ordered us to give E them an antclopo wo had, all our cof- K fee, sow bolly and crackerB. Wo A. jj""" didn't havo a thing loft. Then, ho I walked up to tho chief and gave him 8 K his plug of tobacco. Still thoso bucks fj Just kind of hung around, rcstloss and -3 w uneasy thcro wero 150 of them, you m remombcr. 1 "Wo boys grumbled somo and had 3 J ' to get along without anything to cat. I X V Then whon It got dark wo bogan to I mako ready to turn in for tho night. Brannlgan had bcon getting moro and I moro nervous as night drow en and .-'"'i. "" whon hosaw us getting out tho Bad- S' dlo blankets that fixed him. - - " 'Boys,' ho said, 'wo won't turn In ll to-night Wo will Just sit up and tdL I stories.' " San Francisco Coll. I I fi |