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Show Noted Scout Dead. George Van Buren, noted scout, soldier sol-dier and author of three decades.'and 6 direct descendant of President Martin Mar-tin Van Buren, committed suicide at his ranch home in Rattlesnake valley, seven miles from Missoula, Mont., by shooting himself through the heart. Van Buren was attached to General. Miles' troops as scout during the disastrous dis-astrous Custer campaign in Little Big Horn country. He arrived at the scene of that massacre after its occurrence, in the capacity of a scout bearing important im-portant dispatches from Miles to Custer. Cus-ter. What met his view became world-famous world-famous by the dispatches he hurried via Helena, 300 miles distant, to the eastern press, being the first information informa-tion the world had of the engagement. |