| Show HOW HOIN GEN GENs NELSON ft MILES DEATH AT THE HANDS OF GRIEF DEER 0 4 etzl k I 1 V aa c 1 fa POP L E N 4 ka r 04 IA Z 6 0 r zal lame deer firing nt at general miles of the many narrow escapes which ben bon nelson A miles allies has undergone flaring during his lils eventful career as an indian fighter on oil the plains of the west the one which ho lie remembers perhaps better than all others is the incident which brought him tho nearest t t loath when in a moment of concilla lory tory conference ho he sat mounted on Lor horseback shaking hands with aith an in atin at in chieftain who together with his ills tribe had been aur surrounded rounded and forced t to 0 yield by the general and his following of cavalry and infantry gen miles had spent months in effecting the subjugation of the diff different ar western tribes and had succeeded in bringing them all under the yoke of submission with tho the exception of one part dar ilar brave and villainous chieftain called by the indians lame deer doer one morning in may 1877 gen miles with four troops of cavalry and six of infantry and also an addi additional following of many of the indian chieftains and scouts who had joined the troops in expression of their willingness gness to remain peaceful started out in the direction which it was as known lame deer aud his camp had bad taken across the plains two days later at 1 I in the morning the cavalry squadron squad squat hon ion with gen gel miles allies as their leader and followed by troops on foot dashed aiom between the hills near the indian camp and a few horns later swiftly fell upon the little village age of waga wigwams ams 1 bing ing upon the plain at the farst sortie upon the encampment camp ment a sharp fight tight ensued and a number of the indians and soldiers fell in the first clear light of the day break a little company of indians found itself separated from the rest of their followers and surrounded on all sides by the troopers at a signal from the general the cavalry ceased demonstrations of hostilities tili ties and arid with a how how kola moaning meaning friend the general himself rode forward and extended his hand to lame deer ia who ho was among tho the group of those surrounded it was a risky attempt at reconciliation for tho the eyes of the indian showed fierce and glaring with rage and in his right hand at his side he grasped a carbine which could be used on the instant with alth the greatest effectiveness ti veness however gen miles rode straight up to this untamed chieftain and amicably insisted upon taking his band hand in sign of reconciliation for the fraction of an instant it seemed as though the hostilities were to end then and the there ire grudgingly tho tile chieftain received the tile proffered sign of peace and stood Nal matting ting in sullen but submissive he silence though every neri benc e in his ills brone covered muscles was nas and quivering lul ering and anti tho tile old man mail till maintained all I 1 his Is suspicion loll ot such conciliatory meas u mes the incident seemed to beto kon oil a ending when on oil tho the instant an in oi on jealous trooper ci ei who nho bad been fl fighting biting in the rear blied 1 up tit on oil hot hoi beback all and d decry decrying ill ii his N o 0 11 engral sli shading alIng hands anith alth the tile wll and aimed aage chieftain coolly lashed his ills title to ills its shoulder and cohered irnie doer with etli HIP mairle mi irle his action occupied at tit u some distance dib tance filin the 1 aders lut but the eagle like glance dance and sh shrewd reNNI and swift compie honsmon of the indian hief pere ched cd it and at tit once beheld that his hobe foice anas u to bo be biot ot don with the of he lie berlied his hand from fiat of gen miles and at the same me without raising the tile ride rifle to hit hi bh bli he lie fired as u the capon hing hi ng at his side ith re 11 halile accuracy at the american gene gen cial ial in the brief interval between lame deers first hostile movement and the shot gen miles had whirled his ills horse around and the animal fettling upon his ills haunches in the move moe ment merit shifted tho the position of the general the action saved gen miles life the bullet from lame deora deers rifle sped through the space which an instant before had been occupied by the generals body and pierced tho the breast of a trooper sitting mounted just in the rear of the tile general killing the man instantly the shot from chlof was the signal for an attack I 1 y tho the troopers upon the little group of indians an attack which m was as over within a moment leaving all tho the wand lying either dead or wounded upon the prairie had it not been for the instant intuition of gen miles allies and his sudden shifting of position on horseback the bullet which whizzed close to his head and passed through the heart of a soldier in the rear would have ended hia his exle existence tence then and there |
