Show BLAND aa AN INDIAN FIGHTER an old comrade in the plute wr gives his boom a jo the man who slept under alie same blanket and who ate raw beef with bland when they were fighting flute indians thirty live years ago is here working for him since bland came into such prominence ae a presidential candidate there has been inquiry as to his whereabouts during the war lambeth of montana tella the atory he knew bland when hia beard was just beginning to sprout and when he was living with his uncle mr fulton in california and mining when tho rush to virginia city in what is now nevada occurred it carried bland and lambeth with it sol meredith a noted lawyer from missouri was one of the prominent characters at virginia city he became invoked in controversy over the savage mine david H terry who had killed senator brode rick of california a couple of years batore was on the other side friends feared that meredith might be drawn into a duel with terry they got up an expedition to go down and finish for ailline a family named williams meredith was made commander as a ruse by his friends to get him away from terry the indians overwhelmed the party of avengers and killed all but seven or eight one of the victims was meredith when the survivors came in eaid mr lambeth it created great excitement about us us enlisted to go down and punish the aiutes bland was one of us ve took horses wherever we could find them the women and children were collected in a stone building at virginia city and left with a garrison the rest of us under capt jack hayes marched down to pyramid lake we were joined by regulars from fort churchill well we found the aiutes there was no doubt about that for three months we had all of tho indian fighting we wanted was bland a bood fighter he never flinched ho and I 1 slept together and ahen the expedition was cut off from supplies we ate raw beef without salt I 1 remember one time bland and I 1 were out with fifty others on a hunt about 1500 aiutes came down on us and we had to fortify as best we could and waite until cant jack hancs and the rest of the regulars came up the indians stood even then and it took a charge in which eleven of our people including catt of missouri were killed to geff out of the place we were in all of this was along in 1861 when the civil war was opening I 1 went to montana and lost sight of my old comrade 1 I did riot meet him for twenty one years t baw the name dick bland in the proceedings of congress and used to wonder if he was the dick bland with whom I 1 had fought indians st louis globe democrat |