| Show THIRTY YEARS AGO ACO SUNDAY S UN DAY the tile battle of the washita down in indian territory one of custers famous battles and at 1 which black kettles band of warring was wiped off the face of the earth ea rth thirty years ago today said city detective pender sunday 1 I was with custer down in indian territory and ho lie assumed the air of 0 one who was in a reminiscent mood there were hot hort times down there then old capt witherell Wl therell was there too and he knows what we ran up against that was one of the warmest indian fights ever experienced by the indian fighters and wo we were in the thick ot of it from the day we began to trail the pesky red devils until the wiping out of black kettles band was completed you see we were scouts that Is I 1 was I 1 w was with what were known as the scouts they were organized by a lieutenant in the regular army and he lie was killed by the indians but we still kept the name it was on the ot of november and we had been on oil the trail of the red devils tor for many a long day when we had them dead to rights they were where they would stay and they were like cerveris veTas veras fleet and we wo like schley knew that they would never get home well the morning opened up tip bright and we went after them gen custer was in the thickest ot of the fight from start to finish and we stayed with them until there were not enough bad indians left to make up for what they had lost they were all good indians and they had been reformed pretty rapidly black kettles band had been completely wiped out and that was the end of the cheyenne depredations in that section where was itt it ob that was down on the washita river in indian territory we had acme some kawa with us too I 1 now that I 1 think of it and then some of fenders penders children came in and stopped the bences |
