| Show A A Z 71 ak 4 A ln i cje it 4 1 A 71 7 C 0 al 0 13 11 0 loam 7 i JIB HE other day newsy newspapers apers carried a brief associated press dispatch frota from new T york A mau man believed to be edward farrow se enty one lears old a real estate operator of 0 ri newald N J died of apoplexy today in coluni colum tin lius denue just one of those bilet chronicles of sudden death in the diya days gist of news and it was not until the local follow up from a new jersey city was added that it because became more than that for the fol low up recorded the fact that he be was a west point classmate of general pershing the founder of rin Pl newald eivald N aich lie he had hoped to establish as a home for retired aridly officers and which has been the subject of endless litigation with developers the inventor of toxic gaes alq and tile gas grenade and author of many books on military subjects including farrows military encyclopedia a standard authority there was also a brief mention of ills his part in the indian wars but it was enough to recall to old time army ruen men events in the pacific northwest in the days of chief joseph and the nez perces of buffalo horn and the bannocks Ban nocks of gen 0 0 howard and gen nelson A biales miles but more particularly the story of oung edward S F farrow arrow and ills hla conquest of the Shee peater indians one of the most brilliant exploits in the history of the united states fariny lieutenant farrow was a native of maryland and was appointed from that state to west point from he was graduated as a second lieutenant june 14 1871 was immediately assigned to the twenty first infantry and detailed to fort vancol er wash at the outbreak of the nez perces war mar his company became it a part of the army with which geu gen 0 0 howard set out in pursuit of tile tho hostiles hosit ho stiles les the young lieutenant took part in the heart march of Ilo howards wards command over the rough lolo 1010 lo lo trail in the sharp little battle of the clear water on july 11 and 12 1677 1877 where his conspicuous bravery A tand t and good conduct won for him special mention in dispatches by general howard and in the pursuit to the end of the campaign when chief joseph surrendered to generals howard and miles lilies in the bear paw mountains in montana at the opening of the nez forces campaign capt S G fisher a frontiersman tiers mun was mas ordered by uen gen howard to enlist a company of 50 bannock indian scouts on the fort hall reservation lit in idalio idabo associated with fisher was another named gird aud jack redington 8 year old boy who bad left ills home in massachusetts to seek ad venture in the far wes west t redington was culled called the original boy scout by general howard in later years mil ani lie and tile die young lieutenant were destined it 1 nce isee some stirring service together a year or so later one of I 1 I 1 I 1 5 S the bannock BaDri ock scouts was a young ayoung cutlet named buffalo clorn who had alto also served as a scout for general miles allies in the sioux war of and of whom a fellow scout the fatuous famous yellowstone kelly capt luther S kelly once described as one of the brav bravest st lu in deans I 1 have ever known after the close of the nez berce war young redington became a newspaper reporter in san francisco and one of the st stories which he wrote for his paper was a prophecy of a new indian war lieutenant farrow and scout redington served together in the short bannock and plute war of 1878 ani again ngali the young lieutenant enaut distinguished himself buffalo horn was killed by a plute flute scout in the service of the soldiers in juno june 1878 1378 and the war virtually carne came to an end when Ilo howards wards sloops captured the greater k N NN N ft 7 1 AIM part of the two hostile tribes in august A part of them however ho uever succeeded lu in eluding tile hie soldiers and retreated to the fast fastnesses nesses of the sat salmon river mountains near the svan S acu de dells ila peaks there they wei e joined by renegades rene gades from other tribes and ami euring during the following months mon llis these as they became idowu because they subsisted principally ill up oil the mountain sheep were in that region instituted a reign of terror in parts of idaho which were jila to open up to sett settlement leivent early in 1879 general howard ordered furrow farrow to a company of indian scouts to form forill a i detachment of picked men selected for endurance and skill in ship arid and to proceed against theat slice and any other oilier hostile indians that still remained in that part of the country farrow enlisted 1114 scouts among the umatilla and other oilier friendly tribes took look a few of the bebr front from the different dIlT creni branchy branche 3 of of tile the service in the department of tile the Colu tabla and these with will be cral ci chilian csillan illan volunteers including compo composed hed the alic force with OreuS cy which he set out over tome some ot of the roughest territory on the american continent to hunt down tha enemy in the meantime two oer ber forces commanded by captains bernard an and catley were operating in that part of the tha country on july 29 antley warf defeated by the indiana who captured ills his pack train and all of 0 his bis supplies and forced him to retreat upon learning of this farrow cached his supplies and equipage and living off the country set out to carleys Cat leys relief after live days of terrific forced marches he came up lip with catley left a 11 fl few w of his footsore foot sore risen men and horses and pushed on into the salmon river mountains lie ile was soon hot on the trail of the indians captain forse who was sent seat out to reinforce captain catley soon afterwards joined forces with captain bernard and late in august bernard reported to general howard that farrow 1 0 miles ahead of him hill was pursuing the il hostile ostile indians down the middle salmon canon and had caused them khelu to abandon all their luggage A little later bernard reported the country Is so BO rough that an licals cannot be got through it at all all our stock lock except a few of captain borses horses and the animals captured by farrow are exhausted most of our horses find mules have given out and have been shot it seemed so impossible to capture these 11 ing indians who ran from peak to pe peak ak faster than the could follow writes general howard in ills his account of the campaign und and realizing the intense sufferings of the troops engaged I 1 at last sent orders for bernard it if in ills his judgment it was impossible to do more than he bad done dolie to leave the fearful country and distribute his hii forces to the posts where they belonged bernard acted promptly Lly on this order arid and with his own command proceeded southward to boise so upon farrow descended the responsibility tor for the hie success of the campaign the indefatigable young lieutenant abandoned most of ills his baggage and ilien all of his horses finally gave out pressed on oil on oil foot finally filially he be cornered coin ered the in ID their aln lr stronghold oil 01 the middle fork of the salmon and although realla ing that defeat meant amill illation he boldly attacked the result vias the of tile the place and a precipitate retreat by the ho hostiles stiles in this stronghold farrows men found tons find and tons of food which tile the Shee had gathered for win will ter ue u e and which the soldiers burned driven from what they had ila believed to be an impregnable position lilun tion and facing ft hungry winter all that remained bained for the indians to 0 o do was to surrender then after a march of 02 62 dys through deep snow know over rugged mountains lieutenant farrow reached the columbia river with alth ills his captives captive mid and dellNer ed them thein to general ilow how aid at vancouver Van couer barracks bar rachs as pris of war |
