Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 12, 1918, Page 12

_THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE THE BATTLE OF PLATTE BRIDGE | Memorable Engagement in Which Lieutenant Caspar Collins Lost His Life Recalled by a Visit of Colonel EASHING DAY es THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 1913 | this year, and it is freely vouchsafed | hese yearly exhibit | that it is one of the best collections | fact. indicates this |of fine furs in the United States. A feature this year w: | Messrs. Bercu always take a keen in-! a flower to each lady Visiti to pres, ng the attacked by 100 Indians on July 25, Denison, Who Participated in Indian Warfare Here : SYNOPSIS. A garrison made up of members of the 11th Kansas and 11th Ohio reach them with our guns, and after company, and 12 U. S. Infantrymen, stationed on the north bank of the Platte river near the end of the present bridge in use at Casper, was 1865, and in the first day’s skirmish Jance. But we were close enough to having fired a few shots they fell \back towards the train. The three men proved to be a corporal and two ‘of remaining in the military prisons pf the North until the war should end | or until they would-be exchanged. | |'Most of them made good, faithful soldiers; but some of them were ex-j TAG DONATIONS Bevy of Pretty Girls to Swell Red Cross Fund by Canvassing } |terest in Wyoming’s annual fair and! booth. } {fg ce) ge es ge } | several of the Redskins were killed, including a Cheyenne chief. No losses |privates, James Shrader, Bryam ceptionally hard cases and deserted| Streets and State Fair 5 were sustained by the soldiers, who were poorly armed and short of ammu-;Swaim, and Henry C. Smith, from|and joined the Indians and helped | G ae es nition, but on the evening of the same day they were reinforced by five|Company D, 11th Kansas Cavalry, | them in ahele werties pit tie whites couse members of the 11th Ohio cavalry, who reported having left Sweetwater and they were all that escaped from nd what the Indians didn’t know | = é 5 ; aA ji \the train, and it was a very narrow @bout. devilment these renegades} Tomorrow has been designated t on the preceding morning in company with three wagons and 25 men of \ “9 2 ae i nag " 1th taxuiblib them. \“Pershing Day” at the state fair in . , *, sens, s nee fer them. 4 ity jem - ape Cw GETS . : i eae cans 7 ied icieiiat at Seirag tee ante ieee Oe ee ee the desire of the Indians to be), From the roof of the station and Douglas and from all indications it ni Rise sper e = ae 5 oder aon = iran n ee at the plundering of the train and |With the aid of a large spy glass, we | will be the largest jay 0} x eae Z aE n ‘ollowing morning Major Anderson, officer in charge, or ered ieutenant | 1) 03) good sense in abandoning their had a pretty good view of what was|A bevy of young women and mai ; s Your bodily and mental efficiency are important f Collins to command a detail of 25 men and reinforce the train to prevent joycos at the time they did. You/ going on at the train. The train had of Douglas, armed sith sesune ess factors right now. It’s no time to be sick. It’s no tix, e a surprise. About 90 Indians were scattered about on the bluffs and hills inay be sure they received a hearty |Stopped on a side hill and with three |tags, will pea ee Sea res to allow your system to be drained of its vitality to t y on both sides of the river as the men made ready for departure. {welcome from all at the station. | Wagons they had formed three sides |ptrects. ar ae ee ties Mary an extent that you can do only.a part of the work de. m ‘The detail moved out in good spirits but on undertaking to charge a|* At the time the party sallied from | of @ square with one front facing up funds.for the Red Cress. | Miss 2 ary) 6 manded of you , erie ay small group of Indians the hills became alive with them to the end that the station to assist the three men poe nit to ai no pane PACING east | ess ilie* band of. workers for Ae mt the horsemen started to fight their way back to the stockade. Lieutenant escaping from the train about a and one south. The west side was mercy, Yoy can’t be efficient if you are ill. So begin now a AD et oll Ot Gi OS Bane Sad Hgaeaes fe aoe a tags Ok scat Sects chaccel Saar a to take steps to remove the cause that leads to fives A i i station and crosse¢ e bridge and 0 sce f | Peg hah . ot thks ~ e ‘ whelming numbers. On reaching the stockade quiet was again restored Station and crossed the (bridy fight |tight on to the train, but were re- 0.000 EXHIBIT MADE periods of intense suffering and accept the help of ; for the time being and reports were brot in by scouts that the Sioux and had been with Collins’ party, to bring | Pulsed, and as more of them arrived F } CHIROPRACTIC so you can be 100 per cent efficient 1 Cheyennes were having a big quarrel a short distance up the river. While i, the bodies of the fallen soldiers, they again made 2 charge, but were and vigorous. this report was being was coming over the hi THIRD INSTALLMENT The Indians had perceived it about the same time and in a minute every one of them was urging his pony at its fastest towards the devoted train. There was a small howitzer at the a shocking manner, the “noble red- t HEAVY BROWNING GUN COMING ussed the news was shouted that the wagon train! They found all the bodies mangled in #@ain driven back. After this for a about four miles from the stockade. ‘ long time there did not seem to be much action going on; and every) once in a while’ we would see a puff | of smoke from the wagons or from the side hill below the wagons which | showed that the fight was still going! on, but we could not tell with what result, tho we noticed that the puffs | BY CHICAGO FUR HOUSE One hundred thousand dollars is invested in the unusually remark- able exhibit of the Chicago Hide, Wool and Fur Company, in the ex- position building at the State Fair would have been our attempt for Why Women Suffer Most women suffer primarily from deranged function caus: 1 by Spinal pressure on the nerves. This pressure shuts off, or obstructs, the life giving nerve energy, and weakness and disease affect certain organs and tissues of the body. CHIROPRACTIC corrects these spinal defects, and thereby removes the cause of t T : of smoke from the hillside on the their relief, and the probability that y e e eon ane ig ais ee oe Sate south was getting closer and closer, | all who started out would have shared illness, Nature cures: the effects and builds up the weakned and : zon Her it athe tase wanecou for and we felt that the end could not the same fate as those with the train, diseased crgans, No drugs, no surgery are used. about three seconds zane _ . Bie . be far off. Never, never in all our and that then the garrison would, aimed at the largest ces 4 a SaneaEl services as soldiers had we ever ex-| have been so weakened that after our 2 A m oe sehen bo teehe taney bance verienced anything like this before. destruction it would have been an| CH | Roop i= ¢ AE T Ic a piece more ths e seco To know that about 20 of our com-| easy matter for the Indians to have | 9 2 before it exploded in ne a oe rades, with whom for nearly three taken the station and massacred all Wi THE BETTER WAY TO HEALTH: Ne 4) no damage 2 med oe vs Ca Ein years we had been soldiering in the that were left. The major positively z 2 e aa put in hy a nee be ligt it| South, were now within two and al/refused to allow'any to go. At that is Nature’s way. It is safe, sensible and sufficient as a nati xc did not make any difference as i half miles of us surrounded by an!time we thot thé major was too cau- health method, it srov! ‘i renciicw, idoded ‘about ithe sameiatecdidithe 5 i health method, and it has proven wonderfully effective in Wom- e xp Gabor as : overwhelming number of enemies de-| tious but since then, knowing what | an’s ailments. There is nothing in CHIROPRACTIC (KI-RO- ott er. ais a eb aedrss sar sae termined on their destruction, and _the Indians did with two hundred or! PRAC-TIC) method that should prove the least embarra sing. a plished by disc! arene h have en were not able to do anything for their|more infantry that were slaughtered Investigate. 5 Y bi kark So ware Tue resi he ls see relief. Some of us went to Major An-| a year or two after this at Fort Fet- F . a ; head, and derson and requested that about 40'terman, and more recently by: the 0) J h 8B J ff c. d: uve ene canes to Siegal Lars be lo of us might be allowed to volun-/| massacre of the gallant General Cus- Pr. osePp - Je rey e noti D } teer and go out on foot to attempt|ter and his brave men at the battle 7 Pe EP ae ee a food geal tener or rp ren minutes, | | their rescue, but the major, while! of Little Big Horn, we were satis: N isexht CHIROPRACTOR ; snpeaeea Soret Guikacdinaa Ao fecling deeply for the gallant fellows | that the major’s decision was a wise do == ————Ss % ; 5 | | that were making such a good fight ‘one, and that by it any of us are left LYRIC THEATER BLDG. TELEPH F five of his escort about a fourth of y | against the tremendous odds opposed | to tell the tale. | ONE 706. nN age raaie Sr usagnar iene to_them, yet realizing how futile| (To be concluded tomorrow.) | E« Indians came suddenly up a ravine said - — : ; = — ~ _ f Lean Nepale saccenly BPE gate ee Mn nn \S party. Corp. James Shrader, in} SSS SFE charge of the advance, at first at- tempted to get back to the train, but) e ‘ is $ seeing the large force he had to con-| oie 4 N tend with and more coming every! a second, ordered his men to turn to : the right and gallop as fast as pos-| ; i = sible to the river which was about | —Photo by International Film Service | E ey é ( one-fourth of 2 mile south of them. | The heavy Browning machine gun expert in charge to explain how :. P ‘ . : oe) oe a Some of the Indians pursued. But| ts considered one of the bie cou {teorken tse ke onion aca Why not save money? Come to this store to do your shopping. Our beautiful designs, artistic y the boys fought them back to the| tributions of American genius to big war show which is to be staged Gale pn SRE . ‘ . : ry e 9 ) Kt best of their ability. Just as they| the successful prosecution of the at the wyoming slate Mair, Dug: effects iand choicest materials have made this store the center for Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear of Cas- | t reached the river ane of the soldiers, | war, , One ef these guns, with an las, Sept. 9-14, 1918. W e : ,» “Edwin Summers, fell shot thrn the | per. e show no two garments alike. = heart. The remainder of the party | i : ‘ plunged into the river. * When~they FRET ET Rn RI GE a ¥ got about four rods from the other country. Just the instant his head) men” taking a fiendish delight in e e side another of the soldiers, James | was exposed a bullet ploughed along(mutilating the dead bodies of their | ults } Ballew, was shot and fell off his| the top of his head just close enough) fallen foes in a way too horrible to ji als Ss horse into the river. The others got|to stun him for a oe or ero describe. Near one of the bodies a } safely across and headed towards the | He dropped and the other boys pulled piece of paper was lying, which one ° ) station. Quite a number of Indians|him back and bathed his head and| St the man picked ups roe ite on Embraces every favored shade We have on display a remarka had been concealed on the south side Boon restored him to consciousness. | pearance it was a page torn out of = % . . : of the river, probably in ambush|They concluded to move a little! diary or account book. It was wri as well as black. All sIzes ble assortment of Waists m waiting for some party to go out on! farther down the ravine and thea ten about as follows: “I was taken 4 Fe 5 A 5 that side to reconnoiter, or else to|reconnoiter again. The next time) prisoner about seven months ag Cloths, Silvertone Serge Pop- Taffeta, Plain and Plaids, iu seize a favorable moment and rush/| they looked (elas could not see from Labonte station. You must b 2 ? C d Chi G tt (= a im and surprise the station, but as|any Indians on that side of the river| careful or you will all be killed . FE repe 2 ine. eorveties. = 4 soon us the train appeared they came | except two or three who were stand-| There are between 3,000 and 4,00 lin, Gabardines, Broadcloth, pe ae 2 g ° = 4 out of their holes and made for the|ing on as many points of ground,| Indians here and «about anothe P: V | t with Hand Embroidery every ; train, most of them crossing the|about three-fourths a mile away, ap-| thousand are expected here in a an Yelvels. hade t tch or ; river below the station, but 15 or| parently on guard. They then looked) or two. belong to the Che * snade to matcn an HH ic 20 going south of the station towards |on the north side and about a hulf | ennes, Sioux, and Arapahoes, with « Prices $25 to $1 50 y suit. e the train. When the three men es-|mile was another deep ravine t Comanches and Blackfeet. Yo sy ee ee : . 4 caping across the river had got about )ran down to the river within half a| killed one of the principal chiefs o Prices. oo Aer ey . $2.00 to $30 half way to the station they struck| mile of the station. They concluded | the Cheyennes yesterday, and th ‘ the advance of the Indians on the|to make a run for the station, and it| swear th will have a terrible re south side. There were only four or,did not take them long to reach the | venze on you for it. Theie inten oats five of them and the boys shot two|ravine. No more Indians had ap-| tion is to clean out all the station Ss wis before the others came in sight, andj peared in sight and they began to d then go on to For ° Bi es a then the boys turning their horses|feel safe. While they were running id clean that out. 1 Remarkable values in snperior 18 towards the mountains in the south-|to the last ravine some of us had 2 m if I can.” i Th In Taffeta, G Sati : east rode as rapidly as possible until| noticed them, and the instant we I do not remember the name sign n alteta. ree in si they came to a deep ravine with|realized what it fasant about 15 or) ed to it, but it was evidently some qua ty. ey are all cut on d S 2 : €0) Bi tte, at l f some brush on the banks. As soon as|20 of us started on foot to meet) person that was with the Indians anc é 2 © an erges, 1 z they reached that they left their| them and help them if necessary. Just)/had a friendly feeling toward us. the newest lines. Fabrics em- t | th ge an a variety an horses and then wound their way |about the same time 15 or 20 Indians) Some of the 11th Ohio men thot it : style that wi sa- among the brush down the ravine ‘cume out of the ravine that the boys) was a man that had belonged to on brace everything the latest. fe P eet) a sensa which ran in the direction of the had been concealed in first and came| of the companies of the 11th Ohio 10on. rett ‘WwW station. ‘The Indians went toward charging out towards the ravine that and was supposed to have deserted at = Prices $15 to $150 etty mo ers in. ne the train, where, I presume, they thot had gone into. We all ran| the time he mentioned from Labonte = Seartass eet oO shades and materials All Hermie ouliise facia eptinderite ihe we could hollering to the| station. A great many of the 11th : j divided. After the three boys had boys to work down the ravi Qhio Cavalry had been recruited== ° sizes. worked down the ravine about a half towards us fast as possible. from the rebel soldiers that had gone == a mile they stopped to reconnoiter a soon the b .came out of the ra into Ohio on the celebrated “Morgan = ir S little, the corporal crawling up to the and ran us fast as possible to us. | raid,” and after their capture pre- edge of the ravine and raising his They had got just about half way! ferred enlisting in the United States = ; : Gite : head to look out on the surrounding |when the Indians made their appear-| service to f! In variety of styles and all new A Complete Line of Silk ae er features for autumn style in all Hose . WE SUGGEST desirable shades, all big values These wee bought before he > x i in price. We will give you the Prices... ... . .$3.50 to $30 benefit. on account of car shortage and Government Needs —>YOU<— STORE COAL NOW CASPER SUPPLY CO. 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