The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1905, Page 13

NCISCO SUNDAY CALL THE remove them, but something impelled him to take them reinforcements from Fort Scott. If the line is down I can few miles of the line, when. chancing to glance back, he ( & along. continue on to the post. Please let me try it, colonel. saw that one Indian still followed him. It was a simple J \\ 1 3 EIDEAN: The next morning as the first dim shadows of dawn Lieutenant Jarvis has a wife and two children, and his case of man against man. But unfortunately Dennis had A\ N\ f Infantry, over the snow-clad earth the gallant Twenty-ninth, loss would be felt, while I—I haven't any one, sir, and now fired away all his ammunition save one cartridge. 1) | 1/ ) Fiint, Montana, sat 500 strong, swung out on its long tramp. besides I'm an Irishman, and, vou know, colonel, an Irish- Slowly the Indian gained on him and he saw the need | | \ ters buil - weather turned bitter cold and after seven days inan is a fool for luck. This last was said with a broad of resorting to his last cartridge press nearer and nearer. o} P n est kind of marching the Twenty-ninth grin. He was now not more than half a wpile from the line: he o2 -0 and crossed the Red Bud just below the junction Colonel Clarke knitted his hrows for a minute and then could see the poles. If when the moment came. as it \ \ The A s orks. A sitrong position was taken and every dis- sald: 1l right, Hogan, T'll let you try it Take my horse soon must now, the God of battles would guide his bullet \\ N made to The expected réln- and start at 3 o'clock in the morning. Do yoursbest, my in the right direction, his message could be sent and his nd then all would be man. 1 rould surely . soon ie lives of this command depend on your efforts. comrades rescued. But If the bullet went wrong? His rings arou H the next day .d with no sign of the rein- God be with you!" wounded right arm was numb from pain and his left not e That night queer-looking red blows were' seen “If T fail, colonel, it will be because I'm dead, sir.” of the steadiest. He pushed®on resolutely, getting still ¥ - J Sperat ntervals on the horizon—north. west d east on the Shortly before 3 o'clock the next morning Dennis nearer to his goal. Then crack went a rifle and a’ bull . th side of the river and to the south on the other side. made reudy for his perilous ride. The horse’s hoofs were whizzed by his head. “Not this time, ye red divil" e el Clirke was old and tried in the business of In- carefully padded; ammunition and revolver were looked shouted Dennis deflantly and there whizzed by a second. 3 ind well did he know what these fires meant after and he fasteged the pocket Instrument around his Dennis dropped off his horse and. wheeling quickly about, e 1nd meny of them, all around his command. neck by the wire so that if ident happened to the flung himself on his stomach and taking a careful A gh w 1s that the {wo regiments still to arrive would se he 1ld not be necessarily delayed. -+ over his wounded right arm, fired. The shot’apparently | € rear whtle he attacked them in front .was a magnificent Kentuckian and seemed went true; the Indfan pitched headlong off his horse i ¥ morning first one, then two, three, four, a 'w what was required of nim. Carefully and slowly With an exultant shout Hogan jumped up and st an pushed his way to a point opposite the ravine and for the line. Nothing could thwart him now. Loss of ¥ glv his mount a light touch with his spurs he Flood and the intense cold had weakened him so that his re tl command found themselves co Kk to the wa The stream was only about fifty yards ‘egs were shaky: the ecrth seemed going around, dark wed in by a much superior force. Slowly they and in 2 few minutes he was safely over and climb- Spots were dancing before his eyes; but with a superhu- lines closer and by 11 o'clock a tle had be- ing up the other bank. Riding up through the ravine he man éffort he stiggered on and was soon at the line. thousand figures, mounted on fleet-footed pon- st the clear sky, and it w = finally hed the end of it and stopped on high ground. The wire was strung on light lances and if Dennis Iy s Prey 1d fire, men. Don’t shoot until you have Here he rested a minute to see if all was weil. Appar- had been In full strength he could have pulled one down. v bera im. ahd can the object aimed at,” ently it w; he had got s ¢ beyqnd the Indian line. He threw his welght against a lance with all his force word passed along the line by Colone] Clarke He was just congratulating himself on the fact when, di- but to no avail. What was he to do? But sixteen fe , behind hastily constructed shelter trenches the rectly In front of him, he saw the dim outlines of a mount- intervened between him and the wire. The horse, when jught off the encircling band. As the firing of ed Indlan. Quick as a flash he pulled his revolver and an- Dennis jumped off, had run a little ways and then stopped, \dians continued it became more and more evident other Indian had gone to the happy hunting ground. The only too glad to rest. He was now standing near Dennis, v avenue of retreat was snut off. And where mnolse of the shot raised a general alarm. Hogan drove the as If waiting to be of further use. Dennis’ eyes lighted cinforcement? Why didn’t it come? spurs deep in his horse’s flanks and was away with the on the horse-hair lariat attached to the saddle. Quickly X ; in the evening of the third day. speed of the wind. But a perfect swarm of Indians fol- undoing It he, tied one end with dificulty to the pommel 1d to ask for a volunteer to try © SMITH, enger > made up his m lowed, velling and shooting. On, on he sped, bullets pat- and the other to the lance. Then he gave the horse a f bevo. Indian lines, make way to Fort Sc tering all about him. Whenever the opportunity offered Sharp blow. The horse pulled away and down came the te Indians and seek nforcements there. Si Pis own revolver spoke more than one saddle was lance. Making the connections to the pocket instrument T the weredstationed there, thereby emptied. Then suddenly he felt a sharp, stinging 8$ best he could with one hand, he placed the wire across V' time they could be at hand. 8 pi in his right shoulder and but for a convulsive grasp 2 sharp rock and a few blows with the butt of his re- long the line and met with many re- of the pommel with his left hand he would have pitehed volver cut it. I <. As the colonel was about to choose First Lieu- headlong to the ground. But no, he told himself, he must Private Dunn, the operator at Fort Hogan appeared before him, saluting ‘with not give up now! The lives of his ott, opened up comrades depended on his office brignt and early one cold morning and mar- s recision, and said: Lis succeeding. An hour and'a half more and he would veled to find the wire working clear to Kearnby. After fig s self Beg cur pardan, colonel, T think I can. tell Lave sent the message and then the Indians might do with having a talk with the man at Kearney about the ian s T Y t The telegraph line from Scott to F him what they could. trouble he was sitting around lke Mr. cawber, hen A 1 be g v ed t ) 18 enty-five miles beyant here to the soujhwar There now came a lull in the firing. He drew rein and he bheard the sounder weakly calling “F Quickly ad- z zreat gle kit Uy t »f our line, on the other soide of the r listened.. Not a sound could be heard. If had begun to Justing down, he answered, and this is what he took - “ fore he ring \ If T can.get across with a good horse snow and rays of light on the Eastern horizon heralded “Commanding Officer, Fort Scott, Montana. 3 s 1 indian lines on that Soide I can, by the approach of d He had outvidden his pu “Twenty-ninth Infantry surrounded by large body | s v line in two or three hours. I have Giving his faithful horse a grateful pat on the r stile Sioux just north of junctlon of the forks of the 2 f | k saw s gs now and w t to porket anstrument with me and ean cut in and ask for startes &n, again viding swiftly. He had come within a Red Bud. Colonel Clarke asks for immediate reinforce- = H b4 ments. Ammunition almost gone. Situation desperate. I 3 4 | left the command at 3 this morning. DENNIS HO—" 3 . Then blank—the scunder was still and the line re- GCZANCLIIV S BACES , 4 i open. The sending had been weak and shaky, as e =Y AT \ 4 i sender had been out all night. Dunn didn’t wait to up his hat, but fairly flew to the commanding officer’s 1arters, The colonel was not up yet, but the sound of animated voices in the hallway caused him to pear at he stairs in his dressing gown. W he Twenty-ninth ‘Infantry say- surrounded by the Sloux and want help. nel Foster r message and then said to “Have the r sound ‘Boots and saddles nt may comp! to the adjuta and I desire to repor t once. Kraus ais to his Dutch r wnd get my field kit ready. Be NN ng to something w »ots and sadd lear morning shortly 724 I, > distant, a an had eluded his pursue long as he could. A hard s fo ssed 10 opp o'clock of the afterno ’ nself, got a Winchester bul- er for g his wound dre 13 be done. he | n remaining v irvis re 2 shot In the arn and 1l ¥ tersest would it end ‘hy did those ern Had Hoga ceee is perilous mission? Such were the ! tions © e men asked them- selves adjutant, was tin, . vas Y v asleep. Sudde: [N t by the arm, said “Hark! What's ti “Nothing, sir, b ed Tracy. “Lie down and try to rest: yo ir”? And then aside: “Poor old s mind - don’t v rear t? It Reinforce- a eclear March! true to th S t " plunging in am were now scatt like 80 much chaff. s Twenty-ninth, all that was left over his old Where is Who is Hogan®” 3 v. Hogan was the man who got beyond the Indian lines and rode to inform you of our plight. Didn't you see him?” “N 't see him,” and Foster related how the in- formation reached ! A rescuing party was started out. and in the pale moonlight they came upon t body of poor Dennis, lying under the telegraph line. His left hand still grasped t fastrument and the key was still open. A bullet his head told plainly eno: how he had met his death Beside him lay the Iudis cad also, one hand grasping Hogan's scalp lock, the other clasping a scalping-knife ~ Hogan's shot had mortally wounded him in the lef ) g . ¥ > ed he left breast, «///,_4\ ) but, with all the < b o N/ vengeful determination of his race, he N nole in Lad still crawled forward on his hands and knees, and, while Hogan was intent on sending his precions message. had shot him through the head, but not until the warning had been given. Then his own death overtook him before he could execute his last cruel design of taking Hogan's scalp. Hogan's faithful horse was standing near, as If keeping watch over his late friend. They buried Dennis where he lay. passing over that tra DENNIS HOGAN, Private Company B. h 1 S. Intantry fed That Others Might Live.