It was in 1833, so says Rufus Sage, that a party were descending the river, and they stopped upon an island some distance below the junction of the two branches of the Platte. A man named Brady and his French companion bad quarrelled.

Tin- others of the party had gone out to hunt, and. upon returning they found Brady dead. 1 lis companion said it was by accidental discharge of his own weapon. Although the others did not believe the story, they had no evidence to the contrary.

Shallow water made the travelers abandon their boats a short distance below. They divided their packs, but our Frenchman held to the portion that formerly belonged to Brady.

The night after, he was trying to light a fire by the discharge of his pistol, the story goes, and shot himself in the thigh. He laid their six days and was picked up by the Pawnees, but he died a few days later, and before he died, he confessed the murder of Brady.

No one has ever confessed the murder pf the Frenchman, but it seemed that providence had a way in dealing with murderers in the wilderness. It is generally believed that providence used in most cases, the hand of some friend of the murdered man.

The death of Brady gave name to Brady Island, which name time has never effaced.

One of the most distinguished caravans to visit the famous station of Fort Mitchell, arrived in June, 1854, when the Sir George Gore, a real lord from Sligo, Ireland, appeared.