Tin (.nil. were being taken along the riverside through the Bad Lands, but before they reached there, the noise of the battle was heard. Of the thirty-live men in charge, thirty joined in the ride towards Eagle Crag, leaving but five t<> take can- of the cattle.

The thirty-eight dead were buried a few rods west of the west end of the gap, but a few days later, the bodies of the whites were exhumed and taken to Fort Mitchell for interment. The remains of the Indians are yet in obliterated graves a little west of Mitchell Gap.

Of the five veterans of the rebellion that participated in this battle there is only one survivor. Two were later killed at Fort Kearney, and the other two died, leaving Al Wiker the sole living member of the five.

Mr. Wiker lives at Alliance, and is modest, and does not want his name mentioned, but he was over here some years ago, and with Frank Sands and some others, went over the ground, recalling all the stirring details of the battle.

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

A BUFFALO BILL EPISODE -- MORE INDIAN TROUBLES

There seems to have been little systematic endeavor on the part of the Indians following the Grattan trouble. Bands of hostiles, independent of others, committed depredations here and there at widely scattered intervals.

The Plum Creek affair, the Massacre of Eubanks, the surveying party of the Republican and attacks on the Overland : always there were surprise attacks on the route from civilization's advance guard to the mountains.