The Marysville Advocate from Marysville, Kansas • 16

Jfifc JS'IAiiiSViLLE AUvOlJAlE-b'KAib'UiA Joseph Roper. The latter and his family lived on another ranch four miles to Big Sandy; 14 miles to Thompson; 14 miles to Kiowa; 14 miles to Little Blue station; 12 milci to Liberty Farm, and from this sta miles west while Kiowa, the station owned by James Douglas, was in Indian Raids of 1860-69 By John G. Ellenbecke Marysville, Kansas. Thayer county. The ranches to the i west were in Nuckolls county.

Joseph I tion, the last on the Little Blue, it was about 70 miles to Ft. Ream on the Platte. From Ft. Kearney to Julesberg was the second section of the eastern division of the Overland fcruoank, a son, had been employed on the Overland Trail for several years anil had located his ranch as stated above and near KirCva. On account of his description of this new country he induced his father, Wm.

Baker's Complete Cash Service for Your Car Part of these hostilities occurred during the years of our Civil war and the government could spare only a few soldiers to occupy the forts, guard the stage stations, settlers and wagon-trains. This warfare was particularly serious on the Overland EDITOR'S NOTE. Herewith the Advocate-Demo- crat is publishing the first of a series of articles by John G. El- lenbecker, which tell the story of Eubank, and his mother and their other six children (four sons and two daughters) to move from near Kirks- or Oregon trail, along the Little Blue Indian raids from 1H04 to 1M8 along the Little Blue river. This story, which has never been pub- lished, was obtained by Mr.

Ellen- becker after much effort, and is a valuable contribution to the frontier history of this section of the country. Six months' time was required to obtain all of the material, the writing of hun- dreds of letters being necessary. The story tells of the capture' by the Sioux and Cheyenne In- dians of four persons, who were not ransomed for nearly a year afterwards. About 40 people ville, Missouri, in the spring of 1864 and settle on a ranch just west of the Oak Grove ranch. Wm.

Eubank the oldest son, was married to Lucy Walten of Missouri and they had two children at the time of the raid a little girl, Isabelle, three, and a baby boy, Willie Joseph, nine months old. Joseph Eubank, the second son, was also married to Hattie Palmer, who was reared near and whose parents lived south of Beatrice, Nebraska, and who still have relatives living in that part of Kansas and Nebraska. Her brother, John Palmer, at that time was Btaying at the Joseph Eubank home, as also was and the Platte river. Many cruel Indian raids were carried out, and many valiant defenses made by the soldiers and other white people on the plains. In 1804 Major General G.

M. Dodge, who had charge of all the military forces in the west, wrote to Washington: "I desire that the government may understand that it has either got to abandc.i the country west entirely to the Indians or meet the war issue presented; there arc warriors in open hostilities, and never before have we had so extensive a war on the plains and an enemy so well supplied as now." The Army Posts. On the North Platte in Wyoming We are equipped to give you complete service in tire repairing, including retreading that stays repaired. We are experienced in all kind3 of battery work, specializing in repairing and the making of new ones. Our shop is prepared for any kind of electrical repair, work.

Among our popular services is the washing, polishing, vacuum cleaning and greasing of cars. stage, a distance of 200 miles, rweive miles above Kearney was Platte station; ten miles farther on, Craig, and 17 miles farther was Plumb Crc It station, all on the Platte. The Raids Along the Platte. In that gigantic raid of August 7, in 1804, practically all the stations and ranches were burned from Julesberg to Kiowa station with the exception of Little Blue station; in all about 30 stations and five times as many ranches. The raid was especially severe at Julesberg and Plum Creek, where every building and ranch were destroyed.

At the latter station were encamped two wagon-trains, one of ten wagons with ten drivers and cook, all belonging to E. F. Morton of Sidney, Iowa. All the men, including Mr. Morton, were killed and Mrs.

Morton taken captive. The 50 mules belonging to the. train were driven away by the Indians. Likewise a six-wagon train loaded with corn and machinery belonging to Michael Kel-ley of St. Joseph, was captured and the owner and seven other men killed.

The Raid on the Little Blue. The next severe attack was at Liberty Farm at noon, August 9. Hero were encamped two wagon-trains. One belonged to Simonton and Smith, loaded with crockery and hardware for Geo. Fritch of Denver, valued at $22,000.

The wagon boss was Nelson Constable. The 150 oxen were put out on the grass a half mile south of the Blue with nine herders. The Indians killed the herders and were killed, among these being valve The We have the latest factory equipment for work and offer a complete service in that line. nine members of the Eubank families. The second installment of this story will appear in next week's issue.

were five little army posts: La Prelle, Horse Shoe, La Bonta, Deer Creek, and Platte Bridge, the latter being located about where Casper now stands. These forts were about 40 miles apart. Fort Kearney was on the Platte far to the east and Fort Laramie south of the Platte. The INDIAN HOSTILITIES. During the period from 1800 to 18liii the Indians on the plains between the Arkansas and I'latte rivers men at these nosts were charged with protecting the U.

S. mail and travel in general along the Overland trail. About 30 men were at each post and these were often divided to escort wagon-trains and stage coaches and repair the telegraph lines. While these little armed forces rendered equipment is all operated by electricity. We are prepared to perform a duplicate of factory service on brake lining in a minimum time by means of our electrically driven brake lining machine.

Our portable electric cylinder reboring machine functions with so great an accuracy that the completed job will vary less than one-thousandth of an inch. We have a service stock of piston pin reamers, costing from $12.00 to $16.00. A piston pin is one of the most difficult of all motor parts to fit and is often spoiled because of the lack of proper tools and equipment. The machines mentioned are only a very small part of our equipment which enables us to give you the very best" results in repairing jobs. We are constantly adding up-to-date equipment of the latest design and are installing the most modern methods to improve our service.

We are able to offer superior service because our mechanics are all experienced and well trained and are provided with the right equipment to properly repair your car, no matter what make it is. We have no favorites. We have avoided the handicap of many shops in which good mechanics often are forced to do an inferior job because they do not have the proper tools at hand. drove all the cattle away. The other gallant services, they were still con rred Kubank, a third son ot the e.d-er Eubank.

Ilattie's father was Ela-filet Palmer. For several days before Sunday, August 7, the day set for the general raid and attack on the settlers and stations, the Indians were seen moving eastward in small groups of ten or twenty. When asked on the Little Blue where they were traveling to, the Indians replied, "To St. Joe." So skillfully was all this outrage planned that the innocent settlers had no thought that they would soon be attacked. It was a warm day and the people in this frontier country moved about at whatever pastime or work their fancy dictated to them.

Some visited and some even busied themselves at making hay for which there was a good sale. At the Eubank ranch there were really two families living: the elder Eubank nnd wife and two daughters, Hanna, 20 years old and Dora, 16 years old, and two sons, James, 13 years old and Henry, 11 years old and Wm. Eubank, his wife and their two children. On the day of the raid Wm. Eubank, and his son, James, had gone down to the ranch of his other married san with a wagon to which were hitched two yoke of cattle to help in the- haying.

Wm. Eubank, his wife nnd children and Miss Laura Roper, who was then visiting at their home, walked up to the Kel tinuously harrassed by the Indiana who would try to, and did steal the train consisted of 20, wagons loaded with As the 80 mules belonging to this train were herded north of the Blue, the Indians were government's horses, mules and cat tle almost any time day or night. foiled in their attempt to stampede Far to the north were Forts Ilal- the mules and capture them. nut when night came the men of the two wagon-trains got scared out, unload leck, Collins, Lyons and Wallace. Some of the post commanders were Col.

Thomas Moonlight, later a noted Kansan: Col. J. M. Chivington of ed the wagons of liquor and with the mules hitched to them hurried Sand Creek battle fame, Col. Ballm gave considerable trouble to the settlers, trade stations and freighters.

The cause was the activities of developing the west. The Union Pacific railroad from Omaha west was surveyed during 18ol. The transcontinental telegraph was completed in 1802. Gold had been discovered at Denver and at Idaho Springs in Colorado in IfijS. This caused a great westward emigration.

By all this increase In travel and the coming of settlers the Indians could see that soon the buffalo would be either exterminated or driven away and the red man left without food. The total population of the plniiu tribes was around The coining of the while man drove the Indians to inaugurate defensive measures to save their ancient home and hunting grounds. And it so appear that lie Kiowas, Apaches, Arapalioes, Cheyenncs, with the Bruele, Ogal-hiiah and Missouri Sioux agree 1 to drive the white people out of their ill. main lv any means that they could devi.se. The Indians had plenty of firearms and ammunition and their raids were well planned ant timed mid ingenuously 'J be Indians attacked isolated settlers, cut the telegraph lines, er, Major Martin Anderson, Col.

P. B. Plumb, later a United States sen down to Kiowa station, 14 miles eastward, for safety. These stations were all on the north side of the Little Blue. The Indians, during the night, returned, burned the wagons ator from Kansas; Gen.

P. E. Connor at Julesberg and (Jen. Dodge at I t. Kearney.

and stole the goods. The raid was also severe on the In the spring and summer of 1804 the travel on the Overland trail was very heavy. It was during the month of August that the. concerted Indian ranches between the Little Blue sta tion nnd Kiowa station on August 7. These were in the fine bottoms of raid was planned and carried out with the greatest secrecy and pre cision from Iiig Sandy station on the Little Blue west over 200 miles to beyond Julesberg.

In order to better understand the various raids and massacres it will Baker's Cash Garage Telephone 83 Thirteen years in. the garage business in Marysville. ley ranch to visit and to pick Wild grapes in the timber. They were returning nbout 3 o'clock in the afternoon and but a half mile from home when they heard Dora screaming at the house. Wm.

Eubank at once left the women in the road and ran to the house. It might be here stated that the 10-year-old Dora and her little brother, Henry, had remained at home, that is, at the upper Eubank ranch. the Little Blue river and the rich soil, fine grass and timber had attracted many settlers and there were new and old ranches all along here. Two miles above Kiowa was Joseph Eubank's ranch. Four miles farther up was the E.

S. C'omstock ranch, then called Oak Grove ranch. The town of Oak, Nebraska, is now situated near this Two miles above Oak Grove was the Wm. Eubank ranch, at what is called the "Narrows" on the Little Blue; and a little farther up was the Kelley ranch owned by W. R.

Kelley and be well to locate some of the principal stage stations and ranches on the Overland trail. The first section of the eastern division of the Overland stage extended from Atchison to Ft. Kearney, a distance of 200 miles. Beginning at Marysville it was VI miles to llollen-berg; 10 miles to Rock Creek; 20 robbed the wagon trains aod stage coaches, killed people wherever found, attacked the military posts, and stampeded the horses and cattle wherever they found a chance. During these eight years fully 1,000 people lost their lives and perhaps twice as many Indians were killed.

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