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of barbouras styles with there "War Clubs" and anxious for the sport and waiting for the clerks of the tradeing house to get ready. So we clerks and some half dozen Indians got ready to go over to the fort and post some of the officers about our arraingements and sent the balance back to the camp to bring the prisoner over and it was but a short time until you could of seen at least six or seven hundred Indians on horse back with a white man tied on a pony crossing the Des Moines river. Singing a unclear song they soon rode up in front of the Settler Store and dismounted. I was the Chief Spokesman for the apple men. Three officers, three Indians and the three Indian traders went into the store with the prisoner and had a mock trial. and when