From the T'erdn Adrocdfe.
FRONTIER "REMINISCENCES.
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The unwriiten history of Western Texas
is replete with incidents of the most thrill
ling and enlivening kind, very many OF
which will be allowed To pass under the
veil of oblivion and soon be forgotten, except
by the immediate descendants of those who
may have acted some part in them. Ii is
a source of pain that such should be the
case, and it is to be hoped that the society
about to be formed in Victoria will rescue
many of those interesting events from their
apparently destined obscuriiy, aud write
them in letters ofgold upon the truthful page
of history. Of the great number OF these
facts which have come TO my knowledge,
my mind has often dwell with melancholy
delight upon one that occurred in April.
IS40; which | cannot but believe will
agreeably interest the readers of the Advo.
cate, and with your permission | shall pro-
coed to relate the circumstances precisely
as they were detailed to me by one who
acted prominent part in them.


In the fall of 1888. there were five chill
dren--four girls and one boy, | think
captured by the Camanche Indians, near
the residence Of Andrew Lockhcart, in the
new county of De Witt. One Ct ofthem,
girl of some II or IL years. was the daugh-
ter of Mr.. Lockheart. The others were
the children ofa Mr.. Putnam, who then
lived on the same farm with Mr.. l.. Miss
Lockheart- as is well known, was ransom
ed at San Antonio, in 1910; the soa of Mr..
Putnam had been previously obtained; the
elder Miss Putnam was not brought in and
still continues a captive. As TO the fate OF
the third child Of Mr.. Putnam, our memory
has escaped US. Our story, however, re-
lates to the remaining child, a sweet little
girl of two and a half years odd when ta-
ken in 1888. She was the idol of her fond
parents, had Just arrived nj the most inter-
esting age of childhood. could run about and
talk very well, and delighted in speaking
the words ''father," ''mother," sister,
Her loss bore hard and heavy upon her
poor parents, and married sister. When
Miss Lockheart and the Putnam boy were
ransomed, they could give no definite
account of this little girl, and her parents
and friends generally, were forced to the
conclusion that she was dead; happy
thought indeed, one would think, to a mo-
ther thus situated. But the uncertainty, the
conflicting emotions OF hope deferred, and
despair, ran.xled in the breast of the forlorn
mother Of the captive innocent. Mrs. Put
nam grieved as none but mother could
grieve.


In April, 1910, two and half years after
the capture OF these children, and during the
sitting ofthe district court in San Antonio,
party of Camanches arrived at that place,
and delivered 10 the authorities ofthc city,
a small American girl, supposed to be about