Also  the  evidence  that  Le  Claire  was  not  killed  by  the
Indians.  Instead,  he  was  legally  married  to  a  Kiowa
squaw,  a  sister  of  Chief  Satanta,  who  is  now  a  prisoner
of  war  with  General  Custer  in  the  Indian  Territory.  By
this  union  there  was  one  child,  a  son,  Jean  Pahusca  he  is
called.  To  this  son  this  property  now  belongs.  There
can  be  no  question  about  it.  The  records  show  who  en-
tered the  land.  Here  is  the  letter  sworn  to  in  my  store
by  this  same  man,  left  by  him  to  be  given  to  Le  Claire
when  he  should  come  on  from  St.  Louis.  The  Irishman
was  impatient  to  join  these  Cheyennes  he'd  met  on  a
fur-hunting  trip  way  up  on  the  Platte,  and  with  his  affi-
davit before  old  Judge  Fingal  (he  also  was  here  before
you)  he  left  this  piece  of  land  to  the  Frenchman."

Mapleson  handed  my  father  a  torn  greasy  bit  of  paper,
duly  setting  forth  what  he  had  claimed.
