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reds got fairly and safely into the fastnesses of the mountains.

TWO GENERALS.

There was a great difference between Generals Crook and Terry. When in camp on the creek, the headquarters of the two men were on opposite banks. General Crook slept on his blanket, made his own coffee and broiled his own bacon. General Terry had a bed brought with him, a portable cooking range and an extension table. "We could not travel fast enough to catch the Indians as we would break the dishes" says Bill, which is a whole volume of criticism on the campaign.

THE END OF THE WAR

in the opinion of Mr. Cody will be in the coming winter or next summer at the farthest, provided of course, it is conducted as it should be. A different plan he thinks should be inaugurated. The forces instead of being in two large bodies should be cut up into detachments, and then by surrounding drive the Indians gradually from the west toward the Missouri river. Buffalo Bill has a good plan in his head, if he can get it carried out. As it was this summer, Crook's command was on the Platte, and Terry's on the Dakota districts. "To prove how good a commissary. Sitting Bull is," said Mr. Cody, "in to-day's paper I see that the soldiers have found whole wagon loads of dried beef and berries, while at the same time our boys were starving. An Indian will keep fat and flight you forty years on dried beef and berries

A BIG EXCURSION.

Next year Mr. Cody says if the Indian war is entirely settled there will be a grand excursion from the east to the "happy hunting grounds" of the campaign. The party will go up the Missouri to the mouth of the Yellowstone, up that river to the Big Horn, up that to the Little Big Horn, and will then be fourteen miles from the Custer battleground. They will then go back down the Yellowstone, and up that stream to a point opposite the national parks. After exploring that beautiful region they will go around by Corinna, Salt Lake City, and come back by the way of the Union Pacific railway. Mr. Cody is on the steamboat committee.

WILD BILL.

Reporter--"At the time of Wild Bill's death one of the evening papers said you and he were bitter enemies, and were looking for each other on the plains. Is that so[?]

Mr Cody--"That is a bad error. Bill and I were friends always. There was but one time when he felt hard towards me, and that was from jealousy, when I was appointed chief of scouts over him by General Sheridan. I used to be under him as chief, and naturally he felt it a little. No, Bill and I were the best of friends. He killed the [?]