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I didn't find an obit in newspaper archives, here is the orginal article from the Helena paper. In case you don't already have it.
I am not related,
Cathee
The Helena Independent
HELENA, MONTANA Territory Thursday, February 21, 1884.
Helena, Montana
FIGHT WITH INDIANS.
Five Piegan Indians Steal a
Herd of Horses on the Yelstone
and Leave for the North.
The Indian and White Owners Pursue
—The Thieves Overtaken and Four
of the Five Killed—Two of the
Whites Also Lose Their
Lives.
Special dispatch to the Independent.
BILLINGS, February 20.—News reached
here this morning of a fight between fire
Piegan Indians and the owners of some
Stolen horses which they were running off,
in which four of the five Indian thieves
were killed and also two of the white pursuers.
These Piegan thieves are the same mentioned
in a dispatch of a few days ago.
They were away from their reservation
which is in the northern part of the Terri
tory. They crossed the Yellowstone at
Clarke's Fork river several days ago, and
making their way to the Crow reservation,
stole fifty-three ponies belonging to Plenty
Cones, a Crow chief. With this considerable
herd they started north to their reservation.
Near Park City they picked up a
number of other horses belonging to white
men. Plenty Cones and three other Crows,
accompanied by Joseph Tate, Chancy Amas,
Philip Sidle, Lee M. Owens, and three other
white men interested in the stock, started in
pursuit. The thieves were overhauled last
Friday in Hailstone Basin, near Painted
Robe river, far north of Billings, and a
fight ensued.
The thieves were well armed and fought
desperately, but the superior strength of the
pursuing force soon made itself apparent
and the Piegans took to flight, after one or
two of their number had been shot from
their ponies. Then followed a running
fight, which lasted for several miles over the
prairie, resulting finally in all but one of
the Piegans being killed. The fifth was
badly wounded, but made his escape. Of
the pursuing party Chancy Ames and Joseph
Tate were killed, and Owens and Sidle
were wounded. Plenty Cones and the
three other Crows were uninjured. The
stolen horses were recaptured.
The dead bodies of Ames and Tate were
packed upon ponies and were brought to
Park City to-day. Both were well to-do
ranchmen. Ames leaves a wife and three
children. Tate was single.
The four dead Piegaus were left where
they fell..
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