four
o'clock in the afternoon
It was the report of the physician who saw Wolf Tusk die , and it went on to say that about nine o'clock in the morning a heavy and unusual fever set in on that chief . He had been wounded in the battle of the day before , when he was captured , and the fever attacked all parts of his body . Although the doctor had made every effort in his power to relieve the Indian , nothing could stop the ravages of the fever . At four o'clock in the afternoon , having been in great pain , and , during the latter part , delirious , he died , and was buried near the spot where he had taken ill . This was signed by the doctor . `` What I have read you , '' said the physician , folding up the paper again , and placing it in his pocket-book , `` is strictly and accurately true , otherwise , of course , I would not have so reported to the Government . Wolf Tusk was the chief of a band of irreconcilables , who were now in one part of the West and now in another , giving a great deal of trouble to the authorities .