HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1886-05-28, Page 3FBI/MY, MAY 28, 1886.
A. wereiantaFIIt -with Apache...
here *ill 'nelier -b-e-aily other teethrg
hut that of murder in the heart a a Chin-
eahan Apache. ge hates every other In-
dian of the west end i eedy to make war
upon him. No white man has ever fallen
into his clutehee and escaped the tortnre.
Ordinary tortures are tame to the Apache,
He invents new ones. On his own ageuey
and in time of profound peace, the Aptich
is a devil lying in wait for white victims.
Two weeks before it wee known tha
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deroninto had left the $an Carlos! reserva-
tion, 4 eettler on the upper Gila named
Bellair, whose former' home was in Wis.
*- cousin, sat ensoking his pipe after dinner,
On his knee he had hie &Inbar, a Oat
five years Aid, and the wife was busy elear7,
ing the -table. Five Indiana suddenly ep•
tered the house by the back door, Red
men had often visited the cabin and been
hospitably entertained, but the momeut
. the five !stepped in 13ellatr realized that
they were bent on mischief. ,Ato he started
to his feet an Indian sprang forward and
atruck at him with a rifle. The blow fear
upon the child's head, and crushed it like
paper.
Bettina seized the gun, wrested it away,
and Bet upon the fite to drive them out.
, Two of themhad seized the wife and were
• trying to pull her mit doors. The husband
laid abaue him with such desperatibri that
'the Indians wertaseized with a momentary
•panic, and retreated: He turned the gun
and shot one of them dead at the door,
and...the-ether four ran about eighty rods
to cover. It was plain enough that it was
a raiding party from the reservation, after
sealpi; and plunder.
-About _ fifteen .rellaafrOM-the -,houttOnt
the opposite side from which the Indians
had taken „veto the ranehman had eon -
Mended an ont-doorbellar. This had been
- accomplished by digging into a hill fee sev-
eral• -feet and eneloaing the front with a
double row of planks. There was a stout
door, and two or three, places had been left
for ventilation. - Bellear-instanbly-clecided
to occupy the cellar and make the hest de-
fenee•pessible, While the Wife was „Rec.
titig .a few articles, he Carried the dead
• body of his child to the place. Returniog
he got his rifle, revolver and air the reedy-,
000ked food in the house.
Thos far the Indian* could, have had uo
suspicions that:the house . was being de-
. serted, but as Bellair made. anether trip,to
seam a sumof money he India the house
he was seen and firedupon. He ran about
half the distinee to the cellar, and then re-
ceived a bullet in the head Mal fell dead.
The four Ibclians dashed forward to scalp
him, butthe wife stood in the doorway
.and wounded _pne.'in the side. with a shot
---from---the-revolverT and th-e-gaug
cover. Had the husband lying there be-
fore her eyes,exhibited the faintest sato of
life the. wife Would have chanCed all to
bring him in; hut as she fully „ahead that
he was dead she withdrew to the „Her to
await the float inevement of the. Indiatis.
Tortunetely far her the door' swung in
• ward. The Cellar had not ben put to ose
yet, and she had plenty Of room toanove
about. One of the planks' left inside fer
nished a prop_for the door,and was in
.....asseoeiteristiarietsetoonleasee.,iegesaftesteeltirl
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band. • • • „ •
As shoji as the Woman bid „caned theta
temporarily the 'redskins turned their ate.
tention to:the house. They, did not dare .
set it on fire for fear Abe sieeke might'
bring *help, but • every article Which .they
coveted was -Parried Out, erictoothey then
• took axes and demolished every article Of
,
furniture and chopped tip the floor'. This
work occupied them for about an hour'af- .
• ter which they turned their attemiton' to
the woman. A dead Child in the darkness
with hera-a.deadhusband in the sunlight
under her eyes -ague savages reasoned -that
she must be overcome by her. orootione.•
They attempted. i�.. approach • her under
' cover of a flag of truce, but a, shot proved
that she saw thieiogh the villainous design:
: There Were enly three to takaattn e.ctiste
• part and he had 'no: fair btt,iliycouJa
• force an entrance by the front! .
The Apaches were talent for a time, tak-
ing good carenot toalipose themsolveci to
her fire. After a quarto of .anshour. • she
• heard them digging in the earth above her
head...There was a depth of four feet above,
• her at the weakest peiht, and they were
entirely sheltered while they worked. They
• clog oratwhile and then "abandoned the
attenipt, having, as was afterwardsolicer-
taicted, broken the spade and encountered
. many rocks.„
. The next move was sine which: prdnialeci
to -be -fatal -to .the-batiorawornao, Too Afraw
frotn•the beds was brought .n,nd fltiogalciwn
in front of the Cellar and .set,fire to. The
planks Woretaill green, alai the •wet earth
. had prev,e.nte0 any. dryiiag On t. the.
straw michaa greet blaze that roared
crackled as if eating everything . beford
them, the ,planks refesed to burn, and the
fire soon died (mt. .• ' • •
' During,the next hell hour eVarythihg.
was so quiet that•the weman began to be -
note that the Apaeheribad made off, It
was just what they bad planned herto be-.
lieve. The trio stood' On' top tat the cellar,
hoping She wOold open the door. As the
gun got hirther to the west it.casr their
shadows on the ground,. and She Saw thorn
frdin the hictp7ho1es,and knew the stratagem
they veerearesortiOtto. '
It appeared that theelacliatie Were apx,
ua
;QLe gel, awayebeforeembe ,
•
clonbly anxiotuato clispatoethe woffian so
• that nobody shouldIbe loft tbidentify them..
All violeht Martsures having felted, they-
.• now began to coax and promise. She, was
a much brave woman.. She had whipped
tlfern in a fair fight.' They wanted to shake
lands with her before going away. They
had carried the body of the dead Warrior
off and butied it and the wounded man
had long ego set oft for the reservation
.
The three witetiorse haviog given up all
hops of getting at the woman, had started
for tho spot where their plunder was piled.
Ivlien the cellar door was opened ad a
demon leaped forth. She had the howl
Winchester in hee.graep. The °rack of the
rifle wae the firet Inge:Wien that the war-
• riors had that site was out. The shot
broke an arm for one of there, The others
wheeled and opened fire ; but she advanced
steadily, firing AS Eget as she cetild throw
out the empty eholle, mid a second shot in-
flicted it woond from which the warrior
died two weeks later, Tho three could
face her no longer. With yells of dismay
they rushed away to tho thicket where
their ponies wete etnicealcal, laid no time
was lost leaving the neighborhood.
At sends° next morning, as renehmen
passed thet way, they found the bodice of
the dead Side by side on the grass. Seated
• beside them, elaeping their deal hands,
n •
was a doily faced wonieu,tvlose eyes I limed
iuto the far away, nod whose lips norm SAM Joins
4otild unseal. She had better heon dead
with them. The light of reason had one
Utfererp IVI!r-4-klige-fAV.g"-11/9Eerenirie..grangretiK
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44401rebo awake tor'.
g exaa ORarea elm sratTaicg,s PaESENTEP-
TO THE 04z1 oa A rattbsnu.
Mr. F t. Grove,of Oak Lake, sends ns
thu following you allow ine a small
space in your paper to give the tletails of
my experience with a number of snakes?
.On April 30th, while.out In search of balm
bude for slave, about two miles north of
Oak Lake, on section 1, township10, range
24, I came too place op the Mlle ivbicli
seemed to be literally covered with snakes
from 1.1%, to 2 feet long. After making a
hasty retreat for some distance I turned
around to fled myself in front of what
seemed to .bo a badger hole, ,but which
proved to be the opening of a snake den.
There was directly in, front of this hole a
huge ball of snakes as large as a common
wooden pail, all intehoningled together,
besides a living stream of
them coming from
atiosimie. There seemed to he from four
to six abreast marching fiont their winter
home into new quarters. For au acre all
around this den %Aloe more or less snekes
of all sizes. X was raised in a land of snaket3
in tho States, but I never witnessed any-
thing like thy above.meetioned. Should
any one doubt the correctness.. of these
statelnents I willrefer hitu to Mr.,A..linbar,
and Mr, P. -A. Harvey, of Oak Lake,' who
have eine° witnessed the same. I would
like to...asks-are-theses-snakes --poisonous-
here, and what pante is, given to them ?
they are a darkbrown or black; with bright
orange stripes the full length of there.
Shci,uld therefae_ asy. representative. of the
press that withee7tobeouductdto due
-
field of snakes they will be accommedated
by calling on Audrew Huber, .living two
miles and a half uorth of Oak 'Lake, on
seption 6, township 10; -range 23, -Winni-
peg Free 1•!rese.• •
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AN' ESSE ON NTE.
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To th i3f Clinton, 2Vezo ,
nite is prineipelly • kompeeed of dark,
nese: • Darkness bas the .best titel to the.
earth, it waz horn list; but it's verh bro-
therly; aud.giVas lite a: haf interest in the:
lamas, •:• .. • „s
wunz -crotched tate to see where did
she go to, I.koodast wotch it all, so I just
kept my i oi what viraz:in Mi own bedroom,
By'and by:along:lamas sum lumpy looking
streeks of day, and swallowed ell the dark
up like they were todess - •
•
Then, just after sunset,' those serpent•
like stroke vomited out the dark atm'
_which was as fresh as Jono, elid fresher,'
for they bad only been swallowed one day.
Then next morning, egain those. streets
serpents returned to theiroyoniit again,
dogs surntimezsdo. • '.'
, Gostsare often seeu at nite. I saw wui3
• uz:--it was a white steer; I' hadn't
imagination enuf theo to turn it into a
regular gost, so:I just steeredoiapast it.
Sinn foks•ere cifrade of the (lark. Wo-
men lzs bekoz they kaut see their most
dreded eiminy, the mouse,
Darkeessas-the gi•im king of .nite._:B-ut
e pasta. niMlefaLitrfirelaillfithir
fernaleseeftedi-ree-stactenals-the
(amen of nite, bat Utast don't rayuaegeblier
melt; they tali°. turns., •
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.Owls kan see it .nite, so' kan kats. The;
:owl is a botifel base singer.Ile Ina only-
wun song, but the kat ken sing a cuple of
tenet: But the kat generally:goes to ex-
Ironies- when it Sines. It is et ettrernisti
The par and the katawaul are the twaeso
• tieme.extremeri. •Theit temperance tneve
ment is the meyeow. •.
There's another laud of nites that's man,.
they are :tikes oleoth day and 'nite. The
Qtteen 'daps it by whacking. themin the
beakWith: 'the flat of a seed, but suino
times it!efione by •proxy.. • It s„ais tither
abairdatriornato think as how that. makes
'those: poor benited deatureS any. More
worthy to be gird: 'Si? Adolphe. ahcIsSir
.Georgeare two: of' the: last • Oksampleti
whacked mit for thie laintry;';. •
,Yon kan t feel darkness generally,' bu •
wutizotiinee wuz, darkeess over thatend of ,
Egypt tor , three days, that woz felt, While
the children of Israel had lite, in all their
dwellings. dowt . what sum foks soy
aboutMoses being in the dark. Ndes are
much the sanie over all parts of the world,
except , in the polar regions, where' they
have nite for months at a stretch.. I koed
.,rite more ebout nite,, but 1 wont at pre.'
-.seat. 'Lyon •wigh to know more, E kan
refer you to a geed boek on the iiibjbet;
oitaisalralleTatifelostratistriooiteat-and
very entertaining wink. • Good rate, cleat
reader. • Pleasant dreams '
t.
gospel' itmong this tonib-stoues. of .the city
of the dead.' There is 11Q-lialie el' device
in -that eity. While -we have :lite there
is hope; but when the condle of life is
put out -we (loose to; 04 '-fertiVer.-
: itVI.IGION MORD WITIL nitusgrgigES8 . have pronelted the gospel lo the sons of
• AND-wrr. en,and while nany have emu° to Christ
there are those who are at Ole inemen-t
;sot Jo.wEe en.Ovvitna AND itAumibm amt. of tl range of the gospel:of Goa ttd
l dslillleOci if iciffe (.1 eh ridianity won't stay•beY('"ul 'is /41°"3' furev°1% 14141"
in t1.)eea
As Que vornes in, the 1 preaeli to a Mao to -night who will realize
Other goes eut. in eternity that he is a prisoner without
Ie any man doesn't as wbst i ssy, , hope forever ? There are men who sit
let him come in, after the meeting and within the sound of tny voice to -night,
. d I '11 who -if • their hearts stop Watt,e,. wbil
hay so, an tvi • forgtve hint.
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'Whiskey is a good thin"' in its place:
'
. am pteaciling will be prisonera witbent
.
but its place is in hell. if I go there hop f "ele •
will dtiak all I cum ItU • la t I ' I went to a circuit mice. You old
Hell is the centre ofgravity for wick- .i.
snesk you go yet. Before 1 ,went in 1
d the
,Iritt I
drink a drop Olt here. I
i
edllpS j heaven is. the centre of-geituity ,r4
looked around and 1 SW them' draw
for righteousness. This is 'the lineage "
a -big bundle o canvas along; an y
f d a i
gged it orup to a, fa rnttee, and they put
s , ov r the fur ac
I tion. . and by-and-by it was. a' well-rounded,
emnation, an dm lineage of salve- this P °al" " e
Religion is jus.b ashnich a reality with
eye as that I have My bind on this pop-
ular railing, as that I have four fingers
on each. '1 believe,' is the ground oo
which I stand. •
You den't- believe what you. don't gee.
Did you ever see- you back bone? Serat
men believothay have a . back. hone, when
it is nothing brit a cotton string 'run up
.
their backs.
—
You say you have doubts, you MO
eytnling-head I. No wonder, Now,
, you wiir 1)4 'hp one of your cloubts•hy
the roots, you will find soinethiagbn the
"lafroncithillitYhanie 'of that soinithin
is sin. ' ••' •
. Sow, Whiskey, reap' drunkards. h'il
a town with baree-olifs, make a genera
lotion of drunkards wile becemei Wrier
of drunkards, whose children ore dean.
Ikards, and thus the world: is swept to
; •and down to . • • • r
' an no metaphysician, but; I can se
4 hole through a ladd'or there is any,
light on the other side, There was very
metaphisics when the. jailer stooc
tterabling.and said: 'Sit's, what nenst
do to. be sevicl . •. •
It takes grace, grit and greenbacks to
run n, meeting: God wjtl furuislk,tli
gi:•adeb but it is. our business to furnisi
tho glat andthe geoenbacks. . I. can fu r
nish:Theagrit, you the oreenhanka. 1
like a division t/t. Waits :: •
• s Thesaliffereneo, between .the dey.il an'
the. penitentiaryisthat the penitaotiary
woPks.,yoo haydaridtioards You, but .thi3
deeit puts -yen to the .meanest, dirtiest
Jobs m.thesworld,.and melees you board.
yourself. ••'
• T woad .rather asabeiate -withsa hog
than a man who dinwhisky, A
man ,reight associate .with a hog until he
becOmealloggish, but he would not be,
Wine a drunkard. sltistoas morale aro
Joao tit:atoll •
symmetrical balloon; rrea as soon as it
was thoroughly ,inflated, ,its tendency.
was upward. Then a man got in the
basket and it carried him upward ;
this balloon that it took six men to pull
aloug awhile ago would now carry fifty
nenttp. There are some add wagon -
sheets that it took site men to drag to
prayer-meeting,and to oome of them yen
...wou/d have to Web a locomotive -engine.
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