The freeman. (Fremont [Ohio]) 1849-1850, 1849-11-10

discipline until the Indian fell apparently insensi-
BILE Joe instantly jumped upon him, and thinking
he could despatch him by choking, grasped his
neck with his left hand, keeping the right free for
contingencies. He soon found, however that the
Indian had been playing possum, and was very far
from being dead as he appeared to be. Thinking
he felt the Shawnee's right arm moving Joe cast
his eye down, land discovered him gently and stealth
lily engaged in working out of its sheath a knife
which was attached to his belt and lay partly un-
der him. The knife was short, and driven so far
into the scabbard that it necessary to force it
up by pressure against the point This the Indian
was carrying into effect and so successfully that had
not Logston discovered the vancouver the steel and
his best blood would have made speedy acquant-
ance. Joe watched the progress of the work with
a keen eye, and soon the Indian had worked the
handle Of the knife above the top of the sheath he
grasped it The blade glistened moment in the
air. and sunk to the haft in the breast of the pros
trate Shawnee, who, throwing up both his arms,
with wild yell, and expired ..
The victor sprang lightly from the body of his
foe and proceeded to look for the dead mans COM
panion, whom he had shot behind the tree. He
found the crippled Indian, who had been hit in the
spine, with his broken back propped against peice
of fallen timber. trying to raise his rifle to shoot him
but whenever he attempted to "draw bead" on
the woodman he would fall forward, and was COM
brought his fractured spine TO perpendicular
Joe seeing las he expressed it) that "the varmint
was safe" and concluding he had fought enough
for healthy exercise that day, made for the fort
which he reached at night fall, covered with dirt
and gore, horse gun, sans everything, ex-
cept the story of his days adventure, at which his
comrades winked and shrugged their shoulders, in
token of disbelief He told them togo to the ground
where he eft the Injuns," and judge for them
selves
Next morning company was made up to pro-
ceed to the spot When they approached it, moth
ing was to be except the dead horse, and they
were about to return in the full conviction that
Joe's story was hoax, when trail leading into a
thicket was observed by one of the party. The
leaves appeared to have been disturbed as some
thing heavy had been dragged over them; and on
following the trail they found the big Indian lay
ing beside log, covered up with leaves and brush.
From this point another trailed into the woods and
pursuing it for hundred yards or so, they came
upon the body of the other shawnee laying on his
back with his own knife sticking up to the haft in
his breast, evidently to show that he had killed
himself and not died by the hand of an enemy
They had long hunt for the knife with which Log
ston had killed the big Indian, and found it at last
sticking deep into the ground, having apparently
been forced below the surface by a mans hand or
heel This had been done by the wounded Indi-
an, and the almost superhuman efforts he must
have made before he accomplished so much in his
MANNED condition, may serve to show, among thou
sands of other instances what the red man is capa-
BILE of in the greatest extremities.
The proofs of his powers and skill as an Indian
fighter made quite 'ion" of our hero. He was
the acknowledged "cock of the walk on the from
tier from that time until 1905, when he was killed
at the head of company of Regulators" while in
pursuit of gang of white outlaws who had stolen
several horses from the settlement in which he re-
sided