The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1854-01-12

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by quick glance Of the eye. He pres.
emily discovered him behind tree loa.
ding his gun. When in the act of push.
ing down his bullet, he exposed pretty
fairly his hips. Joe. in the twlnkling OF
an eye, wheeled and let him have his load
in the part exposed. The big Indian then,
with mighty "Ugh!" rushed towards
him with his raised tomahawk. Here
were TWO warriors, met, each determined
to conquer or die--each The Goliah OF his
nation. The Indian had rather the ad.
vants ge in size oi frame, but Joe in weight
and muscular strength. The Indian made
a halt at the distance of fifteen or twenty
feet, and threw his tomahawk with all his
force, but Joe had his eye on him and
lodged it. 1t flew quite out of the reach
of either of them. Joe then clubbed his
gun and made at the Indian, thinking to
knock him down. The Indian sprang
into some brush or saplings, 10 avoid his
blows. The Indian depended entirely
on dodging with the help Of the Saplings
At length Joe, thinking he had pretty
fair chance, made side blow with such,
force, that missing the dodging Indian,
the gun Low reduced 10 the naked barrel,
was drawn quite out Of his hands, and
flew entirely out Of reach. The Indian
now gave another exuting "Ugh!" and
sprang at him with all the savage fury he
was master Of. Neither Of them had a
weapon in his hands, and the Indian see.
ing Logston bleeding freely, thought he
could throw him down and dispatch him.
In this he was mistaken. They seized
each other and desperate Scuffle ensued.
Joe could throw him down, but could not
hold him there. The Indian being naked,
with his hide oiled had greatly the advan.
,age in ground scufile, and would slip
out Of Joe's grasp and rise. After throw.
ing him five or six times Joe found. thai
between loss of blood and violent exer.
tons, his wind was leaving him, and that
he must change the mode Of warfare or
lose his scalp, which he was not yet will.
ing 70 spare. He threw the Indian again.
and without attempting 10 hold him jump.
ed from him, and as he rose. aimed fist
blow as he would rise, Joe gave him seve.
raj blows in succession, the Indian rising
slower each time. He at last succeeded
in giving him pretty fair blow in the
butt of the ear, with all his force, and he
fell, as Joe thought pretty near dead. Joe
jumped on him, and thinking he could
dispatch him by choking .grasped his neck
with his LETT hand, keeping his right one
Tree for contingencies. Joe soon found
the Indian was not so dead as he thought,
and that he was making some use Of his
right arm which lay across his body, and
on casting his eye down discovered the
Indian was making an effort 10 unshealh
knife that was hanging at his belt. The
knife was short and so sunk in the sheath
that it was necessary to force it up by
pressing against the point. This the In.
dian was trying TO effect, and with good
success. Joe kept his eye on it, and lei
the Indian work the handle out. when he
suddenly grabbed it. Jerked it out OF the
sheath, and sunk it up to the handle in the
Indians breast, who gave death groan
and expired.
Joe now thought of the other Indian,
and not knowing how lar he had succee.
ded in killing or crippling him, sprang to
his feet. He found the crippled Indian
had crawled some distance towards them,
and had propped his broken back against
a log and was trying to raise his gun 10
shoot him, but in attempting to do which
he would fall forward and had to push
against his gun to raise himself again.
Joe seeing that he was safe, concluded
that he had fought long enough for healthy
exercise that day, and not liking to be
killed by crippled Indian, he made for
the fort. He gotin about nightfall, and a
hard looking case he was--blood and dirt
from The crown of his head to the sole OF
his foot, no horse, no hat, no gun--with
an account of the battle that some ot his
comrades could scarce believe to be much
else than one of his big stories in which
he would sometimes indulge. He told
them they must go and Judge Tor them
selves.
Next morning company was made up
to 20 10 Joe's battle-ground. When they
approached it Joe's accusors became
more confirmed, as there was no appear.
ance of dead Indians. and nothing Joe
had talked OF but the dead horse. They.
however, found a trail as il something
had been dragged away. On pursuing it
they found the big Indian, at little dis
tance, beside log covered up with leaves.
Still pursuing the trail though not so plain,
some hundred yards farther they found
the broken backed Indian, lying on his
tack with his own knife sticking up TO the
hit in his body, just below the breast
bone, evidently to show that he had not
come to his end by the hand oi an enemy.
They had long search before they found
the knife with which Joe killed the big
Indian. They at last found it forced down
into the ground below the surface, appa.
rently by the weight Of persons heel.
The great efforts he must have made,
alone, in that condition. show, among
thousands OF other instances, what Indi'
ans are capable of under the greatest ex'
lremities.
Some years after the above took place.
peace with The Indians was restored
'rha, frontier, like many others, became
infested with a gang of outlaws, who com.
menced stealing horses and committing
various deprada,ions. To counterscI
which a company Of regulators, as they
we're called, was raised. Ina contest be-