The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-04-15
THE TRIBUNE.
RED KNIFE;
OR
= . Kit Cars0n's Last Trail.

.lWS pAtn10Os hpEu lSL, Two chapters
OF this thrilling tale, the balance of which
can be found only in the New York Ledger
but as many of our readers got badly
April-fooled by it, We have yielded tc
strong outside pressure and will give a
synopsis Of the balance of the tale, as our
literary editor comprehends it, from a
careful perusai Of the opening chapters,
andsthe most profound study.
CHAPTER 8. The previous chapter
freed" more than third of gallant
. party of horsemen in hole in the ground
The remainder of the party having
sssmelled mouse" in that cavern. tho
It's entrance was too big for mouse hole,
did not dare to enter, and sadly with
trembling limbs, turned and lett the i've
brave and venturesome men to their tate
They had not proceeded far, when about
10000 dusky savage forms arose from
the bushes. 1t. Bridges Immediately
ordered halt, but the words had no
sooner escaped his lips than hundred
bullets came crashing through
Ito be continued.
the skull of his pet brindle pup:
CHAP. 4. To return to the old hunter,
George Dane, who was running keen
race on horseback with pack of red
skins, the goal being the hunters house.
The horse he rode was fine spirited
animal which he had received from Bon
ner, of the New Y ork Ledger, for writing
a frightful Indian story for that valuable
journal. He accidently dashed over the
ground at great speed and reached the
front of his house just as the Indians did
the back. AS the Indians arrived, the
old lady Dane, who sat on an inverted
wash tub at the back door, knitting, sprang
up with cry of alarm, pulled out her
knitting needles and ran them through
the hearts of the three nearest Indians.
Whereupon the rest, 100 In number, fled
to corn crib. Mr. Dane pulled his wife
into the house by the ears through back
window. After consultation, the devoted
husband and wife boldly marched out of
the house with slop pail full Of revolvers
went up to the corn crib and
7c be continued)
shot all the Indians.
CHAP. 5. Hubert Earle entered the
cave with fear and trembling. A narrow
passage led to a spacious chamber, which
was entirely destroyed. Nothing was to
be seen by the glaring light of his torch
but pile of glass pint TASKS in one
corner. But gllmmer of light shining
through another narrow passage showed
a room beyond. Passing into it, he OBJ
served five men seated on beer kegs
around barrel of whiskey-four of them
were his companions. and the fifth, intro
.duced to him as Kit Carson, who occu-
pied this cave tor summer residence,
.solemnly motioned Hubert to seat on
another beer key, and Kit drew for him
a quantity Of whiskyin an empty Indians
skull, when they drank each others
healths. But an hour or two elapsed,
when the swarthy form Of Red Knife,
the great and ferocious Tycoon of Indi-
ans, entered the apartment.
To be continued.
CHAP. 6. Miriam Dane, whom we
left lying in the grass, with a band OF In
dams approaching, remained in that po-
sition about ten minutes. When the In
dams had nearly reached her, they smell
ed the buffalo steaks which the horse
snen had left undevoured upon the
ground, and turned to gobble them.
Miriam seized the opportunity, and es
capped; she walked several days, and f.
nally reached the Central Pacific Railroad.
The conductor of a passing train picked
her up and took her to New York where
she went to work as a composltor on the
Ledger.
ITO be conttnued)
CHAP. Z. When Red Knife entered
the cave, the men scattered in every di-
rection. All but Hubert, however, crawl
ed away into concealed cracks in the rocks
and went to sleep. Hubert, in searching
for a suitable place to hide, fell down a
precipice into yawning abyss. He con-
tirued to fall for several days, but had no
means of measuring time. Once he knew
it must be night, as he saw Pluto, with
his night cap on, just stepping into bed
of live Goals. Sometimes the heat was
intense, when he would wrap his coat
about his face to keep from burning. How
long this horrible fall continued he knew
not He only knew that he was in the
bowels of the earth and that Miriam
would probably die an old maid if she
waited for him. Suddenly the heat was
uncomfortable and he thought he was a
goner, when the sunlight burst upon his
view, he got breath of fresh air, and
shot upwards ten thousand feet into the
clouds.
To be contuued.)
CHAP. 8. When the men in the cave
recovered from their stupid sleep, they
found Red Knife insensible, lying across
a beer key. They killed the old scamp,
filed all the TASKS with liquor and started
in search of the rest of the horsemen.
Kit Carson pointed out their trail, and
led the band, and the track they followed
is to this day marked by the empty glass
TASKS. This was Kit S last trail.
CHAP. 9. We left Lieut. Bridges and
his company faced by 10000 Indians. At
ho ovsfvCal h,, ortr
forced by the men from the cave. The
Indians fed before them and attempted
to escape through one of the passes of
the Rocky Mountains, when terrific
earthquake tumbleda mountain over upon
tribe exterminated,
Guar. 10. Mr.. and Mrs. Dane mourn
ed their daughter and expected son-inlaw
as dead.
CHAP. IL. We left Hubert Earle so
high up in the clouds that he began to
snceze with the cold, having been very
swcaty by passing through the internal
fires But justafter he began to descend,
be found solid footing; he had fallen
into the car attached to balloon. On
inquiry of the aeronaut, he found that he
had been shot out from the crater of We
suyius, and happened to fall into the car
of the balloon which was passing Had
he fallen upon the ground, 1t is likely he
would nave been injured by the shock.
The balloon landed at London. Hubert
bought him new suit of store clothes,
and came er to New York in a steamer
Conclusion.
CHAP. II. On arriving at New York
he proceeded Immediately to the Ledge,
Office, where he was astonished TO find
his affianced setting up his obituary. He
kissed her. She kissed him. They kissed
och nthn- They were married at Ply.