The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-12-16
Camanche Bill.

The story of Camanche Bill, the ceieofaeeu
fighter. hater and killer OF Indians, 10 orieny S.o
by the Detroit Post. Bill is now In DETROIT
waiting for friends. He expected TO see thoee
friends in Chicago, where, curing ~ T
lost his rife and some valuable papers out ne
came on tn Detroit and waits them there. hls
personal description and bis adventures are d
combination sufficient for a volume, IN a VEN
which has not vet begun to be WORKED ny A"ei
can writer's. We clip from the PoSt:
His real name is Geo. w. Porter, ana ne is not
more than twenty-five years OF age, oil meuium
stature and 1.-the and why build. HIS complex
ion is ] light and his features are almost glrilsh' at
least there is an absence OF that coarseheee wv
brutality which one is apt to associate Win ~
kind of life he has led. He has an eye OF pierc-
ing keenness, though not oil that wiz anu
/ character which the heroes OF border romahceS
are usually supposed to possess. lie seems, ordi-
narily at least, wild enough, and occasionally,
even. INDUCES in a sparkle OF humor- ne Is
dressed in buckskin pantaloons ornamented "ith
a row of small steel buttons down the outer seam.
He saws a little tailor out in Arizona cut these
nantaioons for him. and charged him $40 Tor the
iob. He considered it extortion, and telling the
little tailor that he would pay him half when he
died and the balance when he got back, he seized
the pantaloons, and jumping upon his horse
.s scooted, leaving the little tailor stahuing I'd
the cut a fashionable one-spring bottoms, one
seam in the leg, and all that sort OF thing: Inc
sewing on them he did himself, and pricked his
fingers profusely. The balance OF his costume
consists of a coarse shirt, which he says VIII stand
it about a year and a balf without Washing ana
a coat made of the skin Of the Mexican lion
6 an animal which no dog will follow made
nm with the hair out. He wears a broad brimmed
black felt hat, and his luxuriant brown hair
streams down over his shoulders. lie says MS
home is at Fort Grant, Arizona, though for what
particular reason he calls that his home he can t
= II. l;~os IN tba saddle EOhtInO Indians. He
condemns tents and camp equipage with strong
emnhasis. and says he sleeps where night over
takes him. and looks out for his own rations. He
holds the regulars-particularly the ofhcers-ln
very low estimation, and language tails hlm to
exnress his contempt for the government Indian
agents. His Indian policy is destruction, swift
and sure, for every red-skin on the continent,
and he is doing his individual best to carry out
that policy. He says he feels annoyed at being
reported as having killed 1873 Indians, since it
looks like boasting, a thing of which he does not
wish to seem guilty. He does not deny that his
GOOD rifle has an uncomfortable desire to take
unerring aim at every Indian which comes in
RANGE Of it's muzzle. The object of his life is to
rescue his sister, who was captured in the Mime
sofa massacre in 1852, and to avenge the death
of the rest of his family who were murdered at
that time. His sister, who Is now twelve years
old, is held by the Camancbes, and he knows her
whereabouts. He SAYS the Camanches know him
very well and are bound to 81 lift his hair, :" but
he don't think they will ever be able to do it,
and that he shall yet get his sister. If he ever
does get her, he presumes she will be a regular
savage, having lived SO long with them, but he
will take her SO far away that she will never see
a red man again. Then bis purpose is to devote
the remainder of his life to ayenge the murder OF
his parents, brothers and sisters. His converse
ton cannot fail to impress one with the earnest
ness of bis purpose. He is an excellent repre-
sentative of the hunters and scouts of the plains,
finding his highest ENJOYMENT in rowing over the
almost boundIess wilds of the Western Territories.
in an occasional brush with the Indians, and in
hunting the Buffalo and grizzly. He can't make
himself comfortable in a bed, and declares that of
all the institutions of civilization they are the
worst. He rolls himself up in a blanket and
camps on the floor. He says he is going back
next month to continue the search for his sister.
He win take two. good and true men with him,
and that is all the assistance he wants. He has
confidence that he will be successful before spring.