The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-08-23
How the Indians Kill tier Beeyes

a gentleman from up-r1ver furnishes
| us an item concerning the way in
which the Indians at several of the
agencies do their butchering. The
agent furnishes them their rations OF
beef on the hoef, when they are then
allowed to slaughter according to the
dictates of their own consciences.
From $50 to 200 head are issued at a
time, and the Indians drive all but
twenty or thirty lnto an enclosure ar
ranged for the purpose. \ couple hun
dred of the unprecedented devils then
get around the pen, and with rifles
and revOlvers commence a fusilade
into the herd, taking no aim, but Just
banging away promiscuously, seeming
to desire more to MAIN and torture
the poor brutes than to kill them. The
revolvers havn't sufficient force to put
one of them to death, and SO they are
the favorite arm. The wounded DO
vines soon set up believing which
ought to excite pity in any heart, but
these red GhIns listen to it with n de
light that could only be equaled if the
agonizlng cries were those of pale-face
victims. In the herd may be seen
broken, but trying to rear and plunge
on those unlnlured; some with their
horns split by bullet, and others SCARF
ed and bleeding IN various parts of the
body. After the massacre is finished.
the Indians jump into q corral, and
there IS then a strife for securing the
tongues and lntestines of the animals.
which taken raw are very choice NOR
sells to the red mans palate. When
there is nothing left but the llfeless.
tongueless, evIscerated carcaSses of the
cattle inside the Enclosure, attention is
then pad to those reserved to furnish
the desert of this carnival of barbaric
cruelty. The twenty or thirty steers
are stampeded across the prairie, and
they are then pursued by the Indians
on horseback, with lances andrevolvers.
q l0 buffalo hunt, their tormentors
uttering those hideous noises for
the production of which the yo-
cal accouterment or the fnll grown
nations ward is the only adequate az
rangement yet discovered. BY means
of spears and pistols the miserable
brutes 1--WE refer to the cattle) have
their bodies SO lacerated that they are
soon exhausted by loss of blood and
the frantic pace at which they have
tried to elude their murderers. When
one falls the Indians then try by goad-
ing to urge it to another race, but
when they fail in this they stand over
the fallen beast and by all the deviiIsh
tricks they ever learned torment it I'M
til death comes as a relief Then all
the interest in the animal is at an end.
except WHO shall scalp it of It's tongue
and entrails.
The squaws are then turned out to
cut up the carcasses and get them into
camp, not a mOrsel of which is allowed
to remain. Among them there are
sometimes fearful contests for choice
portions Of the animal, in which cou-
pie of them may frequently be seen
hacking at each other with their knives
over piece of tenderloin. When the
last one is down the Indians 90 back
to their lodges, their blood thirstiness
whetted to such a keen edge that the
only wonder is that they can at all be
restrained from massacreIng the entire
post. How any set of men can expect |
to civilize lot of creatures among
whom such practices are tolerated is
more than we, with our ideas of human |
Instincts can cOmDrelend