The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1874-09-05

rifle and hurried out to where | could
see my horse. That the Indian design
ed stealing him was apparent at a
glance, for even as stepped out of the
house he had cut the rope that tethered
him, and was In the act of mounting l
yelled at him to stop, but he appeared
not to hear me; instead of stopping, he
took northward course, and was fly
ing like mad across the prairie. an in
slant looked at him, and then raising
my rife fred, not however, with the
expectation of checking him, for he
was now nearly quarter Of mile dis
tant from me; but,as luck or fate would
have it, he fell from the horse as sud
denly as IL every nerve and muscle In
his body had been severed.
MY horse, being thus freed of his
furious rider, turned and trotted back
to where was standing. l suspected
that the Indian had not ventured to ac-
compish his purpose alone, so retired
into the house to await further develop.
ments. Pres, ntly a number of motley
looking figures, companions of the dead
Indian, stole up, seized their fallen CON-
rade, and set off in the direction that
he had been pursuing. For several
days l stayed at home, expecting to be
assailed by the friends of the Indian
that l had killed, but as they manifes-
ted no such intentions 1 became less
prudent, and on the fourth day, after
being duly cautioned by father and
mother to guard against danger, noun
ted my horse, well armed of course, and
set out to visit Nellie Martin, who,
may as we'll state here, was to me the
most charming object to be tour d in
the West About half way between
Nellie's house and mine was thick belt
of timber, through which had to pass.
AS | entered this timber / spoke to
Duke, and he quickened his gait to
lope We were about the middle of the
timber when my horse suddenly stopred,
shifted the air and attempted to turn
back. Before l could command him or
even comprehend his actions, there a
lose as if by magic. almost multitude
OF 1.-THE, shabby figures, heterogenously
made up of flesh and dirt, skins, feath-
ers, tomahawks, scIlping-knives and
rifles. Almost before was aware OF 1t,
| WAS prisoner, with a lot of dirty de-
mons brandishing tomahawks over my
head and threatniug to scalp me. Pres
emily one of the Indians, who was H.
er and ugler than any of the rest. came
forward and spoke as follows; Me great
chief, White man kill great chiefs bro
ther; great ct.ief kill white man Then
| he drew aside and conferred with some
OF his braves in a tone 50 low that l
could only make out word now ami
then. However, 1 comprehended en-
ough to understand that they thought |
deserved a horrid aud lingering death
to atone for the dead brave.
Whatever their programme was, they
soon determined what to do. Then
they tied me on bare backed horse,
aud the whole band, of whom there
were about thirty in number, mounted
and struck out over the plains, taking
me with them. We had ridden about
forty miles, and / was beginning to
think that had already suffered en-
ough to pay for the blood of the en-
entire tribe, when the whole band sud-
denly came to a standStill. Before US
stood two trees, each about foot in
diameter and between the two trees
was space OF about eight feet. scam
ned these trees narrowly, for as there
were no others in sight, knew that the
noble red men contemplated mischief.
Presently they all dismounted, and
then was united and made to stand
| DtU"OCu IhC tWO btGCos 1uCu uu luuldu
produced some strong cord, and pro-
ceeded to tie one around each of my
wrists. Having done this, an Indian
was sent up each of the trees, one hav-
ing hold of the cord on my right wrist,
the other having the cord that was at
tached on my left wrist. They ap-
preached to the height OF about twelve
feet, and then commen ced drawing me
up in the air between the two tees. |
yelled with pain, but it did no good,
The Indians continued to hoist me up,
until my feet were nearly two yards
from the ground. They then made the
cords fast to the two trees, and l was
swinging in the air with my arms
stretched at full length. Not satisfied
with this, however, they tied two other
cords around my ankles, and my feet
were drawn apart in the same manner.
There was, suspended in the air like
a big letter Y, with all those red devils