The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-09-30
SANGUINARY SOUaWS.
A Fight Among the Women of an Indian
Encampment.

right Among the Women of an Indian
Encampment.
A lively fracas is reported to have oce
CURED In hunters camp on the head
waters OF the Republican, a week ago to-
day. The party of hunters consisted of
SIX white men, four of whom had sqllaws
for wives. 1t was the habit of the party.
as is the usual custom with such outfits.
to leave pretty much ali the details of the
camp work to the squaws, who perform
the cooking, do the washing, and such
other work as was necessary to the GEN
eral comfort of the lords of the kingdom.
1t is rarely ever the squaws, thus invest
ed with the care OF camp, forget them
selves, and indulge in the practices dis
pleasing to the hunters whom they have
engaged to serve, but in this instance we
have most fragrant exception.
On the day referred to, the hunters
left the camp.for their day S work, leav-
ing the four squaws in charge of the
camp, with instructions to have meal
ready at the hour of sunset. The hunters
returned about the time specified to find
a state of affairs more shocking and des-
perate than even these sons of border
life were accustomed to see. Among the
essential stores provided for their trip
was key of whisky, which was regarded
entirely safe III the hands Of the squaws,
but the spirit tempted them, and they
fell. The camp presented an appear
ance suggestive of having been struck
by a double-geared whirlwind or forty
strokes of chain lightning.
The cooking utensils were scattered
around In magnificent confusion the
four sacks had been ripped open and the
flour scattered promiscuously ; knives,
forks, dishes, and everything seemed to
have been caught up In the whirlwind
and strewn in every direction. Two Of
the squaws were lying lifeless within
few feet of the camp with their faces
gashed in the most CHASTITY manner, and
their bodies literally cut to pieces. One
squaw had crawled several feet after she
had been disemboweled, dragging her
entrails after her, the other was lying OH
her face with her mouth in a pool of
blood, her tongue cut out and her scalp
lifted. The other two were lying in the
midst of the confusion dead drunk, one
still having tight grip on the handle OF
the whisky key.
Both were considerably mutilated with
knives, one having an eye gouged out,
and the other had passed through the
conflict with no more serious damage
than the loss of an ear and the tip of the
nose. The hunters took in the situation
at glance. The squaws had taken it
into their heads to go on hilarious old
drunk, which terminated in a bloody
fight that was waged vigorously until
the tragic end. The dead squaws were
buried in rude holes as they were found,
and the disabled squaws were taken back
to the Kansas Pacific, where they we're
turned over to the fragment of the tribe
to which they belonged. The hunters
say that one squaw does firstrate, and is
really indispensable to the prosperity OF
a camp, but two or more together is sure
to bring trouble. At any rate they have
tried the experiment for the last time,
and are satisfied woman is woman, no,
matter what kind of skin she wears. -
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