The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-29
Indian Cruelties- Captive Among the
COmancheS.

A young Texan who was captured by
the Comanche Indians about year ago
gave the following account of his expert
ences recently to correspondent of the
Galveston Nea0s
[ was trying to get five beef steers back
to the herd early one morning last May,
when [ was suddenly surrounded by
about twenty-five Comanche Indians,
and taken prisoner. This happened
near sunrise. was tied on my horse
and carried some 30 miles that day. At
night we arrived at sort of camp, where
we joined fifty more Indians, and I found
they had another white man prisoner.
| was not allowed to speak with this man
but [ could see from the blood on his
face and clothes that he was wounded.
AS soon as the Indians had kindled a fire
and eaten some meat, they began to tor
ture this second prisoner, though for
what reason [ have never learned. They
beat him with a catridge-box strap with
a large buckle on the end of it, after
stripping him of his clothes. They cut
gashes on him with knives. They sawed
off his thumbs with an old cavalry sabre,
and mashed his toes between rock and
the butt end of a carbine. After gouging
out some OF his teeth, with a bayonet,
and sticking cactus thorns in his flesh,
they poured powder in his ears and burnt
it. All this time the man did not COM
plain or cry out, as he probably expected,
by his fortitude, to induce the Indians to
spare his life, But in this he was mis-
taken, for they, finding that he did not
complain at all these tortures, began to
cut pieces OF flesh out of his legs and
back and eat them or at least pretend
to eat-l think they only chewed up the
flesh and spit it out. Seeing that all of
this torture did not make him cry out
for he had fainted), the chief stepped
up with sharp knife and cut out one of
his eyes, and put a live coal of fire in the
socket, and then put an end to his life
with knife.
The Indians then had dance. I was
led to small tree. [ had no water or
anything to eat for thirty-six hours.
The next day about midday the party
moved In a northwest course, travelling
about 20 miles and after this we moved
In northwest course about 800 miles,
where we met several large parties of
Indians, some of whom had been on raids
in Northern Texas. [ remained in that
section of country with the Comanches,
and was kept employed mostly herding
| ponies and sometimes dressing deer-skins
and buffalo hides. Ny clothes were all
taken away from me few days after l
was captured, and only had a pair of
drawers and blanket afterward. [ often
had to eat raw venison and buffalo meat
without salt. After [ had been with the
Indians some six months, they ceased to
treat me as prisoner, and [ was allowed
to go some distance from the camp. [
think it was the LIST of February [ left
them. [ was herding ponies, and was
allowed to ride one of the best without
saddle. The second night [ took my
buffalo robe and used it as saddle, filled
sack with dried meat, and struck out
for the settlements, which [ reachd tow
ards the last of the month. [ sold my
horse and buffalo robe, and collected
three months pay that was due me at
the time | was captured and now, with
Gods help, shall keep out of the way
of the Indians hereafter.
An American Surgeon General in Egypt.
The appointment of DR.. Cornelius
Falling Brown to the position of Surgeon
General of the armies of the Khedive of
Egypt, with an annual salary of $1,000,
and a valuable outfit, has elected much
surprise to the Doctors old friends and
acquaintance in Niles, Mich. Some
five years ago two young men from Chi
cago took up their habitation in that
town, and, purchasing a stock of dry
goods, flung to the breeze the euphonious
firm name of Brown & Copeland. The
senior member of the firm, Cornelius
Failing Brown, or, as he was generally
known, "Corney Brown" was not then
OF age. He was pale, but not intel
lectual-looking youth, college graduate,
but man OF apparently no positive
force in any direction. Most of the
time of the members of the firm was
taken up in buggy riding and other such
innocent pleasures, to the neglect of
business, and soon the stock of goods
ran down, and the remnants were finally
taken to one of the lake shore villages,
when the senior member of the firm re-
turned to Chicago, and subsequently, led
to the hymeneal altar one of that city's
fairest bellies, the daughter of well
known medical professor. The bride
and groom, accompanied by the brides
mother and several letters of introduction
and of credit, took in Europe on their
bridal tour. Soon the parties returned
from Europe, the bride and her mother
to their former home, and the groom to
parts unknown. The bride, securing
divorce, has since been welded to an
other.
1t now transpires, however, that after
young Browns return from his European
bridal tour he turned his attention to the
study of medicine, and has been APP
poll ted Surgeon-General of the armies
of the Khedive of Egypt, WITH salary
OF S., 900 in gold, and was furnished an
outfit of $500. The young, and the