The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-08
Indians After an Honest Man.

Indians After an Honest Man.
Indians may be treacherous, but the,
can be Just, and they can be honest
and who shall say how far the dishon
esty of others has led to their treachery
They know when they are cheated, a.
the Government has found to its cost
An old trader, who established himself
at what happened to be a favorite local
ity among the northern Indians, tells
good story of his first trials with his
red customers. Other traders had set
tied in that same place before. but had
not remained long. The Indians, who
evidently wanted goods, and had money
and furs, looked about the store of the
new trader, and carefully examined his
goods; but offered to buy nothing. Fl
nally their chief, with large number
of his tribe, visited him.
Chow do, JohnT' said tho chief
"Show me goods. Aha! / take that
blanket for me and that calico for
squaw-three otter skins for blanket
and one for calico. Ugh! pay you
him tomorrow"
He received the goods and left. On
the next day he returned with large
part of his band, his blanket well
stuffed with skins of various kinds.
Now, John, 1 pay"
| And with this he drew out an otter
skin from his blanket and laid it on the
counter. Then he drew out second, a
| third and fourth. A moments hest
tation, as though calculating, and then
he drew forth fifth skin-a very rich
and rare one, and passed it over.
That's right, john"
+ The trader instantly pushed back the
last skin, with
"You owe me but four. l want only
my just dues"
The chief refused to take it, and they
passed it several times back and forth,
each one asserting that it belonged to
the other
At length the dusky trader appeared
to be satisfied. He gave the trader a
scrutinizing look, and put the skin back
into the blanket; then stepped to the
door and gave yell, and cried out to
his followers:
Come-come and trade with the
palesace John. He no cheat Indian.
His heart big"
Then turning to the trader, he said: !:
"Suppose you take last skin; / tell
my people no trade with you. We
drive off others; but now you be In
dams friend, and we be yours"
Before dark the trader was waist-deep
in furs, and loaded down with cash. He
found that honesty had commercial
value with these Indians.
The Terrors Of sFire in the Bush.'
The following narrative, says the San
Bernardino Semi Tropic, IL given as We
had it from mone who is conversant with
the details. 1t smacks much of romance,
but is strictly true and can be relied on:
Last week,J. w. Wilson, better known
as Quartz Wilson, Was prospecting on the
head waters of the White Water, some
sixty miles from here, for grass for stock
feed, he discovered a narrow valley,
through which ran small stream. This
valley was only practicable of entrance
by one path, that by which he entered.
As he rode along he was delighted with
| the abundance of rich nutritious grass,
which stood three feet high, and meditat-
ing driving herd of stock there soon,
| ,v6sb he teas rudelv called hack To things
of tba nresent Nv . sta IT and a snort from
I;s g by,rro Dor dontev Jooking hack
he ba d;scoyere5 IN his horror that some
nerson ne s had set the grass on fire and that
ffLa fones were nnrsnino him with fear
fni I ran;d;tv Hastily snurr;ng to the
sttesmt he dismounted. stripped the sad.
die from The donkey and turned it loose.
| AS for himself he sprahg into the creek,
searched out the deepe st place he could
| find in the few seconds that elapsed before
| the FIRE was upon him, and lay down. Un.
fortunately the water was but a few in.
| ches in depth, not nearly enough to cover
him. but it was the only chance, and SO he
| Law, hoping to escape butfearingthe worst
In much less time than it takes to narratt
this the fire was upon him. First large
fakes fell thick and fast around him, com
pelling lively rolling in the water te
keep both sides wet. But when the fire
was roaring and raging above and around
him came the fearful ordeal. From side tt
side he turned striving to allay the ter
rible sufferings inflicted by the intense
heat, but with only partial success. Tht
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