Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-11-21
AN INDIAN TRAGEDY.
A Curious Story Of jealousy and Frat
ricide from the Woods Of Canada.

Mr.. Charles Rankin, an officer OF the
Hudson Bay company, has reached
Toronto with the details Of a brutal
Indian murder in the Nipplssing region,
the murdered man being Canachlntch,
chief Of the Tcmagamingues, and the
murderer his brother Shargosee, the
Moose Calf The brother, with Shar-
gosee's wife, daughter, and son, were
travelling together on hunting eXpe-
dtion in the Round lake country.
Canachintch, or Cleft-in-the-ROck, had
three wives, with the youngest OF whom
he suspected that Shargosec was too III
innate. As they sat by their campfire
one night Canachintch began to sing II
favoritc Indian song. which runs some
thing in this strain:
he was my brother ana loved him.
bathc,this temp 6 when he was weary;
killed him 70 at when he lay in fever;
But while hunted he loved my love.
.. false and ~icked brother
Who, while hunted, loved by love
Shargosee felt that thi. song was
aimed at him, and he ordered his
brother to stop singing. Canachlntch
then addressed Shargosee'S wife, telling
men, and bidding her return to her
father, the chief karawee, who lives
near Mattawa. He also made speech
to Shargosee, i'll which he upbraiied
him for his conduct and to Shargosee's
son and daughter, in which he deplorcd
their fathers crime. which he said
would cause them to be hated and
despised by the whole Temagamingue
nation. After this the chief withdrew
from the fire and, retiring to II swamp
near by, chanted the Indian song Of
desolation'' as evidence that he was in
great grief Shargosce and family re-
tired also, but about daylight the former
reused his son Louis, lad Of g. and
told him that though his eyes had been
closed he had not slept for he had made
up his mind to kill Canachintch. Louis
cried but his father threatened to Kill
him also. The father and son then APP
preached the swamp where Canachintch
was still singing his mournful song.
ShargoSee asked him how he felt, but
Canachlntch turned his back to him, on
which ShhrgoSee drew an axe from his
belt Ind struck him on the back of the
swamp, but managed to staggcr to his
feet. lie was Il man Of great strength,
although upward Of 20 years old, and,
selling stick of wood, cried out that
he would not die alone. He reached
forward to strike Shargosee but stumbled
over II log, and the latter struck him
another blow with the axe splitting his
skull The lad Louis on this ran back
to the fire and awoke his mother and
sister, who on seeing him dragging his
brothers corps toward them, vehement
~ denounced him ~ murderer.
Shargosec was enraged at this, and
dropping the body rushed mt his daugh-
ter, whom he accused Of having been
intimate with Canachintch. She fled
and Shargosee's wife held on to him
until She was far out of sight The girl
recalled Mr.. Rankin'o post at Round
lake that evening and n party returned
with her to the scene of the murder.
They found Louis and his mother sitting
by Canachintch's body, which Shargosee
had mutilated in Il dreadful manner.
Shargosec himself was found next
morning III the woods and was arrested
and taken down to Mattawa Jail. Judge
Doran, of Toronto, left to hold the
preliminary inquiry. ShargoSee's de-
Tense is that he killed Canachintch be-
cause of his intimacy with his daughter,
but She and her mother and brother,
who are detained ut Mattawa rs wit.
nesses, deny that, and tell the story as
II i given above