Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-09-07
A DAMAGED INDIAN.

The local reporter of the Reno Gozette,
always an excellent story teller, relates the
following tale of an injured Indians woes
and walls:
Early this morning an Indian was severely
injured at Huffakers. The buck was riding
on top of one of the " & T. freight cars
Some switching was being done. He was run
ming along the roofs of the cars when the
train parted and the buck, instead of making
the next car, stepped off into the space and
fell to the ground He rolled out of the way
OF the wheels just in time to escape horri-
Bile death He was brought to town and
lifted off by his Piute brethren at the bridge
They placed him nachair, ran plank beneath
1T and carried him off a few hundred yards
into the sagebrush. The red men seemed to
be very sympathetic. Some ran off to the
patches of willows on the bank of the Truckee
and cut boughs and brought them up and
made a semi circular thicket, in the cool
shade of which the injured buck was care
fully laid on bed formed of the blankets of
a dozen bucks. The belief that the In
dian is stoical under suffering is simple non
sense. Poor Jim groaned and whined like q
child as his mates moved him about A
Gazette reporter, whose attention was attracted
by the aboriginal hospital, went over, found
what was the matter and asked the bunged-up
Indian, one of whose eyes was swollen and
closed and whose hands were badly scratched
and cut up, if he wanted a doctor. "You
bet, me heap like dockar," gasped the poor
fellow. So the reporter came down town and
saw DR.. Dawson, who very kindly took the
hot and profitless walk to where Jim was ly-
ing. The doctor discovered that several ribs
on the left side we're broken, and to relieve
the Indians great pain injected morphine
under the skin of the arm. At least dozen
bucks viewed this mysterious operation with
awe and respect, but yet with some suspicion.
The sufferer in few minutes began to feel
the effects of the opium, and said few grunts
to his fellows. Evidently they at once con-
ceived great admiration for DR.. Dawson as
a "big medicine" The Doctor prepared a
broad bandage, and told one Indian who
could speak some English to take off the
patients shirt. The brave handled the suf-
ferer as if he were made of glass, and would
break to pieces if moved roughly, but the
pain was intolerable, and Jim made some ex-
carnations to the effect that he couldn't stand
it, so with much reluctance and many regret
full grunts the bucks got out their knives and
cut away the garment new hickory. Then
Dr. Dawson placed the bandage around the
mans body and tied it tight-so tight that
Jim opened his eyes twice or thrice and
groaned all his English, eco slow, Dockar."
While the buck was in the hands of the medi-
cine man the reporter caught sight of several
small bottles in q sagebrush near at hand and
picked them up. One held castor oil, another
arnica, and the last horse linament, all prop
erly labeled. The red men had run off to
the drug store and bought the first thing that
come out of the box. The reporter noticed |
also that lovely woman in the aboriginal state
has no divine mission to wait upon the sick. |
More than half dozed squaws in the neigh |
oorhood, but not one of them seemed to take |
any interest in the man. The bucks, on the |
we're wholly absorbed in his case.
The Indian should be taken to the County |
Hospital. He is hurt seriously, and if not |
aiken decent care of will die.