The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-10-07
cellanenus.
For tie 4E0iS dnd Rteiiigeace,.
An Indian Fight in Kansas.

All lHulHn flgnU IN Kansas.
When men have been tramping over the
sandy prairie all day, carrying heavy Win
chester, two navics, hunting knife and rations,
it is real pleasant to sit around the camp fire,
listening to some Kansas "jayhawker" tell of
what terrible fellow he had been before
humanized by the advent of SO many people.
My experience with Kansas has been such
as to convince me that the emigration in a
body of the most learned and cultured of
German universities wonld have but little
effect in making them anything but what they
are at the present writing.
Lying is as Indigenous to Western Kansas
as rattlesnakes and polecats are to the State
at large. They can't help it. It's in the
blood To the "Jayhawker" an Indian is an
unmitigated nuisance and should be abated
and they proceed to do it by getting him
drunk as Bacchus on the most atr0cious
brands of corn whisky, robbng him when
in state ofstupor of everything he possess
es, even taking his breech-cloth. Should "Lo
the poor" complain, they kill him. What
right has he away from his reservation?
The narrative of the Kansan if full of i'm.
mense 81" the Indian being very small I'll"
indeed. According to him, one white man is
equal to a whole band of hostile Siouxs, or
the full tribe of hair lifting Comanches. This
is doubtful. Custer found it so in Montana,
and Carr in Arizona. We must take the
kansan's word with becoming gravity.
My impression, from what have seen of the
red men, is that the "pale face" has all he
can properly attend to in taking care of him.
self, when one Indian only is before him,
armed with the latest improved rifle, Still
the Kansan will insist that the "red Niger"
is nothing absolutely nothing, as a fighter,
and If Government would only intrust the
settlement of the frontier to him, all would
be as peaceful and quiet as any "Dunkard
community" in sixty days The following
was told by a gentleman living near Great
Bend, Barton county, Kansas
I'm April, 1888, young, vigorous, and never
having seen as much of the world as general
ly fills the ambition of fellows in their early
manhood, | engaged as teamster to drive
through with train of OK wagons loaded
with merchandise for the Santa Fee trade
We left La Fayette county, Missouri, on the
gath day of April. Our company comprised
40 men, armed with old-iashioned long range
rifles, each q "Cots" revolver, and Bowie
knife. Our team numbered 210 head of cat
tie in ALL Kansas was then one vast wild
plain, over which rowing bands of hostile In
dians were cutting off emigranls and freight
trains, on their way to New Mexico and the
CALIFORNIA;. s'-.
After leaving the settlement some distance
who had discovored dnnne ~l aheod aMd M
awaitma re.ent,roo n h "' "iu VIZ
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Abont monn MN nt No. voShg' hGm s'anus,-
a ,,,ara s,,daorl tsu,Iad WHY ~, Az ullinel,
ofIdians o''sy e'"i'i n, ny sno aiali.oIy
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oaieu "tT nm VIC e,ciosuie IMAM thc zoe
m,. nisa; IN ms nc" eahs9l SOON oro'c us
ou ..SW h ln ,',,, view 1i 'ne 'nuians.
we nau no" ,aliy gov our lla'ius IN anu
M Melc auilionns .neiL ponies AZ RAPID la!e'
law ,a inuahs' rl,er .neir ponies icll, escaped
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my tne' omclc' "h'i lWehty'nVG ya.us
scniIoly in.eivc ,, between US nu' .nc
lap'u l,o.lo !; Vi .lle'i steeus 9is'eauea 'ielr
a,nl, un,il II was out random WINE inc
Closet 'ney presseu US l1e more obstructive
oeealhc every sliot we iireu.
oucn nghing couia not lasl long. Ai'cr
we nrsl lew lounus we saVases substituted
.,le DOW anu arro" ior the gun. flna,ns
themselves getting most terribly worsleu III
the COMBAT, lhey maze Dash 10 rlde down
I y 'oinahawk us aIl III our aea.i struggle
teli you, eheh we liaa no chlid pay out
numbered hVe 10 one III haha to'nana nght
10 very serious .hing lhaeeo. we were
soon mingiea' out uriVeh against the wagons
we Goula aoage OF parry thelr tomahaWKs,
"hiie the RAPID hasnes from the navy IN
each mans hnnd, toid very lrettlly on the