The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-06-09
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There had been . heightened ~carousal
among the Indians, and their worst blood
We up They had fought snd qusrrslsd
amsng themselves and had ~thrsstsnsd
Shuts, for some real or fancied offence,
with dire vengeance. His supply Of
hquors Wal exhausted, and he had gone
quite . distance 10 procure Q new supply,
but being somewhat afraid Of the Indians
In their present condition, he had resolved
70 prolong his stay until they had had
sine 70 become sober. 'nagsN 91il s9ala
Shuts had . wife and three children,
and With the heartlsssness characteristics
Of the rum-ssllsr, had len them TO brave
the storm his own vile trsfhc had raised.
He had not been away long whom . gang
came to the house, thirsting for moro
drink. Mrs. Shuts timidly informed
them that there wss no liquor in the
house, and entreated them to 90 Away
and await her husbands return with .
new supply. This request they refused
to comply with, declaring that there was
whisky sscreted somewhere about the
place and they must have il. This much
wa known, As . woman who lived q mile
or more away happened to call there .
short time after this occurred, and Mrs.
Shuts, in her terror, communicated this.
The was badly frightened and
hastened away. Mrs. Shuts bravely re-
solved to stay, ~ she was afraid the In.
dams might burn the buildings II she left
her home.
The next that was known Of the family
was when Shuts came home, two days
later, and, on crossing the threshold, be-
held his wife and three innocent children
lying dead in q pool OF gore, with their
brains Glove through by an Indians ON
ahawk.
This ended the sale Of liquors to Indi.
n in that locality, as no one afterwards,
for a little patty gain, cared to rouse the
sleeping demon whose fury might descend
OF their own devoted heads. The massa-
ere OF this innocent woman and children
struck terror to the settlers in that local.
ity, who knew not what cause they them
selves might have for fear from such
fierce and dangerous neighbors. But 1t
wa the same story which has been so
often told on the frontier. The Indians
were inclined to be quiet and peaceful,
save when maddened by the white mans
sire water"
Shuts took the method Of revenge
common to men Of his nature, by shooting
down in cold blood as many Indians As
he could meet away from their tribes
Although the savage b~utchery Of his
family was deeply deplored by the set
lers, tho action Of Shultz received rather
censure than praise, and none greatly re-
gretted when he disappeared. It was
never definitely known what became Of
him, but it was generally supposed that
he had fallen a victim in some secluded
spot TO . bullet from an Indians rife.
'In the year 1856 . party Of Sioux war
riors came up into the Chippewa country
the Chippewas being their hereditary
enemies), and succeeded in killing old
Jack, a ~superannuated Indian, who lived
mostly in the half breed family Of De-
marie, and was very much esteemed
For o while the little community was
in q state Of perfect terror, but the
cowardly perpetrators were as much
alarmed as the others, for they fed 30
precipitately that they slipped the halters
from the heads Of their ponies where they
had fastened them, and several were
gathered in by the whites.
N"Another party Of Chippswas were sur
prised and shot, farther south, the same
year, but in the summer Of 81 the Chip
pewas made two Sioux braves bite the
dust near the same locality. Their heads
were cut off and set on poles by the road
side."-T. @. Randall.
And such scenes were Of common &C.
currence. Brave men, and still drawer
women must they have been who, with
courage undaunted, carved out the first
homes in these beautiful but wild regions.
Here is an incident related by q French
man named Beaubein, as having occurred
near Prairie du Chen, in the year 1843.
II is told In Beaubein's own broken Eng
lish, and has before been in print:
"Out in the direction of Widow Barry's
Point, my brother and I had raised q field
Of oats to feed our ponies; we had q cabin
near il to sleep in. In the fall, before war
broke out, we went to trash dem with
fails; we had cleaned of q bit OF prairie
for q floor, and began to pound out de
oats. By-and- bye we zee tree Injuns
comm on dere ponies. We not know den
dey tink to make for war. Dey were
Sacs, and came from big wal dance and
.orcc;I ~ bro iran Rv-and hue Jax, xuao&
whisky. We say, Have none Den dey
speak very bold and saucy, and say, We
burn your wigwam, and take your ponies,
and kill YOU Then quick as fash my
brother look al me, and I at him, an
(rising to his feet and motioning bis cane
in the attitude Of threshing) me trash, an
he trash, an an Injun he get on his pony
and march on, but two Of dem would
never go for ride any more. Den we
xvoro acare- ,fraid. and oct nm our poniaa