Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-14
with One Blow
PRESIDENT ARTHUR
Among the Midgets-Meeting Tiger
Tail and His Squawss

kIssIMMEE, FLA, April II, via WASH
INGroN, April l3.-The President returned
from a fishing trip to this point this after
noon. The famous stock OF mosquitoes,
and large shoals of sand flies with midget
attachment, had upset his plans for camp
ing on Gardeners Island, and for two days
he has kept his headquarters on the
the steamer Okachobee, at the outlet OF
Lake Topapokalaga, eighteen miles from
this point but so far he has been aboard
only at breakfast and supper and 10 sleep,
spending the rest OF the time in the
wilderness, and so far out OF
reach of communication with the outer
world that a public contingency might
easily exist for twenty four hours before
he could hear of it. Yesterday after these
dispatches left him, he proceeded on the
transfer steamer Gertrude, through Oko-
chobee Canal, into Cypress Lake, then
through q section Of the kissammee River,
known as the Cowpath, into Lake Hatchin-
sha, and so into GARDENERS River, on one
side OF which lies reservation, several
miles in extent, known as Fort Gardner,
the other bank being confined to the now
famous Gardiner Island. The distance
traversed was about forty five miles, the
down trip taking less than three hours,
and the return against the current nearly
six hours.
The President and Mr.. Miller trolled
over part of the down trip heaving in
few small bass. His desire
For keener Sport,
however, led him to ask for row boat in
Lake Cypress, and nearly all day he sat in
stern of Captain Roses gig, which the Cap
tain himself rowed. He just sat there and
fshed, and didn't say word to hin, but
he kept on rowing for twenty-five miles.
Ill say one thing for him, though: he
knows how TO fish. He landed thirteen
bass, one weighing nine pounds, in three
or four hours, and about l O'Clock he
brought in thirteen pound catfish as
prettily as snything ever saw.
Upon reaching Fort Gardiner the Ger
trude was hailed from the landing by Tom
Tigertail, son of the late chief OF the rem
nant OF the Seminoles. The Indian had ad-
dressed for the occasion, with bright col
ored kerchief tied round his head and waist
coat over blue and white calico shirt He
presented picturesque and striking pic
ture, standing full six feet, we'll developed
and with splendid profile. The President
stepped ashore, and held out his
hand, which Tigertail graSped in silence.
Presently, after q few words, the lndi-
an and English vocabulary becoming eX
hausted, Tigertail waved his arm towards
a clump of moss.s .shrouded live oaks, from
which emerged two squaws with papooses;
one of the squaws and the papooses were
Tigertairs. The President said a pretty
word to the woman, and tickled the babies
under the chin, and pressed two quarter
dollar pieces in their dirty little hands;
then dozen or more braves and squaws,
rgged in colors, and impressively deferen-
tiai, came forward to nod and then the
President introduced Secretary Chandler
to Tigertail, but the latter knew only the
Big Chief, and the Presidents discourse as
TO the vastneSs and importance of the navy
was wasted upon unappreCiative ears.