, 1883-07-28
ON THE WARPATH !
A Threatened Indian Outbreak
that Failed to Outbreak |!
The Brave SPOkanite Shoulder
eth his Little Gun and Look
eth BIOOdthirsty.


If there is anything that will make
the calm blood in ones veins awake
suddenly to life and go jingling
through his system like Il string Of
sleigh bells on fast mustang, or
make the cold chills play leap frog
up his back bone, or make his hair
wiggle in spite of himself, or cause a
weakness at the pit Of the stomach
as though kicked with cramp, or
break man up generally it is Il
startling report that the cruel, heart
less, vengeful savages have broken
out somewhere so near his resi-
dence as to be almost in reach of
his scalp, and are ruthlesslv muir
dering men, women and children
and applying the torch with dis
gusting disregard to the destroying
power Of that element. 1t makes Il
man wish he was a thousand miles
removed from Indians, or that the
Lord had never invented that spec
les Of the human race. The Indian
is not a pleasant member Of society
any way you take him, but when he
is attired in his war costume consist
ing Of a pair of mOccasins and scalp
ing knife, he is not a creature that
you would freely and Of your own
accord take by the hand and intro
duCe among your friends, and enter
tain. Just at that season in his life
the Indian should be pluCked, as he
is then ripe, and it at that very in
teresting period when the average
man wants just as little to do with
him as is consistent with good man
ners and pOliteness. In past years
the red man has often sadly inter
fered with the tranquility Of the
white man heTeaIOuts, and there has
been times when the settler laid
himself down with full crop of hair
ut night and awOke in the morning
bald-headed, the surgical skill and
deftness Of his Indian neighbors
causing the transformation. But the
country filled up and the whites be-
come expert with the gun, the abO-
rigines quietly turned up their toes
one by one and the numbers were
thinned down until they ceased to
create any fear in the intruder. And
the white brethren commenced
CrOwding the sunburnt relative out
Of the fishing and hunting grounds
that he had occupied free and undis-
puted for centuries and he would
appropriate one thing and another
that the Indian claimed that he
owned, and when the savage calmly
protested it was nothing unusual for
the more powerful to apply a sole
leather plaster to the swell of the
colored individuals body, and
the Indian nursed his injuries,
and skirmished for poor whisky
with which TO drown his sor-
row, and gathered two or three
more coats of dirt, and studied
the scientific principals of laZiness.
Such being the case it was thought
that all danger from an Indian out
break had long since passed, and
therefore when two 7Ouriers came
flying in hot and hasty, Thursday
night, beseeChing. assistance for the
farmers on EOur-mile Prairie, who
were said to be in mOmentary danger
Of an attack, a pretty good size eX-
citement was created and the de-
mand for guns exceeded the supply.
The young men who brought the
news were somewhat nervous them
selves, and while they cannot be
charged with exactly saying the fight
had commenced, the rumOr gained
color by repetition until the eyes of
the men bulged out rs they listened
to the authentic" reports that the
Indians hdd burned several houses
on the prairre and massaCred several
families. Harry Hayward was arous-
ed and rifles and ammunition secur-
ed, and other stores and houses were
TansaCked for arms. The military
spirit ran high, and as visions of gore,
and the accompanying ct cRtcTas
arose before the bold, bad men, they
grasped guns firmly and with clinched
teeth hoped they might not meet the
savages. Three vehicles were secur-
ed and crOwding in twenty. two
men, with S. b. Hyde as leader, at
1 o'clock Friday morning the caval-
cade dashed out Of town headed
lOi lilt stat VI wal w llllt lluhltIbuS
stories were told Of chair breadth
escapes u the eminently deadly
breach" very little apprehension
seemed to exist as to the result of
the raid, and II any one felt as
though he had overlooked an impOr-
tant matter in not leaving an order
for box, nothing was said about it.
At . o'clock the party reached the
residence of Mr.. II. L. Allen, IA gem
tleman well and favOrably known in
this city, who had sent note adj
dressed to Deputy-Sheriff Gillian
asking for aid. 1t was through this
note, by the way, that the trip was
made, as it was known that Mr..
Allen would not, on trifing suspic-
ion, call for help. At the house was
gathered several Of the families in
the neighbOThOod, and the appear
ance of the guns in the hands Of the
men proved there was some fOunda-
tiOn to the rumOr. From Mr.. Allen,
who regretted that any eXaggerat-
ed reports had been circulated, we
learned the cause Of the trouble. 1t
seems that the Indians living on the
Little Spokane are very much in
censed at the manner in which white
men have been taking their hay and
locating land they claimed. Thurs
day evening an Indian named Louis
PeOne, who has always been friend
ly, called upon u Mrs. White, living
near by, and informed her that the
Indians held a council of war and
expressed a determination to burn
out the settlers on the prairie that
night. Hence the hasty resort to
arms. The prairie had been fired
Thursday, but was eXtinguished
without damage. 1t was also noticed
that the Indians had taken up all
their horses, which was considered a
bad omen. After laying about the
premises until daylight, with no sign
Of the enemy, and no accident to
mar the harmony except the acci-
eatal--discharge of a gun in the
house by one of the crowd, who
knew more about the weapon than
the man who invented 1t, the sleepy