The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-10-03
INDIAN FANArrcrsM.

As showing the character of the savage
Apache, the remarkable events following the
appearance at Fort Apache, last summer, of
big medicine-man now possesses q peculiar
interest His name was Knock-e-ti-klinny.
Presenting himself to Gen. Carr, he explain
ed that he came there at the request of his
friends; that he was doctor and could
bring the dead to life; that they came out Of
the ground by degrees; that some chiefs
were already out as far az their knees, and
would soon be alive again, and that they had
told him they would come when the corn
was ripe.
How do You communicate with your
dead friends ?" Gen Carr asked.
They take the shape Of bear, and see
them and talk with them at night. leave
food for them in the empty lodges. They
do not want to come till the corn is ripe and
there is plenty to eat for all of u.s."
He then said he intended to hold dances
near tho post and asked that the Indian
soldiers (the scouts) might be present
Gen. Carr told him they might go provided
there was to be no whisky OH the ground.
The medicine-man Withdrew and the next
night the first of his dances was held. For
the first few nights the Indians did not take
great deal of interest in the medicine-man's
incantations, but finally nearly all came
under the spell, and the scenes then nightly
enacted at the dance were of the most fana-
tical order. In the course of few weeks
The sasages seemed to grow tired of the
ceremonies and became impatient for results.
They called on the wild-eyed medicine-man
to make good his word and bring the dead
to life. The corn was ripe, and the ears
were bursting on the stalk. Where were
their friends The medicine-man having
been cornered, did just what many a white
man, similarly placed, has DONE He took
a new tack. The dead would not return, he
said, so long as the pale face remained
The whites must go. Imbued with this
religious conviction, the war spirit was
aroused. At this juncture it so happened
that small detachment of troops was Or
dered away from the fort The medicine
man pointed to the big comet and said II
was good medicine. The rest of the whites
would soon follow. Gen. Carr, alarmed at
the attitude of the savages, sent for rein
forcements In the meantime the medi-
cne-man went to Cibicu, forty-fye miles to
the southwest, and continued his incanta-
tons. A detachment of troops, aocompani.
ed by number Of Indian soldiers (scouts),
was sent out to watch the redskins. The
scouts, who were Apaches betrayed the
command tieacherously, and the whole body
narrowly escaped massacre. As it was, the
officer in command WAS killed. Gen. Carr,
hearing of the disloyalty of the Indian sol.
dierS, made forced march TO the scene of
the troubles, and after short engagement
succeeded in capturing the medicine-man,
averting the impending massacre and holding
the now thoroughly warlike sayages in sub.
lection. After his arrest Knock-e-ti-klinny
told the scouts whom no had beguiled that
the soldiers could not destroy him. If they
killed him or any of his followers, he and
they wuuid ruturn tv IRE on The Inird day,
even though their enemies cut their bodies
into pieces. This troublesome son of the
forest, having well-nigh precipitated big
Indian war, came to violent death a few
days later at the hands of a soldier. As he
failed to put in an appearance at the end OF
three days, or three weeks the reds con-
cluded he was fraud, and when other medi-
cine-men undertook TO carry on the resur-
rection ceremonies IL was found that the
tribe had lost interest In the matter