Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-06-25

canoe, when Quick appeared on the
Pennsylvania shore and, covering the
Indian with bis rifle, ordered him to
come ashore. Quick was we'll known tc
the Indians, and was q terror to them
He had escaped 80 many times from
them by his cunning and strategy that
they believed he bore charmed life
Therefore when the Indian in the canoe
recognized the great enemy he dared
not disobey but turned his canoe toward
the shore and went to meet his fate,
Quick shot the Indian and killed the
squaw and children with his tOmahawk,
He himself told;his nephew of this shock
ing and heartless murder, and when the
latter demonstrated with him for killing
children he replied: "Nits make lice"
There was something heroic in Tom
Quick's siDgle-handed warfare against
race to avenge the murder of his father
in the opinion of the inhabitants OF the
valley in those perilous times, when
they all dwelt in constant fear OF the
tomahswk and torch, and even his most
atrocious deeds we're not only defended
but applauded. He closed his career,
however, with deed that found few
defenders and cast a shadow over the
fame he had won.
In 1854 the Indians had nearly all
been driven from the valley. A few
solitary members of the once proud and
defiant tribes remained, scattered here
and there through the region, living by
fishing and hunting and on charity.
Among these were two well. known
Indians, Huycon and Ksnope. In the
above metioned year they came to the
Shohola creek, near the present station
of Shohola, Pike county, Pa, to hunt and
fish. A man named Benjamin Haynes
lived there in cabin, and was the
pioneer settler. He had been noted
Indian fighter, and was man greatly
feared in the settlements. He discover
ed the presence of the Indians and went
to see them at their camp. He invited
them to his cabin next day, and to 60
with him fishing in Handsome Eddy, in
that the Indians accepted his hospital
lty.
That night Haynes went to Tom
Quick's cabin, which was in the vicinity,
and told him of the presence of the In
dams, and the two planned that Quick
should hide in the bushes on the river
shore, and when Haynes brought the In
dams to the rocks to fish he could shoot
one of them and Haynes would kill the
other. The unsuspecting Indians went
with Haynes next day, and while fish
ing with him from Handsome Eddy
rocks, Quick shot kanope from his place
of concealment in the bushes. The ball
passed through the Indians skull, but
did not kill him. Haynes completed
the murder by knocking him on the
head with club. The other Indian
jumped in the river and swan rapidly
away. Quick hurried after him along
the shore and fred at him, but missed
him. Before he could reload and fire
again the Indian escaped. The crime
aroused the indignation of the settle
ments, and warrants were issued for the
arrest Of the parties to it, but they evaded
the officers and were never brought
to justice. Years afterward both Quick
and Haynes boosted of the crime. Quick
died near Shohola, in Pike county, Pa,
near the scene of the murder some TWEEN
ty-five years later. On his dying bed he
regretted that he had not killed one
more Indian to make his score an even
hundred.
Ben Haynes formerly lived along the
Lackawaxen river, and it is related that
while he was on one of his hunting ex-
petitions his wife, who had a child in
arms, went to spring near their cabin
to do some washing. She laid her child
down on the ground near by. As she
was busy pounding" her clothes she
heard cry from her child, and, looking
up, saw a large panther moving deliber-
ately off with it in his mouth. She
started in pursuit, carrying her heavy
clothes-pounder as weapon. The pam
Their was very old and she overlook him,
and attacking him with her weapon,
succeeded in forcing him to drop the
child, and few more sound blows put
him to fight. This story was long
doubted by people living in the valley,
but the late Paul S. Preston, of Wayne
county, Pa, in going over the papers of
his father, Judge Samuel Preston. who
was surveyor, found the following en-
try in diary:
"July 6, 17s7.-Started this morning
with Ben Haynes, John Hessum, and
Felix Hopper. Reached the
river before night and crossed it in q
canoe to Ben Haynes house in York
state. He being lame from running q
stub in his foot, I settled with and paid
him. AS to his character, he is low
Dutchman, a great hunter, and well
acquainted in the woods. There is q
great stain on his character. Some years
ago, and since the wal, he and another man
were out hunting and found an Indian,
whom he invited home and treated kind
ly with food, ETC., after which the Indian
went down to the river to wash, when
one man shot at and wounded him;h ran
to Haynes for protection and Haynes took
q pine knot and mauled him to death. l
saw the rock by which he was buried.
Some few years ago, one evening, there
came panther into the house and took
one of the children out of the cradle and
was carrying it of, but his wife, reso-
lutte woman, with dog rescued it. The
child was much wounded; it is yet liv.
ing, and l have seen the scars. A few
evenings after, the panther was killed
in the vicinity and found to be SO old
that its teeth were much failed"
The child grew to manhood, and was
one of the worst characters along the
river. He was q raftsnlan. He started
with raft from Paupack Eddy, now
Hawley, Pa, one morning, and he was
asked where he would eat supper that
night, meaning how far he expected to
run before tying up" His reply was
an hill, guess" The raft was wreck
ed in the Narrows, four miles below, and
he was drowned.
ne Famous Notrs Dame.
On the 3Oth of last January the sisters
of the most noted Catholic seminary in
the United States, the famous Notre
Dame, at Govanstowp, nea- Baltimore,
Nd, made public card, certifying to the
beneficial results attending the use of
Red Star Cough Cure in that institution.