Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-09-25
MIDNIGHT SHOW.
Four Hundred Indians on Their Way TO
Florida.
American of 10Th,

American of 10th.
AS the two trains bearing the captive
Indians from Arizona, under escort ol
United, States troops, did not pass
through the city until the mornino
dailles had been issued, The American
made note only of the fact that these
red men, women and papooses, were ex.
pected. 1t did not send "a representa-
tive to Guthrie, to extend to them that
welcome for which Tennessee has been
noted ever since the days of Sewer.
Robertson and others OF our noted
pioneers. 1t did not even send a re-
porter to the exchange basket, to Gull
verbatim, and give over to its readers
as a specimen OF enterprise, long inter-
view from the St. Louis Globe Democrat
The charity of letters applies to such
methods as were practiced yesterday.
the let-me-down-easy title of plagiarism
though the cold charity OF the world has
another name for the practice.
The Indians certainly passed througb
nearly Tour hundred strong. Their |
coming was awaited by hundreds of
people at each of the depots, and was to
one who has never travelled in the oreo,
west, the sight OF a life time. They
were actual Indians, and not the prond
brave creatures that history and 70,
nance have pictured. The reader of
tne Leather Stocking" series. that
nave placed high in the rank of noyelists
J. Fenimore Cooper, would not have
found In either Of the trains brave and {
rue young Indian chieitain, or vet the /
beautiful Indian maid, upon whom the j
'tory. teller showers such picturesone {
ND beautiful language. The child If t
a.ha growing. up with natures e
' 'tner mowers and forestry was not the a
'niid that was seen yesterday morning
N the tram. They were about the t.
ougnest and most brutal, inhuman Il
that ever passed throuoh a
nashville alive. They did not have On (,
nelr paint, nor the moccasins hasyor Fl
kins and the like that::you read abont D
ut were dirty to filthiness and as nm al
picturesque gang as could be gotten Il
p They lay about the cars. four or Il
We On a'seat. The buck Indian oenar- c.
W was stretched out sound asleep al
i nlie sqnaws and papooses squatted T
oout In the aisles or anywhere on the til
Dor. They were all Apaches, belong. pr
y eitner TO the Chiracahuas or White
ount,'n tribes. These are known for
cir treachery and the practice of
cry KIND OF villainy- The faces Of
ose yesterday morning betokened the ;.
ats and characteristics that had Ga ca
ven them this reputation. The mon s
q women looked alike. excent .ha, ~ ~
features of the former we're 4 IA vi vi
aver. They all wore their tb;cL WI
lg matted hair alike. Roth sn~a, an an
re ornaments in their ears, and sit. 70
= down IN their seats seemed to be To
'ssed exactly alike. All looked sonr 81 81
AN and like devils except a few Of 81 HI
younger women, who, by the oueer- dra
oppressed curiosity of the crowd of ~;
ctators, were beguiled into shif.;na On 49,
II countenances into so strong a grin b.,
ite teeth. 0o'o VI aho
ne brutality of the women seemed EN- EN-
the rather domestic scene that wsy o 0Ha
sented, to be greater than that Of ,ho suo
KS A little child walked up to lis u
Iner, during the stop, when the lat -
struck IL powerful blow On the
d, Knocking it down. Other in.
ces oil squaw feeling for their vonno
res were exhibited, The creatures
ned to be civilized only in the 40 WIN
phshments OF civilized deyeltrv and WHIT
ciently to understand and sppre- whs
tne meanness Of character. VIVA
cut; McMinn told the reporter that
INDIANS within had been armed
the Yerv finest Winnhnaln,. -