Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-11-10
TECUMSEH'S PREDICTION.

Connected with the great earthquake Pc
riod of 1S11-12, occurred one of the romano
es of American history. 1t was the lucky
prediction of the great earthquake that
made the fame of Tecumseh, the celebrated
"Indian False Prophet" and led to the
uprising Of the Creek Nation and the bloody
Indian war that followed.
Tecumseh was a Shawnee warrior, and
first appeared among the Seminoles in Flor
ida and the Creeks in Alabama and Geor-
gia as early as 1910, endeavoring to form
them into confederacy, whose aim it was
to rise up against the whites in the North
east and exterminate them. He failed,
and on the breaking out of the war with
England, in 1872 entered the service of the
British and again set out to stir up sedtion
among the Southern Indians. He had been
told by the English when comet would ap-
pear, and he told his excited Indian hear
ers that at certain time they would see
his arm stretched out over, the sky, on fire,
and that he was going to Detroit to prepare
them for their uprising against the Ameri-
cans. When the proper time came he would
strike the ground with his foot so hard that
he would shake down the houses in their
head city.
He left the Creeks and at the time when
he promised to smite the ground, strange
to say, came the great earthquake. All
the territory bordering on the gulf was ag-
itated. The ground Of Alabama trembled
like an aspen, while from the earth came
terrifying rumbles and groans. The town
of Tookabatch, the capital of the Creeks,
was shaken to ruins, and as the earth heav-
ed and shook the frightened Indians ran
from their dwellings crying: ."Tecumseh
is at Detroit! Tecumseh is at Detroit!
We feel the stamp Of his foot" At the
same time the comet appeared in the
heavens. This was too much for the su-
perstitious Creeks. They rose to man,
and after two years of sanguinary lighting
they were defeated and ruined nation.
Tecumseh was killed at the battle on the
Thames in Canada October 5, 1879 by
American troops under the command OF
Col. Richard NJ. Johnson, Of kentucky.
Tecumseh, who was serving in the English
ranks, commanding band of Indians, was
carried off the field by followers ana
buried no one knows where.
GAME SHOOTING IN THE WEST.-The
shooting is never as good for water fowl on
the Little Missouri or elsewhere throughout
the cattle country, as it is in the more fer
tile farm land prairies to the eastward.
Still, occasionally we can make fair bags.
The little teal are the commOnest and least
shy of the water fowl. AS they sit out on
sandbar they often let boat drift close up
to them, and it is quite easy also to creep
within gun shot from the bank. have
killed eleven of them with single barrel.
The mallard duck, shoveler duck and broad
bill are also common, and afford excellent
sport These, however, are shyer, and will
rarely let boat drift down upon them, un-
less one is able to take advantage of some
cover or come quickly round the point.
Geese are more wary STILL Quite num-
ber of these breed with us sometimes in
the river, sometimes in the reedy slews or
pools far up in the creeks, out in the bad
lands, or on the prairie. When they are
moulting it is not difficult to get them if one
cares to, and on such occasions, although
there cannot be said to be any sport to be
obtained from them, yet I have shot the
young birds for the table, for there can be
no better eating than fat, three-parts grown
young goose. When their feathers are
grown, however, the geese show themselves
most amply fit for self-protection, and it
needs then very careful stalking, indeed,
before one can come upon them. In addi-
tion to the water fowl proper to be obtained
while drifting or padding down the river
there are also, at times, fiocks of waders at
which one can get a shot. Avocets, stills,
yelper, marlin, and yellow legs are occa-
sionally found, although not plenty. They
are not apt to be shy, and if a shot is taken
just as they rise or as they wheel, the ex-
penditure of single cartridge loaded with
small shot, will often suffice to bring down
dozen birds, which may prove pleasant
change to the ranchman's somewhat monot-
onous diet.-Theodore Roosevelt IN Outing.