The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-06-24

Juldee bahar jata Colonel Monseen,
which means in English
Saddles on elephants, howdahs on horses
Monsoon ran away with the whole of hi
forces.
"And, depend on it, that's what th
dog borrowed his name from. Here
waiter, another bottle of sherry"
Uncle Joe, an Indian and q Pan.
ther.
~ was huntin' and trappin' along
the Columbia river on the Oregon
side" said Uncle Joe, veteran of the
plains and mountains, land while J
was right in the Injun country, l xiv
cred my tracks so we'll that it wa.
weeks before they got on to me. ]
built a brush hut in a heavily timbered
bottom, and the keerful manner il
which moved around the neighbor
hood would have done credit to cat
l used the bow and arrow altogethe
in KILN game, and my traps brough
me in back load of furs about as fast
as l could take keer of 'em.
II guess had bin located about six
weeks, and had become sort O. care
less, as was natural, when got a sud
den eye opener. One afternoon cum
plump on the moccasin track of an In
jun, and from the way it circumlo
cuted around, 7 soon made up my
mind that he was huntin' fur me. ]
was q bit puzzled at first, because
there was only one track, but by and
by / figured out how it was. 1t was
either some Injun who had slipped of
to trap by hisself fur few days, or it
was some warrior who had had his
suspicious aroused and was doin, q
leetle investigation on his own hook
If he got my scalp he was SO much
ahead, and glory awaited him. L
he got nothin' he wouldn't be laughed
at by the rest of his tribe, for none o.!
'em would know of his adventure
The mint / diskivered his footprints
pulled myself together fur bizness.
and hadn't follered his trail over
twenty rods before l found that he
was follerin' an old trail of mine.
alt didn't take me mint to real
lie that one OF us had got to die afore
that hunt would be ended. 1t was q
question of fish or cut bait with me.
should be followed if l left the bot
toms, fur that red skin wanted my
life, and couldn't stay if he did. On
his side, it would never do fur him to
abandon the place after he had diskiv'
cred that was alone. He must stake
his life agin mine and abide the issue
bbe you kin realize sunthin' of the
I'M which comes over a man wnen
he knows that he is bein' tracked by
somebody who demands his life. I'd
rayther have had a whole tribe ofred.
skins come whoopin' and yellfn' down
upon me than to know that serpent
was dodgin' and crawlin' along my
trail, silent, determined and implac.
able. hit the feller's trail about hall
mile from the hut, and the hour was
about 3 o'clock. knew that he must
| sooner or later strike one of my fresh
trails and bring up at the hut, and in.
stead of folowin' him as he followed
my old trail broke off after a few
minutes and made directly fur the hut,
Near by was mass of rock which of,
fered a secure hidin' place and if
could reach it, without bein' seen ]
should have an advantage. That is,
it was reasonable to believe that he
would show up within shootin' dis.
lance durin' the next twenty-four
hours.
~ made the tallest kind O. tracks
when l once got started. / had to
take the chance of his havin' found
the hut an bein' in ambush, and I'm
not disputin' that 1T was a great load
off my mind when got settled among
the rocks. l dashed into the hut and
got my rifle and hunk of cold meat,
and in twenty seconds more | was
safe for the time bein'. Jist what di-
rection the varmint would approach
from l could not guess, but he would
be still more puzzled to know what
had become of me. For the first hour
the place was as silent as graveyard
an was lookin' and hstenin' as only a
man can when his life is at stake to
git a hint of the whereabouts of the
enemy, I finally got a sign. A buck
deer cum runnin' past me in a way to
show me that he had seen a human
bein' not fur off, and figgered that
the redskin was approachin' from
the east. He had made a complete
half circle of my hidin' place. For the
| next half hour / used my eyes and ears
until my head ached knew the var
mint was approachin the hut, but he
was comm SO cautiously that l could
not tell the exact direction.
"The sun was nowgettin' purity low,
and ! allowed that if he didn't show
up purity soon I'd be badly boxed up
| for the night. was all on aige and
skeercely able to hold myself, when all
| of asudden, the silence was broken by
an awful yell, follered by a cry from
some human bein'. 1t wasn't way
off, but right there within stones
throw, and riz up as if I had springs
under me. Right there before my eyes,
and not hundred feet away, a pan
ther and an 1njun was havin' it hot
heavy, the beast using his claws and
teeth and the redskin cuttin' and
slashin' with his knife. was SO as.
tonished that couldn't move for q
mint or two, and when | got ready
! there was no use in movin'. The two
| yarmints rolled over a dozen times,
| too badly mixed for me to tell which
| was which, and then the panther kind
err drawed out of the fight. He
might have got fifteen feet away
when he keeled over and kicked in
a wav to tell me that he d got his full
The fnjun uttered faint whoop as
the panther drawed off, but when
reached him he was dead as door
nail. He had fit it out hand to hand
usin' his huntin' knife and I'm tellin
you he was a terrible lookin' object
The beast had tore almost every incl
| of clothin' ofs'n him, and he was Bit
and clawed until he was like raw beef
well, ! fggered 1t out purity easy
That panther had stored hisself away
on limb calkelatin' to make it hot