The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-02-14

in the Delaware valley. One of the historic
characters Of the valley, whose career was ore
| OF blood, was Tom Chick the Indian slayer.
Whom he was young man Indians killed his
| father at the mouth of the Sawkill Creek,
| where Milford, Pike county, row is Tom
| swoIe eternal vengeance against all Indians,
! and for many years lie carried On a relentless
warfare against them. Tradition says that he
! killed ninety-nine Indians, and on his DEATH
/ bed his only regret was that he could not have
| made the number an even hundred
| In 1874 the Indians had nearly all been
! driven from the valley. A few solitary and
| miserable members of once proud and defiant
tribes remained, scattered here and there
| through the region, living by hunting and fish
| ing and on charity. Among them were two
well-known Indians, named Huycon and IA
nope. In 1884 they came to the Shohola creek
near the present Shohola railway station, to
hunt and fish. Ben Haynes who himself had
been deadly enemy of the red man, had his
cabin on the New York side of the Delaware,
and Tom Quick had a cabin up the Shohola
creek, in Pike county, near Shohola Glen.
Haynes discovered the presence of the two In
dams in the vicinity, and lie went to see them
ut their camp. He invited them to come TO
his cabin next day and go with him fishing at
Handsome Eddy, in the Delaware.
The Indians were at first suspicious but he
persisted, and seemed so sincere in his offers OF
hospitality that Huycon and Kanope finally
accepted his invitation. That night Haynes
padded his canoe over to Pennsylvania and
stole to Tom Quick's cabin in the Shohoa ra-
vine. lie told Tom about the Indians, and the
two planned tbat Quick should hide in the
bushes on the river shore, and when HAYNES
brought the Indians to the rock to fish, Quick
was TO shoot one of them and Haynes to kill
the other.
The tnsuspecting Indians went with Haynes
next day, and while fishing wish him from
Handsome Eddy rocks, Quick, from his am
bush in the bushes, shot Kanope. The ball
passed through the Indians skull, but did not
Kill him. Haynes completed the murder by
knocking him on the head with a pine knot
The other Indian jumped in the river and
swan rapidly away. Quick fired at him, but
missed him. Before he could reload and fire
again Huycon was out of range, and he es-
capped to the woods of Sullivan county n Y
This cowardiy crime aroused the indignation
OF the settlements, and Quick, who had before
been regarded i'll the light of hero had
price set on his head as J common murderer
Warrants were issued for him and Haynes
but they both evaded the officers, and were
never brought to Justice. Years afterWard
both Quick and Haynes boosted OF the way
they had disposed of Kanope, and regretted
that his companion had escaped them
The story OF the panther and resolute Mrs.
Haynes is not complete without its sequel
The baby that the panther seized and the
mother rescued, grew to manhood. His name
was Ben, and he proved to DO worthy son of
bis father. lie was known as one of the most
desperate characters along the river. When
the lumber business was in its infancy in the
Delaware valley, young Ben Haynes" as he
was known, became Il raftsman. He piloted
RATS down the then treacherous and danger
Gus rapids of the Lackawaxen river. One
morning he started with raft from Paupack
eddy, now Hawley, this county and he was
asked where he would eat his supper that
night. His reply was: ''In hill, / guess"
Tie raft was wrecked in the narrows of the
I.ackawaNen, four miles below, and he was
drowned.