Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-09
AN INDIANS WRATH.
tt Almost Results in the Death
 Of Mother and Babe.

Several years ago my husband built and
 conducted hotel for the accommodation of
 the miners and teamsters at the terminal
 point of one of our California railroads
 Like many other small towns in the north
 ern portion of the State, it boasted of an
 Indian rancherie, or settlement, within it's
 environments, the half civilized inhabitants
 of which played a moro or less important
 part in its local history With few excep-
 tions they were @ moderately peaceful, in
 dustrious community-the men spending
 their time in hunting and fishing, and the
 women doing the drudgery, such as procur-
 ing fuel for their fires, the laundry work of
 their white neighbors, etc. Every now and
 then, however, the wild nature of the red
 men, either through the medium of fire
 water or intense passion, would become
 aroused, and at such times crimes of vary
 ing degrees of enormity were almost cer-
 tain to be the result.
 We had one child, bright little fellow
 about two years old, who, by reason of his
 cute, babyish antics, had become great
 favorite with the patrons of the hotel; and
 they, as a token of their affection, presented
 him on his second birthday with diminu-
 tive iron bank, in which each of the miners
 and teamsters had dropped a silver dollar.
 As day after day came and went dollar after dollar found it's way into the little
 treasure-box, till It became @so heavy that
 baby could no longer lift it, and I placed it
 for uafe-lleeping upon a bracket in my dressin groom.
 One evening, after old Julia, the Indian woman who did our laundrying once a week, had performed her usual hard days wash ing, 1t occurred to me that | had done a very careless thing in permitting her to % into my room for the soiled clothes, and, knowing the propensity of her race to steal 1 at once proceeded to ascertain whether
 any thing was missing. Baby's bank was gnue! Old Julia had stolen it.
 1t was too late to do any thing that day, but early the next morning we had their hut searched, with the result that fragments of the broken bank were found but no l money, They were bountifully supplied with provisions, however; an inquiry at I one of the stores elicitcd the fact that a | large bill of goods such as weihad found had been purchased there the evening before | by old Julia and her spouse. The woman | was accordingly arrested, and, after being | convicted, was sent to the county jail in the 1 adjoining town for a term of three months Many predicted that this would not be the 1 end of the affair, as the Womans husband | was dangerous character, and might seek 1 to avenge his -wifes imprisonment: but l neither my husband nor myself shared | their fears, and the matter was forgotten 1 after a day or two.
 l One day, about fortnight after Julia's | conviction, was assisting the dning-room | girls to prepare the table for luncheon | when suddenly the sound of a low, gutteral | threatening voice at the wlndow drew my 1 attention. Looking up, startled and fright l ened, beheid a savage, hideous-looking | Indian glaring in at me. It was Indian | Jack, old Julia's husband
 l Seeing my frightened look, he advanced l still closer, put his swarthy face in at the 1 open window, and, shakin g.his fist at me 1 grunted out: You no give me back my l Julia, mo kill you pretty soon.'
 | l had him driven off at once, and as | watched hlm slowly making his way back l to the rancherie on the river bank half { 1 mile to the rear of our house, and saw his l threatening, angry gestures, confess | was badly frightened. This feeling soor
 wore off, however, and as my husband was 1 inclined to think 1t no more than a game o1 l bluff, his visit was quite forgotten by the | time luncheon was over
 | That afternoon the table-girls went out ir | the woods for ferns the cook also was out
 and as my husband was seldom about the l house except at meals, was for the time beng alone. To while away the time
 picked up paper, and was just becoming l interested in some article, when I was
 startled by a loud, frightened. scream from 1 my little boy, y,swho was playing in the bacl l yard. Springing up l ran to the window | just in time to see Indian Jack snatch LII
 my child in his arms, and hasten away 1T
 the chaparraL A terrible, frightful thought