The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-02-08
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Edgar ". Sye
ought not TO allow any further time
4 eIspse before paying deserved tn
Int 10 the memory Of my old friend
end comrade-in-arrns, Colorow, the
ehief OF the Southern Ut<s I win
row do so.
eolorow was not regarded a. q great
ssss<sman even by his tribe, bat he
Won the faith and approval Of his poo
nIe more especially by his patient and
e6scient methods Of untiring homi-
ejde. He did not care for the poInp
md circumstance OF war. the blow OF
buxIes. the neighing OF red-nossriIled
chargers or the g2udy trappings and
naxsphernalia Of combat. He pre-
iered the quiet of the dusky dell,
he silent night, the sougb OF the
pine or any other sougherer 20 that
- vas not included himself,
~ auiet OF the forest. the
deep hush Of the lonely euich. witt,
ror,e bat the Great Spirit and the req
nIar arrny to watch him: then with 4
sfesdy aim and the click OF his i'm
ur0yed Winchester the echoes and the
f5ueIy prospector died away together.
TIE stream moved gently on. Then
seended from the crest of the hiIls
md began his inquest. The
modest chieftan robbed the dead and
fken went on. He did not ask 10
& banquesed on his return. He
s--~~~<.3> che x.<xx.xxtar o~~-~~Y -.
sskcd for no recognition other than
- consciousness 81 duty we'll done
That was Colorow's style.
DO I know him. Have we not
roamed over the North Park and
Muddy Pass and along Owl creek and
oFer Independence mountain together.
o. very nearly so, being only two or
three moments in advances
But he il alive. Colorow celebrated
his Christmas by sitting around the
1epot OF the Great Hence Philan-
jhfupistx tell as that he has gone di-
nctly TO Heaven. ! hope not. That
Is, ( hope he has not gone directly
there trust that he had chance to
stop somewhere on the road and wash
away his guilty stains. When / saw
him hurriedIy in the North Park,
noticed that he had the largest coilec-
don of guilty and other styles of
stains OF any savage ever associated
with.
Colorew did not believe in industry
or open Hostility. He was q conserve
tive Jack the Ripper on his fathers
side, All his ancestors we're long
lived people. That Is. they generally
succeeded in living longer than those
who looked at things from a different
standpoint. Those who disagreed
with the Corolow family generally ran
across each other in better land He
was quiet. like all successful murder
ers, and reminded me in many ways
OF old man Bender in his more pros
perous days. Still he had an air about
him which, though favored with the
past, still commanded respect, and
when he asked man ut the table 70
please pass the butter that man would
drop everything else he had on hand
and pass the butter.
II Cosorow has gone directly to
Heaven, and it becomes generally
known, il viii certainly do much to
discourage travel that way next year,
and salvation, which has hitherto
been entirely free, will be placed on
the list of articles requiring protee-
ton.
Colorow's death 1as caused by
pneumonia. directly brought on by
exposure. 1t seems that a year ago.
al fuli-iress ball given at Ouray, he
forgot to bank up his lungs vest, and
pneumonia harvested the great war
rior just as Ynletide was coming in.
He xasnot ready speaker. and n
lecturer and reader OF his own words
he was repeatedly criticised, but he
was tireless foe. and would rather be
that than anything else. He started
IN Is young man to wipe out the
United States. and though he did not
succeed he has done what he could.
He did not care for publicity or
press notices. lie just wanted To
know that he had the approval Of his
own little smoke-tanned conscience,
and then he would take an old rag
and some Kerosene oil and clean out
his old rife and start out again. Some
days he would scare up two or three
white men and get them all. Other
days he would have to content him
self with little dead child. Very
often he PLACED to poor business, but
he never murmured or repined.
Colorow once jumped one OF my
mines, but forgive him now that he
Is dead. l did not critieise him at the
time. for the day he jumped the mine
jumped the country, and so thought
would say nothing more about H.
had just been down the guich little
way and was returning. As | strolled
on up the little trail burst forth into
song Ny soul was full, and just seemed
TO well MP in one OF tae most JOYOUS
little poems that ever jolted the geo
logical formation of Colorado.
IL Was at this time that Colorow and
we're thrown together. | knew him
by his SCARED and powder-burned
face. From what he said, could see
that we wonld never be happy together,
and 80 went away. There could be
nothing in common between two men
Of such entirely opposite tastes. He
vas thick set, hairy man, with an
immediate gun. l, a tall. 1.-THE, blonde
person, less hairy than he and i'll fitted
Tor assassination.
Whether the mine will now revert to
ine, together with the sixty.fivs feet OF
water and assessments, wot not. l
would not wot II wanted 10. only
know that Colorow Is dead aud that
knowing him as do. would advise
he angelic host 20 conceal its crowns
every night, also 10 see that the aged
chief does not push the women and
children over the battiements while
they are looking the other way.