The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-08

BIC bad OF had "a bad heart,' q they
allied it, oftsn won't with war-party, and
they were successful. they brought her
he head of ono of their enemies, which she
arefully slinned and then mashed the
rull with war-club; this always removed
heerful and happy.
Did I ever GEO . man Who had been
palped and who recovered? Yes, once. His
anne was Thomas Cahone, and he was q
teight conductor on the Union Pacific rail.
pad. One day In April, 1858, - Oahone
Ias running his train near Sydney, Ne
ssts vhil tse crossing -. small all stream he
han named Willis Edmonson got out to
sh. They were unarmed, but did mot
mink Of danger, although Indians had been
pming and going through the country.
he terminus Of. tho road was then
Cheyenne. They had mot been fishing
xhs .S.S.d party Of sss
s HS they Wsrs in o full .iRSs Of as sSs
bvn Of Sydney. The Indians first at
pmpted to run OF band Of horses near
y, but in this they failed. They then
arned upon the poor hshermen, and, rid
pg up TO them, began to fire arrows irto
heir bodies. Edmonston received four ar
bot into him, the Indians riding up close
(ongside and firing at short range. One
.rrow pierced Oahone's lungs and he fell
eeding profusely. An Indian advanced.
ismounted and took Cahone's scalp proper
om the top Of his head. Another Indian
pde up and cut strip about four inches
ide and seven inches long from the side of
fans, thinking him dead, did not mutilate
ID body beyond scalpinR him.
There was at that time q small detaCh
lent OF United States troops stationed at
dney, under command of Lieutenant now
Rptain Bubb, y. S. Army. Seeing the at
lex from the village, Lieutenant Bubb and
men, reinforced BY the citizens, rushed
pit to the assistance of the man. They
Pund Cahone still living, took him in and
Pnt him to Omaha, whore the arrows were
ktracted and his wounds dressed. It was
BIT believed he could recover, but he did,
I'D regained excellent health. often saw
m afterward on the Union Pacific rail-
Dad. where he had been advanced to pass
70 his head. Il was not . pleasant sight,
ut he said it did not hurt him in the least.
. wore wig, and seldom took of his hat,
hich entirely covered mp his wounds. He
Pc handsome young fellow, and was only
venty-five years old when he was scalped.
had served in Pennsylvania regiment
bring the civil war.
Many years ago, when I was at Fort Blu
(rd, the indiana at Fort Berthold, Just
pove Buford, had an old Indian who had
Pen scalped by the Sioux. His head was
ltirely skinned down to the ears. He
20 kept in lodge by himself and seldom
me out, nor did the Indians like to have
by one 60 and see him. They considered
great disgrace that ono Of their tribe
ould have been scalped. have been
Id that the Crows, at one time, had sew
al houses which they called "the scalped
ems houses" and in them lived Indians
the Grow tribe who had been sCalped in
kr with the Sioux.
That scalping ID not necessarially fatal is
owed by the case Of Mrs. Jane Johns.
his woman was scalped, in Florida. by
dams, and survived. The physician Who
tended her reported:
i measured the extent Of the skull di-
sted Its natural covering, and found
nine and one-half inches from above
o ear to the ear on tho opposite side Of
. head. Only few hairs had been left
owe the forehead and at the back of the
ck,'
This was certainly bad case of scalpiue.
III the woman lived to q good old ace.
om this il viii appear that, while being
Rlped by an Indian is decidedly un-
easant operation, it is not neoeasarily
tai; and that, while Indians scalp their
emies, they do not do it for the sake of
uelty, but to prove to their people at home
ey have been brave in battle by Oyercom-
foe. The milky way in the sky 10 the
aians' road to the happy hunting
oands, and all who die in battle 90 there
mediately, riding on their ponies, which
Indians kill to accompany thsm on
cir journey.