The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-16
rENDERFoor VS.. sHosHONE.

He Levels q Rifle Mt Them Much Ia the
Disgust Of thel Indians.
From the New York Tribune.
zone summer about eleven years ago
when I was out in Wyoming" said the
colonel ''my younger brother, who wasthen
a college boy, came out to spend his sum-
mer vacation with us. Will gave the
rodgh men out there a good deal OF amust-
ment with his ideas of how n man should
dress on the plains. But he wasn't a
bad fellow, for he had no little spirit and
was always willing to do his share OF the
work.
'If you ever met a Shoshone Indian at
that time you know what a perfect type of
a lazy, peaceful, whiskey-loving, harmless
redskin is. We used to consider that the
Shoshones were born to he kicked about,
and / am afraid that many of us lived up
to our beliefs. A man would never hesi-
tate il there had beer any petty thieving
around the camp to walk four or five
miles. go into an Indian camp. single
handed and kick things about or drag the
he had found his saddle, his bride, his
rifle, or whatever il was that had been
stolen. Having found il he would sling
il on his back and stride of amid the dis
appointed grunts of h dirty braves.
"But viii, fresh from the East and
never having seen All Iultu btIoTes toulu
not understand this boldness. WhSn
there were Indians in the camp. begging
for whisky or tobacco, he was always sus-
picious of treachery. AT such times he
kept an anxious eye on liz guns n
watched. every movement OF the visitors
closely, while we s never to think OF
such a thing.
ave left him in charge of the camp one
day and started for the mountains after
deer. Finding ourselves several miles
from camp that night We started a fire.
broiled IA steak over the wood Goals, and
gathering some eafy branches for beds
and pillows turned in and slept the sleep
of the just.
A we drew near camp the next even
ing we saw a sight which sent us into roars
of laughter. Will was ensconced behind
"A barricade which he had made of sad
dies, boxes, bedding-anything he could
find. He was standing there with a pale
look of agony on his face, all h spare
guns and six-shooters carefully arranged
around him. Two hundred yards away
from the breastworks sat a half dozen
Shoshones look utterly nonplussed and
disguised. Coming up to the Indians first,
we tried to find out what the trouble was.
From their grunts and grimaces, gestures
and snatches of broken English, we
learned that they had come To pay us a
visit on the preceding afternoon. They
had caught the young tenderfoot mapping,
ana he nau not nOtlceu tnclr approach
until they were within a few feet of him..
As soon as he saw them coming up
silently, as Indians always do, he seized
his rifle and frantically waved them back.
Nor would he rest until they had fallen
back to the position which they then held.
"When we failed To appear hat night,
the boy Immediately decided that we had
been m~assacredand hastily began To throw
up big b~reastworks. The Shoshones
rolled themselves i'm their blankets
and went to sleep, but Will too
guard all that night and watched them
with eagle eye until we re-
turned the mex day. Eve then,
when we walked toward him,
the Indians following us in solemn won
der. he was for shooting, but WI laughed
at him so immoderately that he threw
down his rifle sulkily. As for the braves,
their opinion of the boy was shown by
the action of one big, solemn-faced buck,
who, going up to Will, touched him on
the forehead, and even then Will started
back. The buck looked at him a mo-
ment, we ready to burst into roars again,
tapped his own forehead slowly, shook
his head gravely, and turning ava said
'Ugh!' in tones of the deepest disgust.
SIN the opinion of that Indian, only an
insane man could believe that there was
any fight i'm a Nintah county Shoshone."