The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-07

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up and sit down."
Mount Utsayantha-I use the accepted
photography as found in the Blackhawk
dictionary-has legend also. Many
centuries ago this beautiful valley was
infested by the red : brother and his
bronze progeny. Where now the red
and blue blazer goes shimmerlng through
the swaying naples, and the girl with
her other dress on and her straw colored
canvas cinch knocketh the croquet ball
gayly west, once there dweit an old chief
whom we will call Polka Dot, the pride
of his people. he looked somewhat like
William Maxwell Evarts, but was
heavier set man. Places where old Polka
Dot sat down and accumulated rest for
himself are still shown to city people
whose faith was not overworked while
young.
Old Polka Dot was a firm man, with
double teeth all around, and his proves
got into the personal columns of the pa
pers every little while. He had daugh-
ter named Utsayantha, which means 'a
messenger sent hastily for treasure" so
| am told, or possibly old Polka Dot
meant to imply lone sent off for cash."
This idea is my own, and possibly of
little value.
Anyhow Utsayantha grew to be quite
comely, as Indian women go. l never
saw one yet that couldn't stop an ordi-
nary planet by looking at it steadily for
two minutes. She dressed simply, wear
ing the same clothes while tooling cross
country before breakfast that she wore
at the scalp dance the evening before.
In summer time she shellacked herself
and visited the poor. Taking little
box of water colors in a shawl strap, so
that she could change her clothes when
ever she felt like it, she would go away
and be gone for fortnight at time,
visiting the ultra fashionable people of
her tribe.
Finally white man penetrated this
region. He did it by asking the brake
man on the West Shore road how to get
here and then doing differently. In that
way he had no trouble at all. He saw
Utsayantha and loved her almost in
stantly. She was shocking muskrat
at the time, and he could not but ad-
miro her dizziness and skill From that
moment be could not drive her image
from his heart. He sought her again
and again to tell her of his passion, but
she would jump the fence and fee like
frightened fawn with split stick on its
tail, if such a comparison may be per-
mitted At last he won her, and mar
ried her quietly in his working clothes.
The nearest justice of the peace was
then in England, and so rather than
wait he was married informally to Ut
ssyantha by repeating to her with great
the following stanza:
Ena mena nina mo,
Catch a niger by the toe;
When he hoers let him 60
OUT spells out.
While this had no special bearing on
the case it awed Utsayantha, and she
went home very much impressed, in
deed. That fall a little russell baby
came to bless their union. The blessing
was all he had with him when he was
Then the old chief Polka Dot arose in
his wrath, to which he added pair of
moose hide moccasins, and he upbraided
his daughter for her course. He up
braided her with piazza pole from his
wigwam. He was very much agitated.
So was the pole.
Then he cursed her for being the
mother of breed child. and stalking
It'll he slew the white man by cutting
open his trunk and disarranging his
reins. He then wiped the stab knife
in his tossing name, and grabbing his
grandson by his swaddling clothes he
hurled the surprised little stranger into
Lake Utsayantha. By pouring another
pailful of water into the lake the child
was drowned successfully.
Then the widowed and childless Ut
sayantha came forth as night settled
down upon the beautiful valley and the
day died peacefully on the mountain
tops. Her eyes were red with weeping,
and her breath was punctuated with
Sobs. Putting on pair OF high rubber
boots she waded out into the middle of |
the lake, where there is quite deep
place, and drowned herself.
This should teach US never to kill
son-in-law without getting his wife's
consent.
When the old man found the body Of
his daughter he was considerably morti- |
fed. He took her to the top of tie |
mountain and buried her there, and |