The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-11
BURIED ALIVE.
A Murderous Trick OF tho Indians TO Sc
cure white Victims.

A Murderous Trick OF tho Indians TO Sc
cure white Victims.
A man was riding over the wild
stretch of prairie land-riding gnllop-
ing mustang whose fiery nostrils were
distended with fear or excitement, and
which swerved neither to the right nor
left as it ran. The rider was young
and active and alert for some danger
that seemed to menace him; and as he
rode his rife swung at his saddle-bow,
and the handle Of dirix-knife shone at
his belt. He was riding for life--not
for himself, but for his comrades, who
were engaged in deadly feud with
hostile Indians, with the chance Of be-
ing cruelty murdered by excess of num-
| bers
The man riding at full speed was the
hvenger Of his people He had vowed
TO kill every red man he met on this
enforced journey, and if outnumbered
TO sell his own life dearly.
Suddenly his horse swerved from its
| long, swinging lope, and had he not
been good horseman he would have
bitten the dust. AS it was, he swayed
in his saddle, and as the instructive fear
| VI JllC DIuJt lUSCll w llib
rider, he reached for his pistols, and in
a moment was ready for the foe.
But no foe was in sight. His eyes
swept the horizon and saw nothing that
looked like human life. A small grove
of scrub oaks was on his right, but he
could see the horizon through the scat
tered trunks. A jack-rabbit or a
prairie dog could not have escaped his
vigilant eye.
But it was something nearer than the
trees that his wild Mexican mare was
looking with blood-shot eyes, while she
stopped stock still at the risk of throw.
ing her rider over her head, and tremb
ling as if she scented danger in the air
The man who bestrode her was nc
coward and he had will as untamed as
her own. He struck her over the heaC
with the butt end of his riding whir
and she reared with him and nearly lost
her balance, but advanced not one incl
beyond the point where she had swervec
and then refused to stir.
Her rider raised his whip again, bu
before he could strike, a buzzard sailed
slowly over his head, darkening the SUI
and casting It's baleful shadow on tn,
ground.
Then he saw it-a grave-a long shal
low grave at his horses feet, the sag
brush spread lightly over it, and packed
with sticks and earth, and hattenet
down to resemble nothing but tn
prairie itself. Had not the keen in
stinct of the Mexican mare warned he
of danger he would never have notice,
the slight abrasion of the earth, evel
with his keen vision.
What he did not see was a pair o
treacherous eyes full of hate and re
venge looking at him from the clods o
earth and the thin covering of sag
brush. The mare saw them and snorte
in terror, the buzzard saw them as
poised lazily overhead, but the ma
who bent over them saw nothing but
grave at his feet
Poor beggar' he said gently as b
,, flung himself from his horse; "anothe
victim of the cursed redskins, no doubt
for this is white mans grave. Go
rest your soul, friend, and give m
strength to avenge you"
, His head was barred, his eyes lifted
the pure sky above him. They ha
1 looked their last on the beautiful worl
and on his fellow-man.
5 The buzzard had alighted at littl
, distance and was waiting-waiting
| Bish! bish! bish!
1t was the report of Wincheste
rifle, repeated to make sure of its deadl
-, aim, and the traveller fell prone on h
: face, the bride of his horse droppin
y [ from his brplyan
: And sitting up in his grave, where h
Z had been buried alive, the painte
5 brave, still grasping his smoking riff
: sent another shot after the gallopin
|, mustang, and then shaking himse
!. clear Of the grave earth sought I'll
4 scalping knife at his belt.
:. And the buzzard that had been wal
y ing so long was not deprived of it's fea
; gained for it by this ruse and stratage
It of war.-Alrs. NJ. L. Rayne, in Detro
= Free Press.