The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-28
A Detroit Indian Leeend.

Several years ago, when Detroit was a
mere trading post and one coon skin would
buy quart of whisky on any day in the
week except Sunday, says the Detroit Free
Press, tribe of Chippewa Indians had
their camp on tho Csss farm. The most
friendly feeling prevailed between white
man and Indian at the time, chiefly
because the white man was planning to
skin the Indian out OF all he possessed and
then order him to move on
The chief of the tribe was named ''He-
who'll osses-the-job." He was a great war
rior, famous hunter and had been known
TO eat whole dog a. single meal By
some unaccJuntaOle accident this chief had
a daughter-a beautiful maiden-who had
outjumped her 18th birthday by three or
four months. She bad the grace Of an ante
lope, the step of a rabbit, the voice OF
nightingale and the sweet disposition of
woodchuck. She loved her ma and "a up
to 100 cents on the dollar, and at Christmas
time she hung up both stockings to have
them filled to the brlm. Her name was
Observation-Disclosures tree by-night."
Everything was going we'll in the camp of
the Chippewas until the Indian maiden
happened into store on Jefferson avenue
one day to buy herself bear trap. There
she encountered young white man named
He-who-parts- his hair-in- the-middle, :" and
be waited on her with such charming
grace, and paid so high for her muskrat
furs, that she fell in love with him and
vowed that she would make him her pro-
vision providsr and never marry any one.
He also seemed to be considerably gone on
ner, but, alas it was only his way OF en-
couraglng Injun trade and earning his sal
a-y Of 80 per month and found.
The maiden called again and again to
inspect the bear traps and to look the love
burning in her BOSOM and now and then to
help trade over dull week, the young man
went to her camp and sat in her tent and
read to her from Shakespeare, Milton and
other standard authorities. He saw that
she loved him, but he did not recip He
could not. He was engaged to the daugh-
ter Of widow who was keeping fifty-two
boarders at "a per week, and was satisfied
with good thing. She who-climbsn did
not know this and continued to think of
him by day and dream Of him by night un-
til an Indian known as Observation-Disclosures
on finally gave her a pointer. She would
not believe 1t, Of course, replying to him.
"Go to Pontiac, base calumniator. Nv
heart tells me that -who-parts-hish hair
in-the-middle is no deceiver"
~ can prove 1t for n quarter" be angrily
exclaimed. Tonight at he will meet her
at the usual TRUSTING place-the big beech
tree on what the white man calls Adams
avenue. Be there before then. Enscouce
yourself in the outrageous outrageous
ness, and I'll bet my last coon skin against
deer's track you will hear something drop!"
The dusky maiden attempted to follow his
advice, and at 7:45 o'clock she wns up a
t. ee. He-who-parts and his girl met at
the usual hour and talked of love, maple
sugar, molasses candy and other sweetness,
and She who-climbs heard every word
from her perch overhead. The young man
had just remarked that he would like the
marriage day set for the 18th of next month
when the Indian maiden's heart, which had
been swelling for the last hour, suddenly
burst with loud "kerwhang!n and down
she fell. lifeless thing In her fall she
struck aud killed both the lovers, and as the
stars Of a summers night came out TO
glorfy the dome Of the earth and the soft
breezes blew up from Wyandotte TO fan the
campfres of the sleeping red men, the whip
poor-will came and rested on the tree and
sang q lullaby to the quie5 dead.