The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-14
A RIDE OF A HALF BREED
CHASED AND SHOT BY INDIANS AS
HE GALLOpED FOR HELP.


Around the Camp. but He vas Ready
When an Emergency Arrived. and Hs
! Did His Duty Like an Old Soldier.
"Ride?i said the colonel, there's moth
J ing in the world can touch an Indian for
| riding. He can ride on pouy's neck, on
! his side, on his fauk-he can ride under a
/ pony, for have seen him do it many a
/ time.
And now that we are on the subject of
riding J'il tell you about a ride that half
breed Indian made once. | never liked
| half breeds before that-any more than
ike Indians. don't Ike half breeds now.
but liked that critter Joe.
This was all down in Arizona Never
been in Arizona, Ell? Well, it was nice
country in those days. Your scalp was
worth just about ten cents par value A
friend Of mine, Will Savrin, was a lieuten-
ant in the-th. He picked up a half breed.
the meanest looking half breed l ever saw
The whites of his eyes showed every time
you spoke to him. l wouldn't have trusted
him if my neck had been in danger and
he could have saved it.
"Will found some Of the soldiers kicking
and cutting the half breed around camp
one day. The Indian was just whining
and taking it all VIII cursed the men off
the spot and threw two or three of them
over their heels He took the half breed,
warmed him up and gave him something
to eat. He couldn't drive the worthless
devil away then and so made kind of
man servant OF him, naming him Joe, but
the Indian wasn't worth rap for any kind
of work
''Will was an awfully reckless fellow.
He didn't believe that the Indian lived
who would fight face TO face with a man.
He used to say that he would take ten men
and ride through whole tribe, shooting
whatever men he chose, and that they
wouldn't show fight if he could keep them
from closing in behind him.
"He got his chance one day. He was es-
corting supply train wagon, you know,
across the plain. He had about twenty in
fantry men with him.
HARASSED BY REDSKINS.
ga swarm of Indians came down upon
him and began to blaze away. They fred
like hailstorm. They got the wagon
rounded up and then tried to make the
Indians come in and fight him. Not bit
of it would they have. They hung around
..
Every time be got the train in motion
down they came again with a swoop.
They were losing mules, and Will was raw
ing, cursing mad. He couldn't make them
fight him.
$50 there they staid. That night the
red devils led them terrible dance, but
they stuck it out. The next day was one
of those scorching, blistering days that you
get on the plains. The sun was like n
flaming sword, and the wind that came
over the bleached plain cut the skin Open
There was no water to drink, the mems
swollen tongues were hanging out of their
mouths, and their carbines were so hot
they blistered the flesh on their hands
And all the while Will was swearing and
swearing and trying to get the devils to
fight him. There was no fight in them
They had sure thing of it waiting.
'ln the afternoon it got so terrible that
the men could not breathe. They began to
faint under the torturing sun. Will want
ed some one to come out and ride into
camp for a cavalry troop. Joe was living
in the shade of supply wagon, and he got
up and led his pony over. The Indians
were lying off about three miles then wait
ing for night, when they could come in
and make things lively again with showers
Of rifle balls.
HOW JOE RODE INTO CAMP.
Joe started off to the south on an easy
ope. You could see the Indians move
where they had rested like shadow on the |
plain. Then out came circle like the |
curve of band of blue swallows. 1t spread
)ut, widening and widening, and circled in
again like closing fan, after joe All the |
while Joe was Looping over the white plain /
20 the south. They were after him now at /
! hot pace, and Will gnawed his mustache /
IS he watched his half breed getting smaller I
md smaller. He was riding harder now,
Ind the pursuing Indians were between
him and the trainl The soldiers could see
)uffs of white where the Indians were
ending balls after the half breed, and then
he speck of Joe went out of sight and
Ifterward the band, only fine cloud of
llkali dust showing where it foated over
hem.
1.-The redskins chased the half breed Joe
or nine hours They shot him, too, but
he boy took off a sash which he wore
nd tied himself to his pony's neck when
lie got so weak that he could hold on no
onger. And that's the way the pony car
u.
here was no need to tell them what the
rouble was. 1t was after midnight then,
ut in twenty minutes cavalry troop was
alloping northward. The next forenoon
he men in the train could see their sabers
ashing in the sunlight miles away They
anne over the plain with the sound Of
ght thunder, and the first cries the relief
card from the train were cheers that came
rom the burning throats and shriveled
ps. for the half breed Joe.
The cavalry brushed the redskins off
ne plain and sent them scurrying in the
ERECTION that the sun went The pulled
oe together and got him on his feet again;
ut after he got well be was the same lazy,
God for nothing half breed that he had
cen before-absolutely ft for nothing. :
md yet, don't you know, really believe
! spite of myself that think better of all
alf breeds on account of that boy New
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