Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-04-18
A DETROIT INDIAN LEGEND.

The Story Of he-Who- Climbs" and Her
Unfortunate Love Affair.
From the Detroit Free Press.
Several years ago, when Detroit was a mere
trading post and one coon skin would buy a
quart Of whisky on any day in the week except
Sunday, tribe of Chippewa Indians had their
camp on the Cass 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-w
bosses-the-job." He was a great warrior, a
famous hunter and had been known to eat
whole dog at single meal. By some unac-
countable accident this chief had daughter
beautiful maiden, who had out-jumped her
eighteenth birthday by three or four months
She had the grace of an antelope the step of
rabbit, the voice Of a nightingale and the
sweet disposition Of q woodchuck She loved
her ma and pa up TO 100 cents on the dollar
and at Christmas time she hung up both stock
ings to have them filled to the brim Her
name was Observation-Disclosures
Everything was going well in the camp of
the Chippewas until the Indian maiden
happened into q store on jefferson avenue one
day TO buy herself a bear trap. There she en-
countered youngwhite man named "He-who-
is-hair-in-the-middle, I" and he waited on
ner with such charming grace and paid SO
high tor her muskrat furs that she fell in love
with him and vowed that she would make him
her provision proTider or never marry any one
he also seemed to be considerably gone on
her, but. alas ! it was only his way Of encourage
ing lnjun trade and earning his salary 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 duh week. the young man went to her
camp and sat in her tent and read to her from
Shakespeare, Milton and other standard author
tiles. de saw that she loved him. but he did not
reclp. He could not. He was engaged to the
daughter of widow who, was keeping
hfty,two boarders at - per week, and was sat
did not know this and continued to think of
him by day and dream Of him by night until
an Indian known as Observation-Disclosures"
finally gave he- pointer. She would not be-
heve IT, OF course, replying to him:
Go to Pontiac, base cslumniator! My heart
middle is no deceiverp'
II can prove 1t for o quarter!' he angrily
exclaimed. Tonight at 5 he will meet her at
the usual trysting place-the big beech tree on
what the white man calls Adams avenue. Be
there before them. Ensconce yourself in the
outrageous umbrageousness. and I'll bet NV
last coon skin against O Seer's track you will
hear something DROP
Inc ousky maiden attempted to follow his
advice, and quarter to 8 O'Clock she was I'D a
tree He-who-parts and his girl met ut the
usual hour and talked of love, maple sugar molas-
ses candy and other sweetness, and She-who-
climbs heard every word from her perch over
head The young man had just remarked that
he would like the marriage day set for the 18th
of next month. when the Indian maideu's heart
which had been swelling for the last hour,
suddenly burst with a loud ''kerwhangr and
down she fell, ifeless thing. In her fall she
struck and killed both the lovers, and as the
stars Of a summers night came out to giorify
the dome Of the earth and the soft breezes
blew up from Wyandotte TO fan the camp fires
of the sleeping red men, the whip-poor-will
came and rested on the tree and sang q lullaby
TO the quiet dead.