The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-01-08
some UNC0UTH IDEAS.
Entertained by a Great Many People
Of the Noble Red
Man.
Driving Away Evil Spirits by the
Horrible Yells of Old
Women.
A Medicine Mar Disclosss Secrets Of Var
lon Tribes Coacerninx Poisessd Ar
rows and Other BarbArltles.

lOQS 1ElDG6 COAO0fnlu& EOleOooO Ar
rows and Other BarbArltles.
written for TAE HELENA I~NDEPENDRNrl
m LLOW NE BEFORE I LIFT TIL
VI veil that has hitherto covered VI
/0X secrets Of the red man TO say a wore
about my gaids. On the plain
they call him Happy Jack" He 10 mar
Of medium height, with long. curly hair. I
sharp face and . keen eye. Under q COW
boys hat he 10 really q terrible looking
man; but underneath all that desperate,
uurderous looking exterior 10 = kind heart
i began by dreadinR this mar and ended
with loving him. Happy Jack is simply q
superb shot. He has Aaron Burr's ability
to shoot two pistols At q time in either
hand and shoot straight. He 10 a clean rids
shot, . matchless horsemau and trailer.
stumbled ON him at . trading store In the
Navajo mountains. He had . beautiful
horse there which I frequently rode. He is
. mas about forty-nine years Of age. His
wild. eventual life has told on him. But he
10 game yet and good for all day and night
In the saddle. His name was originally
John Edward Park.
1--WE met some very dsvilish Indians in
my time" said he one evening a. We were
riding along a mountain trail. But Fill
swear the nerviest Indian ] ever met was
the Apache Kid whom Lieutenant Bean il
after nov. He'll never get him. What
does he know about q trail. while At the
same time he has got the finest trailer in
the Indian country juss ahead of him 2
Why, the Apache Kid laughs oil the way
down his sleeve at Bean. He foxes the
trail. blazes back signs, sets his horses
shoes backward, walks off his sign If he
has any, in the bed OF the river or lossa the
trail sheer up the stsepest mesa while Bean
goes round forty miles. only to dnd the
Kid gone.
II have seen the Kid frequently and
talked with him. When he is sober he is
not . bad man. II is the old story. I can
give you his whole life in a very few words.
He was sent to Carlisle when = lad to be
educated He was naturally bright, and
his education has made him brighter and
~sharpsned up his wits for satanic deeds.
He anne homo only TO find nothing to do.
He was an educated Indian. and henceforth
he must not associate with the common
herd.' Idleness bred dissipation and gam
bling. 10 he began to drink ~tizovin. or
corn frewater, which is made by boiling
down the corn and letting it ferment for
tion of the corn he would fast. Then he
would saddle his horse and 20 forth for
desperate deeds. II he got out Of money
he soon got more. He was first q scout I'M
der the chief of scouts, Chief Roberts, of
Globe City, III. Carlos. He owned some
-~S-.A - - 1S->I -n~-1n dA -n~A
first TO Mexico AZ a scout under Major Dams.
He killed two mon In the coal mines Of the
Turnhull mountains who were In a pros
peeting party and Robbled the mines. For
this ~atroeity he served two years. Al tho
end OF that time he was p%ardoned.
- short time after this he was caught
and handcuffed. about thirty miles from
Globe City. Ariz., between Globe City and
tho Gila river. The KID after he was
handcuffed, dipped his hands into the
shsriH's belt. pulled out his pistol, shot the
sheriff and killed him. killed the deputy,
killed the driver and got way. He has
been out ever since. He will mover be
they take him. He wears his tongue in a
sling. He can write and talk English as
we'll az you can, but he mover does for all
that. He is the finest trailer l ever saw.
But he is q human secret shat will never be
found out. He 10 an Apache. and an
Apache whom he is driven by his life to be-
come . desperado is q very terrible oharse-
ter. The Kid hates white people. He
claims TO have been treated badly by them
In school. at the agency, on the reservation,
everywhere. and he hates the white man.
''There, do you see that little queer look
ing mound over yonderY' said Happy Jack,
az We rode side by side under the cotton
an Indian in there can tell you all the In
dian secrets you van to know II you only
pay him enough. But you must not men,
ton his name in the papers you are writing
for, for if you did the Indians would murder
him in no time. No one. Pll bet you.'' said
Happy Jack. has ever gone in there before
to ask for secrets. You must be very care
full indeed, for sometimes even money
won't save a mans scalp if these savagss
get the idea into their heads that you are
going to betray them"
Here Happy jack drew of his horse to
the right and l followed him. A few steps
door Of the medicine lodge.
"Ai! All" sang out Happy Jack."N
There was no response to this salutation,
but in a moment q very queer looking Ia
dian drew aside the curtain that hung at
the door of the hogan and said something
in a low tone in Indian, which l did not un-
derstand. Happy Jack" did. however.
Suffice it to say, that before We were allowed
to enter the medicine lodge We were OBJ
liged to 20 through the ordeal of a far
more formal and elaborate ceremony than
we ever confronted before oven at tie i'm
posing portals of o no lass famous secret
society than that of Clio Hall at old Prin-
oetOn.
The Indian in question was dressed in a
long, brilliantly oolored blanket, Rirdled
with q silver belt around his waist, a nliet
of beadwork about his hair. q pair of leg
gined moccasins and stringsd necklaces of
varicolored beads about his neck. He wore
a look of Rrotesque gravity on his fun cal
face. and az We entered the door of the
server might easily have supposed that u
funeral cortege was descending the steps of
q family vault. And in very sooth it was u
vault Of secrets. A mysterious aspect lay
on everything. The interior of the room
was strewn with cabalistio curios. Painted
sand pictures on the floor. tokens and wat
teauxo on the walls. which were succeed
with all sorts of weird sketches; loose IAN
giles of leathern strings. shod at the ends
with deer or buffalo horn. plumed arrows,
sacred painted cigarettes. sweat house
sheepskins. the notched wsnds. the ''whiz-
zer," the saorticial sticks. mysterious Ma
sonic charts and the little glass mirrors.
The lodge itself was a simple ~conicai
structure Of large. partially hewn logs, set
on end and inclined at an angle of about
on top, where they formed the apex of the
lodge. The circle of logs was incomplete
in tho east. where the openings for the
door and the smoke hole were. A passage
or entry about five feet high and three feet
wide led from tho body OF tho lodge to the
outer dool way. where some blankets hung
rs portieres. The frame of logs was Gov