The Portland daily press., 1894-08-15


Then he started toward the corral, where
crowd had gathered to see the awful at
tack upon the poor horse of a fierce noun
tain lion that had wandered from it's home
in the hills. Terror drove whites and
Mexicans away. The Indians alone stood
their ground, and with poisoned arrows
and the guns abandoned by the whites
tried to kill the dangerous wild animal.
Yavapai was especially lucky in shooting
the creature, which, although wounded,
turned from the now dying, feebly strug-
Cling horse and with the quickness of its
kind reached out its great paw and drag
ged down Yavapai from the top of the
corral, where he leaned over. The poor
Indian lay under the lion S paw, his shoul-
der torn open in a CHASTITY manner, yet he
lived and saw the lion, at which all were
now shooting fiercely, leap over the corral,
scattering the Indians in every direction,
and, struggling and writhing, die in the
snow The animal carcass was found to
weigh 900 pounds and measured feet in
length. Old hunters said it was the
strongest and fercest of it's kind.
Mr.. Emerson had taken refuge in the
barn which adjoined the corral, and
through an opening in the boards saw all
the fearful sight. He had not the courage
to help in the attack nor even the nerve
to leave the spot. When all was over and
the Indians had carried Yavapai home,
Mr.. Emerson feebly tottered toward his
house. His wife cried out at sight Of him:
''Who are you? Oh, what does it mean"
She looked SO wild and mystifed that the
horrible thought crossed his mind that
she, too, having seen the sickening, thrill
ing scene az the corral, IN consequence
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sWoonlng to the Hoor
Meanwhile Yavapai was borne to his
tent. The Indians, being somewhat skilled
in these forms of injuries, stopped the
flow of blood and cared for him so faith
fully that it seemed for time as if he
would get well. But he did not live, and
one morning the others could be seen car
rying him to his burial At the summit
Of hill they stopped to rest. A cool wind
was blowing, and suddenly the form of
Yavapai was seen to move. The savages
were more scared at this than they had
been at the lion. Then the dead man
spoke, ''Take me home!'
AT this resurrection of the corpse the
superstitious ones fled away in terror, but
Yavapai's old wife, true and faithful and
loving in death as in life, remained with
him and half bore, half dragged, his form
back to the tent.
Then the injured Indian commanded the
woman, go to the door and bring in the
buffalo meat.
''But there is no meat there, (" she re-
piled.
1T is on pony at the door, !" he persist
ed.
'sThere's no pony there,' she returned.
"You are dreaming,
But the old man still repeated: 'sIt is
there, for have been riding and hunting
W1Gl OGnorS. L nave DGon away TO EhaG
other country, the happy hunting
grounds
The news was spread, and all the rest of
the tribe came to hear of Yavapai's won
derful journey to the other world and his
strange return. He described the place he
had seen and told of the hunt in which he
had slain buffalo. He spoke of meeting
many old friends. Ibid you see Arkaytah
there?" inquired one of his hearers. Ar
kaytah was an old medicine man of the
tribe who had been dead many years. He
had been wonderful parsonage among
them, and there had been confidence and
reliance in the supernatural powers he was
supposed to have possessed 'sYes, saw
Arkaytah,'' answered Yavapai, land I
told him of our fight with the lion and
that many of the wild animals had been
driven from the hills by the great storm
He said a stranger thing would happen
that before summer this town would be
deserted by all its inhabitants and that
wild beasts would roam it's streets as of
old before the white man came to Arizona
to mine for gold and to irrigate the val
leys."
That night Yavapai passed away, or
l. T.. IL.