Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-11-06
A Real Wild West Show.

A Real Wild West Show.
Fl, On Drummond island, one Of the
Manitoulins, in Lake Huron, ia the
classic town Of Potaganissing. At day
break not long since the Potaganissing-
ers were awakened by series Of the
most horrid, ear splitting shrieks and
whoops they were ever forced to listen
to. The sound came from the bay in
front of the town. The Potaganissingers
gave one glance in that direction and
made for their log cabins in double
quick time. They barricaded the doors
as best they might and then dived under
beds or wherever they might get out OF
easy gunshot range
In the bay were number of canoes
loaded to the edges with the most gro
tesque lot of Indians ever seen outside
Of Partisan artist 3 canvas. They were
painted red, black and green. Their
heads were covered with the eagle
feather arrangement familiar in the old
Indian histories. They were loaded
with all the knives, pistols, guns, re-
volvers and hatchets they could carry.
Like old iron these deadly weapons
banked as the bloodthirsty warriors
strobe and whooped and whooped and
strobe up and down Potaganissing. As
they went they peppered the doors and
windows of the houses with shot, they
fred sticks and stones in at the win
dows, they cut up potato and cabbage
patches, and, after the manner Of the no.
BILE red man, stole and carried off every
thing they could lay their hands on.
When they passed on and the villagers
crept out of their hiding places again,
Potaganissing looked as though tor.
nado had struck it. The invaders were
band Of Ottawas, Canadian Indians.
That is what Canadian Indians are like
apparently. They whooped it up on
Potaganissing to pay of an ancient
grudge they had against the Chippewas,
many of whom lived around the village.
But they screeched so loud before they
landed that the Chippewas mostly got
away to safety and the deadly Ottawas
did not find O-sha-gus-da-oo-wa-qua at
all, whom they had got themselves up
regardless of expense especially to kill.
This person with the long name was a
Chippewa lady, a medicine woman whom
the Ottawas declared had cast spell
over some of their very bravest braves,
20 that> these had sickened and died.
GOT RID OF THE FLIES.
4 Little Incident Of Army Life Described
by Veteran.
"Whenever I sec housewife swishing
the flies out of n room with a dust cloth,
and maybe following up one solitary fly
until she gets rid Of it, and then closing
the Stats of tho blinds to keep the room
nice and COOL" said an old soldier, cit
makes me think of little incident Of my
Afe in the army. 49,
"Wo had at ono time Sibley tents. They
were the big tents, you remember, oircu-
lar ON the ground each made to ,hold
about 10 mon and supported by center
pole and having a circular opening at the
top for ventilation.
'"This opening was perhaps 10 or 10
inches in diameter. It had a cover Of some
sort for bad weather, but the one that be-
longed to our tent we lost right away, and
we never got another
zone day in Virginia our tent was full
Of flies. think never saw SO many flies
before. l should say there must have been
about II, 900, 900 Of them. I don't know
what brought so many Of them into our
tent; maybe somebody had piece of meat
there, but one of the men was inclined to
be little disturbed by them. He thought
there were 100, 900, 900 of 'em, and said I
thought he might be right.
"'Well by thunder, he said, I'm going
to get rid of them.
"He got some powder, don't know
how much, but something less than ton,
and spread 1T round in the tent and led q
train outside. Then when we'd got every
thing out Of the way he fired the train.
"You've seen the steam come out Of the
smokestack of locomotive when the en-
CINE was exhausting, quick puff straight
up and then a cloud Of expanding steam.
Well, that puff Of powder smoke went up
out of the opening In the top Of our tent
something like that, only there was ten
times as much of 1t, and it broadened out
into great white cloud, and up through
the center of the cloud, below it and
above it, the size of the opening in the
tent, rose what seemed to be solid col.
umn of flies. If hadn't seen flies since,
should think that all the flies in the world
must have been blown up in that explo.
don. New York Sun.
SOME ATTITUDES.
The famous tower of Utrecht is 4e4 feet.
Nount pi1atns in tho A 1po Ia q OSO foot