Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-22
"CH|MM|E" AND REDSKINS
A Whole Tribe of Indians Put
to Flight
WAS A DIME NOVEL FIEND
They Sent Him West to Cure Him, but Found
the State Wasn't Big Enough to
Hold Him.
New York Herald.

New York Herald.
"Chimme' Fallon, whose father is
truckman and lives in far West Thirty
sixth street, has had the dime novel hab-
1t since he learned to read in the sisters
school. 1t is a tradition of the school,
for that matter that "Chimmie' learned
to read for the sole purpose of master
ing the literature of the pesl1y redskins
and>the intrepid scouts.
That however, is another story. The
known facts are that for five years fol-
lowing his abrupt departure from the
school be did nothing but read and read
nothing but the penny dreadfuls which
certain wise and philanthroplc gentle
men publish in unceasing streams for the
enlightenment and uplifting of the Amer
lean youth.
"Chimmie" has never been west of Ho-
boken in his life, but he knew all the
ramlfications of the Rockies, had tracked
the red man across the plain and knew
the exploits of Mulligan Mike, the Cory
Cabot of the Galtees, by heart.
But what worried the elder Fallon and
his wife even more than the idleness
and general Observation-Disclosures which
much reading had bred in their son was
"Chimmie's'' penchant for firearms, dag
gers and other dangerous tools. his
room was an arsenal he kept knife
under his pillow and he carried gun.
1.-THE bi will do himself harrum, he will
that" said Mrs. Fallon one day after
"Chimmie" had shot at q cat in the back
of the tenement and barely escaped Kill
ing Mrs. Hennessey's Mary.
Fallon has a brother in Nebraska who,
by the same token, is "Chimmie's' uncle.
'Uncle Pat" dropped in for visit about
a month ago, and had perfectly delight
full time doing the town with his brother
and his friends He had been an old vol
lnteer fireman in his time, and thought
he knew New York like book, till he
had been around and seen what changes
thirty years can make in the metropolis.
"Chimmie" was his uncle's guide on
many of these tours of pleasure, and If
there was anything he failed to show the
Nebraskan it wasn't worth seeing. Be
tween the two a firm friendship grew up
in very short time so that when Fallon
poured into his brothers ear his doleful
story of "Chimmie's" guns and "ructions
and divilments" Uncle Pat" said at
once:
''Give the bi to me. Dad, I'll cure i'm
of his Injun fever in the twisht OF a
steers tail. We've plenty of red divils, as
he calls i'm, in the Niobrara."
Within week "Chimmie" was estab-
lshed on Uncle Pats" ranch as one of
considerable crew of helpers, COW punch
ers and farm hands. He hadn't been
there tWenty-four hours before he discoV-
cred, with mingled feelings of dismay
and pleasure, that the ranch fairly Dor
dered on a reservation of the Crow In
dams.
These particular redskins are as harm
less as moody cows, but 1t was no part OF
Uncle Pats plan to tell "Chimmie' SO.
On the contrary, he and his men took
every opportunity to fill the boy with
tales of the Indians ferocity and blood
thirstiness. 1t was as much as white
mans scalp was worth, they told MIN, TO
go out after dark.
About a week after "Chimmie's' ar
rival he was at work one day In field
separated from the reservation by little
stream, when, 10 and behold! party OF
Crows appeared on the bank of the
creek. They were ostensibly fishing, but
"Chimmie" was sure he saw them cast
ing warlike chances In his direction. He
summoned up all the lore OF all the DOCKS
he had read in the last five years, but the
most he could make out of the situation
was summed up in fervid "Huily Gee!'
The Attack.
ssChimmie" did not know that his uncle
had paid visit to the reservation the
day before and put up job" with Red
Eagle, the chief, but that, again, is an
other story.
What "Chimmie" did presently discov-
err. because his eyes and ears informed
him. was that the redskins We're after
blood and scalps. All of sudden, at
preconcerted signal, they dropped their
fish poles, picked up their rifles and,
with unanimous yell, started for the
unprotected whites. The latter broke
and ran. "Chimmie" with the rest. but
the pursuing redskins played awful hav-
oc in their number. Crack. crack! Went
The rifles and at each report one of Uncle
Pats men fell on his face and bit the
dust You see, he had to bite something
to keep from exploding with laughter,
fer everybody except "Chimmie was I'm
on Uncle Pats little joke to scare the
New York boy out of his boots.
The time came very soon when Chin
,nie'' stood alone on the ensangu1ned
field, and that was when his dime novel
breeding came to his rescue. Turning on
his copper colored pursuers who were
now close upon him, he resolved after
ahc manner of his favorite hero, Mulligan
Mike to sell his life as dearly as posi-
Bile So he whipped out revolver, which
he had bought in a Carmine street pawn
eh9p for $l25, and fred-once, twice
three times,
The first bullet went wide. The second
took off the right ear of Red Eagle chief
Of the Crows. The third lodged In the
thigh of Young Man .Afraid-of- His Shad-
warrior low.
Then to the utter surprise of the dead
and dying white men, the Indians turned
and fled ANONYMOUSLY from the field,
and "Chlmmle'' after them.
Fa!lon got letter from his brother
Pat day before yesterday, In. which the
Nebraskan begged In sill the saints
names that "Chimme" be taken back
to New York Sure, Nebraska isn't
big enough tc hold him wrote Uncle
Pat land the trouble with having to
settle with Red Eagle must be finished
in one year or two.
"Chimme" viii be back in West Thir-
fy-sixth street this week.
Cotton Spinning in the South.
The rapid increase of cotton manu-
featuring in the south, says the Louis
vile CONFECTIONERY, is one of the most
encouraging evidences of growth In that
section The south led again last year
in the erection of textile mills, North