The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1896-12-19
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SANGUiNkRY PLANS OF WILD INDIANS
cLEvERLY FRUSTRATED.

CLEvERLY FRUSTRATED.
How n SmrgSler c. y Government Re.er-
ration Laid Out q Band Of Red Devils
With Forty Eod Whisky and Saved the
Lives of Six Prisoners.
A Star man haprenesrfane a man
who had served a term 1.-Two CT three
in various penitentiaries, hadn't served
several he shoald have served and is
likely to serve nero before lie is through
with himself. OF course that kind of a
man Was interesting. and after u time,
when ho got to talking under the mel
lowing influence of things made for the
purpose, he was more interesting.
"When 1 was Is years younger than
I am new." he said. 81 was out in the
mountains of the west on q government
reservation, where I could make money
by selling whisky under post prices. I
was always On the make, and so I snug
gled i'll a dozen or more gallons and had
them hid in a cave ten miles or SO out
OF reach. The cave was q kind of a two
story affair, the upper story being my
secret, and there I had my jugs of liq-
nor hid away, and from there I carried
1t out in smaller quantities for distri-
button. The lower part of the cave was
90 feet below the upper chamber, and
in this part was q basin Of water, which
bad dripped from the upper part. 1t did
no contain mere than a gallon of water.
l knew it was easily exhausted, for I
spent many a night there, and found
there wasn't water enough to boil a ket-
tie with.
"Well. about the time I got in my
second installment of fire juice the In
dians got bad and began creeping in
toward the settlements. I thought my
a V was unknown to the Indians as
well as the whites, but it appears that
it wasn't, and one morning I barely had
time to slip out of my down stairs room
and get up il the loft before 10 or 10 of
the bloodiest looking braves you ever
saw squatted in front of my residence
and began holding a council of war. In
half an hou~ or more all Of them except
one went away, and he remained to
keep watch.
AT noon three returned with five
whltc prisoners, and at 6 O'Clock the rest
of them came in with a girl about 4
years old. 7ust what they were going
to Go was Lot apparent, and it wasnP
easy for me to find cut, because VIXEN I
am down to a point where / could see
l was in danger Of getting caught my
self. 1 did see enough, though. t. show
that the five white prisoners, who
were ell old men, hadn't much chance
for their lives, but that the child would
be carried away. To save myself had
been my first thought. and now to ave
these poor wretches was first.
while l was debating what to do or
give it up as q bad job one Of the In
diaus went to the spring and got some
WAFER. That was my u In a minute
more I was back up in my chamber. just
over the headwaters Of the spring, and,
having turned the drip into another
channel, ! started a stream Of that kill
at DO rod whisky down the shoot and then
slipped back to watch the proceedings.
They were discussing when to kill the
prisoners-I knew enough Indian to
know that. And when it was about de-
termined to hold them over n day and
see if they couldn't pick up a few more
and have a real big time, another of
them went over to the spring for water.
This time it wasn't SO much water as it
had been. Whatever it was made the
ugly redskin give a big 'Ugh!' Of delight,
and the others went over to him. Well, !
it isn't necessary for me to go into par
Anybody, even o reporter, knows
what becomes of an Indian CT a dozen
OF them WHEN there are unlimited guam
titles OF frewater at their disposal, and
as soon as 1 saw how the thing was &C.
ing l hurried back and set another jug
work. Twas a little afraid they might
get ugly drunk and kill their prisoners,
bnt evidently they hadn't had much to
that day. and the liquor was getting
In its work on empty stomachs. What
ever was b cause, before I had any
idea that it was time for it the whole
of them was full, and in a few minutes
more they were lying around the little
basin Of the spring SO drunk they could
not move hand or foot.
.eThen 1t was my time to play, and I
,orked up the liquor upstairs for anoth-
Y day and went down stains. There
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