The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-10-24
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Texas sadd3e. He AghEa for the paeas:
ore Of fighting. Ellis edncstion and his
|. natuuI poveE4 Of inAgstive reaqoninEt"
says On Engaieh .newspeaPer correePond-
|. ent, ..'raise him ct once 20 : high rank
snonx the scouts Of ibis Or any other
country" Burnhim's eyes are the won.
der Of III bsholdlfs. They are snsaA,
rowing, blue EYES. Weapeh lall in lore
with them. Cecil Rhodes sa1s they. can
see riehE thnoseh .. mountain when :. !:
Matab4ae - ON TIA ather side Of IT, An,
other, correspondent declares the ain
ewy little, man-he = only ave feet
four in he{eht-to beta veritable pocket
edition OF Hercules. Then he adaa,
most impreseively: -And withal he IL
modest ana truthful," !" which = some
thing wonderful and unaeconntablesin.
South Afnina.s ffsf,v . a. si.IIaai o@sttg
Burnhap's. greatest feat was the
shooting Of N'liwo under circumstances
that would have done credit to Dayy
Crockett. N1imo was the erest witch
doctor Of the Mstabele. He started the
rebellion, lsying tAst he could turn
away tAe bullets from Uncle HiraM
Maxin's patent music box into water
if his fellow eountrtymen would only
bring him presenta In, return. for the
favor. His throne was in cave which
was the center Of pilgrimages for the
natives far and near. Burnham deter
mined to kill him. The British officers
laughed ct his Atteupt - . "fool's
errand." But he enlisted the assistance
of . sturdy young Engliahman named
Armstrong and they started for
Mlimo's. cave. The Aills were fairly
swarming with natives, and Burnham
and Armstrong Travelled by night and
slept by day. They led their horses, 50
~ to make g little noise al possible,
and Also to keep them fresh, a. they
knew after M'limo had been killed it
wosl3d depend upon their horses wheth-
er they would be sble to return to the
Jaeger or not. Hss
When they arrived in sight Of the
cave they found hundreds of natives
about, but were disgusted to find that
M1imo himself was not there, being two
or three miles away. They sent the
negro servant whom they had brought
with them to tell the witch doctor that
some natives were waiting for him WITH
great quantities ofnfeeents. Then. like
the good scouts they >zere, they moved
on some distance from The place where
they told the servant they would wait
for him, % a. to be on guard in case he
played them fslse. But In doing 20 they
ran 'plHmp into q body Of Kahars. Had
the Kafars been MAtabele the two scouts
would have been killed then and there.
Burnham pretended they were in great
fear of A'limo and wanted to make him
Presents. The Kafars persuaded the
Matabele to leave tho scouts alone until
N'limu came and decided what should
be done with them. So they started
down the rod from the cave to meet
M'limo. When they met him Burnham
saw that If he shot M'limo the whole
crowd of natives would be ON them in
= minute. After going through
long orgy, A'limo invited them into
cave alone and told the natives to clear
out. No sooner were they. in the cave
than Burnham sent bullet through
M'limo's skull. al ~.
I'VE didn't wait to hy The body
ont" says Burnham, "but we ran for
our horses with all our might. The mig
gers followed and shot 1t us repeated
~, but their aim was bad. We put our
horses to IL for all they were worth.
It seemed to me that our horses jumped
over some rocks az high a. their heads,
and It is . awonder TO mo that they didn't
break their neeks and ours into the bar
gain" Though the killing Of h1imo
did not have. the effect that was ex-
pscted. this detncts none from Burn
hams daredevil cleyeEnesa-N.Y. Press