The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-08
INDIAN TREACaERY.
Friendly Appearances Kept Up Untn th
Very Moment of Assault.

Friendly Appearances Kept Up Oath the
Very Moment of Assault.
In the late winter OF 1871 the hitherto
friendly Delawares, who hunted or
traded along the western frontier of
Pennsylvania and Virginia proper, took
this manner of showing that they had
Joined the open foes of the Americans.
A big band of warriors spread up and
down the Allegheny for about 40 miles,
and on the 9Th OF February estacked the
outlying settlements. The Indians who
delivered this attack had long been on
intimate terms with the sllleghany set
tiers, who were accustora d TO see them
in and about their houses; and as the
savages acted with seeming friendship
10 the last moment, they we're able to
take the settlers completely unawares,
so that no effective resistance was
made. Some of the settlers were killed
and some captured. Among the cap
tives was lad named John Briclocll,
who, though at first maltreated, and
forced to run the gauntlet, was after
wards adopted into the tribe, and was
not released until after Wayno's VIC
tory. After his adoption hewa treat
ed with the utmost kindness, aud con-
ceived a great Hiking for hs oaPtors.
admiring their many good qus'ities. Sc
pec.auy their courage and their kind
ness to their children. Long after.
wards he wrote down his expez1enoes,
which possess oertsin value a. giving
from the Indian standpoint an soOount
of some OF the Incidents Of the forest
warfare OF the dag.
The warriors who had engaged Ia
this raid ON their former friends, the
settlers along the. Allegheny reiterated
two or three days Journey into the
wilderness 70 anappohted place. where
they found their families. One Of the
Girtys was with tia Indians. No seem
er had the last of the warriors come IN,
with their scalps and prisoners, includ-
ing the boy BrictrelI. than ten Of their
number deliberately started back 90
Pittsburgh, TO peas thensaves ss
friendly Indians, and trsca. In sfort-
night they returned. laden With goods
OF various kinds, including wnzky.
Some OF the inhabitants. sore from dis
astsr, suspected that these Indians
were only nlasquarading as freddy,
and prepared to attack them; but one
OF the citizens warned them OF their
danger, and they escaped. Their ef-
frontery wss as remarkable os their
treechery and dupheity. They had sud
denly attacked and usssecre1 settlers
By whom they had never been harmed and
with whom they preserved an sPpear-
anoe of entire friendship up 20 the very
moment Of the assault Then, THAR
hands red with the blood Of their muir
oered friends, they come boldly into
PlttsbUrgh- among the near DsAghbors
Of these sane murdered men. and staId
there several days TO trade, pretend
ing 10 u peaceful aHi.s Of the whites.
with savages 20 trescherous and SO Zero
oloyis y wss g mere inpo3sibih:y for tbs
borderers' 20 distinguish The hostile
from the friendly. AZ they hit out blind
j. 10 revenge the bloxs that fell upon
them from unknown hA16s- Brutal
though the front1erEzen often were.
tney never employed The systematic
aud deliberate bad filth which Wss a
iSFor'te weapon with even the best OF
TIE red t-ibes.-TheoSore Roosevelt, N
H2-Per's Magazine.