The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21

to those who handle them-the rest OF
US cannot do that. We can only take the
facts as We find them, and go along in
doubt as to whether it is collodion or hy
20 which causes camera snapper to lose
all sense Of fear and to perform most fab
ulous deeds of daring
Breckens is newspaper correspondent
living in Cheyenne, Wyo. II is he who dis
covers fossihZed giants and eocene wind
caves and Indian outbreaks and wires tho
eastern papers about them. He is one or
the best correspondents in the West. ana
! ne weighs about ninety-four pounds He
| is good figure for a jockey, but you
would not expect 1t to be just the one to
make man to self-reliant in a country
OF bad men, Breckens, up to the time Of
the camera episode, was, in fact, just as
much meek man of peace as his muscu-
lar displays would suggest.
one day in the fall of 1895 Breckens dis.
covered an Indian uprising up in the Te-
ton country, and, being commissioned bv
some of his New York papers, ne hur.
r1ed up there armed with a camera pur-
chased that day. He proposed to send
some pictures as well as some dispatches
The nearer he came to the Teton basin
the wilder became the rumors of whole
sale killinf scalping and burning Terror
was in the air, and it affected Breckens
somewhat He began to get scared. The
outbreak, it appeared, was led by a fierce.
bloodthirsty warrior named Sinowine of
the Ross Fork agency, and Sinowine had
already invented twenty-five new WAYS IF
torturlng people. Breckens would have gone
back, only that he had already snapped
his new camera upon a dozen Interesting
scenes, and he had hopes of getting
chances at some more.
He went into camp with his guide in the
Hoback canon, east of the place of sup
posed carnage, and, looking around to see
that Sinowne was nowhere near, he pre-
pared for the nights rest. First of all.
he wanted to take out the exposed plates
In his camera and insert some fresh ones.
To do this would require dark room, for
the moon was out full and brilliant.
Breckens, therefore, assisted by his guide,
made sort of tepee out of overcoats and
blankets, and the two of them crawled in
side and lit the red lamp
Now, up to this moment, you will please
understand that the mere mention of the
name of Sinowine would have set Brock
ems into spasm. The camera had not yet
begun to get in it's work on him.
1t was at this very instant that an In
dian with a Winchester over his shoulder
came shopping around the hill out of the
mouth of the canon. The Indian advanced
softly In the moonlight, until his ears were
jerked up at half-cock by the sound of
human Voices-a muffled sound, indeed, but
voices nevertheless He looked about him.
and caught sight of Breckens' dark
room of old coats and blankets. He had
never before seen thing like that which
could talk, and, quietly approaching, he
lifted off the top overcoat. The strong,
clear light of the moon fell upon these
two white men, and also upon a stack Of
plates, which Breckens had Just opened.
The guide, with a cry of frozen horror,
began running while he was still sitting
down, and by the time he had risen 10
his feet he was ten yards away, yelling;
It's SinoWine."
Breckens heard him, but he didn't care,
One glance at his spoiled plates, and he
was after the Indian. According to Snow
ines own story, the little white man hit
him in thirteen places al once, and knock
ed him down and kicked him bitterly, and
every time he rose knocked him down
again and whipped him all over the neigh
borhood. At last the Indian got away, and
two days later dragged his battered form
into the presence of Agent Teter at Fort
Hall, and told him that a talking thing
had exploded maniacs upon him.
OF course, it turned out on investigation
of the uprising" that Sinowine had killed
nobody at -all-hadn't even disturbed the
peace 10 the amount of a fine of 50 and
costs, but Breckens did not know that at
the time he fought him. To the Cheyenne
man standing there in the moonlight the
Indian was the same blood-drinker he had
been for two days. But something about
Brecken's fear and filled him with valor.
The correspondent himself, in speaking Of
it afterward, laid it all to the photo
graphic outfit. He said that If the Indian
had found him without camera but with
a rifle and two revolYers he would doubt
less have thrown the firearms away and
fled over the mountains in terror of Sino-
wines name. But as he looked down upon
that lot of undeveloped Photographic plates
on which the moon was shining so merrily
he declares that all thought of fear left
him. Something about the plates seemed
to hypnotic him into violent desire to
whip anybody on earth, and if the prying
fool of a Sinowine had had forty braves
with him when he let the moon into thai
improvised dark room the Wyoming writ
er insists that he would have trounced the
whole forty-one.
Such is fiery influence of Photographic
supplies. And that is why we assert that
working among negatives and silver baths