, 1897-10-11
LONE Ia STORY.

Few of the Indians os this reservation
are better known or more highly es>
teemed than our friend Lone Bear, the
second chief Of the Arapahoes. He is
now about 80 years Of age. OF fiue ply
steal powers, and a noble ~commandine
face, with an expression full OF kind.
ness and intelligence. Years ago when
he was an Indian Of the Indians few
could equa! and nom excel him in all
OF the arts and practices, which the In
dams used to most esteem. He was a
mighty nimrod in his day and there
are those OF his tribe o living, who
have seen him kill two buffalos with
one arrow; and he was also one who
could perform the seemingly impossi.
bic feat of driving his arrow completely
through a buffalo so thar it fell out on
the other side. Now. however, he has
abandoned all thoughts OF such pas.
times and devotes himself earnestly and
successfully to learning the arts and
practices Of the white men; and is one
of our nos successful farmers.
The following story We heard him tell
10 a party Of white men and Indians
seated around a campfire near the place
on the banks OF the Big Horn river.
which the Arapahoes call .Ah-cah-can.
ah-mes-thai',' or where VT left our lodge
poles. Here it was that they abandoned
their lodge poles when they left the
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warpath for the last time.
His story was heard very attentively
by his auditors and all Of the Indians
seemed to be familiar with it. 1t may
lie chat it has some foundation in fact.
Here it is just as he told it. and Tom
Cr.spin interpreted it.
Long ago some Indians OF the Co,
manche tribe who live a long way south
from mere and they speak the same
language as the Shoshones. Some think
they are the same people but they live
FAR apart.
Some of these Indians were out hunts
ing once and there was a young squaw
along with them. They were running
buffalos and at night the squaw was
missing. She had fallen off her horse
or been thrown or had lost her way
at any rate she could not be found.
The next day all the party looked for
her but they could not find her. Many
days after they looked but they could
not find her, so they went back to their
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bhought she was dead.
Two SHOWS after while hunting wild
horses, they saw a herd and rode as
near to them as they could. The horses
ran away and the Indians chased them.
They saw in the herd a strange ami
mails such as they had never seen before
but they could not get near enough to
tell what it was. They went home and
told what they had seen, and the tribe
held a council and said we will send
40 OF II young men on our best horses
to catch or kill this animal. Two days
after the young men rode out OF the
village.
They rode to the place where the wild
horses had been and spent three days
locking for them. At noon on the third
day they saw the herd grazing a long
day, but next at the first light, the young
men started out to chase them. When
they were about half a mile from them
the herd started to run and the Indians
NM . h ai. maniac, IN tho tom ~ tbair epaaN
Leading the herd was the strange ami
nal, and they say thai it looked like a
man.
No horse was so fast as it was, and
the Indians soon saw that they could
not catch 1t on their horses.
They stopped chasing it then and held
a council. They said I'VE will surround
the herd tomorrow and maybe we can
catch the naimal that way. In the at
ternoon they surrounded the herd a
long way off. and placed six Of the best
riders along a ravine through which
it would have to go. Then the riders
began to drive the herd toward the ra-
vine and it passed near to one Of the
young men. who was there. The anil
NAL was leading the herd and running
very tast-faster than any horse could
run. The young man rode toward it as
last as his horse could go. and as the ami,
NAL ran past him he saw that 1t was a
man CT oma He had his lasso ready
and threw it around the mans breast.
but before he could tighten it, the man
caught it in his hands and pushed 1t
of yer his head.
Several other OF the young men rode
across the ravine in front and they sur.
rounded the animal, and it stood still.
It's eyebrows were so long that it push
ed them up with its hands and looked
up at the young men and they saw that
it was a woman. Her hair hung down
to her feet. They tied her with ropes
and took her with them. When they
came TO the village one OF the squaws
said that is the who was lost
two SHOWS ago."
They said how do you know her?'
She said "look on her leg and you will
see a scar. She was dressing a buffa.
10 robe one day and the scraper slipped
and cut her" They looked and saw it
was the They kept her for
three DAYS but she would not eat; Meth