The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-05
LONG BONE WILLIAMS
Last of the OeIewareS Has
White Mans Ills.
FOLLOWED BY A CROWD
Full! Blood Comes to Wichita
For Treatment.

Yesterday afternoon at so o'clock when
the Missouri Pacific train pulled in a big,
fulI-blood Delaware Indian got off. His
long black hair swung in two long braids
down his back He weighed perhaps go
pounds. fills eyes were close. He was
surrounded at once by 2 crowd, which
got bigger and more curious TO see the
last Of a tribe Of Aborigines once Unfail-
ingly hardy and strong, a stranger to
ailments and disease or if affected who
dug into the earth about him for natures
remedies.
The big, braWny, but sick Indian was
Long Bone Williams. He came TO see
white man physician.
'Just a few years more and the Ameri-
can Indian viii live only in history. But
few short general tons and that history
will be colored with that yellow romantic
light with which Time always robes the
past, and contrasted with the then present
seem 50 improbable, 50 impossible as to
elicit from the philosophical historian
phnanthropic doubt Of its authenticity"
More than four generations ago and
above eloquent and now significant words
were propheticaIly uttered by one Of Eng
lands most erudite bards, and in the near
ing sunset of the nineteenth century, it
is 20 be realized.
'"The Last Of the Mohicans' in the con-
ception of CoOp9r's fecund brain could
not have been more absolutely desolate
nor his air and bearing more humble and
subdued. For this old man was really
almost the last Of his tribe, the Della
wares Only a mere remnant remains Of
will be immortal as the designation Of a
great commonwealth. They were orig
inalIy on the banks Of the Delaware river
about C 900 strong, but IS westward the
star of Empire takes its way 50 the
pressure of Saxon civilization pushed the
decimated tribe further and further back
across the AlIeghanies until in 1929 they
wore Induced to settle upon reservation
in Kansas at the fork Of the Kansas and
Missouri rivers. This was 10 be secured
10 them forever, and consisted Of $4,000
acres. In 1853 they sold most Of their
lands to the United States except small
tract stu left in Kansas. But their eX-
perfcnce was a chain of misfOrtunes, as
the desperate whites and renegade In
dams from other tribes pillaged and plum
.lered them until finally a party of whites
penetrated their reservation and founded
the CITY of Leavenworth. In 1866 they re-
lirquished the rest of their Kansas lands
and migrated to the Indian territory and
settled upon the VerdiEris and Caney riV-
ers and merged with the Cherokees. They
were the parent stock of the AlgonHn ma
ton and their famous chief Tamanend, or
Tammany, gave the name to the strongest
and most influential political organiza-
ton on earth.
So the old copper-hued man who last
evening struck town is descended from
a long line Of noble ancestors, always
friendly TO the whites. and always indus
trious and peaceabIe. He came here from
Gainesville to receive medical treatment.
He Is a very sick old man. His eyes are
all but sighNess. He is stopping at 81
North Market and is to be treated by DR..
Furley. who hopes at least to relieve ms
patient from his pain and suffering. No
longer have his people even an identity
Ply an arrangement with the CheroKees
they may by paying $500 per year cult
waite q certain tract Of land so long as the
grass grows and the streams flow but
they must not get closer than quarter
of n mile from any of the Cherokees- New
rr was an example more pronounced OF
the effect of environment and associa-
tion. In this old man remains no Vesuge
of his former power or nobility of IN
heritancc. Decay and degeneracy mark
his being like as from the grave, and no
pride of ancestry even marks his lagu-
brious gutteral mumbled forth Me SC
sick