Arizona republican., 1898-03-06
EXCITING INDIAN ROUT.
"Uncle Tom'' Holland Relates His
 First Encounter With Indians.


 First Encounter With Indians.
 Nearly every one of these del ght- full evenings Uncle Tom" Holland resumes his favorite seat at one par ticular pillar in front of the Com mercial hotel. Having comfortably seated himself the next thing in or der is the lighting of that inevitable pipe. From under his forbidding eye brows his good natured eyes quietly size up the audience, and if the coast is clear, that is, if there are none of those 'gol darned newspaper fellers" about, Uncle Tom" generally remi- niscences a few. Last night after the preliminaries mentioned Uncle Tom" broke ous as follows:
 Say, dye see that sparkin' epersode about me in The Republican a short time back? Well, sir, that darn news paper cuss got it pretty close to a turn as how it was, y know As rule those fellers lie like cusses, but the feller who told that story was no may< erick, or I don't know horse going up hill backwards from the rear end of ten-cent billy goat Now I'd like to tell them fellers lots O things as has happened to me off and on, but darn 'em, they'll lie about you and then lie to get out of the muddIe. And so, y knew, never says anything while any one O them is in sight or hearin' Now I know you folks are all right, and so Pm inclined, y know, to re late a little experience I had at aA, early time with Indians. My fathd had been in several services at war agin the red cusses and he wasn't slow in relating what he'd been through, what he'd seen and what he knew about Indians. The pint that made the biggest impression on our young minds, y'know, was that he'd always told us that Indians were on the war path whenever they was painted Along one time we moved further to'rds the frontier in Missoury and got nicely settled down into farmin' life. There was fifteen of us in the fambly and we all got along nicely tog ther, and 1 tell ye we just worshiped moth CT, y'know, just worshipped her, darn us. Father and the oldest boy were obliged to go away on a trip, and they'd been gone three days when enc afternoon as all thirteen of Us were asittin' in the kitchsn watchin' mother fry doughnuts, some Indians showed right plumb in the doorway By scots, if they weren't painted and streaked to kill, you can blow Ee for a naval cruiser in Havana ha b0r. out first would have raraly-ei one Of those patent road meters they use nowadays on these velociuedes. guess, b'gosh, we all got out at about one and the same time. l b. oke for a field where we had tai com in shock, and didn't cease from what these yere war correspondents call active opera tions until were burrowed clear into the insides of big fat shock, and there I remained in, as the lawyers say, statoo-ko, for three long nor tally anxious hours. Suddenly, y'know, the thought came to me, How about mother?' and b'gosh: the cold sweat come out all over me. Then I plucked up courage, backed outen the shock and stole up to the back part of the house. I looked in a window expectin' to see our worshipcd mother cold and dissected corpus, y'know, but there she was as live and chipper as selected queen in a bee swarm, and around and about her sat those painted Indians, smilin' and ta kin with her as though she were the next best thing to a high Manitou. And furthermore, y'know, they- were a-git- tin away with them fri-d doughnuts O ourn just as I guess these Klondyke>, cusses wade into green things after winter O bacon and Dutch oven bread on the banks O the frozen Yukon. As true as I'm teilin' it, it was two weeks before we rounded up tho hull fambly, but b'gosh! the old man lost a good deal O what ye call caste regardin' Indian knowledge subse- quent to that epersoce.
 "Yes, I've seen heaps O In3ia-s since that time. Some on 'en was painted and some was not. And my experience has been that I can tell yeF not to put your faith in lem one way or k tother, paint or no paint, With or without fried doughnuts, y'know." VISITS THE SANITORIUM.