Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16

l.,ata dnswer, would tell you.
am tac inhGbitonf the oldest,
linn fhl aged reSidcnter,
r.vtta washers biilygoai-iike.
"-s7, jold mel have listened.
-ANOrAERFELLoW's HIAwATHA q
r,-rf Between Adam Poe and Biz Foot,
~sara nave been many reports of the
-. contest between Adam Poe and
I'M indian chief, Big Foot, and until
1901. ~ las always been recorded that
,aaUued Big Foot in the encounter.
m ias.ice to Big Foot's descendants
.tn.s vicinity, we mere record for the
-- fre q different version of this
9m0as affair.
az beautiful summer afternoon in
.--s as Adam Poe and several other
XIV pioneers were wandering up the
I'm shore in search of deer, they
.al Big Foot leisurely coming to-
,@rl the settlement.
n moment they secreted them
.sras aud waited. To their surprise.
TN noticed that Big Foot had left
w gl behind. In truth, a change
s-- CONE over his savage nature. and
Vas now on his way to the Fort
aes Club in order to reform and
-. q better life.
-s. I'll course, was not known to
adam and his friends, who, after a
-.ef whispered parley, arranged that
pls should attack Big FOOT single
landed and overpower him by main
strength alone. No one was better
Hlited To do this than Poe. He was
aI round athlete and could strike
.iar and jump higher than any man
rae settlement, except the redoubt-
allie Lewis Wetzel
When Big Foot reached the spot
where the hunters were concealed,
zoe said, Now watch me do him"
As be spoke he rushed forth and leaped
mon the unsuspecting Indian
Big Foot avoided a clinch, but Adam
landed a swinging left-hander on the
car Nhich confused Big Foot. Adam
lien attempted an uppercut, but Big
FOOT countered on his wind with stiff
ns4J-hander. Poe then lead with
terrible right shoulder blow and at
tempted to clinch, but failed. He sud-
denly thought of Big Foot's feet. 1t
lu.d be utterly impossible to down
ln On land with such foundations to
send upon, SO stepping back some
PAGES he dashed furiously at Big Foot,
mred a double somersault to daze
u then butted head foremost right
to his diaphram. This little trick
Adam had learned while travelling
With Dan Rice.
It had the desired effect; it knocked
the wind out of Big Foot and sent him
aying into fifteen feet Of water.
Adam scrambled into the water and
Tins him by the hair, soused HIM
under. Big Foot struggled to the sur
face and again Adam soused him I'M
der and then straddled his neck in
order to keep him down.
Bg Foot endorsed Adam and rose
tC the surface again.
"%Aat are you driving at, anyway"
s5i- Big Foot, as he cOughed up gal
lfr n EaJer and spit out mOuthful
d 15 md gravel.
drowning YOU" said Adam.
DOT stared at him in amaze
at you a preacher?" he grunted.
No." said Adam.
hen | don't play at this any
1ore," said Big Foot Il thought you
Was the preacher, and l thought you
was immersing me-" And with this
dam sprawling among his friends.
With d grunt of disgust he solemnly
saiked out of the water into the woods
and before Poe and his friends could
lacaTer from their establishment he
vas gone.
Ills was the end of this episode, but
il Happened that Col. William H. Steele
md Col. Shepherd were fishing from
l.e lower end of Crockard's wharfboat
t1ar DAY, when suddenly the water
grew so muddy that the fish could not
see to bite. They at once surmised
jaat something was wrong; perhaps
l,h dynamiters were at work, so has
My corkng the bait they went to the
0rJ and with Lewis WetZel and other
members Of the Isaak Walton Fishing
tr.g proceeded up the river, and
aee found Poe with his friends
around him rubbing him with arnica.
avoid the jokes of the settlers, they
tarod that Poe had drowned Big
.o3J and thus the story got into cir
Cuiati0n. e
Big Foot's Fatal Race
Sumner was almost past and the
-a.oss began to glow with the rosy
4aes Of autumn ere Big Foot again
La'.e bis appearance in the vicinity Of
Nlte.ng, and when he came il was
III lne spirit Of peace
We was hailed with JOY by the set
Nals for it was souer kraut stamping
4 and the cabbage crops had been
1sf8Ay large. He was OF great as
'.s nee to The settlers at these func-
~4.a. and many pleasant mementos Of
A'4a were long kept by the pioneers.
er years one of his hob-nail shoes
La nave been seen in Iront OF
'es shoe store, on North Main
saegD
Huj Big Foot fell from grace, and
-- lle TALL of 1916 commenced his dep
cations again. No hen coop was
.aaa3a, no venisOn purloined, but what
y-e ever present prints Of Big Foot's
s'D We're there. Then came tales of
.-t slaughter Of bicycle riders, hold
1la and other crimes.
OAe day a scout, pale with fear,
.-sAed into Fort Henry and said that
aQsland, famous scorcher of the
G7l mad been scalped out at Chicken
TX The garrison was soon in arms.
iles patrolled the forests in the