The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-20
RED VENGEANCE.
THE SMASH WIFE EIACTS 4
LIFE.
a Tale of Puget sound and AmnIga-
nation.

away, but We saw it looming up be-
tween its flanking straw stacks as we
swung around the shoulder of a butte.
The tired cayuses dropped to a walk,
and we were content to let them do
so. To our left was the beginning of
a glorious sunset. Hot" House, his
hat on the back of his head, drank in
the colors for moment, and then be-
gan a story. The deep lines of his
beardless face grew tense and his
eyes glinted with the passion of it.
Il never see a sunset like that with
out thinking that Old Sol has hit the
Chinee empire plump in the plexus
and splashed the sky al over with red
and yellow Chinee gore. 1t just suits
me to think that way, too, for hate
Chinee. If was elected president, the
exclusion act I'd draw would be a hot
number. The Chinee are not only daft
~ under the original contract, but they
work at it.
Last week killed big rattler over
by Kernan's Coulee. and saved the rat
ties for a news-kid on the Overland.
He's one of those kids who sells pa
pers to the passengers and then begs
'em back to distribute among us desti-
tute and needy, and in return holds US
up for sundry souvenirs of the wild
and woolly, which he then sells to the
very passenger who bought the papers.
That's hot profession. Those boys
often get to be president of the road.
Well, he saved a Sunday paper for ME
that had yarn about a Chinee who
committed suicide and left a note say
ing that his enemy had done 1t. His
room was splashed with gore worse
than that sky is right now. He had his
details all worked out to convict his
enemy and get him hanged. But he
didn't make his joke stick. The Chi
nee always did have the courage of
their convictions but there's no use
shootin' gun unless you can sight it.
Now the difference between an In
jun and a Chinee is just here; each
one will kill himself, if necessary, to
get even with an enemy, but the Injun
is always dead sure of his enemy. More
than that when the Injun has once set
tied a quarrel, neither he nor his
friends hold any more grudge. They
wipe off the slate and start new every
time. When a Chinee gets through
with his own revenge his Tong takes
4 IL up dnu llldhG5 q SCbE1I yCcl1S WetL OhI
of it:
Il recollect something that happened
over on the Sound when white men
were few and before the Injun had been
packed away on the reservations. A
young fellow named Cameron came out
from the East and took up a bit Of land
ON Lummi island at place called
White Mans cove. He noticed that
many white men had Siwash squaws-
I Kloochmans, they call then-todo their
cooking, and this young fellow was
very glad to fall In. But it was not
long before the life had it's effect. The
hard days work in the clearing and
the still nights ON the beach, with the
lazy Sound under a big moon, made
him restless for human company, and
he got to visiting among the Injuns.
1.-THE upshot of it all was that the
young fellow married one of the In
jun girls. Married her, mind you, &C.
cording to her tribal rites. They went
to live on the young fellows land and
things in the little clearing prospered.
The Injun girl was very proud Of her
white man and worked hard to make
his home all that her man desired.
The settlers came in pretty fast that
year and communication with the
states was easy. Cameron learned
that he had fallen heir to little prop
erty back East, and Of course, he went
back to cash in. 1t didn't amount to so
very much; just enough to give him a
pleasant trip and little money to clear
his place and make him little king
among the poor settlers in the new
country. But the chump was not will
ing to stop there and let well enough
alone While back East he married the
girl. You know, the one whom he had
always known and who had waited for
him. He figured that with his ready
money he would have no difficulty in
sending his Kloochman away. It
sounds pretty hard to talk about it, but
the custom then was little better than
buying and selling those girls. Young
Cameron knew that there would be
plent yof prospectors heading for Alas
ka in the spring who would, for a con-
sideration, take his Kloochman and see
to it that she never returned to Puget
sound.
1.-THE lives of some of those Injun
girls would be hot stuff for some maya
zine 1t wouldn't come under the head
of heart o heart talk but it would
stir up the country worse than Uncle
Toms Cabin. There are men in the
States to-day living on incomes from
the fortunes of their fathers, made
through the faithful, slavish service OF
some Injun whose only reward was tC
be sent back to her tribe after her back
was too bent to carry loads and her
teeth too few for the rough food of the
trail. They are mighty plump and
good to look at when they are young
but after a man has worked everything
but the life out of one of 'em he for
gets that. But once in a while there
comes along a girl who gets a little
touch of human love in her heart, an6
when she is thrown over there's fu-
neral somewhere, though, God knows
it is too often her own.
s.Well! 1t happened that young Cam.
eron had hitched up with that kind OF
an Injun She was as grand a creature
all but her color, as any young Amer
lean girl that walked. She had beer
sought by the white man, had beer
married to him by the customs of hel
tribe and in the presence of her peo.
pie She had served him as only ar
Injun girl can serve a white man
When he returned to Puget sound
leaving his white wife in the little saw