The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-10-21

Yates, is DlacR anu blue' scllo" "'''
red. green and dirty white, with ka-
leidoscopic crowd of Sioux to whom the
butchery of six score huge steers
strongly appeals.
III the centre of the throng rises tic
fence of tlfe killing corral, "ten'log
high" Animals maddened by rifle
shooting. blood, yells and waving blan-
kets need strong enclosure If they are
to be done to death without infiicting
reprisals
At that day and date the Indians
were allowed to shoot n fortnights
supply of cattle themselves. Later,
soldiers were detailed for the work in
order to abate cruelty to the animals
and danger 10 all residents within the
radius cf a mile. After the steers were
| down Indians by the score would leap
| :nto the sanguinary arena, cut the
tongues from the quiyering carcasses,
and sometimes regale themselves on Il
mass of coaguated blood. After such
q meal Sioux brave was unpretty.
On the morning in question it was ev-
ident to the agent and his employees,
whose presence at the killing was
necessary to secure a proper allotment
| of the beef as between tribes and fam
! lilies. that something more than usually
exciting was affecting the Indians.
| There were four tribes of Sioux at
Standing Rock Lower Yanktonnais,
| Upper Yanktonnais. Uncapapa, Black
feet-and generally these mixed togeth-
of +,,il lo
or jealousies. as do natlonalities on
Broadway. This day, however, the
Uncapapas and the Blackfeet were di-
vided, and even to the inexperienced
eye were hostile.
Having finished the distribution of
the divided carcasses, and sick with
sights. sounds and smells that told of
nothing but brutality and savagery, the
agent was about to take boat across
the Missouri when sundry fierce war
whoops bade him pause on top OF the
corral fence and look interestedly
whence they came, and where, 100
yards away. fully 400 Indians, men.
women and children. were rapidly sep
nrating into two groups with lane
| MY lttl Nlut DGlN ttll tIltlll.
THE DANCE OF DEATH.
Into the head of this lane danced a
bronzed figure, thrusting aloft double
barrelled shotgun and yelling at the
quieter but no less ferocious warrior
armed with Winchester rife OF the
old magazine type, calibrc 40.
How were they dressed?
Not ut all, unless you call coup
feather each, some dabs of yellow,
green and blue paint on hair parting,
cheekbOne and breast, and very much
abbreviated and vislbly soiled brecch
cloth Il toilet. Their wontel garb had
been hastily doffed.
BY this time the farmer of the agen-
cy, Waldrof by name, and an old stagcr
on the plains, had climbed to seat be-
side the agent. and in Il rather uninter-
ested tone said:
Guess them fellers intends to DO
some shootin' to kill. There's bad
blood tween 'em for MORN Il year.
Now they're going to try to let some of
it OUT
do you mean that it is a duel?'
asked the astonished agent, a distinct
tenderfoot by the way.
"Zactly what / do mean," responded
the farmer. And ef you'll wait about
two minues you'll see some passin' in
of checks"
II conceive it to be my duty to put a
stop to this outrage" was the agents
comment. "Why, bless my soul, it's
murder"
II conceive it to be my duty" retort-
ed the farmer, ito purvent any slch
blame fool proceedin' 'ceptin' you're
plum anxious to furnish the corpse
yourself Man, man! it would be death
for white man to git between them
two now"
AS the farmer, to emphasize his pro-
test, seized the agents arm in an un-
shakable grasp. the only thing remain
ing was to watch the proceedings with
such composure as could be vouchsafed
to one who had left the Atlantic sea-
board but a few short weeks before.
While the conversation between the
farmer and the agent was proceeding
the Indian opponents had been dancing
forward and back along the lane and
across it in 2igzag fashion for all the
world rs if they We're setting TO part
ners" in an old-fashioned contra-dance.
THE WOMAN IN IT.
The man with the shotgun was named
Crooked. Neck, and he was Blackfoot,
while his opponent, an Uncapapa, usu-
ally called Shaven-Head, was n noted
scout in the employ Of the Government,
and appeared on the rolls rs Ususuppi
c'Good-Toned Metal.'D Their hostility
grew out of the fact that Shaven-Head
had stolen CrookedNeck's favorite
wife, and the immediate outbreak
arose out of what some of Shaven-
Heads people claimed was an unfair
allotment of beef.
OF the two Shaven-Head looked far
the more dangerous, while Crooked
Neck did the most yelling. Possibly
the latter felt his disadvantage. His
ten-gauge was loaded with buckshot,
rammed hard enough to scatter at the
end of the hundred yards more or less
that separated the fighters, but he had
two shots as against the fifteen Sha-
yen-Head had at his command in the
barrel or the magazine OF his Winches-
ter.
Suddenly Shaven-Head stopped ca