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

Again the yelling and the dancing.
accompanied, be it we'll understood. by
the yells of spectators whose savage
blood was fairly boiling with excite.
ment. The shrieks of the squaws held
a peculiarly appalling note, and high
| above the unmusical clamor could be
heard the long continued scream of the
bone of contention-the wife Shaven.
Head had stolen from his opponent.
She was easily the prima donna of
this opera of discords, and dominated
the savage chorus.
HIS LAST SHOT.
Crookcd-Necli now had but one shot
left. If he missed he was ut the mercy
of his antagonist. and mercy, strained
or unstrained had no part in Shaven.
Heads makeup. The shotgun fighter
seemed to redouble his activity, and be.
yond question made of himself an cX.
ceedingly difficult target Three times
tho Winchester spoke apparently with
out effect, although later it was discov-
cred that one bullet had gone through
the upper muscles of Crooked -Neck's
left leg. OF course, Shaven-Head was
doing some ground and lofty steps on
his own account, thus disarranging his
aim.
The end came suddenly. Shaven-
Head pretended TO stumble and fell
partially forward. Instantly Crooked
Neck fired his remaining barrel but
fred it at the air. The Uncapapa had
slde-stepped in fashion that would
| have made Corbett green with envy.
Seeing that he had missed, Crooked
Neck turned to run, but after him in
| long leaps came his foe. Two shots
in quick succession and Crooked-Necll
was on the ground. corpse. The fatal
bullet went through his brain, and he
was shot from the rcar-a detail, by
the way, which gave his friends little
concern.
If these Cucllists had been white the
spectacular part of the affair would
have ended with the death OF one or
other of the contestants. Not so with
the savage Sioux. Before any one
could have counted five the victor had
reached the body, placed his foot there
on. and struck it with the barrel of his
rifle.
This was the "coup," or final blow,
that completed Shaven-Head's triumph
and made him truly conqueror.
| Probably with fore-knowledge of
what was coming, the spectators
| ceased their yells as soon as Crooked
Neck fell, and after delivering the
coup Shaven-Head set up his chant
of victory. The agent could not un-
derstand it, but Waldrof commented:
Seems to be stuck on himself a
whole lot. 1t was Il purity good fight
and will be sung about at all the inca
papa dances until some warrior steals
4 COW o" murders Il baby. They don't
seem to have much sense OF propOr-
ton, these fellows don't. I'm everluSt-
ing glad" contiaUcd Waldrof, that
Shaven-Head won. He has seven
brothers, and if he'd Il been killed Il
beastly row would have been pretty
sure to a transpired. Crooked-Necll
don't amount to much, and, anyhow,
most of his relatives is sQuaws.'
No notice was taken of the affair
either by the military or the civil au-
thoritles. What would have been the
use? We have always treated the In
! dian as beyond the pale, and could not
, possibly have conv.Iced the gavage
mind that any other climax ,uan that
reached was to be considered possible.
Years afterward the agent started on
hunting expedition with Shaven-
Head as n guide. When two miles
from the agency he was astonished ut
seeing the Indian spur his pony to-
ward grave on nearby hillside and,
with yells of defiance, fire Il dozen
shots through the pole-supported and
sun-dried corpse.
NAMES THAT MEAN LITTLE.
Your plains Indian. especially if he
be of the Sioux variety, has mighty
long memory, and would have been
dearly loved by the great Johnson be-
cause Of his capacity 70: hating.
1t may be worth while TO say that
the names "touchin' on and Gppertain-
| in to" an Indian, in nine cases out OF
ten. fail to find any warrant in the
personal appearance of the one doslg-
mated. The Uncapapa did not have Il
shaved head nor the Blackfoot q
crooked neck.
Years before the fight, when the con.
testants We're youngsters, some one
! had thrown" TO the man in dance
the name that clung in the after years.
What wild fancy may have originated
| the cognomen. whether bestowed in
| admiration or dislike, no one could tell.
The famous Sitting Bull was known
among the Indians as -Bull-That-
| Sits-Down." 1t was asserted that
when a youngster he carried bison
calf he had shot many miles into camp
and fell, exhausted, at the door of his
| fathers tepee, the head and forelegs
Of the calf protruding over his own
head and shoulders.
Sitting Bull professed not to have
any recollection of the occurrence, but
that does not count for much. because
an Indian considers 1t bad medicine
to talk about his name, and IL you
want to make him do penance to his
gods and put him in terrible funk all
round ask him the name of his mother
in-law.-E. Il. l., IL New York CONNER
sial Advertiser.
|
Insanity In the Farmhouse.
Statistics go to show that seventy
| Ave per cent of the women sent Il