The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-05
BY Hamlin Garland.

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BY Hamlin Garland.
In aHrper's Weekly Hamlin Garland
tells in 1.-THE Outlaw" thrilling tale
of the West, a story which illustrates
the ferocity of race hatred and Incl
dentally reflects upon the quality of
those cow boys whom President Roose-
welt has held up as models Of Ameri-
can manhood and as infinitely better in
quality and more agreeable in per-
sonality than the American farmer.
Hakonuse is an Indian. He has come
under civilizing influences and has de-
termined to cultivate the friendship of
the whites. He enters a western town
at moment when a cowboy browl is in
progress and becomes involved in the
affair in spite of himself. His arrest
follows and he Is thrown into Jail,
charged with shooting with intent to
kill. The charge was absolutely false
and those who made it know it to be so.
But the sheriff refuses to release him
and the Judge declines to interfere.
And so Hakonus stays in Jail.
In week or two the people Of Big
Snake had quite forgotten Hakonuse.
If any word recalled him to their minds
they merely said: do him good to
feel the inside of stone wall. It'll
take the fight out Of him. He'll be
good Injun when he gets out. He's in
luck to escape being strung up"
Now the town possessed a baseball
team that had defeated every other
club in the state, excepting one. The
Falls had proved a Waterloo to Big
Snake on the Fourth of July and so
it's citizens fairly ached for chance
to |do the Falls up and win back
some Of the money they had lost
One morning about two weeks after
his imprisonment Hakonuse heard the
sound Of far-off drums and thought the
soldiers were coming at last to release
him. His heart leaped with joy and
he sprang to his window and there
listened long. He could hear plainly
the voice Of the bugle, and he fancied
he could detect the marching of col
umned feet. His friend, the agent,
was surely coming to punish his cap
tors.
He was not afraid of the soldier
chiefs, for they fought honorably. They
did not take their arms away. They
! made war in the open air and on the
| hills. A shout of joy was about to
break from his lips when the Tailor en-
| tered the corridor much excited. He
| made great many signs to his captive
but Hakonuse, only understood one OF
| two OF them. "Come with me-" and
| It'll kill you''
He drew his blanket round him and
thought, II will go. I will at least
escape these walls. If I die T will die
under the sky where the sun can SET
me-
He quietly followed the sheriff out.
! side, but when he saw the open hand.
CUTS he :rebeiled and shook his head.
The sheriff made bungling signs agar
and threateneda him ~ Is 5s= 5 III
lzs Iia konu comp netling
all this save the nj st ION toward the CUR
| Which he took to mean that he was tt
be killed. The excitement Of his cap
tor, the mystery of all he did, his
menacing fists were convincing. Blu
Hakonuse was a chief He had never
filnched in battle, and as he felt thu
wind of the wide sky on his face HI
lifted his eyes and said, IT am ready
but I will die f1ghting.'
The sheriff motioned him to get int
his buggy, and he obeyed-for the han(
of the sheriff<was ever on his revolver
and SO they rode through the town
which was almost deserted. Far up tn,
street Hakonuse could hear the .nois'
OF the drum, and his heart swelled biz
with sense Of coming trouble. Was h
being led out to be tortured? Perhaps
he would be permitted to fight his wa,
to death?
A man at the drug store called out
jovially. where are you going, MI
Sheriff."
"Out to see the ball game. I hap
pened to have only this on eprisoner
SO I thought I'd take him along
Damned if I'm going to miss the gam
for greasy buck Injun.'
Look out he don't give you the Slip
The sheriff winked meaningly
''There'll be right lively fox-hunt i
he does. The boys would like nothin
better than to rope an Injun today. I
would draw better than a bull fight"
Hakonuse again understood only tn
menace in the sheriff's voice. AS the
neared the grandstand the noice of tn
great crowd reached across the quit
fields, and Hakonuse could see hun
dreds Of people streaming along tn
road before him. His limbs grew tense
1t was plain that his captor was driv
ing directly toward this vast throng c
savage white people, there to tortur
him.
He looked round him. On either sid
were rows of growing corn and beyon
the field on the right. rose a grove {
tall trees marking the course Of tn
river. AS he remembered this. his fins
resolution came. eff I am to die wi
die now" and he sprang from his sea
to the ground and dived beneath til
fence. He heard the sheriff's gu
crack twice and thrice, but he rose ur
hurt, and with wild exultation in h
heart ran straight across the tende
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