The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-02
City News
Ute CLASSMATE
|. AIDED ] !. ] !. ESCAPE J.
GUEST OF ROGERS EXPLAINS
WHY HE GOES EAST. !:
Wyoming Rancher Is Held Up by Re
bellious Indians and Is Surprised to
Find that Leader Is College .Ohum
Who Played on Dartmouth Team in
'e5.

Had. he not found an old college
chum in the band of Utes which-is now
off the reservation and threatening to- 7
| go on the warpath, James j.. Callahan
of Arvada, Wyo., might be scalped
corpse instead of. speeding on his way
| to the east to see his alma mater, Dart
| mouth, play Princeton next Saturday. I
~ IN prisoner of war on parole, ~
Rogers hotel, when he Registered
in order to get a couple Of tel
egrams addressed to him. "You see,
it was this way. Utes are plenty good
enough, for sInjuns.' This outfit gets
the hunch that they aren t fed right
and that the Cheyenne reservation is a
regular garden Of Eden alongside Of
their sand lot down in Utah. Full Of
| this hallucination they come up north
and when awoke Friday the whole lot
| Of them were .camped about 300 yards
| from my ranch house. -.
matches and bacon. It plumb heavy
task setting, up grub for two or three
manded it. Besides, if T hadn' t given
it to them they would have taken it
anyhow, so I thought I might as well
| chance Of trouble that made me turn
| the ranch over to them, but the ex-
pense of treating them right while they
| stayed. s@~->1 :;
Meets Old Friends. ..
"Early Saturday morning the two
punchers and went out to look at the
sunrise. We were just making good
on our getaway. when about dozen
sagebrush and covers us before we
| can touch a pun: They had us dead
to rights and looked plumb hostile.
Things looked mighty blue till the most
ferocious looking buck in the outfit
sings out, Yah, there, Mickey Gala
han, where you headed for9 I'm Billie
3 Bif d Eye, 49, And III be burned
| E'We parley bit and chew over the
old days at, Dartmouth. Seems Billie
is the son of Chief Kannapap, who is
leading this Instruction. These Utes
are a progressive lot and they put
! lot Of confdencein the educated Indian,
so Billie. is right in line for, the old
man s job and is second in command.
scalping a .classmate, SO we make terms,
l to stay neutral thru any trouble which
8Just as I mount to ride away Billie
pulls couple of pasteboards out of his
blanket and shoves Fem to me. They
were good for seats right on the fifty
five yard line. Root some for me,
Mickey he said: I may be yapping
few W. wa fr!g5 s m, myself about the
representative on the grounds: Just
my luck, for ten years I've been want
ing to see the old team play and then
comes this burned outbreak so-long,
enjoy yourself
| uY11ita T,,r7io,, T,;rxI,&A~
"Billie Birds Eye is one Of the
whitest chaps I ever met. You should
have seen him bust the line when he
played half on the old college team.
Graduated with :honors, too. If there
is a scrap you can count on his put
ting a few crimps in those boys from
West Point. He's met them before.
# there is q fight it will be clean one,
| lot as we have. The last time they
went out they fought like white folks,
i and let women and children alone.
"Scared outq Look here, I think
any man who would stick under the cir
! eumstances would be burned fool.
The regulars are close by and will look
after the fighting. These gun and sad
die scraps are all noise and little blood
any how. For real excitement give me
good football game. Haven't seen
little old 3D. sweater and my sheep
skin and hiked from Dartmouth in
49,. How do you think the dope runs
on the game this years Seen any
thing under these new rules9''
Kick off the chilblains when you put
on Foot-Schulze Glove rubbers.