The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-06-01

work, while the squaws sat in the
tents to be waited on, and that they
would never do another stroke of hard
work that an Indian could do.
never saw such lot of scared Indians
in my life, but when the squaws put
the butcher knives to their necks, and
looked fierce, and grabbed the Indians
by the hair and looked as though
they were going to scalp them, tbs
Indians agreed to do all the work,
and just then pa and l came up, and
the squaws hailed pa as their de.
Rugged him, and they placed camp
chair for him, and put a tiger skin
cloak around him, and a necklace of
elk's teeth around his neck, and all
kneeled down and seemed to be wor-
Shipping him, while the Indians looked
on in the most hopeless manner, and
then the Carlisle Indian came and
said the squaws had made pa the chief
squaw of the tribe, and that the In
dams had agreed to do the work here
after. Pa counted the elk teeth on
his necklace and figured that he could
sell them for two dollars apiece, and
pay the expenses Of the trip. Then
the squaws cut the strings that bound
the Indians, and set them to work
cooking dinner, and it was awful the
way the spirit seemed to be knocked
out of the Indians, just by a little
rising ON the part of the down.
trodden squaws. The Indians cooked
dinner, and waited on the squaws,
and pa and all of us whites, and after
dinner the squaws ordered the horses
and the squaws and us whites went
off on a wolf hunt, with the dogs,
where pa was to show his bravery to
the squaws instead of the Indians.
The squaws gave pa the old chiefs
horse, and the best one in the tribe,
and leaving the chief to wash the
dishes, and the Indians to clean up
the camp, and clean some fish for
supper, the victorious squaws with
pa at the head, and the rest OF us
whites on ponies, went out on the
mesa and turned the dogs loose, and
pretty soon they were after a wolf
and pa led out ahead on his racing
pony, cheered by the yells OF the
suuaws, and it was fine race for
about two miles. Pa and the cowboy
and the big game hunter and l got
ahead of the squaws, and after awhile
we got up pretty near to the wolf,
and the big game hunter said to pa:
Now, old man, is your chance to
make yourself solid with the squaws.
We will hold back and when the dogs
get the wolf surrounded you rush in
and kill him or your names Den
MIS- Pa said: "You watch my
smoke, and see me eat that wolf
alive" So we held up our horses, and
let pa go ahead. He rode up to the
wolf, and never saw a man with
such luck as pa had. Just as he got
near the wolf and the animal showed
his teeth, pa tried to steer his horse
away from the savage animal, but Tie
horse stumbled in prairie dog hole,
and fell right on top of the woi9,
crushing the life out of the animal,
and throwing pa over his head. Pa
was stunned, but he soon come to,
and when he realized that the wolf
was dead, he grabbed the animal by
the neck with one hand, and by the
lower jaw with the other, and held on
to it till the crowd came up, and when
the squaws saw that pa had killed
the biggest wolf ever seen on the res
ervation, by rushing in single hand
ed and choking the savage animal to
death, they gave pa an ovation that
was enough to turn the head of any
man. Us white fellows knew that pa
couldn't have been hired to go nea:
that wolf until the horse fell on it and
killed it, but we wanted to give pa
reputation for bravery, and so we lei
the squaws compliment pa and hug
him, and make him think he was
holy terror. So they tied the wolf
on the saddle in front of pa, and we
all went back to camp, the squaws
shouting for pa, and telling the Indi-
ans how the great white father had
strangled the father of all wolves, and
then the Indians served the fish sup
per, and all looked as though there
had been a bloodless revolution, and
that the squaws were in charge Of
the government, and pa was 'it," but
l could see the Carlisle Indian whis-
pering to the Indians, and it seemed
to me l could see signs of an uprising,
and when the Indians had the supper
dishes washed, and all seemed going
right, and the squaws were rejoicing
at being emancipated, just as the sun
was setting, every Indian pulled out
a bull whip and began to lash the
squaws to their tents, and some young
braves grabbed pa and removed the
leopard skin cloak, and the elk's teeth
and tied his hands and feet,
and carried him into a circle made by
the Indians. l asked the Carlisle In
dian what was the matter, and he said,
pointing to some wood that had been
piled at the roots of a tree: "The'I
great white father is going to be tried
for melting a rebellion among the
squaws, and the chances are that be-