Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-12

another, and tender their lunch all the
time holding with one hand to the top
most part of their heads lest the offer
ing might not prove acceptable and the
old chief fancy a scalp instead.
a Harrison county man who lived to
become superintendent of schools tells
oil the first time he met the famous
chief. He and two youthful COM
pahlons were going to school one
spring morning along lonely road
when IN a turn in the highway they
came face to face with yellow Smoke,
whose bulky form. incased in a many
colored blanket, completely blocked the
road. With an ingratiating smile the
old sinner thrust forth a greasy hand
and demanded, "Papoose give Yellow
Smoke money" The money was forth
coming for the boy had big copper
penny and a silver three cent piece,
ana to his youthful mind these coins
appeared as big around as cart wheels.
iou can imagine then with what re-
| luctance he surrendered the copper
! coin
Now Yellow Smoke was dealing in
the American game of bluff He had
! hardly supposed that the lad possessed
any available and tangible cash and ne
iei' IKE the miner who has just I'M
earthed monster nugget. But his
surprise soon passed away and greed
| prompted him to renew his request,
'Papoose give Yellow Smoke more
| money!
Must I?' whispered the boy to his
| companion
N Tt,1 I,.ie ~, ,.1, IL
his head. Better give it to him." he
said, and then we'll run"
| so Yellow Smoke received the last
com and the boys turned and ran with
out ceasing until breath failed them,
whereupon they stopped and looking
pack saw the cause of their alarm
shaking his sides with laughter
one day Yellow Smoke was being
led at prosperous farm house and
as special delicacy he was given some
sour pickles. Now, Indians invariably
loathe anything sour. and when the
cnlel mad taken generous mouth
lul (which, of course, means not less
IMAM SIX or seven pickles) the sour taste
caused his face to turn a CHASTITY hue
and he began to spout pickles like d
Yellowstone geyser. With lowering
visage he turned on his heel and stalk
ed majestically away muttering: Heap
bad medicine! Paleface no fool Yellow
Smoke on that again"
But poor old Yellow Smokes end
came at last and in a tragic manner
He was not ever to travel thru his
prairie kingdom living upon the fat
of the land. In the course of time he
had become an expert gambler and
one night he played cards with a party
of white men in the town Of Dunlap
and succeeded in winning every cent
that his companions possessed The
next morning the Indian chief was
found dead. lying down by the rail-
way station, his skull crushed and
broken In many places, while about him
were the marks of desperate struggle.
He had become too expert in the gam
blers art in which one extreme Is as
fatal as the other. The author Of the
crime was never found and to the
shame of public enterprise 1t must be
confessed that the investigation was
not as strenuously pushed as 1t would
| have been had the victim been white
man instead Of an Indian.
Every fall during recent years the
son of Yellow Smoke, who abides on
the Nebraska reservation passed thru
Harrison county renewing old acquain-
tances and incidentally collecting nick
els and dimes without number.
Last fall the greasy old rascal who
weighs three hundred pounds, paid a
visit to the district court which was
then in session. Now the Harrison
county district court is a most august
dignified and exclusive assembly. Inc
writer of this article remembers tne
fine not many moons ago when the
lord high bailiff fired him from the
court for the reason that he was some
three years under age. There was wall
ing and gnashing of teeth. "A divorce
case was being tried just then ard TINS
was considered too naughty 1or Htlle
children to listen to.
| Rut TO return to the son or Yelio"
Smoke, that irrepressible parsonage
was not in the least abashed, ana
wrapping his blanket about his portly
! nerson and assuming seductive smile
he proceeded to the business OF taxing
a collection. The baliff sWooped down
to interfere but the son OF Yelio"
Smoke was magnanimous and leu MN
off with a nickel. The Indians trl-
umphal progress continued tal ehe
court room was convulsed with laugh
ter over the humorous spectacle. Pun
we are all fated to carry good thlhe
too far and finally the son OF 4elio"
| Smoke was guilty of the fatal error
of soliciting a contribution from the
Judge himself, whereupon the pegsai
( was elected from open court, Dlalhe.'
collection and ALL but to this DAY II
is alleged in Logan that the QUAKER
Judge was angry because the lnaiah
had asked for contribution Wheli .iie
bench was financially emparrasseo
Some years ago B. N. Waller, VINO
is now the general agent of the North-
western Life Insurance company a'
Des> Moines. was made the ooJsct Oh
practical Joke thru the agency OF 4el-
low Smokes son. Waller was lhen TO-
Gated at Persia, small town IN Far
rison county, and had just begun ms
life insurance work. He attecLea llie
display of a shining tile ana was ever
wont to carry a silk parasol. Inc soi,
of Yellow Smoke strucEeth the town anu
! a worthy doctor whom Waller Had peen
trying to insure determined to get even
with the life insurance agent.
See here" he said in reply TO Ihe
Indians plea for cash payment oil
account, "Ill give you quarter
you'll put on a stovepipe hat ana carry
an umbrella and go into every stoie