The Forrest City times., 1909-08-13

fore the enfeeblements Of old age took the strength from his
 Two Strike was great warrior He had fought on many field and he had won his name from the overcoming of two warrior foes who had at tackled him when he alone the prairie Single handed he had fought and killed them and Two Strike" he had been from that day. He the leader in the last battle which took place be- tween hostile bands of sayages the plains of America. For years without number the two na- tions, the Sioux and the Pawnees, had hated each other.
 In of Coopers novels Hard Heart, a Paw nee, taunts Sioux thus: Since waters and trees grew, the Sioux has found the Pawnee on his warpath." The fight in which Two Strike was the leader of the Sioux fought against the Pawnees the banks of little stream known as The Frenchman," in Nebraska in the year 1874
 In the valley of the Platte river the buffalo were plenty. but the Pawnees had said that the Sioux should not hunt there and they defed them to come The Pawnee dogs called the Sioux wom- en-" said the storyteller and old Two Strike sneered.
 It was when the grass was at its best that the Sioux started for the country of the Pawnee The teller of the tale made secret of the intention of the Sioux to exterminate the Pawnees. sparing neither women nor children If the chance for their killing presented itself.
 Two Strike and his Sioux reached the edge of the buffalo country and there they waited oppor- tunity. They did not have to wait long Runners told them that the Pawnees in full strength had started on great hunting expedition led by Sky Chief. noted warrior. When the name of Sky Chief fell from the lips Of the interpreter old Two Strike smiled and closed his fist. The Sioux left their encampmeEt and struck into the heart of the hunting country. There told them that the enemy was encamped in prairie gulch and that their women and children with them to for the hides and for the drying of the meat of the buffalo
 Two Strike led his by "a way around" as the interpreter put il, coming finally a point less than half a suns distance from the camp in the valley. The Sioux struck q small herd of buf- falo and thcv goaded the animals before them right up 10 tfe mouth of the gulch. When the buffalo were headed straight into the valley the Sioux pricked the hindmost with and the herd went headlong toward the encampment of the Pawnees, who were foolish men" and did not watch for enemy.
 When the Pawnees saw the buffalo they noount. ed their ponies and followed them out through the far end of the valley the level plain leaving the women and children behind.
 Then the Sioux went in to the slaughter. spar ing neither infancy nor age. and they had almost ended the killing when the Pawnee braves re- turned
 Then followed the last great battle which has been fought on the plains between tribes of red men. The story-teler in the tepee Pine Ridge did not say so, but II is known from the account Of white man, Adabel Ellis who knew the cir eumstances that the Pawnees fought that day as they had always fought, brayely and to the death
 Sky Chief the Pawnee. rode out in front of his men. shook his hand and called out that Two Strike. the Dakota. a coward Then Two Strike called back that the Pawnee was dogs "help and he rode out. armed with his knife which was the only weapon Sky Chief held
 The two leaders met and fought They dis mounted turned their ponies loose and grappled The story-ieer fingered not on the details of the hght He szid simply. the Pawnees heard Sky Chiefs doa;a cry"
 The tale ended. Two Strike rose. barred hi. night arn. drove his hand downward and ther upward. and smiled