The Whitefish pilot., 1912-10-17
GET TASTE Of REAL
WILD WEST LIFE

the east had AN experience last Sun
day that almost rivals any of the
wild scenes seen at the moving pic
ture shows. A Flathead Indian full
of KalispeM booze was the chief
actor and the young ladies' feel
very lucky that they got away with
out loosing their scalps. The Kali
ispell Journal relates the story as
follows:
While driving to Somers yester-
day, ]. E. Darlington and Miss Nell
Haines OF this city and Miss Grace
Harris, a cousin of Miss Haines,
whose home is in Indiana were sub
jected to abuse and insult at the
hands of drunken Indians whom
they met on the road. The red
men were returning to the reserva-
ticm after their three days of ca
rousal at the county fair.
Mr. Darlington was driving a come
what fracaious team. One buck,
who seemed to have imbibed more
freely than the others of the deadly
firewater of the white man noticed
the young people coming and turn
ed his cayuse about to meet them.
AT reasonable distance he dis
mounted and placed himself in the
center of the road. In reply to Der
rington's query as to what he want
ed, the heap brave but heap more
drunk, commenced a dramatic re-
cital of his record as a warrior tell
ing exactly how many scalps he
had taken and how many of his
white brethern he had eaten. Not
satisfied with this, his attitude be-
came threatening in the extreme He
picked up stone and went thru
the motions of heaving it at the as
tonished ones in the buggy.
Derrington guided the horses
about the drunken Indian as best
he could, barely avoiding being up
set into a deep ditch by the side
of the road. The horses were plung-
ing and jerking so that he could
scarcely manage them. The In
dian jumped upon his horse and
rode along beside them, yelling at
the team as if endeavoring to make
them run away, and at the same
time holding the rock in the air,
threatening to hurl it at Darlington.
AS they passed through the bunch
of Indians some of the squaws made
an effort to stop the tormentor but
he broke away from them and con-
tinued after@the rig. The young
ladies were so frightened that they
could not hold the team so there
was nothing for Darlington to do
but to drive on until they finally
reached Somers. All this time the
Indian kept beside them, insulting
them and threatening to kill them.
When they arrived in Somers,
Mr.. Darlington promptly had the In
dian arrested, but he broke loose
from the officer and returned to
the spot where the rig was hitched
avowedly with the intention of fix
ing the white man. Darlington went
In search Of a gun to protect himself
but in the meantime the remainder
of the Indians had arrived on the
scene and taken their quarrelsome
brother in hand. When they learned
he had been arrested they became
very indignant and a brother of the
cause of all the trouble swore that
he would be avenged upon the white
man who had brought this disgrace
on his family.
The tribe finally were herded out
of Somers and continued on their
way down the lake shore. As to
what further indignities they per-
petrated We are unable to say but
it is net unlikely that they will be
heard from again before they reach
the reservation.
Such occurances as the above
mentioned give rise to the question
as to whether or not it is a good
policy on the part of the Fair AS
sociation to bring the Indians to the
Fair. Unless they are guarded all
night and day they are sure to get
whiskey and drunken Indian is
just a little worse than the average
white man when he imbibes too
freely of liquor.
1t is disgraceful that anyone
should he subjected to such treat
ment at the hands of drunken per-
son, Indian or white. The young
ladies who figured in the affair are
naturally still quite nervous, espec-
tally Miss Harris, who, being an
eastern girl, had seen very few
Indians and had heard little about
them but of their savagery. With
M OficinafiOn orv c,,ob