The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-10-23

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that l knew where he was. They
had not seen either he or Silver
Fawn since the separation in search
of Chetoka and / don't believe they
had known but that Dugraw had
taken captive Silver Fawn and killed
Chetoka and had gone for the east.
Several ideas had passed through
my mind and most of them seeming.
ly had made almost definite impress.
sions, but before could bring my
self to accept any certain one, was
hailed by one of the half breeds. ]
stopped and waited a moment and
they motioned for me to come back,
suffice to say, l stood where / was
and folded my arms and gave them
to understand that l was the one to
be visited. They put their heads to-
gether for a few moments and then
delegated Dugraw's pal to come and
do the act, whatever it was. / wait
ed and as he came nearer, l placed
my hand inside my waistcoat on my
old lead splitter, and he became very
docile in facial appearance and apol-
ogetic in manner. He began to talk.
He first asked if l had seen Dugraw
Il, of course had not for few days.
l told him that l thought he had gone
and didn't think he would be back
very soon. also told him that Du-
graw and Chetoka had met and sus-
pected them of making a compro-
mise. had not more than explain
ed the unknown happenings to them
until heard war whoop, followed
by few more and in few seconds
there wasn't any population in the
country seemingly but Indians. The
French traders and half breeds had
made mad rush for shelter, but l
stood my ground this time and mo-
toned for Chetoka who was riding
a spotted horse at wild rate around
the old block house into which the
traders and half breeds had made
their escape.
knew there was something going
to happen, knew the anger pent up
in the heart of that young chief had
been fired, and would never be ex-
tinguished until he had avenged the
wrong perpetrated on the soul of
Silver Fawn. The killing of Dumot
Dugraw was not enough, he was
just part Of the one great menace
to the happiness of the Indians, and
Chetoka believed in the total extinc-
ton of the French blood suckers.
After a short conversation with Che
toka, he in his crude way asked me
to interpret or take message inside
to them. The message was for all;
a challenge for each one to come out
side and each one choose from a
bunch Of twenty Indians, an opponent
for a weaponless duel, and in case
they did not, the block house would
be fired and as the men made exit,
they would be shot.
They chose the former. They
picked on me to select the spot and
John Weston for second. The idea
came to me in moment. We would
go to the spot of the battle which had
taken place few days before. It
was to be man and man, the only
weapons were to be used by John
Weston and myself, and two at a
time were to battle. There were
fifteen of the French Traders and
about nine of them l knew would be |
victorious if some great fear or pres
sure was not brought to bear on
them, as the Indian bucks they had
picked on were much smaller than
they and couldn't stand the punish
ment which would be inflicted upon
them by the traders.
The idea of the area kept recurring
in my brain until l finally decided on
this as definite spot. Jno. Weston
and l led our little army past the will
lows and two by two we pitted our
qhdiators. i stepped inside and
there by the edge of the duel rock lay |
Dumot Dueraw-he had never been
molested since the fatal day in his |
battle for Silver ,Fawn. l looked at
the Frenchman who was first on l
docket against young buck who we
knew as Hawk Wing. He was up-
easv. face male with fear and nerves