The chronicle=news. (Trinidad, Colo.) 1898-current, 1914-10-13

idea Of. having white mep-with. then
on their forays. They do;nbt .like e
let the white brethren, Ii ,ok tkeil
methods ana are Invariably xtrAit
Ithat a4palAface may prove tf$tchef'
out ana give them away WHEN TN
army gets around to Investigate tht
,Iaffair. 81
The hoy. however was bent On 60.
ing ana with the giving 81 more
presents ana begging to be taken
along Tebananika finally conlehtedi
although he said at the time that Il
was against his judgment. Tue 3srl
ty Of thirty or more Of the best y6tin
warriors In the tribe made their ar.
ran sements so setretively that THE
foxy old Quaker agent never got sons
to the SCENE until after they had
gone In the night With no trace al
to the direction OF their flight:
Young Douglas had gone with them;
the saunws said, and added that he
had the best horse in the squad.
The raiders struck out SOUTHWEST
erly and few nights later crossed
the south branch of the Brazos right
on the edge of the rich ranch cotin :
try where in the morning they could
begin the exciting job Of running oft
the settlers horses for which they
had come so far. The trip down had
been marked by rather damp and
stormy weather for the autumnal
equinox was on and some OF the red
riders complained ms they went into
camp that they were not feeling very
we'll Everything will be all right
they said. for in the morning they
/ would begin stealing horses and that
would make them forget all their
faches and pains. 1 - .f'
| Sad to relate. however. the risinE
sun looked down in piteons awe and
told quite a. different story for nine
! of the Comanche raiders were found
dead In their blankets. Their most
dreaded foe. the silent messenger of
death. had [ stolen in. dus1ng the
night and had strangled their best
of the Indians Immediately arodsed
itself into fury and they at once
accused Douglas as the hoodoo. al
though in fact the braves had died
from nothing in the world but the
chills and shakes Of ague that comes
with nalarial fever.
They pounced upon the poor hoy as
the cause Of their grief and wreased
their vengeance upon him. He was
bound to a tree and put TO death with
their terrible arrows. Then they
packed up their dead and trailed back
to Fort Sill leaving the lifeless body
of the hoy bound to the tree just as
they had hurriedly left It. Five
days later some cowboys happened
along that way, found the remathsl
OF the unfortunate youth and buried
him there. in the lonely spot BIT the
ford across the river" without
knowing who he, was nor from
whence he had come.-F1pfd and
Farm Il
The last raid of the ogaila Sioux
from their reservation at the stand.
ing Rock agency occurred in October.
ls7S. and the writer remembers 1t
kerry. well. A band ofl125 !Or more
young bucks under the leadership Of
I Eten a h pan-ah. or The Face That
Does Not Run, as, the name would
Lbe translated into English. They
swooped down from the north and
swept a strip Of plains as far south
as Glen Elder in Mitchell county,
Kansas, numbering every ranchmani
burning the buildings and running
off the stock Word was sent ahead
of their coming so that settlers Of
Mitchell county got together hurried
ly and turned back the fiends but
not until after some thirty white
ZEN and women had been masEacred,
The settlers organized so quickly,
and were 10 numerically strong that
they decided to carry the war. to the
bitter end and the answer was one Of
the greatest tragedies In western his
tory. After following the Indians for
a few days they came upon them at
might camping in the Dead Man can
on on the Republican, a few miles
west Of Trenton. Hitchcock county,
Nebraska. The avengers by this
thine comprised body of nearly 400
men who knew their ground ana
were ready for a fight. The first
thing they did was to bottle up both
ends of the gulch 80 as to cut off the
possibility. of escape Il that: way.
Then they threw out lines along the
top of the canon at both sides OF the
camp and Dnened fire. ,s t
Nothing so much rattles bunch
Of Indians as midnight attack for
they are SUCH great corsards that
they never fight after dark unless
brou ght to hay as they were In this
instance. They put Mp the best de-