The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-02-16


a flying cavalcade.
Skies kept the office open late. At
Z o'clock he telephoned to Mrs. Haines
at the Double Cross.
What does he say?" she cried.
Just one word-Comin', said Curt
In an aggrieved voice. "He could've
sent ten words fer the same price"
he grumbled.
"Thank you, Curt. The one word is
enough"
Red Snake was one of the younger
chiefs of the Sioux. He was too young
to have had share in the bloody last
stand of his race in their Montana
| Businesses; but he was old enough to
have watched the dwindling of spirit
and power among them for twenty
| years.
And every day of watching kindled
new fire of hate in the breast of the
Indian. In him the spirit of his faith
ers had left the old unquenchable be-
| lief in the Day of Restoration, when,
by some supernatural intervention, the
Indians would return to their lands,
and civilization be lost in the obliter-
ating wilderness.
| The officers of the agency had had
trouble with Red Snake on several
occasions. Twice he had started out
at the head of war parties and had
been caught just in time to prevent
bloodshed among the isolated settlers.
But of late-that is, until within the
last two months-he had been docile
and peaceful. The new disturbances
THE occasional shooting of cowboy
and the petty stealing of cattle dated
from the beginning OF the sway OF a
new medicine man In Red Snakes
principal village of Shi-wah-ki.
His name was of many syllables In
the native tongue, bue he was known
to the whites as Big Smoke. He was
young Indian who had spent some
years among the whites in the South
west, had made a pretense getting
an education, but had reverted violent
ly to the life and faiths OF his fathers.
Big Smoke had predicted to Red Snake
the coming Of the Great White Queen,
who would empower the arms OF the
redman to overthrow the whites and
would make him again master Of his
rightful lands.
Red Snake squatted on a blanket
beside his tepee, listened with immo-
bile features but with thrilled heart
He summoned council OF the chiefs
secretly, and the medicine man ad-
dressed his message to them also.
Thereafter the Indians of Shi-wah-
XII were FESTIVE. Their growing spirit
LOT rebellion manifested itself in fool
/ ish little offenses against the white
men. The Offemses were punished
with the white mans customary stern
To- n {~1A ho nj
the Indians.
I 1t increased too, the fulfillment OF
the strange prophecy of the coming OF
the White Queen.
On the very day when the white
mans village of Rockville was IN a
hubbub Of excitement because OF the
kidnapping Of Pauline Marvin, the vii
lage of Shi-wah-ki, In its far mountain
nest, was tumultous with different
fervor.
Into the circle OF the assembled
chiefs trimmed with awed faces oil
sqvaws and papooses, had danced the
weird figure OF Big Smoke. He had
been called upon by ed-Snake to an
nounce what further his medicine had
revealed to him OF the White Queen.
Big Smoke wore the head OF vol
with cows horns set over the ears
4 His 1.-THE red body was covered with 8
Hong bear skin His legs were bara t
THE tops Of his gayly beaded mecca
sins. =
He circled the silent group with
fantastic gyrations and stopped final!
I'm tle center. Lifting his hands, h
addressed the tribe First IN glow
n -hetoric, no pictured the ancien
story Of the Sioux-their wealth II
lands, their prowess in the hNnt, thei
|. triumph over all other redmen. HI