Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-07-18

them, the tall Indian behind the bunch.
When within about forty yards of the
line the tall Indian began to close I'D
and the Indians to yell. It was a
pretty race to about ten yards of he
line with one white man and the In
dian, then the Indian put his hands up
in the air and ran away from them cas-
lily. You can imagine the rest. I can
not describe it. I stood close by the
wagon in which sat the old chief,
watching for an expression from him
but his face never changed The young
Indian came at once from the track
to the wagon, put his hand on the front
wheel and the Chief grunted some
thing. I don not think he looked at the
young man, simply grunted. I knew
by the look on the young Indians face
that he was satisfied.
. The Big Scare.
A word about the big Indian scare.
I think it was in the early fall of 1863
the Kilbourn stage driver brought
word that large numbers Of Indians
in canoes had passed through Kill
bourn on the Wisconsin river and that
he had seen quite band on foot going
east through Delton and he thought
they should be looked after. I heard
him telling Bill Wallace at the West
ern hotel that some of them looked like
Western Indians. The next morning
I was up town and heard that Wood
mansee and old man Steel came into
town about daylight and reported that
a large band of Indians were camped
on the Wisconsin near Jim La Mars
and that there were some strange In
dams among them. They were getting
ready for a corn dance and they ad-
vised the people to get ready for trou-
BILE. It was not long before the streets
were full of men and women all anx-
ious to hear the news and find out
what we were going to do. There was
great excitement all the morning and
along about noon some Indians came
to town from camp and said all the
Winnebagoes were friendly but some
Crees from Canada and Sioux from
Minnesota were at the camp, and had
their war paint on. An old man named
Virgins, father Of John Wiggings, late
postmaster Of North Freedom, got on
a box in front of Peck & Orvis' store
and made speech to the crowd. The
old man was not graduate of gram
mer school or University but he could
talk plain United States to perfection
and he told the people what he would
do if the Indians came to Baraboo. He
had big navy revolver which he
would shoot once in while to show
how he would fix them. After shooting
a few holes through Grotta's store
windows they got him off the box and
Prof Hutchins took his place and
made 'give me liberty Or give me
death" speech, which dispersed the
crowd. Captain Jenkins who was
home ON a Through, advised that the
able bodied men get what arms and
ammunition they could and surround
the Indian camp and keep them away
from Baraboo. Phil. Cheek, who was
doin 1r1fxr q 4
said he would lead the company.
About three o'clock in the afternoon
the gang started from 10 SCOTS and
Fred Tobler's livery stable, at the
corner of Fourth and East streets, ON
horseback, lumber wagons, hay racks,
two Concord coaches that belonged to
the Madison stage routs, some afoot.
Two~or three boys and I got ON hay
rack and when we got to the cemetery
road the men made us get off. We got
on mill wagon and were whipped Off
from that and finally Don Lameraux
and got on top Of the Concord coach
and stayed there. I can't recall now
just what road we went on, but we
must have gone through Russell's cor
ners, past the Felt place, for remem
Der a man who they said was Felt
stopped our team which was near the
lead and said, 'SYou damn fools, go
back home. Those Indians won't both
er you if you don't bother them. I
have been over to the camp and they
are all right, just going to have corn
dance" We soon came in sight of the
camp which was along the bank Of the
river near the Lars Lewis farm. Three
of the men on horses rode up to the
camp, the rest of the wagons stopped
for signal The men on horses rode
the length of the camp. They were
gone about thirty minutes when they
came walking back leading their hor-
ses. Two Indians were with them
which they seemed to know. It was
almost dark and the Indians had start
ed to huild some fires getting ready for