The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-29

iburned--to the Indians-inflamin their passions, prompting them to mur- ! der and do dastardly deeds-was a 1 fearful example of the evil of liquor both on civilized or supposed 10 be civilized man, and red man.
 q lived very close to the Indians in l those days, and in their homes l | learned to know them. They have l ther-good side. l recall a very beau l tiful example of mother love as eX- hibted by two Indian squaws on one | particular occasion. I was in a town 1 in South Dakota, at the time Skiatook,
 two Indian squaws came to the town -trudged for twelve miles with their little papooses on their back to do
 their weekly buying. As they started ] back to the reservation, one of those | awful blizzards, of which no human
 being has any conception except one who has passed through them, came
 up. The two women trudged along.
 heart sore and cold until they began l going around in circles That means
 the end and they knew it. They
 couldn't see their hands before them, | so they took off their clothes, stripped | themselves to the skin, and wrapped l their clothes around the little opposes,
 stuck stick through the garments and pinned them to the ground, then laid themselves to die. The next mo~h- l
 took, found the two dead squaws Tie little papooses were still wrapped up and pinned to the ground and were l cooinG like little doves."
 ! That is but one of the many exam ples of how human the Indians are.' 1 Mr. Johnson said "0f course. l had
 many wild experiences in the west and i perhaps one of the most thrilling was
 out in Indian Territory. It sounds like l | l | dirty work, as they called it, at night,
 and that's where l got the name of | Pussyfoot.' One night I went into a town out in the Indian Territory look l ing for a fellow named Snake Harris,
 who was running a pool room There | I found his brother in charge; l threw lout all his stuff and bound him and started out to find Snake Going down 1 the street I was told that fellow, lone of the worst outlaws in the coun . try. Bill Burke, was looking Tor me- 1 and so l. in turn. started out to LOOK
 for him. When he heard that was on his trail he turned tail for the
 woods and I never heard for him-never saw him-but met Snake Harris who said he had heard I hao arrested his brother and I told him yes, and now ! Ihad him. I arrested them/both and l cleared out that pool room in day l time, and started home well satisfied with my work. Eight of my deputies were killed during the six years l was
 chief officer and a reward of many l thousands of dollars was placed on my ihead. After that I left the service on account of political differences and joined the Anti-saloon League, whlch soon put me to work.
 | "The Scottish prohibitions orsanlza- | tions wrote and asked me to go over Ito Scotland and assist them in some organization work" Mir. Johnson said "and offered to pay me line ~saiary, but the Anti-saloon League preferred that l should not accept the offer al the time. but later when we saw world wide prohibition as possiplhty everything in our hands-they asked me to go-but preferred to pay me the salary themselves.
 My visit to England was the re suit" said Mir Johnson. The arrange