The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-08-20

ened-the more so when she heard
the men say: First we'll eat, and
then we'll kill her." and she being
the only cher" in the camp.
There was plenty of fresh buff
falo meat hanging up in the lodge,
and there was also some pounded
meat. Perhaps the sight of this in
creased the hunger of the Assina-
BONES. AT any rate they made the
old woman understand by signs,
that she was to prepare them food,
and she needed no urging to do so.
AS first course, she gave them
pounded meat, and while they feast
ed on that, she cooked them some
of the fresh meat, but did not per-
Unit her work to keep her from
thinking. Reaching up to the pole
above her head, she took down
large piece of back fat, to serve as
dessert. This she roasted well on
one side, then lifting it up as if to
turn it, raised it above her head,
and swung it rapidly around,
| hlrowing the hot grease into the
| faces of the astonished Assina-
BONES, who involuntarily drew
/ back to escape being burned
/ Selling the opportunity, the old
woman ran out of the lodge, and
1.-THE Assinaboines after her. She
must have been remarkably agile
for her age, for she managed to
keep we'll ahead Of her pursuers,
who had no difficulty in following
her, because of the lighted torch
: The old woman ran and ran, until
she reached cliff above the river,
: when she threw the torch over, and
I turning in a different direction
started for the lower camp.
: The Assinaboines, keeping their
: eyes fixed on the torch, continued
to follow it, and falling over the
cliff, were either crippled or killed
: Meanwhile the old woman had has
E tened to the lower camp, where she
] told her people that for once they
: had the Assinaboines at their mer-
: cy. She said: Il could hear then
' fall over the cliff; | think all fel
]; over."
J Notwithstanding this assurance
the warriors, remembering formel
6 encounters with their enemy, con
/ cluded to wait until morning be
fore seeking to verify the statemen
: Of te hold woman. When thel
went to the cliff they found the fit
Z Ity Assinaboines or Ho he, as the,
called themselves, "some of then
9 dead, some with broken backs
7 some with broken legs, and SOM
: with broken arms, creeping about
'tlThey killed them all and secured
8 their guns"
Nothing is said of how the Chey
: ennes learned to use the guns, no
{ lin what manner they rewarded tn
! old woman.
: Once committed to a war pro
= gram, they resorted to no half-wa,
4 measures to create war spirit
: They began with the children, ant
i taught them how much better !
: was to die young in battle, than t.
e live to an old age. The result 0
n this instruction was to make tn
r. young men as eager for war as civ
II ilized youths are to enter an athleti
h contest. War became their amuse
{ ment.
It Their allies, on whom they coul
at depend, were the Arapahoes, VIII
er were also allies of the Grosventre
re of the prairie. Remembering, an
in acting upon the advice given then
years before by the old man, tina
lie they should wage war with ever.
&C one that they met, they attacke'
a Indians and whites alike.
m The opening of hostilities be
ID TWEEN the Cheyennes and the lnite'