The Nome daily nugget., 1934-12-24

wipe out the white men who were extermnating the buffalo, he found the tribesmen ripe for such a crusade.
 The, first Indian leader to agree to help in this laudable enterprise was a chief of the Comanches, Quanah, the half-breed son of Cyn- thia Ann Parker, who as a little girl had been stolen from her home in Texas and had be- come the wife of the great Chief Peta Nocona. Then the medicine man "carried the pipe" to the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Kiowas and Kiowa Apaches and they readily agreed to accompany their Comanche brethren.
 So great war party of between 600 and 700 mounted warriors set out for the buffalo hunt ers' camp and on the night of June 26 they camped about five or six miles from Adobe Walls, began painting themselves and their horses and preparing themselves for the charge against the hated white men. "Those men shall not fire a shot we shall kill them all," was the promise of Isatai.
 That night at Adobe Walls 28 men and one woman slept peacefully, little realizing that a storm of savage wrath was about to be hurled against them In Hanrahan's saloon were Han rahan Bat Masterson, Mike Welch, Hiram Wat son, Billy Ogg, James Mckinley, "Bermuda' Carlisle, Billy Dixon and a man named Shep- herd. In Myers and Leonard's store were Leon- ard James Campbell Edward Trevor, Frank Brown, Harry Armitage, Billy Tyler, "Old Man" Keeler, Mike McCabe, Henry Lease and two men known only as "Dutch Henry" and "Frenchy." Tn Rath and Wrights store were James Langton, George Eddy, Thomas O'Keefe, Sam Smith, Andrew Johnson and William Olds and his wife Just outside the stockade two brothers named Shadler who bore the nick names of "Mexico Ike" and "Bue Bill" and who were engaged in freighting hides to Dodge City, were sleeping in their wagons with big New foundland dog at their feet
 About two o'clock in the morning Shepherd and Mike Welch were awakened by report that sounded like the crack of a rife They sprang up and discovered that the big cotton wood ridge pole which supported the dirt roof of Hanrahan's saloon had cracked and was about to allow the roof to collapse. Hastily awakening others in the place. they set to work repairing the roof and this commotion aroused others who fell to and assisted them.
 Before going to sleep, Dixon and Hanrahan had prepared themselves for an early start In the morning for the buffalo hunting grounds to the northwest. By the time the repairs to the roof of the saloon were completed, the sky was growing red in the east. So Hanrahan pro- posed to Dixon that, instead of going back to bed, they get ready to start out as soon as 1t was light To this Dixon agreed and as he started to get his horse he looked down the val ley and there, through the dim light of the morning, he saw a sight which almost paralyzed him for a moment.
 A dark mass of horsemen was moving swiftly up the valley and the next moment 1t had spread out like a fan and mighty war-wh0op shat tered the stiffness. 1satai was coming with his host of wild tribesmen to make good his prom ise to wipe out the buffalo hunters at Adobe Walls. Throwing his rife to his shoulder, Dixon fired one shot, then turned and sped toward the Hanrahan saloon as the wild charge of the Indians swept down upon him. But this nasty warning was enough to bring the occupants of