The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-06-08

wipe out the white men who were exterminating
the buffalo, he found the tribesmen ripe for
such crusade.
The first Indian leader to agree to help in
this laudable enterprise was chief of the
Comanches, Quanah, the haf-breed son of Gym
thia Ann Parker, who as 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 shot we shall kill them ALL" was the
promise of Isatai.
That night at Adobe Walls % men and one
woman slept peacefully, little realizing that
storm of savage wrath was about to be hurled
against them In Hanrahans saloon were Han
rahan, Bat Masterson, Mike WEIGH, Hiram Wat
son, Billy Ogg, James Mckinley, Bermuda"
Carlisle, Billy Dixon and a named Shep-
herd. In Myers and Leonard's store were Leon
ard, James Campbell, Edward Trevor Frank
Brown, Harry Armitage Billy Tyler, "Old Man"
Keller, Mike McCabe, Henry Lease and two
men known only as Dutch Henry" and
"Frenchy." In 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 blue 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 WEIGH were awakened by a report
that sounded like the crack of a rifle 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 IT
was light To this Dixon agreed and as he
started to get his horse he looked down the val
lev and there, through the dim light of the
morning, he saw sight which almost parayzed
him for moment
A dark mass of horsemen was moving swiftly
up the valley and the next moment 1t had spread
out like fan and mighty war-whoop shat
tered the Stiffness Isatai was coming with his
host Of wild triDesmen to make good his prom
Use to wipe out the buffalo hunters at Adobe
Walls Throwing his rife to his shoulder. Dixon
fred one shot then turned and sped toward the
Hanrahan saloon as the wild charge of the
Indians swept down upon him. But this hasty
warning was enough to bring the occupants Of