The Coolidge examiner., 1934-06-15

wipe out the white men who were exterminating
the buffalo. be found the tr.besmen ripe for
such a crusade
The FIRST Indian leader 20 agree 90 help In
this laudable enterprise was a chief OF the
Comanches Quanah. the half-breed son OF Gym.
thla Ann Parker. who 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 20
the Cheyennes. Arapahoes. Klowas and Kiowa
Apaches and they readily agreed TO accompany
their Comanehe brethren.
So a great war party Of between COO and 700
mounted warriors set out for the buffalo hunt
ers' camp and on the night Of June &c they
Walls, began painting themselves and their
horses and preparing themselves for the charge
against the hated white men. Those men shall
not fre shot; shall kin them ALL" was the
promise Of IsataL
That night az Adobe Walls 2s men and one
woman slept peacefully. little realizing that a
storm OF savage wrath about TO be hurled
against them. In Hanrahan's saloon were Han
rahan. Bat Masterson. Nike welch Hiram Wat.
son. Billy ogg James Mckinley. bermuda
Carlisle. Billy Dixon and a man named Shep-
herd. In Myers and Leonards 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" In Rath and wrlghts store were
James Langton. George Eddy. Thomas oKeefe
Sam Smith. Andrew Johnson and William Olds
and his wife Just outside the stoekade two
brothers named Shader. who bore the nick.
names OF Mexico Ike" and Blue Bill" and who
we're engaged In frelghting 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 Nike Welch were awakened by a report
that sounded Ike the crack OF rifle. They
sprang up and discovered that the big cotton
wood ridge pole which supported the dirt root
OF Hanrahan's saloon had cracked and was
about to allow the roof 10 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 Hanrahar
had prepared themselves for an early start
In the mornIng for the buffalo hunting ground:
TO the northwest. BY the time the repairs tc
the roof OF the saloon we're completed, the sky
was growing red In the east So Hanrahan pro
posed to Dixon that. instead OF going back tc
bed, they get ready TO start out as soon as II
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 paralyzeC
him for a moment
A dark mass OF horsemen was moving swiftly
up the valley and the next moment II had spread
out like a fan and a mighty war-whoop shat
tered the stiffness. Isatai was coming with hi.
host OF wild tribesmen to make good his prom
Ise TO wipe out the buffalo hunters at Adobe
Walls Thro=ing his rife TO his shoulder. DixoI
fred one shot, then turned and sped toward th'
Hanrahan saloon as the wild charge Of tht
Indians swept down upon him. But this hast!
warning was enough to bring the occupants O.