Show DLVTJI JJKEKFOOT 1 INDIAN WHO HOLD THE wonuua nnconi label a Mife 11 relief 111iffel lots Stat At lIu us II I It 11I11 llibny 11fidal 0111 Itirce Moos of Jurarr limited far III UUMI V III IA8T INDIAN I hai cone to the happy I hunting ground but old E Dcerfoet line Billy foot the mot fa 11 inou Indian ot the 0 lilt quarter nf a century rightly I named und famed lieeniiM of hli wonderful won-derful woik M a runner III American history there hue been aeorra of loltil chieftain none I of them en veel known honexir as IVerfoot wn from the beginning ot the ilxllc when he loiirid KiiRliml Bad r tablliihed himself nt the champion pare maker of the w > rld I lie wait till elxht years ot age nml had been n public figure eer alnce I lie oa twenty two 1p to a month ago he wo In capital condition and re mArked a llufCnti friend nt that time nil ho came III KlnKlng mid henrt > from n walk nf tnelvn I nillra 113fte flit > right 1 earn old lull me well and can run Kt Ho hue hon Ihlnr at rft n vII Ingn not far from lluffilo fo Mina tunho him lie was born nn the Cat Inrniigni Itpaenatlnn Dud In lK > hood wns an IXtrnonllimn riniliir In tliort faces nnd In lacroxp he wan th < Wall > iler of hill Irllo the KcnMn In the Inlrrttlhnl rnceii In weilern New York forty > tnra ago hn was nl na first HP pot his name nccanlliiK In Indian tradition liecniuo I on one otcimlnn nt lenat ho hall outrun n I titer Western New York was wild nt that lime And title game nbounilril an txery hninl Hit real nnme vn Ixiul Ilennelt but b > the torld lie xtlll always 1m reinem bereft na Doerfnot Though the figures ore not odlilol II Is I laid on excellent niithnrlt Hint ho nut run the mite III four mlniiUa What la known na the notldi record at tho present time la I 4 inlnutea And 14q trends Accomplished l In USC b I > W C JeorRp of ing1nnit and neer alnce aurptraril At Chicago nl one lime cfrfnnt belle a horse ruiinlnit a inllo at full lilt Drerfoot was C feet In hflkht straight aa nn arrow And of inherit physical Proportions Them wan not nn wince of fat about him from top to top Ills wrlght WAS About ITfi pounds and It was all firm mumle In his limn tin mutt limo made n good ileul of metal > though him estate will not amount to inoro than 13 000 He was enormmitl successful at exhibition land on lour At tnonl > ttto ho inured the country asa as-a runner npixarliiK In exhibition rates And mcolliiK file flict of foot In every alatc lie was noter oulclnaaed Ilia I luino waR national Several mlurqiunt tours and wrlea nf exuluUloni In various va-rious clllm only addril lo tho strong llmbcil red mans fame After liming won every honor poul bla en Iho American cinder path 110 was taken In hand by an IlnKllilimnn who eihlblteil life maneloui flowers In Irrnt Britain While III that counto In 1SGIC2 ho won the chnmploiiihlp of tile world l Its I most notubla exploit at tills prilod wan the runiilnR ot twchn mile In CO Minutes III the pnoence at I Queen Victoria who present him with a 100 pearl brooch In Ids home now there are to be found literally hundivdi of mtdali and relic that ho hut won 1 bj lilt Nlclork Itr haps the tribute that ha ruled about mOl WON a purse of KO In gold that he receheil from Ihn Irlnce of Wales After 1870 he practically retired from competition and blinding himself n house on the Cattarnucui Reservation lived there to Iho day of liU death The lost limo he was wen In public vn at the Chicago World Fair |