Show HOW JACK STILLWELL WHIPPED A rattlesnake gen sand Forsyt forsythe hs band ot of scouts had blen awn surrounded by chief roman noses abe demirs emirs aud and in tile sandy saady boil bed of tho the Aric arickaree karee river lu in eastern astern colorado Colu rado they were vere for their lives one september day in ill they had no food their doctor had boon been killed aud relief must C 1111 if they ere tr to bo sayed forsth called for volunteers to go to fort wallace kan miles lillies levu lovu fui for aid every unwounded unwound cd man tit at once offered himself fur bw the perilous journey Jour nc but tile lie general selected pete trudeau in an old hunter und olid jack stillwell a a boy of nine when night ume come the two scouts started arted Bt taking oft off their boots they walked backward baLk word down doan the dry river bed in kneir stocking feet to deceive any indians who might come upon their trull trail when morning cume came they hid bid in a dry ravine within sight and sound of an indian camp they had nothing to eat or drink and the sun bea beat t upon them fiercely all duy day long buthe on the morning of the fourth day ay they found themselves on the open plain with no cover in sight suddenly they came upon the skeleton of a buffalo surrounded by a rank growth ot of green grass into this scanty refuge trudeau and stillwell hastily crept they were not a minute too soon A large party of indians indiana appeared and halted within a hundred yards of their hiding place the scouts were hugging the ground when trudeau heard a hiss in the grass gras s in front of him and a second later a big rattlesnake crawled sluggishly out and colled coiled within a foot C 0 f the scouts head stillwell was chewing tobacco and ju just t before the snake sounded his deadly rattle the young scout leaned forward and shot the spray of tobacco juice squarely I 1 into n t 0 ili the open jaws and eyes of the reptile the rattler could not stand such a dose lie ile crawled hastily away the tha indians soon passed on oil without discovering the scouts StIll wells lucky i hot had saved their lives ellit hours later inter the lie two men reached fort I ort wallace trudeau nu was completely brolien broken by his terrible experience e vo Per peri lenee ence slid lit he tied died H n few days later hut but when the relief expedition left fort wallace the undaunted stillwell rode at its head ile he lived to become a judge adjudge in texas and a leading figure agur lit in that state until his death dedith a WW years ago |