Show INDIAN INCIDENT c How the Indians Didnt Soalp a Tenderfoot Editors Herald The days of Indian scares and narrow nar-row escapes are or should be laid gently away in the past The bad scare and subsequent hairbreadth escape which is given below is true In every particular I send it to you thinking it may prove interesting interest-ing to oldtimers and serve as a lesson les-son to those who contemplate a trip to the Yellowstone National Park The people in this western country have learned by sad experience that Indians are bad medicine Strangers who come here never dream that in many of these pleasant valleys once stood the wigwam of the noble redman red-man From force of habit they the red men look upon many people peo-ple as intruders Lo has been taking items and other things from the white man for so long a time that in some respects he far surpasses his white laborer The sun had kissed the tips of the Wasatch Range and left her smile upon the western sky as the evening train came tearing over the Sand Ridge bearing fcr the first time a certain passenger to this city Seth Coffee came to this hard town with biB ife in his hand to further the interests inter-ests ot a mercantile house having its headquarters in New York The young man soon made himself known and was booming things when be received notice togo to-go to Montana Coming to Salt Lake was enough but to go way up north seemed more than he could stand but duty called him and he would go Purchasing a revolver he packed his grip and without knowing the I dangers he would meet started north Nothing of note occurred and soon the hero ot this sketch found himself at Boss Fork Here the festive Indian eats government beef and monkeys around with everywhere to lay his head Charley Holt of Shilling Holt keeps a supply store at this place Saturday is generally a busy day with Charley and he does not care to stop work and listen to those impressive im-pressive strains which emanate from the chin Our Hero tackled him not knowing this and was not long in letting people know that he was tender about the feet The first question he asked was are the Indians bad here A reply in the negative was not enough and as they filed into the store to do their trading Seths hair went up and his hands seemed to clutch at the atmosphere When < closing time came the Indians left the store and our hero was shown to a room in the log house adjoining Merciful heavens the last man in left the door open with all those Indians roaming around This thought grew to be a fact in the mind of our hero the cold sweat started to his brow I in great drops and got there in 222g Taking his revolver from hiS valise they always carry them there he put it under his pillow and calmly i and gently laid awake to wait results He had not waited long when he heard footsteps and as they came nearer and nearer biB hair stood straighter and straighter until it pulled The form of an Indian now appeared at the door and our hero covered him and several other objects with his trusty but wavering waver-ing revolver The murderous brave approached the bed and with a grunt asked for a match Think of the politeness wished to do his I scalping by candle light Seth with that coolness for which he is noted gave him a match The hair lifter struck a light and then for the first time discovered that his intended in-tended victim was armed Leaving the room he went to another and ere long Seth heard him feigning sleep But our friend of the revolver re-volver was not to be caught asleep so he kept watch through the silent hours of the night The next I morning our friend saw the same Indian about the place and occasionally casionally caught a bad look from him Murder was in his eye and Seth kept careful watch all day lest he should bejsurpnsed and killed in cold blood The train was due at G oclock and patiently did our hero watch for an opportunity opportun-ity to get to the station about a mile from the store and that ussed red skin Finally the In i dan went some distance from the house and lose himself to view behind be-hind the corral Now thought S Coffee I will leavefand suiting the action to the thought he skipped I I around the house and walking rapidly about alOO yards he pulled out his revolver determined to die game Nothing but the interests of the firm which he represented led him to quicken his pace These came up before his mind in such rapid succession that he soon broke into a dead square run As the wind he flew past the wigwams and stopped not to listen to the barking of the dogs as with a whiz they were rudely awakened from their evening slumber A mile is a long run for one who has the interests of his firm uppermost in his mind When the station was reached he could not get in and nerving himself him-self he stood or rather marched as sentinel up and down the track and never for a moment did his six shooter leave his sid The night winds sighed and moaned and from the south came the roar of the Port Neuf and yet the train arrived not Yes Seth there is some difference between waiting for a train when you have the firms interests inter-ests at heart and waiting for a streetcar I street-car with sweet girl at heart It does seem too bad that a poor t = red Indian cannot go to bed without having to look down the barrel of a revolver Worse than this even is to have the revolver held by a man so tired that the Indian In-dian must have strabisums with variations In order to look down the barrel Seth M that Indian was given 250 coin of the realm to scare you and the boys at the station were put on by the boys at the store and that is why you could not get in Dont forget to tell the boys how you due for Indian trophies at Helena because a stage driver told you that Indians had been buried on the hill side above the town How you worked all day and then came to the conclusion that such graves were too deep for you How you gave 8750 for a tomahawk that any tough could have bought for one dollar With the hero we cannot saY1 Thats a terrible country up there why they would Just as soon kill a man as not Mistaken Seth it is only a way we have out here of making it pleasant for a tenderfoot Gin |