Show How Creek Indians Fish The Welcetka American gives an Interesting In-teresting account of how the Creek Indians In-dians fish The method employed by these Indians is both peculiar amid Ingenious In-genious They gather n large quantity of devils shoestring a native herb and after pulverizing it In a gunnysack gunny-sack dump It Into Use river The effect of this herb on he Huh Is much the same as corn Juice on the unlntlated They become crazed and rise to the surface The Indians stripped to the breech clout stand on either bank with bow and arrow They arc such expert marksmen as to he able to hit a fish across the river I often takes live or six arrows to finish the larger fish The I women dress a sufficient number of the I catch and they arc cooked In many different dif-ferent ways for the feust Incident to sport of this kind The Indians are very hospitable and always Invite any whites who happen to be present to partake of the feast A preaching service ser-vice Is held as a sort of side attraction Kansas City Journal |