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INDIAN HISTORY HISTORYEditor HISTO , Editor Times IndependentDoan Independent IndependentDown Do\\ Do Down Don Doan \ \ n near Rincone in the Amasa AmasaBal AmasaBarton Bal Baiton Barton ton cabin lives Ilves a old Indian caned called canedI canedJIm calledJim callJim I Jim Jce Jee He is now 83 years old and andblmd andblind a ; , blind blmd He Is fs as true a friend as t thf3 the thf3"hite thewhite p " white "hite hite settlers set11ers setllers ever had This wasshown was wasshown w shown when Dick Night came back backfrom backfrom ba bafrom from Flagstaff with a false beard on onand onand and otherwise disguised He had been beena be , a cowboy for the Texas Cattle co com corn comp'lny cornpiny ? piny p'lny plny ' before he " went "ent ent sent to Flagstaff This Thistime Thistime Tltime . time he came back to prey on the thepeople tpeople thepeople ' people of Bluff who had bought out outthe outthe cthe , * ; the Texas Cattle company He gavo gave ga Q 12 head of cattle for one one'small onesmall Small ' mule muleI muleThis mu I This AHU was tva too hw much tiiu n for im old UILT Jim JUJIu\ JUJIu JQC Joe \ , , He decided Night was stealing stedling the thecattle thecattle - cattle so he went "ent ent tent " and an " got Sheri Sheriff SheriffWillard SheriffWillard Wlllard Willard Butt who arrested Night and andit andit ar arit . . it was none too soon for he had sold . 65 head of cattle to the Navajoes and andwas andwas . .j j was I icady ready eady to get out of the countryHe country countr He got three years in the pen Hehad He Hehad g had his trial at Provo and Jim was the themain themain main witness I , too had to t goTwenty go goTwenty T\\enty T enty Twenty \ years ago General HugIT Hug1i Hugif HugITScott LScott L LScott Scott went down to these noted cabms cabins cabinswhere 1 1where where he found this friend , Jim JO Joe ( ' , ' , I Iwho who talks pretty food ' { good ooa English Hehad He HeI Hehad le I had \ with Ith him a Piute Plute from Moenkopl Moenkopi Moenkoplwhom Moenkopiwhom whom I 1 knew from boyhood He "ht ht bad had badalways " hadalways Id always lived with the Navajoes as assheepherder a asheepherder asheepherder sheepherder , hiving hwing having ' been 'been ostracized ostracizedby ostracin ostraclze J Jby " by his own people He still talked talkedgcod talki talki.j gcod PlUte Piute General Scott sent hun bun to to the Navajo mountain m untain to Old OldP01k Polk P01k and Posey that if they would wouldsurrender wouldsurrender surrender he w'ould would viould ' show them the thetime thetime thtime time of their lives He promiseiTse promised promisedTse promisedTse Tse Ne-Gat Ne Gat - - he would be tried but not notconvicted notconvicted noconvicted convicted nor any of the others foranything for forl foranything anything they had done A general hasmuch has hasmuch much authority when a foe surrendersScott surrender surrenders surrendersScott ; l Scott kept all hfs his promises Did he heshow heshow show them t1).em t1.em t1em ) . a good time ? " I 1 will wilt tryand try tryand tr : ana and remind the reader of some of them themYou theirYou You will w1l1 remember when they got goton goton goon on the tram train for Sail Salt . take ake City Clty , Poseylost Posey Poseylost Pose ; lost his hls hat The train backed up am and andgot andgot Rot got it If the president of the USA USAhad U S A Ahad had been on the train and lost his hat hatthey hatthey they would have told him to buy an- an another an - other one Not so with Posey Every- Every Everybody Everybody - body showed them a good time The Thepeople Thepeople people almost fed them to death 1.oe 1oe The 1.oesame Thesame ' " Th . same thing thmg haopened haDpened hanpened when they went wentto wentto wen wento to Denver The whole United states statesmade Statesmade made more fuss over the capture of ofthese ofthese o these few simple Indians than If Gen Gen- General - GenIeral eral Scott had captured the Russiai RussI9n Russian RussI9narmv Russianarmy Gen-I Gen I armv army or Japanese Ja1)anese Ja1anese Jananese ) navy Theie Thele There neverwere neve\ neve never neveI neve \ " were \I I ' \ . ere more than 125 men women an and andI andchildren children in this band Shell Shenff Sheriff ! Henry HenryWood HenryWood Henr I Wood and I had nearl nearly } ' all the men mentOlether mentogether me ; together tOlether ! at one tl tlnc thnc tine nc There There.ere wer \.ere .ere were wereonly \ . .ereonly . only 35 with two absentAn absent An Indian interpreter mterpreter is forced to tomeet tomeet t meet all an these unwelcome circumstances CIrcum I Istances stances if he wants to be n a peacemaker peacemaker peace maker I wint w'mt wmt want ' to say say-and say and - and 111 I11 say it ittIll ittill i till the diy d\Y d Y d'nY dnY ' \ ' I 1 die-that die that die that - that Polk and Posey Pcsev Poseywere Pcsevwere Pose were pood good men The cowboys insultedthe insultei insulted insultedthe the squaws sQua"s sQuas " whenever theyanted they ' \ wanted \\anted anted t to to2nd toand end 2nd and " when "hen hen then the Ind'ans Indans Ind.ans ' . ' remonstratci remonstrated remonstratedin in the roueh rough English as they knew it itIt itit H it meant they were beaten over the thewIthers thewithers th withers with a double rope It was wasterrible wasterrible wa terrible to see it Polk and Pose POSCj Posey POSCjou1d Poseywould ' \ would \\ou1d ou1d not stand for that I 1 can nam name namecome come ome who did often Now No\v No v \ , , Mr Whit WhIte WhIteMan WhiteMan Man if you had met this if you hadstolen had hadstolen ha stolen our land our water , our grasskilled grasskIlled grass killed our deer ; ; , whiprsed whip'Ced whipCed whipned ' us because becauseyou you vou were in the maiority m910rity majority , , what would wouldyou woul ' you think thmk ? " ' ' I have labored with five fivenations fivenations nations ; ; : all al1 tell ten the same story Thev They Theyall all acknowledge ackno\\ledrre ackno ledrre acknotledge ' \ the white race treated treatedthem treate them better than the Snaniardsraid Spaniards SDanlards Snaniards 'did did raid 'didMr raidMr ' Mr White Citizen , could cou1d you have haveacted haveacted acted any better it if you had been sub subdued dued and your country taken fror fron1 from fron1you fromyou you ? C L CHRISTENSEN |