Show TINI HOE WON HEART OF CHEYENNE CHIEP WHEN HE COMES TO RECON FOR A RAID THE PEOPLE ARE KIND TO HIM white mother places place infant in arms arm of big horse hone latter say great flood Is I 1 gods god sign of appo altion to killing arapahoe okla john 11 II seger for more than 30 years a government ein cm aloye among the cheyenne indiana lit la oklahoma relates this story of how a massacre maag acre of the inhabitants of darlington indian agency many years ago was waa averted big horse the father of hubbel big horse the indian interpreter was a chief among a warlike band of in dlana on the ashlea river ile he and ilia his band plotted to pe to darlington and mabs acie all the whites at that agency grants grant a peace policy had bad just been well inaugurated and the following will bhoj that kindness can molt even the heart of a Che cheyenne enno wari wan lor hen this war party arrived near darlington they camped for the night on the west side of the north cana than dlan expecting on the morrow to go over and do the job they had planned fortunately for grant a quakers a cloudburst it a few days before up in fit demer beaver county raised the river go BO that night the banks were full their ob eject in killing these white employed emp loyen loyeK was to got get the provisions and cattle and horses ahe indians indiana reasoned that they would lose much of tho the sugar and ald flour in crossing the river while tho the banks were full so they derided decided to wait a day longer dig big horse sald said he be would go over and lecon the agency and find the exact location of all tho the white families lie ho met the agodt a 70 year old qua er who was a very kind hearted man ile he took big horse to dinner with him then he be went to see another quaker family and the tha little ladylike mother gave him her baby to hold bold that night when he went back and tho the indians smoked adz N C 7 0 1 I 1 the baby held out his hands handa to him the pipe around big horse told how kind the people were the hotheaded hot headed young warriors ready tor for the warpath karpath and pillage said squaw squaw call me a squaw it if you want to said big horse but you never saw the man nig big horse was afraid of of rhe next day the river was waa still up ad big horse told his warriors to stay in camp and he be would go over again this time the quakers treated hirn him even better than they did the da before the little baby knew him bini and held out ills his hands to be taken i the big old savage warrior took tho the baby and held it in hla his arms until it slept and woke again that night when he went back tt to camp arid and smoked the pipe around lie ho said these people when they eat re turn tura thanks to god this day the lit tie tic baby knew me and held up its ita hands to come to me I 1 held it while it slept my bravery has been tried on many a battlefield and no otie one ever saw big horse livorse run from an enemy my endurance has been tesley in the tha hunt but there Is a greit spirit lie ha sends mends the floods when there are no clouds lie he sends the fire from the skies ot of these I 1 have control now I 1 hove have a vow to make with yon my warrior warr loia s now the reaf rea spirit haa sent this flood when there are no clouds ile he does not want us to kill these people but it if the flood goes down tonight to night we me will take it as an a sign that ile ho wants us to do what we havo baj set out to do and we will go over in the morning and do just what wt w came hero here to lo do but it if the river 6 still up we will mill mum to washita and say the greet great spirit did not want these people killed I 1 the next dext T the north cana than dlan was out of its bars and all over the bottoms and the old chief big norge horse ld lad hla his war party back to thy the plains of what Is now ouster custer county t oklahoma and grants peace policy P 0 one re time saved bayed 0 9 handful of helpley help lek lebi e employed emp m loyes and their few women and from a mas scare are A m I 1 v |