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Show II il I Smoke From the Weekly BbV fill If is i IP 4 j- jmj'- III fill ; . Tipe. " i M . Ill TWO ENCAMPMENTS. Rr Iff "It is a grand pity that the valiant troops of th,e Hp f National Guard did not arrive on the zephyr-car- H) f ' i I ressed slopes of Utah lake In time to see some of B If tl10 m'mlc hostilities enacted by the stiffened and H j i I I bent ranks df the old Black HaAVk veterans. They B i would have seen some military maneuvers against B 'If tile fleet-footed redskin so thrilling, that they B i fill Would would have thirsted like the young Spartan I lis? of olcl for tne combat- B j ; J 4 Around the shores of the lake there is much , B n I !l undergrowth and many sapling well suited for B It the concealment of the wary warrior who wield- B I ; i eth the tomahawk. To these a consignment led B II ky 'Chief Wunkumilp, with crimsoned visages B Il and arrayed in the picturesque habiliments of the B j ; I i Indian warrior of '64 made a detour and awaited BBS 1 1 j B ; I II the approach of white scalps and other portable B 'if ; , I trophies. A second band, following the black B ', , ! j f plumes of Chief Hitenrun, swung out to the left B ' if and lay "hidden in a lair of bullrushes. The other B u ; ' j flank, where the hawthorn bloomed and the frog B i i ! sang soothing staccatos, was ocupied by a berifled B ' squad, led by that heroic sagamore, old Chief Pro- B j boscisred. Everything was now present and B ; j ready for gory battle except the stage coach. B 'l f This came hurtling over the uneven glebe in B lit due time. The coach was loaned for the occasion B i i ! ' by Elder Jones', who ceased using It for the ffim- B mi l ily accommodation early in the sixties. To insure B":U1 '' a r"sL ll(3e uk'aIm5L lll waiting foe, Elder Beiry B v 1 1 j proffered the use of his gray mare, and a "glver- l '' 1 jj ment" mulei whose tawny hidQ had shed bullets B '' I:! like 'hail in ye ancient days. B j ) ; a j ! As the coach swung into the deadly circle, j jj': " If Chipf Wunkumup came to on the extreme right Bj , i ' I and he and his" trusted ones sent a volley of bul- K l ; I ( lets into the coach from theii blank cartridges. m In At this the gray mare swerved, the mule's ears H ij( u j shot skyward like a pair of flails and the old B jb coach swayed dn a dizzy angle until it looked B s I likefthe misshapen home of a mound dweller. I I ft1 Theh the coach did a foolish thing'. "Pursued by B " F j ? Chief "Wunkumup It headed on a straight line for B Pi J I the ambush of Chief Hitenrun, who slept with II il oneeye open and the other on his musket. Hiten- B ' I ' 1 1 run's band lavished a heavy fusilade on the coach H y II andldodged the answering chorus from the coach. B jl I By this time old Proboscisred, who had been deep B jjj iJ j . in the. narration of an anecdote of Black Hawk, BiLmli j sprang from his lair like a phantom from Tippa- H H j canoe and entered into the assault with tumult BBB Ifili and jVim. H jjfjj f By tliis time the men in the coach, and little H I J Dorothy, were almost out of ammunition, and H 1 1) the red circle' was within a few yards of the H !f I coach. Nothing 'held the invaders back but the H U r I defiant and sonorous trumpeting of he old mule. BsS 'if Wha't was to be done? "We shall see. H ) ft General Cometooften, who had been out on a H I I, launch eating crab salad with other generals and veterans of the war, had heard. the firing and ordered or-dered the launch shoreward with all possible speed. When he arrived on the scene the redskins red-skins were executing a fiendish war dance around a tall pole on the apex of which were the scalps, of two of the whites. At first General Cometooftcn withheld the order or-der to fire from fear of wounding little Dorothy, 4 who was dallying playfully with the buckskin fringe on Chief Hitenrun's trousers. The case was despeiate. The problem was solved by General Cometooften, who is a marksman so expert that he could hit a runaway sawmill at 50 paces. Kneeling on the uneven sward, he plucked off three of the dusky warriors. The others fled in consternation and confusion. The wounded and dying plunged and leaped like East-side acrobats. For half an hour the battle raged. During 'this time, the mule, seeing a good opening, made a whirlwind dash for the lake, and when last seen was two miles out and still swimming. But ,no earthly force could resist the intrepid onslaught on-slaught of General Cometooften and soon the last of the Blackhawks had made a hasty journey to the hunting pastures where the sun forever forgets for-gets to set. By this time the day had waxen old; old Phoebus Phoe-bus cast a handful of flickering gold upon the rippling waves of the lake, blinked redly over the gory field where the battle was fought, and disappeared. dis-appeared. & : & As was stated before, it was a great pity that the young members of the National Guard could .not witness this war like exhibition. Indeed, it may bo said that it is an irretrievable and unspeakable un-speakable disaster. A. K. N. |