Show I I I I I CAPTAIN JACK THE MARTYR OF THE THEY were preparing to hang CapA Cap Cap- 1 A tale tain Jack the Modoc chief There was a u harsh clanking of ot Iron ns as lie he rose to speak for himself and his people Let me die dl like a aman aman man not like a dog he said I am amnot amnot amnot not afraid to die dic but I am ain ashamed to toI togo togo go this wa way with my hands tied behind behind behind be be- hind me As he lie stood on the time scaffold at Fort Klamath Ore n u zealous minister tried to comfort him You must not be afraid to die h he said You ore are going to a 11 beautiful land where you will never nover want for anything ng Preacher replied Jack this country countr right here is good enough h for lor me You say bay U the other Is s a fine place nt aid 1 suppose you ou want to go there Ill I'll give you yeu U 20 25 ponies if It you ou will take my place I 1 dont don't wont to go right fit new w. w The minister declined Captain Jacks Jack's lentil marked the end of ot a war that had cost the United States more than half a n million dollars and amid lives white and red Who was as most responsible No Xo man cau calt say suy Captain Juck Jack and his Iris warriors mUrdered murdered mur mUr- dered General CUMby Canby and und Doctor Thomas peace commissioners who isho had bad come Into the Indian camp under undera n a flag of truce Twenty years eurs before n a Californian named Ben en Wright hind Had massacred nearly oO 50 O OIo Io under a 1 white flag Hag and had become a popular hero bero for the time deed Among these was Captain Jacks Jack's father futher Captain Jack was hanged banged but other with blacker records went free because they de deserted him and Joined the soldiers In iu hunting him down n At first he had protested at the pier to murder the peace commissioners Then lien some of his hits warriors placed a squaws squaw's hat on his hend a u shawl about his hia shoulders and threw him blip to the time ground Coward Squaw the they jeered ut him You are mc not a n Modoc- Modoc You w will u not die with a 11 sol soldiers soldier's bullet We Ve will save the time soldier that trouble SpringIng Springing Spring Spring- Ing to his feet he lie shouted I will do your our cowards coward's work even cven though it it- cost me my m. life lICe and und the thc lives of ot nil all my people The rhe white mans man's history records Captain Jack Juck only a as a n tl treacherous Had HUll he lie been a n white man perhaps It would have pronounced him hima a martyr Forced Into an nn act net which he abhorred waging a war wor which ho lie knew CW was teas hopeless betrayed ed by hi hU own men walking In chains to the Indians Indian's most disgraceful death death small w under that limit he cried bitterly What Whal chance for Cor Justice does the this Indian have hav with Ith you OU white men and your 1 0 whit mans man's law luw oue |