Show t TALES OF THE TI-IE OLD FRONTIER s 's si i By ELMO SCOTT WATSON S S Se e 1943 1923 western W tern Union THEY SHOWED HOW A CHEYENNE CHEYENNE CHEY- CHEY ENNE WARRIOR CAN DIE IN THE summer of 1800 1590 Head Chief anti and Young Mule two young Northern North North- ern Cheyenne Indians on the Lame Deer reservation In Montana were accused ac- ac or of the murder of a boy named Hugh Do Boyle le When the authorities demanded demanded de- de that their tribesmen surrender del der the two braves brans the Indians tried to settle the matter according to their ancient custom They offered the largest largest larg- larg est number of horses and other Indian I wealth that had ever In the history of I the tribe been given a as an atonement I for killing a man but when the agent told them that this would not do the chiefs sent him this message You will hang Head Chief and Young Mule It if we give them up When a man Is hanged his soul cannot escape es es- cape from his body and It t too Is 11 killed That Is s no death for a warrior Let them die fighting So they announced that on n a certain date the two men would attack the agency and they expected the soldiers to be on hand to defend It This This This' proposition proposition prop prop- for n a prearranged pre and spectacular spec spec- spectacular suicide was a startling one but the agent a ent had no alternative but butto butto to accept it It On September 13 the day appointed a 8 troop of the First cavalry and the Indian police were drawn up In battle array before the agency On an all of the surrounding heights sat the to see seo the battle And wIth the stage thus set the principal actors soon appeared for their part In the drama That morning the medicine man had I anointed them In preparation for their ride to death They had put on their finest clothes and painted themselves Then singing their death songs Head Chief and Young Mule Mulo dashed forward two men against more than thann thana n a hundred Under the han hail of bullets that greeted them Young Mule went down But Head Chief seemed to bear beara a charmed life He rode unscathed past the line ot of soldiers and police firing pointblank at him until he be was out ot of range Then he turned and deliberately deliberately de- de rode back and this time a bullet found Its mark Later It was learned tat t Young Mule had had no part In Boyle but a mistaken sense of honor prevented prevent prevent- ed his trying to prove his Innocence |