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Show CIIEYENNE'S HEAHSE. INDIANS USED IT Port ONC DAY AS A JAUNTINQ OAR Calrlad Mas a Mad lata "Stiff AimI Afler the Offl. Wea Orer Tfaa (old la the Clly I'ndarlaaar for On IletUe ol WhLaj "UoM Old !;." (Special Ltltcr.) When Cheyenne won a much smaller Place than It Is now, when. In fact, It was ao amall that one had always to speak of tbe piece aa Cheyenne City or stand tho chance of shooting, city lite was eharacterlxxl by a familiarity with the Indians which the town would now blush to own. Much ot the time the warriors of the Cheyenno tribe were street loafers, who had to be pushed out of the way If any one was In a hurry, but there were times when tho Cheyenne warrior drow his allowance In cash from the Oreat White Father, and then ho was nn object ob-ject of consideration until ho had spent It. There was a society In Mill, sdelphla which looked out for tbe Washington end of the transaction on the scoro of philanthropy and Indian rights, and made sure that the Indian got the cash Tbe cltltens of Cheyenne Chey-enne and erery othor town which had an Indian agent looked after tho other end of the transaction and saw'lhst the Indian rcitorcd the gorernment funds to speedy circulation by spending spend-ing quickly. If not welt. On ono such pay day thsro was a particularly largo sum coming to each Indian, I'osilbly some of hla rery shadowy rights to something which he did not use and norer could use had been purchased by tho gorernment At any rate thero was a distribution which turned each wnrrtor loose upon tbe business community ot Cheyenne City with something In tho neighborhood neighbor-hood of 12,000 In the enrly stages of a plains community thero aro not many specimens ot tho pleasure rig, The rolling stock Is for tho most part composed com-posed ot quartermasters' wagons nnd tbe almost equally cumbrous ambulances ambu-lances used by the officers at the post Hut It Is nerer long beforo a commend- without serious damage. After the spree was orer the last ot Its succession succes-sion of Indian owners took the hsarss back to the undertaker. It was an elephant ele-phant on the Indian's bands) there was no use. for such a wagon In the Cheyenne rlllago, and be waa willing to sell for a thousand dollars, ror "a hundred hun-dred dollars, ten, Are, two bits and a bottle' of whisky, on which last.tsrms the transaction-was completed. It ts not of record that any of the first eltliens of Cheyenne objected to being carried In this conjreyence because of Its lapse from sobriety for a single day of Indian extravagance. THE IIEAIlSnON.ITS IIOUNDS. able spirit ot enterprlio Introduces a bcarse. At tho time of the great payment to tho Cheyennes the new heorso waa the only ornsmeulal wheeled wheel-ed conveyance In Cheyenno City. This hearso caught tho eye ot a warrior with nioro money under his blanket than be had orer had before. Horn catching his eyelt was" no long step to exciting his desire to own that vehicle ve-hicle and to celebrate In stylo. That's Indian nature, at least tho kind ot In-dfrui In-dfrui that people' know on the plains. -It look rery hearty all tho money he had, tjul bo bought the hearse and a team of alx mules cbinpleto. There wouldn't be ally surplua for. the Indlin but for a miscalculation on the port 'ot tho undertaker In setting his price. He made allowanco for the Indian's spending money a little tnoro freely than was actually the caio, Howerer, tho surplus wss not lost to the general gen-eral circulation, ot he tufrency The warrior and his squaw got on the box ...... ,.. - U.UIU nil m style. As other Indinniof sending la tho trlbo were encountered the hearts was popped and they v.ere Invited to get aboard, 'When they had filled erery arnlUbte Inch pn tho root of the conroyimee, other Indian passengers were crowded Into tho box and sat behind be-hind the glass panels looking solemnly solemn-ly out, upon the world When the hearse could not be made to hold another an-other Indian tho outfit set off at a gaUop on a tour ot the business houses which particularly appealed to their custom A their money Rare out, or at they succumbed to tueJr too great purchat lkg power, the first batch of Indians dropped'ott thejieersand fell by tie wayalde, bqt thero were othora keen to take their places, and tbe vthlds passed from one Indian owner to an other for a rery small consideration! Nerer before had a hearse been con-eerned con-eerned In such an orglo. Hut thrones y. all some sort of luck looked out for It; It bad fallen on disreputable ua but It came through the wild debauch HHHaataasas. |