AN ADVENTURE WITH INDIANS.

Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 7, 18 September 1906, Page 2

AN ADVENTURE WITH INDIANS.

In Cyrus Townsend Brady's “Indian Fights and Fighters” is a tale of two scouts, Trudeau and Stillwell, who carried to General Carpenter through 1 an Indian infested country the news that Major Forsyth was being besieged in the sands of Beecher’s Island by a*thousand warriors. Here is one incident of their journey “During this day a large party of scouting Indians halted within a hundred feet of the wallow where the scouts were hiding. Simultaneously with their arrival a wandering rattlesnake made its appearance in front of the two scouts, who were hugging the earth and expecting every minute to be discovered.

“In this way the rattlesnake was as deadly as the Indians. The scouts could have killed him easily had it not been for the proximity of the Cheyennes. To make the slightest movement would call attention to sheir hiding place. Indeed, the sinister rattle of the venomous snake before he struok would probably attract the notice of the alert Indians.

Between the savage reptile and the savage men the scouts were in a frightful predicament, which young Stillwell, a lad of amazing resources instantly, and effectually solved. “He was chewing tobacco at the time, and as the snake drew near him and made ready to strike, Stillwell completely routed him by spitting tobacCd* juice in his mouth and eyes and’ all' over his head. The rattlesnake fled. He could not stand such a dose. The Indians presently moved on, having noticed nothing, and so ended perhaps the most terrible half hour the two men had ever experienced.”