Bob road who lives on a farm two niles north of town find raises
cabbages and home brew and makes a specialty of selling boose to the
Indians had a party of five or six Indians at his house last Sunday
night. Ir. head rot drunker than the Indians and when he wanted the
party to break up he got a six shooter and began to shoot about the
cabin.The Indians staropeeded• ’r.He d says he cannot remember anything
of v/hat happened. But from \ hat the Indians sav it seems that in the
great hurry to get out that they all ran over Ir. Head except Cap
Goodietawwho had been drinking too. Cap put "his hands out in front of
him him as he ran and his hands struck right into hr.Read’s face,and
he could hardly get them away. Dick b.*ck grabbed the gun away from hr A
He.d and threw it out into the yard and when Cap got his hands out of I
hr .Head ’q face it left his face in an av/ful mess. Cap was rather ex- *
cited bee .use it was rather dark in the cabin and the powder smoke went
to his head. Ir Read’s jaw bone was broken in two or more pi- ces and |
hi3 face and neck looked like a b..g of blue berry juice. f
Ir,Read was found in hip cabin the next morning lying on the
floor but no Indians in eight, The Doctor brought Fr.Rc-d to town ana *
sent him to the hospital, re s ..id it was about the worst smashed up *
in a fight he h*d ever seen. It took some awful hard punches with a {
fist to smash up bones like that /ay but the skin was not cut ,ny.
Telling boose to Indiana leads to lots of accidents „ hr Re .c’
sold some to Lloyd Bell last fall and Lloyd get ir j ,il for six won trip
while his wife got on as best si;c could, he sold it to Tom Dell ,,nd
Tom ran over r, bank and. ’wrecked his car .mi nearly killed himself, Tom 1
has a wife and two children. Ir.Head 'as sold boose to lots of other
Indians and when the Indians buy it ,nd yet drunk and fight they have to
go to jail and I r.Head rad another accid :.,.t .nd sold some boose th.,t be
had race - no he got in j .il hir.seIf for si. months and p.,id a fone of *
£00,00 and he still likes to sell boom to tie Indians, \
Trie Indians are ioolish to buy x :c ,r c aT c noose oe cause incy
havevives and children that need the money and these Indians mostly work
for the Ry, and /..-'5.0. and Mt.cn they yet run!: they loose their jobs
then the Gov’t has to feed them if it cm , r,he Gov’t b s ^ school ,nd
r hodpit ,1 for the Indians that cost .... lot of money but ?:r .Read’s boose
counteracts a lot of the good that those do* Ir Read wants ail the
money the indi ,rss have for boose but he says he hates Indians and he
calls their, aaful n mes. That is probably why he started, shooting,.
>hen Ir/Read started shooting the Indians were so frightened
aid so mud they did not know wh>,t all they weer doing to Ir.Read’s facp
home Indians arc like some white men and «re poor sports,
They sneak out at night .nd buy 7r•Head’s boose and when there is an ace
accident they want Ir•Read to have all the blame.
I r ,^c >d is a very nice ra. n to meet and he works hard on his
farm and keeps it lookirf fine and ncf?.t, fc r .ises lots of nice straw#*
berries • nd vegetables and hay and other things besides boose, He has
lots of friends because he always behaves like u gentleman when he is
sober and when he is not selling boose to Indians,
rr,Reud will be in the hospital quite a long time as a result c;
of this accident.
Cap Goo diet a/ v/ ill "be ir j .il ouitc . long tire as a result of It
this accident, C.p Goodietaw has awife .and tv/o small children.
Some people think it is difficult for anyone to help the
Indians as long as ir,head sells them lots of boose and they tpjflk he
should not do it,
?cople seem to have different ideas .bout Indians*, ~qme people
think they should be treated as tho they had no rights and no feelings
Some people would give them all the rights and priveleges that they
ask for and would not hold them responsible for anything# \nd some
people would give the Indian and would demand of the Indian, just tjrps
same that they would a white person under the same circumstances q,nd
when they understand the same. Some people think that the worst th|pg
that can happen to an Indian fs for people to act toward him as thq \ie
were a fool or a child who is not and never can be responsible for wjaat
he does.