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! The Hn'titihgfo 1- Defnccrat says■*!*»• .. it # «• **vlt; h - -; • t j %/* , .i ..that White Loon, an aged Indian living near Roahoke.Hmittngtoh county• jis becoming very feeble and. cannot •possibly ilive but a short time.White Loon has many aequantarices* * •■* ■* • 4 ' j • jamong the early settlers of Wabash county, who remember him as a devil; may-care Indian, given to drink and inclined to be quarrelsome when drunk. Still with all his well rem embered faults, it will sadden their# % t M %. 4i '■j hearts to hear That his spirit willf t *soon wing its flight to the “happy• r \ rhunting grounds*” The Democrat savs of him: i5 ‘Doon is upwards of a hundred years old* lie remembers all the skir-fcr , •niUhes his trilye had with the whites at the settlement of this section. Years airo he would show a string of*? oscalps of whites slain in battle ormassacred, when somewhat cxhilira-*ted by'liquor, and dance around the room to the music of their rattb. Loon reinmbers a battle fought at Lewis' crossing of which no historical mention is made.”
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Fowler Benton Democrat
Fowler, Indiana, US
Fri, Jun 16, 1876
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Sarah K.
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