Good Old Days Jan. 21

8 years ago

The Commoner

Jan. 16, 1891

The people of this place had a genuine Indian scare last night and for about half an hour every man in the city was arming himself with all the Winchester rifles and bowie knives that he could get hold of.

The dispatches in yesterday's Review announced a rumor that the Nez Perces Indians, a few miles from Moscow, had taken the Messiah craze and were preparing for war. As a matter of fact, the Nez Perces Indians are the most peaceable in the United States, but the report that they were putting on the war paint created an uneasy feeling just the same. Two...