Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1914 — DIFFERENT KINDS OF FOOLS [ARTICLE]

DIFFERENT KINDS OF FOOLS

Comment of Indian Beems to Have Covered the Subject In a Pretty Thorough Manner. Some years ago, when the Apache Indians were on the rampage, a party of one hundred attacked an army paymaster, killed two of the escort, drove off the others, and captured the ambulance, in which was the safe containing $7,000 in greenbacks. They knew that there was money inside, and they first pounded off the knob with stones, thinking the door could then be pried open. It was a failure, of course, and then they tried to cut a hole in the safe with their tomahawks. They had seen iron softened by fire, and the next move was to give -that safe three hours roasting, but it was fireproof. After working in thia way for a day and a night they dragged the safe up the side of a hill and tumbled it down two hundred feet, but the only damage done was to break off the wheels. Finally they tried gunpowder, but not knowing how to apply It, the only result was the burning of a half dozen warriors. They then went away and left it in disgust, and it was fix months later when it was found by the sol-

diers, and taken to a fort, where the door was blown open, and the money recovered. When the Apaches heard that the safe had been opened, one of the braves who had worked hardest growled: “White man some fool, Indian more fool, and iron box great big fool!”