Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1916 — Detroit Conductor Suppressed Indian Uprising [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Detroit Conductor Suppressed Indian Uprising

DETROIT. —An almost Indian uprising was added to the metropolitan excitements of Detroit the other day. It was all over almost as soon as it started, but while it lasted, according to police and others, there was quite a

lively, time on a Toledo electric car entering Detroit. The report that first reached De-tective-Inspector George Larkins was that a band of Indians had captured an Inbound interurban car at the River Rouge bridge. The inspector called Detectives Stefnhabel and Gill from their task of identifying family door plates and rheumatic concertinas in the downtown pawnshops and sent them with Detectives Balone and

McKenzie in'the detectives’ flyej. to » quell the outbreak. Armed with riot guns, the officers sped out Fort street expecting to find the car crew duly bound to a fence post and scalped and the passengers robbed in true Western style. They met the big Interurban about a mile Inside the limits, proceeding on its way as if nothing untoward had happened. “Where’s them Indians?” yelled Steinhabel to the conductor. “Oh, I heaved a mess of ’em off at the limits because they wouldn’t pay their city fares,” replied the conductor. Proceeding further; the officers found one ancient Indian brave, who declared he is known as Chief Longwool, and five nondescript squaws carrying musical instruments. They told the officers that they were coming to Detroit to join a carnival troupe and had no intention of disturbing the “palefaces.” The “chief” was taken to the station, where a loaded revolver, found in his satchel, was taken from him and he was released. Meanwhile the female eontingent stood on the front porch at Police headquarters lamenting the fact that Detroiters are disinterested when if comes to patronizing Indian medicine shows.