Ten Students, in Indian Garb, Raid Big Pioneer Expedition

Ten unidentified undergraduates spent a busy afternoon yesterday, if the word of one who gave his name as Chief Laughing Bull is to be believed. For, replete with war paint, blankets, feathers, moccasins, and blank cartridge pistols, the group staged an attack on the government-sponsored pioneer expedition in Warren, Massachusetts, just before sundown.

Understood to have Republican leanings, the group did not see eye to eye with the Democratic administration's plan of sending a commemorative pioneer wagon from Ipswich, Massachusetts, to Marietta, Ohio. "If the pioneers should be commemorated," said Chief Bull, "so should us Indians."

Modernized

Bull intimated that he and his men left Cambridge shortly after 2 o'clock in automobiles. Once in Worcester, they stopped to inquire about the pioneers and were told to go to Warren. The modernized red men covered the distance, which had taken the pioneers all day, in about 15 minutes. They saw their prey just outside Warren.

Here they took the field. Strategically they entered the woods, donned their paraphernalia, warwhooped, and then charged down a convenient hill. Unfortunately some of the group were so tired by this maneuvering that they were able to take little part in the battle which ensued. Only eight showed up for the actual attack, anyway, since one fell in a dump and another in a brook.

A Called Strike

The pioneer wagon had reached a little bridge just outside the town, and the Warreners were on hand in large numbers. Chief Bull struck the first blow. Leaping on one of the oxen, he tore at the harness traces. The driver of the wagon lashed out with his horse whip, and Bull took a called strike.

Another redskin tried his hand at scalping and went to work on the coonskin hat of an opponent. The hat, however, was tied on, so no damage was done, at least to the hat.

A third man in red got around to the rear of the wagon and fought his way inside. He counted one sack of mail and six suitcases and then backed out, not before being bitten by a particularly tough pioneer.

"Just Stood There"

"Most of them just couldn't believe it," said Bull. "They just stood there." Asked if the pioneers were big boys, the doughty chief said, "Naw, the guy that jumped on me couldn't have weighed over 50 pounds."

The yellow-bearded leader of the pioneers told reporters, "For a time it looked as if our expedition was going the way a lot of its unfortunate predecessors went. But it will take more than ten Indians to stop us. We're going to push on."