The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-04-04
AN INDIANS DESPAIR.
WILD HOGS ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

| In accordance with order of the Secreta-
ry of War, Col. Peter D. Vroom, command.
ing the post here, has sent 50 squaws and
| % children, widows and orphans of the late
| Cheyenne desperadoes, to the Pine Ridge
| Agency, to be turned over to Red Clouds
, people. The order to do this, received
| ftOm General Crook, says it is done in def
eneace to Red Clouds request The de-
| parture of these helpless and tired people,
| covered with wounds and gaunt with hun
| ger, was effected quietly and in the most
humane manner, under the personal super
vision of Col. Vroom, who provided five
| wagons for the purpose, with canvas to
cover them. and rations for five days
journey to the camp of Red Cloud, on
White Clay creek. IS miles.
ALI passed over quietly until they reached
the lower camp, where Col. Vroom had
Wild Hog, Old Crow, Left Hand, and the
other remaining bucks, numbering Is, in
irons. Here the scene baffled description.
Lieut.. G. w. Dodd, who is in charge of the
Indian scouts, and has great influence with
the Indians, was awaiting the arrival of the
trains to add the remaining women and
children there of Sioux extraction, when,
all of a sudden, among the Cheyenne wo-
men who were not to go there was set up
the most hideous wailing and gesticulation.
Aforemost among them, on little hillock
back few rods from the camp, heaping
imptecations, was the Hecate-like form of
Wild Hogs wife, the sister of American
Horse. With lean and shriveled arms, her
rags Haunting in the wind, stood this fe-
male demon, by her side half-a-dozen more,
presenting picture hardly paralleled IN
modern times. Lieut., Dodd Immediately
ordered a full and rigid search into the Sc
crets of the squalid lodges occupied by the
desolate and groveling inmates. First and
foremost the arch witch was looked to, and
No Flesh, friendly Sioux Indian scout,
was asked to go and disarm her. Striking
her breast violently with both hands, and
assuming perfectly diabolical attitude, it
was discovered, when she was approached,
that in one hand she had the half of pair
of sharp pointed scissors, and in the othera
fork, of which only the middle prong,
sharpened like a miniature stiletto, remain
ed. Disarmed she was taken to tent near
by. where it was learned she bad endeavor-
ed short time previous to kill one Of her
children, and had stamped on all the others
some of whom said they we're afraid of
their lives.
After the wife was taken. care of some of
the soldiers looked after Wild Hog, who was
found lying in his lodge, bathed in blood,
and insensible. A closer inspection showed
several stab-wounds from sharp instru-
ment near the sternum and below the re-
gion of the heart. These are believed, at
this writing, to be self-inficted, but the
half blade scissors taken from the wife of
Wild Hog would indicate that this terrible
woman, in secret moment, had dealt the
deathblow to her warrior chief rather than
see him taken in irons to Leavenworth,
where his many and shocking crimes would
be sure to bring him to the halter, which is
the only thing the Indian fears.
To SMOKE HANS writer in the Hus-
5andran gives this recipe for smoking ba-
con tTake tin pan or kettle of corn
cobs aad set them on fire SO as to mako
them smoke then turn bottom side up
over the smoking cobs, the barrel, or
whatever you wish to pickle or salt your
bacon in, SO as to thoroughly smoke the
inside of 1t. Burn at least two pans of
cobs under it, SO as to smoke it well.
Then pack the hams, shoulders, or other
meat that you wish to make bacon of in