Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-09-15
SITTING BULL.
raE FALLEN SIOUX cn,rFrAiS.
MS visit 60 Bismarck. Dakots-Not Inter
ested In General Grant, but Pleased
win tho Fire Department


engineer.
At Bismarck, Dakota, Sitting Bal!
had bis trst ride on q railroad We'd
nesday evening. He had como nearly
sixty miles in a wagon from Standing
Rock agency to Mandap, and from Man.
dan hence, Eve miles on the train. This
novel method Of transportation interested
Sitting Ball greatly. lie believed that the
train was stationary, while the ground
passed rapidly to the rear under the super.
intendcnce oi magician employed by the
company.
With about seven thousand other Sioux,
Sitting Bull is now held in honorable con
finoment at Standing Rock agency. He
lives under an amnesty for all past Offences,
conditional upon good behavior. He is
suspicious, crafty, and dangerous. CAL,
another chief held at Standing Rock, Is
regarded by his keepers as even more
treacherous than Sitting Bull. The posi-
ton of the three hundred soldiers who
guard these seven thousand Sioux is one
which exacts constant watchiulness. The
good Indian Of the party is u chief named
Running Antelope. He has just come
back from a visit to the fair at Minneapolis.
His report was short, but significant. He
took Sitting Bull to the bank of the river,
whore tho brush was thick, "There are
more white men," said Running Antelope,
ethan there is brush along the whole
Missouri"
1t was with great difficulty that Major
Mclaughlin, the Indian agent at Standing
Rock, induced Sitting Bull to go to Bis
marck, Dakota, to decorate Wizards pro
gress aud to attend the corner stone ccre
monies at the site of the proposed state
capital there. Although Sitting Bull has
been in measure reassured by his treat
ment since arriving, he is not quite certain
that there is not plot to spirit him away,
in violation OF his amnesty, The Sioux
neither keeps his word nor believes III the
truth of those with whom he deals
On the breezy hill, mile and bali
from Bismarck station, where the state
capitol is to stand if Bismarck finally sue
ceeds in making itself the capital Ot Da-
kota, Sitting Bull aud his people were
surrounded by curious thrOng OF specta
tors--German professors aud English no
blemen, Wall street brokers and cowboys,
members of Congress and men who have
pleaded before Judge Lynch. MIR. Carl
SchuIz was pointing out Sitting Bull to a
party of Germans. and pointing out the
wrong Indian. Flying BY, handsome
youth in green shirt Spotted Horn Bull,
Tall.as the Clouds, Crow Eagle, Gray
Eagle, Bone Tomahawk, Two Bears,
Drag the Word, a suffering chief, and
Holy Ghost were the principal warriors in
Sitting Bulls train. The distinguished
lady was Beautiful Feather, the eldest
sister of Sitting Bull. She had as her
companion Sparkling Eyes, the wife OF
Spotted Horn Bull.
Sitting Bull is now about 60 years old.
His lazy lite at the agency has made him
faf ~ 10 hal th..n h..
corner stone with suspicious interest. To
the speech of Gov. Ordway, late of New
Hampshire, and the response of Mr.. vi
lard he paid not the slightest attention.
The music Of the most remarkable brass
band east or west of the Missouri stirred
him little. A miniature cowboy showed
him a wood cut likeness of himself in a
Bismarck newspaper, and he nodded aud
almost grinned. The appearance Of Gen.
Grant failed to interest him, but he sur
veyed with evident admiration the chief
marshal of the Bismarck fire department,
who wore a red flannel shirt trimmed with
gold fringe two inches long.
Through Major Mclaughlin, he was
asked what he thought OF Bismarck the
first city he ever saw. Sitting Bull
grunted few words, at the same time
spreading his hands far apart and then
prlnSlug nls lOrenngers together thus '.
The spread OF the hands meant tepi, or
wigwam. What Sitting Bull said was
that Bismarck was big tepi. He went on
to explain that he had visited the place
years ago, when his grandmother was
alive, aad that it was then called Place.
where apples.grOw.
"Wbst do you think of the ceremony ,"
asked Mclaughlin.
Big medicine" said Sitting Bull
A little later the fallen chief of the
Sioux was exhibiting his progress in civil
izaton by selling his autograph to the
British ariStocracy at the uniform rate Of
one dollar aud half for each signature.
Shonka-haska, or Long Dog, one of the
head chiefs OF the Sioux at the Standing
Rock agency, wore on his breast a small
bronze crucitix. He delivered himself of
the following speech
My father was Rec. My mother was
Sioux. We want no more lighting. We
are good. Ws make no more trouble We
tight only when they make trouble with
us, Twill shake hands with any man who
is not my enemy. We want no guns aud
nothing with sharp point to it," Then
Shonka haska lighted very lack cigar
shook hands with everybody and said
How " in the most amiable way.