Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-27
SITTING BULL.
Arrival in st Paul of the Celebrated
Chieftai MIR. Mclaughlin, the
Chiefs Chief, Interviewed.
st. Paul Pioneer Press.

Yesterdays Northern Pacific train
from the west brought into st. Paul
Mai James Mclaughlin, agent at
Stan ling Rock, his son Harry, Sit
ting Bull, the famous chieftain, the
latter's nephew, One Bull, and Will
liam Whitesill, interpreter and former
scout, better known on the plains as
Sport. Pioneer Press kilograms had
announced the coming of the distin-
guished party, and thousands thronged
the Merchants all day, eager to catch
a glimpse of the Sioux chieftain who
cost the United States government
sundry millions and the army valu-
able lives by scores Pushing, jost-
ling, eager, uHappeasable, the people
crowded into the corridors leading to
Room K, assigned to the Sioux, and
the appearance of either of the In
dians, in their picturesque garb was
the signal for the ebb and flow of the
mob exactly similar to the NANTES
tatiOns when Sullivan, the slugger,
was at the merchants. Sitting Bull
has over and over again been describ-
ed in the Pioneer Press, and before
he leaves st. Paul most of the citizens
will have seen him for themselves
lie is fatter than when he camo to
Standing Rock from Fort Randall,
and very different IL appearance from
the thin and ragged warrior who sur
rendered by proxy to Maj Brother
ton at Buford. Ia the afternoon
Mai. Mclaughlin took Sitting Bull to
II. H. Kelly's wholesale establish
ment, but had to flee from the mob.
Monday morning Joseph Oppenheim,
president Of the board of education,
and Inspector Murphy will pilot the
chef through the public schools, and
he will go to the tneater on Monday
evening.
A VISIT AND A TALK.
Between s and 9 in the evening Maj.
Mclaughlin and the chiefs visited the
Pioneer Press, and the aborigines
were surprised, though they didn't
show it, by telegraph, telephone, fire
alarm gong, steam heaters, etc. Sit
ting Bull sent telegram to his son in
Chicago, saying that he had been sick,
but was much better, and was answer
ed on the instant The telephone
broke him all up, and forced the first
exclamation from him. One Bull was
placed at an instrument IN one room
and Sitting Bull at seperate one IN
q room 100 feet distant. The latter
listened, started, grinned and then re
marked ''Waukan," evil spirit Sit
ting Bull is not a good talker via the
medium of an interpreter, but in
answer to persistent questlOnings the
following answers were received:
/ am very much pleased with this,
my first visit to the white peoples
home / am glad to see so many
whites. Your tepees are very big and
very high. I never saw any so big
before IF the Great Spirit has mercy
this year, my people can raise some
good crops on our new farm at Grand
River. Last year the corn grew high,
but didn't amount to anything. I
have not heard from any of my band
VINO are in the Queens dominions
since ] left Randall I have heard
some reports about Indians dying there
for want OF food, but | can hardly be
ieye 1T. I suffer a good deal with the
pain in my chest (he smokes too much
is the trouble probably, and have had
1t a long time. The reason [ didn't
90 to the Iowa state fair, or to the
Cincinnati exposition, was because
Of my sore chest (appealing to Major
Mclaughlin to confirm the state
menD.
Sitting Bull was taken to the varie-
ty show in Bismarck, and sat stolidIy
through why Did They Dig Mas
Grave SO Deep" ana other touching
ballads, but when the fairy form Of
her who floated through the highland
fling came upon the scene, he
was all alertness, and for days talk
ed Of her graces. He is not bald
headed
STANDING ROCK AGENCY.
Mai Mclaughlin is we'll pleased
with the behavior of 4. 573 Sioux IN
der his charge at Standing Rock
agency The crops last season were
failures, and owing to the drouth not
spear of grain was harvested for a
distance of 100 miles south of Bis.
marck, by any cultivators-wh or
red. The Indians were somewhat dis
couraged at the loss of what is any
thing but loves labor, to them, but
are again encouraged and hope to do
great things from an aboriginal stand
point, this season. The prospects are
better as there has been much more
snow than last year AS soon as the
additional oxen are contracted for,
Sitting Bull and his band of 153 per-
sons will be allotted their share aud
removed to an excellent locality for
both grazing and farming, selected
last year by Maj. Mclaughlin. It is
forty-fve miles southwest of the
agency proper, and at the junction of
Grand river and StonewalI Creek.
Maj Mclaughlin will have enough
stores to feed mis- flock, partially, un-
til the end of the fiscal year He can
not give them treaty rations, how
ever, and this naturally causes dissat-
isfaction. The trouble is that when,
as ordered IN January, 1888, he made
out his requisition for supplies to last
until June 80, 1884, he ha3 $500 Ia
dians. Since then the department
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