, 1885-03-26
H WHITE CHIEF.
How the Daring MajOv Z Frank
North Earned b as Title.
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His Exploits GAS the Captain of
the Ps&wnee Scouts.
Sioux " Warriors Annihilated
a5lhd a Village Captured.

man, who spent a number Of years in
Wyoming fighting the Sioux, recalls tC
the minds of our old settlers many inter,
esting incidents and adventures which
would make a most readable volume.
When a mere boy he obtained employ
ment at the Pawnee reservation and be
came a great favorite with the Indians,
whose language he o learned and fol
whom he became the interpreter. In
their hunting expeditions he was theii
leader, and in their battles with the Sioux,
with whom they were almost continually
at war, he frequently actedas their captain.
1t was in the spring of 1864 that the great
Sioux war broke out. The Sioux claimed
that they had been treated badly by their
agents and that their treaty st~ipulations
had not been lived up to. They finally
declared war, and frontier settlers of Ne
braska focked for safety into the small
town and built stockades. Gen. Curtis,
acting under instructions. organized an
expedition at Fort Kearney against the
h%ostiles, and at his suggestion young
North organized a company of Pawnee
scouts as auxiliaries. This was the first
time that any such thing as utilizing In
dams as auxiliaries had been thought of.
II proved quite successful, and after a
brief campaign, North, with the rank OF
captain, enlisted a new company of 100
Pawnees for duty against the the Sioux
in the western part of Nebraska.
In May, 1865, Gen. P. E. O'Connor,
of California. succeeded Gen. Mitchell in
command of the district of the plains,
with headquarters in the saddle. He at
once organized an expedition to the
Powder river and Yellowstone regions
against the Sioux. This expedition, in
three separate columns, marched to an
objective point by different routes, but
really accomplished nothing of very great
importance. The only fighting that took
place was done by the Pawnees while
they were out in advance on scouting ex-
peditions. In one of the scouts Capt.
North, with ~lorty-eight Pawnees struck a
party of Sioux and killed every one of
them-twenty six bucks and one squaw.
This party Of Sioux had been sent out
from Red Clouds band, and had had a
fight a few days before at Fort Casper,
fifty miles above Fort Fetterman, with a
lieutenant and fourteen men of the 18th
Ohio cavalry. They had attacked the
post and this lieutenant was ordered to
charge on them, and the result was that
the Sioux annihilated the whole party.
These Sioux had now meta similar fate at
the hands of the Pawnees. Upon the bodies
of the Sioux we're found the scalps of
the lieutenant and his fourteen men, to-
gether with articles of women's and chill
dren's wearing apparel, from which it was
supposed hat they had also attacked and
killed a party of emigrants. The success
ofths Pawnees greatly elated them, and
they celebrated the event by a grand scalp
dance in camp, during which they be-
slowed upon Capt. North the honored
title of the white Chief of the Paw
nees.'
The most important service rendered
during this campaign by Capt. North and
his Pawnees was the discovery of a trail
leading to an Arapahoe village of $50
lodges, or about ], 500 persons, of whom
500 were warriors, under command of Old
Black Bean. GAarr CAnnor completely
routed them, quite a severe fight taknl
place, Capt. North and his scouts beinl
in the front of the fight; The Arapahoe
were scattered in every direction, and fec
into the Big Horn mountains. One hun
dred and sixty-two warriors were killed
besides a number of squws and children
The entire village, which was quite ricl
in plumber, was destroyed by fire. Thu
Pawnees were rewarded for their gallan
conduct with the best horses by Gen
Conner.