The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-11-20

whether they would fisht 0eners
Crook or run to the Big Horn moup
tame and make . stand. Some OF "a,
warriors wanted to nsht at once, aud
~a,ie the council wa< In session ,
sioux scout Brought in word that 0eu
srai Custer was advancing Into tue BIZ
horn country. This intelligence MAI
uraiiy created an excitement. Rain
ie-ths-Face made great speech. tell.
ins the chiefs that they wele bstwsen
tneir shite enemies (Orook and Cha.
teri and eloquently urging them 20
hsfca across the country as rapidly a,
Crook.s ~pS''
After this "big talk" the Sioux war
,iors we're ready to ~ anywhere with
ks'n-in-ihe-Esce, who told them IN AZ
osonk was wslk-s.heap and very
III the asova statement il true.n
adas the correspondent, tit ia evident
that kdu-in' the-E Acc, although An
nhiettered savage snd scarcely know
Ing the difference between a psrspst
snd Gatling gun, had grasped the
"tusuon, aui with the Intuition OF
military gsnius, had determined 10 de-,
Aroy hts foes In detsil, aad that he
went 10 HIS task win the cunning of a
Won aud tho ferocity II y tiger, The
necessary delays Of Crook, the rapid
advances OF Custer IL 10 tina lev. ana
Tue division OF his command smost
WITHIN sight OF the pgttle-grouu a
aided the Indians' design, and whea
ma oiow c,me 1t was crushing"
Toe warrior further stated, Ia answer
=" questions, that in the fiaht with
Cu"er's force u party OF abou IL soi-
uiers shot their own horses and fought
behind them in "buncb;" that Gem
ersi Custer was ons of that party. and
that they all fought like great soldiers,
ana woald not give up tho struggle.
IN reply to the query whether Gen
erI Custer WAS the last white soldier
kliied, the warrior said tnat the smoke
~ Inc contest was SO dense when tn.
Indians rode rapidly around the
"nunch" ane flushed their bloody
work, they conld not see whether Gus
ter was then Silled or not. When
asked how many Indians were killed
IN the fight the warrior declined TO
Gnswer. The interpreter said, In ret
srence TO his, that although he had
oeen with the Sioux several years, he
could get no definite idea of the num-
per OF warriors killed in the Cus.sr
battiei that the Indians are supsrsti
hous, and do not ike to speak about
the dead, but he thought their loss
vas small, rs tho Indians "had the
CROP" and the fight lasted only 20
minutes.
Tho correspondent, referring to the
censure which was passed upon Major
Keno, for bis part IN the unfOr innate
affair, defends the course of that Of :
tlcsr, and says: "rhat Major Rene
saved any CT his men, envirOned ss he
was by a horde Of savages flushed by
victory and eager fer revenge, should
REBOUND tn HIS credit" Thus tar the
correspondence.
AtCuis late dsv no one will wish To
di~parsge ths valor, the Judgment and
40 military skin at the lamen,ed
caster. That hs ebould fall into "a fatal
ambush is u mistake that an oflic r
win less br very would be likely TO
nske; bpt Custer was daring ~ d i'm
pnislve. L. Is said that Revnolds, nj
scout, told him TO ego slows" that the
valley wss tuil OF Indians. ana that
they were III tho bush. The oppor
tunity for a fight ovsrruled all other
cons 'derations, and tho brave soldier
rode calamity TO his desth.-[Chiesgo
journal, November 0.