Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-12-16

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When asked what he thought Of Sit
ting Bull as warrior, Mr.. Cody said:
Sitting Bull is q wonderful general
the greatest Of all Indian chiefs and
comparatively greater war general
than any white man know of. His
tribe of 5000 warriors and their families
starved almost for three years because
he said NO; the time has not come
when we must ask charity of the white
man. don't know of any white gen
eral who could get from 5000 to 10000
people to follow him on the verge of
starvation for three years, when all
they had to do was to cross the line
and agree to the government terms.
He would put them off by saying:
Wait till tomorrow; we may kill
buffalo. then there'll be plenty.''' Sit
ting Bull has eleven chiefs with him.
He has just turned fifty and looks upon
his engagement with Buffalo Bill as a
great big holiday. All the old chief
can say in English is :.Yor bet your
boots, . "Good evening" "Good, and
when he sees a pretty woman his way
of expressing his admiration is to say:
Il like YOU" When he was asked last
night, through his interpreter, how
much he was worth he said, with q
good deal of dignity, in the Sioux
tongue, that he was worth 1880, and
it took him nearly half an hour to count
on his fingers the twelve ponies he owns.
In St: Louis, while the Wild West show
was there. he gave q beggar woman
three dollars. that he had just made in
selling his autograph, and turning
around to Buffalo Bill, he said, through
his interpreter, that it was shame
that the white people let their poor
beg, adding that he didn' tlet his people
beg. Sitting Bull has been in seventy
six battles, he says. He has a cruel
eye and hard mouth and smokes
cigars necessarily, but does not drink
liquor.
THE COWBOY CAMP.
Indians and all Buffalo Bill has one
hundred and sixty-two people in his
camp, of which number twelve are cow
boys, including Buck Taylor, who is as
strong as an OK, stands six feet six
inches in his stocking feet, weighs two
hundred and twenty-five pounds and
hash t got an ounce of superffuous flesh
on his body. There are sixty-five In
dams, one hundred and fourteen hor-
SEES, eight buffaloes, seven wild steers
and number of other animals, and it
takes special train of eighteen cars to
transport this show from town to town.
Frank Richmond, the superintendent
OF the camp, said last night that it took
camp, two hundred loaves of bread, be-
sides vegetables and other eatables.
The cowboys live well and the Indians
won't eat anything but meat and corn.
It costs 81, 400 day to run the show,
and one item of expenses is 1925 week
for Worcestershire sauce. 1t takes fifty
pounds of coffee every day to supply
the camp.
"A Cowboy" said Superintendent
Richmond, "kicks more about his cof-
fee than he does about his liquor. He'll
eat tough beef and stale bread, but he
begins to shoot when the c0fee's bad.
They drink it black and straight. Sug-
ar and milk spoil the flavor for them.7'
Old Mother Whitaker, the wife of
"Pop' Whitaker. the veteran master
of ceremonies, so we'll known to Phila-
delphia and New York sporting men,
is the mother of the camp. She is the
only white woman in the party and
tends to the wants of all when wom-
ans hand is needed.
BUFFALO BILL GOING TO EUROPE.
I'm going to Europe in April" said
Buffalo Bill, land the show goes along,
to be gone for two or three years. I've
given up the stage entirely. Well
show in the Alexandria Palace in Lon
don, in the Champs De Mars in Paris,
and also in Vienna, Berlin, Moscow,
St. Petersburg ard hundreds of smaller
places. We shall 20 to Europe in a
special steamer" Buffalo Bill is for
ty-three years old, weighs 2lO pounds,
stands six feet three inches and has
never been sick in his life. He says
he has the largest thoroughbred stock
farm in America at North Platte, Lin
coin county, Nebraska. The ranch
consists of 5000 acres under one fence
and he claims the land is not wild gov
eminent land, but paid for by him. He
owns twelve dwellings in the town and
his own house is Western palace.
Recently, while in Chicago, he bought
forty-one head of imported cattle of
of the Hereford and Poll-Angus breeds
and paid on an average $461 apiece for
them. They were shipped to his stock
farm. He employs over 100 men on
qis farm and is worth $45),00O, He
has been a member of the legislature,
. probate Judge, high sheriff and JUS
tice of the peace. He says he is just
in his prime and feels like young
buck every morning when he gets up
horse with any man he ever saw.