Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-08
THE SIOUX AND THEIR CUSTOMS.

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 Deputy United States Marshal George E. Bartlett of Dakota, son of MT. George H.
 Bartlett, residing at ,250 State street. Cedar | Hill, this city, is visiting with his parents
 after years of absence. MT. Bartlett left New Haven nine years ago for the far West | and has become well identified with the sec- 1 tion in which he lives and has won both hon. | orable position and prosperity. He gave the | Omaha Bee recently the following interesting | account of the Sioux azd their customs, in which mention is made of Red Cloud who | was visitor In New Haven few years ago, | as is well remembered, and much other in l formation given worthy of attention. l Mir. George E. Bartlett, a trader on the l Pine Ridge reservation, was in this city yes I terday on his way east for business purposes | He called on his old friend MT. Emery, of the | Omaha detective association, and there Bee ! reporter had the pleasure of an hours chatwith ! him. MT. Bartlett is yet young man, but l his life from early youth has been spent among the Sioux, and he is as well ac- quainted with their customs, language and historyas member of the tribe. MT. Bartlett is not prejudiced by any interests to distort | facts, and as he is an intelligent and observ- | ing man he affords more facts of interest and l importance relative to the national wards of | the Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies than l anyone recently interviewed from those iron tier districts.
 ssThe Fremont, Elkhorn 6 Missouri Val | ley railway extension," said he in reply to a l question upon that point, 'has proven to the agency the most beneficial step yet taken in I that region. The line at Gordon is i only twenty-six miles south of the l agency and freighting from that
 point is not the tremendous job that | hauling supplies over hundreds of miles of plains formerly was. It is an interesting | fact, perhaps not generally known, that In dians are paid liberal toll for freighting l their own rations into their own reservation | There are now 5000 Sioux and about 300 | Cheyennes on the Pine Ridge, and they are all revelling to fatness in the liberal govern ment bounty. The cash annuity is past l but the clothing, rations, blankets and house. l hold goods are sufficient for their comfort Game abounds on the reservation, and every month two hundred and fifty cattle of butcher stock are driven in. These l the Indians kill and eat, selling the hides for $3. % piece to the traders. The In dians do not live in one great body about the agency as many suppose, but scattered over the reservation in camps and small | communities, five, ten, twenty and even if l ty miles from the agency. Each of these small towns, as you may choose to call them, 1 set up some male member whom they call chief, but his sway is mockery of the do- l minion of the warrior kings who in aborigi- nal times spread the glory and terror of the Sioux nation from the great rivers to the mountains"
 RED CLOUD AND MGILLICUDDY.
 "How about Red Cloud and his claim to the chieftaincy, and on that point tell me something about his trouble with Dr. McGil- | licuddy," asked the reporter.
 ''Red Cloud is weak minded old scamp, and his assumption of leadership is discoun- tenanced by the large body of the Sioux. He has the following of few Indians and number of 'squaw men, These last are whites 1 who settle among the Indians and marry sqaws. They are all almost without exception shiftless, worthless knaves, although know | one or two old fellows who frequently come into my store who are harmless, good natured men. But the 'squaw men as | class are troublesome lot, and it is they who have melted old Red Cloud to many of his kicks against the agent. McGillicuddy l has bad opinion of the 'squaw men and | has given them frequent occasions to under stand his sentiments. They therefore do not | love him, and have found in Red Cloud a l plaint toolfor annoying the doctor. That is the | truth of the whole matter. The Indians and all the traders like McGillicuddy, and believe
 him to be earnestly and singly devoted to the interests of the Indians and the promotion of l the peace, prosperity and growing civiliza- tion which he has established since entering his office."
 MURDER PICToRIALLY ACCOUNTED. MT. Bartlett had with him number of photographs of scenes about the reservation as we'll as the Hkenesses of all the distin- guished Sioux of both Pine Ridge and Rose bud agencies. 4 glance through the album
 with explanatory remarks on each portrait by MT. Bartlett is full of interest The photos were taken by an itinerant artist who worked to his monetary profit upon the vanity of the eddians. but the work is very good for all that.
 s'This is Spotted Tail, the great chief of all the Sioux nation, who was murdered oh f1xn end Mr. f1o4t pointed to card photograph of 8 majestic Indian seated on throne, clad in all the glory of feathered head dress, braided hair and beaded buckskin robes through the folds of which protruded arsenal of pistol butts, knife hlts, hatchet helves and other weapons of Indian warfare.
 ''And this is Crow Dog, the murderer of Spotted Tail," continued MT. Bartlett as he turned to cabinet picture. The subject was man in civilians attire, but with fea- lures of the strongest redskin cast. He stood
 in the paraded attitude that is common to photographic subjects under an artist of poor taste. One hand rested his weight upon & table, his left leg was thrown across his right and was poised conventionally on the point of it's boot, while his disengaged hand rested on his hip and grasped broad felt hat. The expression was as se- verely blank as the countenance can assume staring into space before a camera. The long hair which fell loosely over his should CTS crowned the whole and gave poor Crow Dog more the appearance of an Indian quack of the eastern village kind who was suffering from dose of his own medicine rather than the red handed murderer that he is.
 "What were the circumstances of the kill ing affair, and how did Crow Dog happen to escape the vengeance of the law and the wrath of Spotted Tails followers and rela- tives?"
 "The murder was the climax of feud of long standing between the two men, but as no one except the principals witnessed the affair but little is known of the circum stances. The two men met iu the road near the Rosebud agency one day. Pistol shots attracted men in the office of the agency, and on running out they found the great chief lying dead in the dust, the blood pouring from 8 half dozen bullet wounds, while Crow Dog stood calmly by relocating his empty revolver. Crow Dog was arrested, but some legal hitch secured acquittal, and he still lives among his people. Once in a while young Spotted Tail makes talk of vengeance, but he will never do anything. Here is his pie ture."
 MORE INDIAN PHOTOGRAPHS.
 The ''son of the old man" is a young buck about twenty years old, and had his picture taken in all the glory of 8 jeans coat, braided hair, laced front woolIen shirt and high ly ornamental neckerchief. He looks
  point of intelligence and prowess, most f'degenerate son of noble sire.'' Spotted Tail was a really great man, sachem and warrior among his people and clever diplo- mat in his relations with the whites. He, like the old Napoleon, had aspired to found dynasty in his tribe, but nature cheated his hopes with unworthy progeny and his family has fallen back to the rank and file
 Scares-the- Enemy had taken 8 splendid picture, and presented the finest specimens of redskin manhood yet seen in the album This buck is young man of wonderfully | fine physique and intelligent, well formed features. Alas, his record is tarnished by one piece of malfeasance. One day, after the death of member of his family, he l was obeying the customs of his peo pie by wailing from the summit of l a small butte, when 8 came along driv- l ing load of hay. In the agony of his grief | Seares- the Enemy took reckless shot at this | individual and hit him in the feshy portion | of the hip. For this outrage he served a |