Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-17
WILD SIOUX CHIEFS.
SCENES ON THE BATTLE GROUNDS
 WHERE CUSTER WAS KILLED.

SCENES ON THE BATTLE GROUNDS WHERE CUSTER WAS KILLED. shrewdness of the Indians in Eludins Cap ture - "Reminiscences of the Famous Battle-A Gallant Old War Horse-A Woman Changed Into Stone. Clusters battle ground" said H. S. Park, the artist and correspondent for Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper, lis ono of the most curious places l ever visited"
 MT. Park has spent several years at various places in the western territories. II was saying that the battle ground was peculiar" continued he '"The fight, you know, took place in a valley on the Little Big Horn river. We'll, all about that river and far in the distance on either side arc low, un- dulating foothills, covered in summer with most luxuriant wild grass and the greatest variety of wild flowers possible to imagine You can find almost any conceivable color there In the distance, just over the first low hills from the river, are other hills covered with some wild pines and shrubs, character istic of the high table lands Blending the bright green grass and many colored flowers and trees with the clear sky and the bright running river, you have a scene for a painter. OUTwITTING A GREAT COUNTRY ..
 '.It was here that the heroic Custer fell on June 26, 1876. The points which got from the Sioux and others while at Standing Rock were to the effect that Chief Gall, and not Sitting Bull, led the attack As to the Indian who killed Gen. Custer, it was Rain-in-the- Face. Custer had no sooner dismounted to engage in the fray than this chief, who, with his band, was ambushed in the wild pines, shot him dead. Then the Indians rushed in on the troops and engaged in wholesale butchery.
 "All the able bodied Sioux of the 6,OOO and more now at Standing Rock agency took part in the battle, except the old chief, Sit ting Bull, who, as now clearly established was away, and thus after long years it de- veloped that Sitting Bull, who was credited with leading the attack, was not there at all Crowfoot, son of Sitting Bull was, however, and it was he who surrendered Sitting Bulls gun. As for Sitting Bull, he claims that he never did surrender.
 We call this great country, but is it not odd that though this battle occurred back in the middle of ls76 Chief Gall was not cap tured until the winter of 1SS1a Crowfoot, Sitting Bulls son, finally surrendered at Fort Buford, D. T., in 1882, and Rain-in-the e-Face, who was captured shortly after the massacre and confined at Fort Lincoln for murder, es- capped, and it was not till 1881 that Rain-in- the Face finally surrendered at Fort Keogh. The government was long while also in capturing several of the other prominent In dians
 'There they were out in the hills all this time successfully eluding the troops, and the war was protracted for years, a mere hand full of Indians, comparatively, standing off the entire government force. It seems impos- sible, but here the Indians were, now dodging the soldiers in tho mountains and now dash ing in among them and killing more and fly ing away again.
 THE STORY OF OLD CoMANCHE.
 "But at that battle where Custer was killed something occurred that have never seen in print. Capt. M. w. Keogh, for whom Fort Keogh is now named, rode a magnificent charger called Comanche Capt. Keogh was everywhere in the thickest of the fight Re peatedly his gallant horse bore him where fire streamed heaviest from Indian guns. Keogh, though wounded two or three times, still kept his seat and renewed his charges.
 ''There were successive advances and re- treats until the battle extended all up and down the valley. The fight was at random and general, every man for himself, and at last when the massacre of troops was com plele, duu OluelS VlSlUeu lnaU b6CClo ground, they found old Comanche four miles away from the attack, his dead rider by his side, and the gallant steed with seven balls in his body.
 ''The faithful war horse was so frightfully injured that no one had hopes of his living, yet with one accord they became his attend ants. A surgeon was especially detailed to extract what bullets he could and prescribe for him. It was long struggle but finally Comanche began to mend.
 ''He was with difficulty removed to Fort Standing Rock and the secretary of war is sued an order that henceforth old Comanche should have soldier especially to attend to him and that no one should ride him.
 1.-The fort and agency of Standing Rock take their names from an exceedingly queer looking rock which towers up on the pralries. In the distance, and even after the observer comes closo up to it, it looks strangely like @ withered up old woman of gigantic size.
 1.-The Sioux call the old stone figure a petri- fled squaw, and they have a strange legend of how many moons ago, in the days when the Sioux were of giant size, this squaw, who had been the daughter of great chief, refused to do the bidding of her lord and master, himself a noted chief, and was forthwith changed by the Great Spirit to stone. Her terrible fate Is oftentimes quoted now to the Sioux wives and maidens as a reason why they should render implicit obedience to the many stall wart bucks who may have things they wish done. San Francisco Examiner