The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-09-13
LIFE WITH The E D
Chat With the Chief of the St. Carlos
Scouts. %

SAA"e WIFI TIC Sn1eI OF the ST. carlos
Scouts.
Minneapolis Star.
Mr.. AL Sieber, who has for the past
ten years been chief of scouts at the st.
Carlos Indian reservation, is an old
Minneapolitan, and has been in the city
this week renewing his acquaintance
with friends, %cementing the ties of re-
lationship, and giving the lie to the
story circulated here a year ago that he
had been killed. Mr.. Sieber enlisted in
the First Minnesota during the late I'M
~pleasantness, and served throughout the
war with distinction until wounded
at Gettysburg When he returned to Min
neapolis on furlough, but rejoined his
regiment after recovering from his
wound and remained with it until the
glorious news of Lees surrender was
heralded throughout tho length and
breadth of the land. At the conclusion
of the war Mr.. Sipber drifted into the
far west, and finally landing in Arizona,
received his present appointment, and
except at rare intervals has remained on
the reservation ever since. The st.
Carlos reservation is located in the geo.
graphical center of Arizona and is 100
miles square. there being 500 redskins
encamped thereon at the expense of the
government. There are fifty full blooded
Indian scouts on the reservation. who
do patrol duty and bear the same rela-
ton to the reservation government that
police bear to the municipality.
The scouts have certain districts
which they patrol and are held response
BILE for the order that is maintained on
their respective beats, but they are in
sympathy with their fellow aborigines
and the United States troops on the res
ovation are held in constant reserve to
prevent possible trouble. Several years
ago five scouts made a savage attack
upon Mr.. Sieber and the commander of
the reservation, and Mr.. Sieber vet car
ries the result of the ARRAY in the form
of an ugly bullet wound in his leg. The
office of chief of scouts is an appointiye
one, the commander having the power
of comforting tho Office on the man of
his choice, and as MI. Sieber has held it
for the past ten years, it is proof of his
ability in subduing the t%reacherous In
dian.
81 like the life" said he, when COM
mcnting on his official career this morn
ing, "for there is an air of freedom
about it which you do not find in any
other vocation. 1t is only a question Of
a few years, however, until the last Of
the original inhabitants of this
try will have passed away and the In
dian will live but in the memory. He
has many points in common with the
negro, and his skull is as thick as a
board. This heavy zane which | carry
has frequently been tested on foreheads,
and when struck with all the force /
can muster will sometimes not
v bring out q sympathetic
grunt, and the victim of my wrath
is to all appearances unconscious
of the fact that he had been hit. On
distributing days the Indians crowd
around headquarters after their r%ations.
and it takes the combined efforts Of my
self and deputies to keep them in order
and thereby avoid possible trouble. The
deputies receive 40 cents per day for
their services and are allowed compen
sation If they furnish their own horses,
just like q member of the cavalry corps.
Rations for man and beast are dis
tributed at stated intervals. and we are
on the whole a very happy family, with
an occasional family jar to break the
monotony of everyday life" +