Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-08-31

his brilliant exploits, hand-io-hand encoun.
tiers, races for life and miraculous esoanes
that marx his cheequerei career on The
plains, aud shall only present one IN This
sketch, which has never been published
and where nothing hut his presence Of
mind would have awaited.
II was in the fall Of 1865 the war haa
not, i Is true, broken out IN all rs fury
but both the sayages and the government
were hurrying their preparations for the
impending struggle; our scouts aud the IN.
dian runners" were al Ike rapidly passing
from post 10 post AM from camp 10 amp
with orders from the resp ,cliye leaders 10
prepare for the great war now inevitable.
In September, think il was. Of the year
Just quoted, party Of Indians men.
women and ehiliren, an asscmblage OF del.
egates merely, from the yarlons tribes
lhet AZ Fort i.arned 10 receive Their annui-
ties and goods promised them BIZ the stipu.
lAtlons Of The fareieal treaty made on
Medicine Lodge creek only few months
before by the so-culled ..psa commits
sion"
Tn Sc Indians numbe.el some six thou
sand. and they were suriy ard defiant 10
the verge Of endurance. During their so
ionm theirs q more than week, at nigh.
seated arounl their numerous ,.lodge-
fses" the young wauors delighted III ne.
ialing, Ia their graphic manner 10 the
oiirels and enlisted men who. from curl
osIiy, fFeaueuged Their camp on 'Pawnoe
Fork, short distance from Tie POS. a, this
time all tile horrid details OF their bloody
batrhegies AMI Tobberies on the santa II
traila ard IN the defcncsless little settle.
aeRss they had committed year previous
to The signing II The treaty above referred
10 and sor which, b. lis i palailons. they
Regr - be held guil,less, and a,s9 permit.
tod 10 keen, ID TeSccable possession. every
thing they had tobled The innocent set.
g.e,s Of Il my he well d lntcFfol8te
bore tie fac, that tits gtca, government
has never yel indeinnllea the people gor
lhasc murders and rphbsyie' committed bs
is wards, ami which il con .oaed BY sol.
rmn treaty nbllgailoak
Satanic, the celebrated war chief 81
tbs KloNss, was the iesdlns spirit ia all
I ,hs hauiI atrocities Nhlch marked the
long and bloody struggle IN Kansas from
I 1905 10 1859. when shoFol galy whipped.
F dsrimasei ard subaaed, the Indians SUI.
rendered Internationally 10 tie gallant
I General sheridan. and ~ him were forced
10 their sesesai reservations IN the terri
Iasy."
sssania was short. ihlct-Fei, chubby
individual. ,l,s scry incarnation Of 90 plai
WAS cruel. snsrclless and bloed.,hIriy; b
was the 'sTheyendapcsa'' q his era, whet
he even cAocllrd in his dlalsollcai at:oe
Z lisck bat be unfortunately died quietly Il
captivity instead d, being hung which b
- aessrsniiy tnsTitcd
| When IN martial array he always won
thr full uniform u maloF.general pro
stnlcd 10 him b. Hancock. IN 1896, Rf,c
.he laurrs expensive bui frnlilcss cam
paisn against ihe Plains Tribes In hi
summer a shsi year. and = patchcd.uI
FrAas was declared.
Thal uniform was little setdy 10 b
surc. bui thc ylllAinpns Ola chief swelle'
with srtf.impauanec when dressed In IN
generals rii,, and seated in his four-mul
ambulance stolen from sume rass.n
government iralu that summer hc va
driven around the yaa extent Of counir
~ claimed IL l.c sole altocFa, u by one q
hls desky iiekey'.
General snlly commanded tho "Disiric
a ,hc Upper Arkansas which ,eTriiot
tnoirded al that scope q country frui
ra,s Riley 10 the To-, 81 The Rocky MouF
taiss with headquarters a. Fort llarkt
an tic "Smoky iiilI" None Of iac pI'
r,,e.l movements against the hostile tribe
baA A. early as September, isGs, been -
auru,a.ei. but Sa,ania months before hH
sWrp, down on tic saline river and I
tributaries. massacrclng indisrriminaiell
n Inc most cruel manner, men, wome
ans rhiidfvn who had jus, iak'n posscssio
az Inc beautiful valleys and werc maxim
, for themselves homes under The reqnin
mcn,s Of Aic several United States lai
laws.
Itc also kept his bands Of Young wa
riors constantly ont on the 'oyerlar
trail attacking the coaches on their We
10 Denver and Santa Fe, numbering the
, re- a engers and robb!ng the malls ~
/ government trains, loaded with suppli'
on rou,e 10 the various military posts we
Too especial objects Of his cupidityi y
, transfers we've lnhumanly buichered' u
mules run On and the wagons after havii
, tesm Numbered, were burnt Yet all U
time he permitted these atrocities pre'en
"a % be friendly TO the whites, thrown
, Inc responsibility upon the Cheyenne
, rrappaboes and comanchcs, whose me
~ declared he could not control.
one evening in the month ani year "a
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