Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-06-19

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man was shot and he by an Indian full
of tanglefoot. This Was the extent Of
the uprising.
The Sioux commission to date has Sc
cured about 800 signers at Pine Ridge
agency. Old Red Cloud is fighting the
measure and is inclined to be fractious
about it. He is trying to incite his
young men to riot and has ordered the
commissioners off the.reservation. It is
needless to remark that General Crook
and his companions have not, as yet,
gone. The commission express conf
dence OF obtaining the requisite number
of signatures regardless of Red Cloud.
Eastern people will find shortly that Red
Cloud and his clique are small minori-
ty of the Sioux nation.
The ways Of Providence are mysterious
and past understanding. Sometimes we
are inclined to think it does not do all
things for the best. Sitting Bull is
slowly recovering from an attack of the
pneumonia and old Red Cloud is alive
and in good health.
The 'sgreat and good" democratic
party, the friend of the :'down- trodden
laboring class" and deadly enemy( y of
all monopolies and corporations, will
make its next national fight under the
leadership of the same millionaire rail
road manipulation aud bond speculator,
Cal Brice, as it did last year. This is
only one more instance Of the glaring
inconsistencies Of that "party of the
people"
From the Flood.
Rev. J. Logan Sample of this city is
in Johnstown assisting the Presbyterian
relief committee. The following, taken
from letter from Mr.. Sample, written
on the 11th, to G. G. Polk, will be inter
esting to many:
came here last night, slept in the
cars. and saw the ruins for the first time
this morning. 1t is simply indescriba-
BILE. Square after. square of the town,
built compactly together, have been
crushed and mashed and piled up in i'm
mense masses. Some streets are filed
up with debris from ten to twenty feet
in heighth. Thousands of men and
hundreds of teams are engaged in clear
ing it away. 1t is now eleven days since
the food and it looks as if they had not
yet begun to clear up matters. Dead
bodies are still being found. I saw two
this morning; one in coffin, and il
seemed to me at first to be large and
powerful colored man but it was not.
could not imagine how any one could
recognize or identify it. The other was
the body of female just found. She
was badly bruised and fearfully swollen.
Two men had her laid on rough boards
and were cutting the clothes off of her.
They had to strip her naked in order to
wash her completely off and put her in
such condition that her friends might
recognize her. Altogether it was a hard
looking sight.
I have met with one friend who lost
his wife. am now in the Presbyterian
headquarters, and trying to make myself
useful in different ways. A woman came
into our quarters yesterday. She had
lost her husband and nine children, and
had no home or relatives left. Out of
another family of twenty but one was
left A young lady came in who had
lost her father and mother and brother.
I might give one case after another
where fathers and mothers, sons and
daughters, brothers and sisters, etc.,
have been lost. In some cases whole
families have been swept away. Rev.
DR.. Beale a Presbyterian minister and
his family had a wonderful experience.
The food came into their second story
near three feet, surging and surging, and
they left and went out on the roof of
other houses, crawling and climbing for
nearly square, making for tall brick
building. They reached il in safety.
II you could see the place now you
could not imagine how they ever got
through. Many of the escapes seem mi
raculous but I cannot describe them now.
A troupe Of fakirs travelling together
and calling themselves an s'allied circus"
are billed to appear in this city on
Wednesday, June 26. The outfit is nm
worthy Of patronage, il the statements Of
newspapers throughout Nebraska are to
be believed. The party carries every
thing they need with them, not even pat
ronizing hotels for their board. The
whole number Of ''stars" travelling with
it is three or four, the leading one being
an aged elephant at least the bills on
the dead-walls SO announce. The fee
for admission is not named, and iudg