Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-12-18

SITTING BULL DEAD.
The Turbulent Sioux Chief Shot By
Indian Police.
he STABS one OF HIS CAPTORS
Attacked BY Uncapapas, the Police Defend
Themselves Until the Arrival of the
Military Excitement In
the Bad Lands.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Dec. 16.-General
Miles last evening received dispatches
saying that in a fight near Standing
Rock agency yesterday morning Sitting
Bull and number of Indian police had
been killed
The first dispatch was from Pierre,
stating that Sitting Bull and his son
had been killed, but giving no further
particulars
The other messages were from Stand
ing Rock agency and stated that the
Indian police had started out to arrest
Sitting Bull having learned that he
proposed starting for the Bad Lands at
once. The police were followed by
troop OF cavalry under Captain Fouchet
and infantry under Colonel Drum.
When the police reached Sitting Bulls
camp on the Grand river, about forty
miles from Standing Rock, they found
arrangements being made for depart
ure The cavalry had not reached the
camp when the police arrested Bull and
started back with him. His followers
quickly rallied to his support and tried
to rescue him.
In the fight that ensued Sitting Bull
is said to have been killed. Five OF the
Indian police were also killed.
One of the police rode back to the
cavalry and infantry, and after telling
them to hurry to the support of the po-
lice hurried on to the agency with news
| of the battle.
The capture was quickly made, and
| the police were taking the chief out of
camp when body of Uncapapa braves
rode up and demanded the release OF
their leader. They were met by astern
refusal and at once attacked the po-
| lice, while Sitting Bull, drawing his
| knife, stabbed one of his captors and
| tried to break away.
Hard pressed by the swarming war
riors the police struggled for moment
and then began firing Sitting Bull,
| pierced by several bullets, fell dead in
| his tracks.
Moved to madness by his death tho
| Uncapapas closed in on the police For
| few moments the firing was contin-
uous, and the troops hearing the din
made all speed to the scene of blooGshed.
When they arrived they found Sitting
| Bull. five of his braves and seven oi the
| police dead or dying The Uncap&pas,
having rescued the body of their chief,
drew sullenly off and declined t. fight
| the soldiers
Great excitement followed the ieath
of Sitting Bull Dur ng the forenoon
the Indian drums beat loudly and signal
smokes shot up from almost every bluff
|
from camp to camp and several eaded
for the Bad Lands to inform thu hos
| tiles of the death of their ch. EFF.
The Uncapapas openly threaten to
| exterminate the India police anG their
families, and are closely watched by
the troops.
| BIOGRAPHICAL.
| Sitting Bull was born i'm 1897. His ambush
| of General Custer first brought hin tame.
| Previous to that he was Il ''mc;iicine chief
| whose boast was that never to the white
| man had he signed treaty. In the turDu-
| lent times in 1874 around his standard rallied
the treachcrOus and discontented OF all
| tribes. He himself was regarded by many as
! a shrewd coward, aud il * said by some that
at thu, beginning of thu fight with Custer he
fed to a safe retreat where, seeing the awful
uneven conflict being given into the hands OF
| his countrymen, he rushed to the front
plunged into the thiclIest of the fray and es-
tablished himself a chief. With these NAL
contents he committed many depre1atiOns
upon settlers and refused all terms of peace
In 1875 the order was issued to bring Sitting
Bull in or drive him from the country, and
| in March, 1876, General Crook started up into
the Sioux territory with a strong force. He
met the Sioux on st. Patrick's day. He was
, defeated by Crazy Horse and forced to re
treat. In May three expeditions pushed into
Sitting Bulls country. They were led by
Generals Crook, Terry and Gibbon. June L
| Crook was again defeated.
Then it was that Sitting Bull, looking fol
| better quarters and better grazing lands
moved over into the broader valley of the
Little Big Horn, the stream made memorable
by the charge that Custer made upon it,
banks. General Terry's scouts cam'
across the trail and promptly report
ed it to him. The General decided
at once to ''scout the tral'' and in looking
for a man to lead he picked out the man whit
was at the head OF his cavalry, the Lien
tenant Colonel commanding the Seventh
regiment cavalry, Breyet Major Genera
Custer, of the United States army, brave
dashng, impetuOus warrior, but as the even
| proved a soldier lacking in judgment to dea
with an enemy as cunning as the Sioux
| Custer was the ideal leader of the charge
brave to rashness and as ambitious as
| Caesar, but he was not the kind of a leader {,
"scout a trail" He was too ready to light
June 26 was the day named by Terry as tn
day on which he and GibbOn would reach tn
valley of the Little Big Horn. Custer wa
expected from the east the same day. Custe
disappointed them. He got there ahead o
/ time-twenty- four hours too soon. The Sev
enth cavalry was with him. few mile
away was Crook with 1850 men, but Custer
! even if he knew it, would have none of them
He seemed to want all the glory for the Sew
enth and himself. Sitting Bulls village
was hidden from sight under the bluffs of tn
river. When Custer first caught sight of
he drew rein, took off his broad trimmed hat
whirled it about his head and shouted: "Cus
ter's luck! The biggest Indian village on tn
Continentw Thousands of wigwalns face
the indomitable Seventh.
As he plunged down the slope it was tn
last that Reno and his men ever saw of him
and soon he was hidden in the clouds Q
dust.
The story of Clusters charge was neve
learned from a man who followed hin
They all had galloped to their death. TIL
tragic history is but the tale as It was told b
Indian scouts and the men who had done tn
massacre.
Sitting Bull fed for life across the border c
| the Dominion. Here he stayed until 1sS
when he surrendered to the United States Of
promise Of pardon.
The trial of the Grinnen murde case
at Macon City, Ga, has resulted in
| vardiok of aoouiTto1 Grin1o11 Ei11o