St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-10
SIOUX AT SMELLING.
A B, nd of Ghost Dancers
Being Civilized at the
Barracks.
The Broadway Bridge Piers
to Re Built Above High
Water.
Ills Friends Done Up by the
Nerve of a Thirst Dis
peller.
Endowment Concerns Invest
igated by the Insurance
Commissioner.

A dark brown smell, about the tinge
of a basket of pups, as Bill Nye puts it,
came creeping out from the guard house
at Fort Smelling yesterday. 1t was no
reflection upon the ordinary cleanliness
OF the post, for it came from the copper
cOlored bodies of seventeen full-blood
Sioux warriors, who were grouped about
in that military place of detention. 1t
came all day until Col. Jewett. in com
mand in the abseLce of Col. Mason, or
dered the civilized luxury of thorough
bath and cleaning up. The noble red
men, contrary TO expectation. did not
object; in fact, they rather rel
iShed the idea. So by the time a
GLOBE reporter got there the
dark brown odor was disappearing
rapidly and the seventeen bucks were
rid of tie alkali dust, gumbo mud and
the vermin they had been carrying all
their lives. Their black, matted locks.
which had hung down their backs, had
disappeared, and they were as closely
cropped as one of Warden RandaIl's
EetS at saltwater. l heSe seventeen In
dams were arrested two weeks ago at
the Lower Brule agency, for partlcipa-
ton in the ghost dance, but were re-
leased upon promise to abandon it;
put they resumed the ghoStlY dance and
were rearrested. They may be released
shortly and may possibly be confined in
definitely: no one at the fort can tell.
w. ii. Egan, post trader, who talks
Sioux With cultural tiuency, and \. 5.
Wood, now playing an engagement at
Lifts Grand. who can also talk this
beautiful language, were present. and.
afaat.f 4,
talk of the sale of portions of their
dress, managed TO get in few ques-
tons. Walter Dean, who was lacking
for attractions for the Harris, dropped i'll
about the same time, and, though he
spoke nothing but West Seventh street
English. had not been there five min
uteS before he had closed Il deal with
Crazy Bear for his moccasinS and
with Blue Deg for his hat. The
mOccaSinS brought 81, after sharp
dicker. and the hat changed hands tor
half that sum. The Savages Knew the
value of the. coin, and would have sold
the last rag on their persons. Still, they
we're very fair looking lot of redskins.
even before their bath. They are above
The average in Indian ShrewdnesS and
intelligence, and are not as dtpravnd 4
set as some of their enemies would
write them down. When the interpreter
asked If there was any among them
chief above the others, q really civilized
laugh went round, and the grunts,
which had been the only answer to
some questions, evolved themselves
quite rapidly into outlaws. For the
mOst part They were well dressed. some
Of tht III even affecting considerable i'll
the way Of Ornamentati0n, though the
war paint was conspicuous only by lis
absence. 'roa man they wore their hair
long, very long in fact, falling in
straight lank locks down their 1.-the
hacks. Their names, pronounced by
their own lips, would stop University
car on The Wabasha hill. Nh Egan got
them down, with the translations, as
follows:
Mato-W etko, Crazy Bear; Pa-ha-
Kuya, Chasing Crane: Wame-la-W auku,
interChaser; Mato-he- haka. Bear Elk;
We-chaste-Cigna, Little Man; Sunka-hi-
hOta, Blue Dog; Cheton-he no waste,
Pretty Voice Hawk: Waukan Wechasti,
From Above; and Eagle Thunder, John
Logan, Button, Running Rather, Slow
Glower, Fool Elk, Gunny Sack, Lodge
and Grinder.
The oldest buck in the group declared
his age, in signs, 10 be sixty-two years,
and the youngest announced he was
Just seventeen.