Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-12-20
SITTING BULL KILLED.

ST. PAUL, MIMI, Dec. l0.-Generhi
Miles last evening received dispatches
saying that in fight noar Standing
Rock agency yesterday morning Sitting
hull and q number OF Indian police had
been killed.
Tho first dispatch was from Pierre,
stating that Sitting Bull and his son
had been killed, but giving no further
particulars
Tho 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 q
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 onsued Sitting Bull
is said to have been killed. Five OF the
Indian police were also killed.
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 lead,.. 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 the
Uncapapas closed in on the police For
few moments the firing was contin-
nous, and the troops hearing the din
made all speed to the scene OF bloodshed.
When they arrived they found Sitting
Bull, five OF his braves and seven Of the
police dead or dying. The Uncapapas,
having rescued the body of their chief,
drew sullenly of and declined to fight
the soldiers
Great excitement followed the death
of Sitting Bull Dtrng the forenoon
the Indian drums beat loudly and signal
smokes shot up from almost every bluff
and hill. Messengers rode post haste
from camp to camp and several headed
for the Bal Lands 10 inform the hos
tiles OF the death Of their CHI Ief.
The Uncapapas openly threaten to
exterminate the Indian police and their
and are closely watched by
the troops.
SITTING bulls CAREER
Sitting Bull was born in 1891 His ambush
OF General Custer first brought him fame.
Previous to that he wa medicine Chief"
man had he signed Il treaty In the turbu.
lent times In 1874 around his standard rallied
the treacherOus and discontinued OF all
tribes. He himself was regarded by many rs
u shrewd coward, and II Is said by some that
ut the beginning of the fight with Custer he
fled to q safe retreat where, seeing the awful,
uneven conflict beinggven into the hands of
his countrymen, he rushed to the front,
plunged into the thickest of the fray and es.
tabllshed himself a chief. With these NAL.
contents he committed many depredations
upon settlers and refused all terms OF pence.
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 strong force. He
met the Sioux on st. Patrlck's day. He was
az kad i,xyN an1 fnrcsh m ra.
treat In May three expeditions pushed into
sitting Bulls county. Th.y were led by
Generals Crook, Terry and Glbbon. June II
Crook was again defeated. ttqs,.s
Then IL was that Sitting Bull, looking Tor
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's
banks. General Terry's scouts came
across the trail and promptly reports
ed II to him. The General decided
at once to scout the trair' and In looking
for man to lead he picked out the man who
was ut the head of his cavalry, the Lieu
tenant. Colonel commanding the Seventh
regiment cavalry, Brevet Mator-General
Custer, of the United States army, brave,
lmpetuous warrior. but as the event
proved soldier lacking in Judgment to deal
with an enemy as cunning as the Sioux.
Custer was the ideal leader OF the charge,
brave to rashness and as ambitious as a
Caesar, but no was not the kind OF leader to
''scout trail" He was too ready to fight.
June 20 was the day named by Terry as the
day on which he and Gibbon would reach the
valley of the Little Big Horn. Custer was
expected from the east the same day. Custer
dIsapp0InSou- vnSm. He got there ahead Of
four hours too soon. The Sew.
enth cavalry was with him. few miles
away was Crook with 1850 men, but Custer,
even II he knew Il, would have none of them.
He seemed to want al the glory for the Sew
enth and himself. Sitting Bulls "vlllage'
was hidden from sight under the bluffs of the
river. When Custer 1rst caught sight of lt
he drew rein, took of his broad trimmed hat,
whirled II about his head and shouted: SOUS
ter's luck The biggest Indian village on the
COntlnentw Thousands of wlgwams faced
the indomItable Seventh.
As he plunged down the slope II was the
last that Reno and his men ever saw OF him,
and soon he was hidden In the clouds Of
dust.
The story OF Clusters charge was never
learned from q man who followed him.
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