The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-12-18

Sboa. hIiy.arc ysArs Cd. Being
IeeiOa, be VSt probably bora IN Ccntra
CT ScptaeIR nAkutA. EoGr R.Ars, hi
uHrlr, saws the placc Nas near old For
Georsv, Gu Willow crrck, near the mouth
o. the Cheyenne, On the Nrsi aide OF thr
Missouri HVps. His father vas ricl
CHIEF, Jumping iIGil. At ten years o.
age The IoG!An lad NaS famous Rs
hunter, his tAYoTiie game being buffalo
calves, His fAtbeI had hundreds OF pretty
Ehite, gray and roam ponies, and the
boy never wanted iot 4 horse. he kill.
ti more youae baaA!oes than Eny OF hts
mGiez, and Won popularity by lAvinR his
game a. the lOlSts OF poorer Indians
WHO were unluckY ia ias chase. At
fourteen he kiliS! al enemy his name
before bad brru Sacred lot wonderfully
! sIAndshot. When he had Killed this
man aud could boss! scalp, his
name Was changed to Sitting Ball,
though Why the old man didn't
know. He hAG tSo wives, wAi-Secn.
hy-the.Satiou and The-One.ThGt-lIAd.
FoUr.kobss, ii!s children were all
| bright, handsous boys anu giriS, nine In
number one, Hyoung man, when about
eighteen, VAS in Catholic school near
ChtcAr0. Sitting Buti hfnSeH WAS not
Catholic, ~ reported. 0ne little boy,
alI years old, bright us Il dollar, was
with him at Ballard Whea he sutTtn.
dered. AT tho formal pow.wOW the chief
put hia heavy rills in tue little fellow
hands and ordered him 10 give IL to
Major BrOthefton, saying: al Surrender
thus nile 10 you through my young con,
whom now desire 10 teach IN thia way
that ho has become tnpud OF the
whites, wish him 10 live AS the whites
do and be Taught 10 their schools. |
wish to he remembered "a the las; uRn |
o! my tribe who 1-yv up his Tils. Tits |
hoy has nov given Il to you and he |
wants 10 know how he is going 20 make |
living
PERSONAL ArrEAGAS,E OF TTE DEAD
cuiEr.
Sitting Bll's personal appearance ls
described by John F,nersy, who paid the
chief a visit at bis camp on Mushroom
creek, Woody Mountains, Northwest
Territory. The noted chief hai taken Il
TIP into the British POSSESSIONS to re.
LSaln unit! he c)Gd arrange Ior amnesty
tor dis CONNECTION wtth the upri5inSs OF
which the Little Big Horn or Custer
massacre was one OI the sarguiaary in.
cideEta, Nj. EiHeHy thus paints the
portrait:
soon siterEGrd an indian mounted
on a cfeaDI'colUred pony and holding in
his hand an caSIos wing which did duty
Gs n fan, spuTrst IN back Of the chiefs,
and stared stoiidly for n minute or two
at me. His hsir parted in the ordinary
Sioux fashion, WAS without aplume. His
broad face, with prominent hooked
nose and wide jaws WAS destitutc OF
paint. Ills fierce, half bloodshot eyes
g!eautd from under bEoWB which dis.
played large ptrceptive organs, and as
he sat there on his horse TpgG riding me
with a look which Seemed blended Of
and iRsolence. did not need
to be told that he was Sitting Bull. After
a little the noted savage disinOuntel
and led bis horse partly into the shade.
| noticed he w&s an inch or two over the
medium height, broadly built, rather
Gow-icEreI, and lLmped sIightly. ~
though, from an Old wound. He sal
upon the s'ound, and was soon eacir.
died by Il crowd OF young warriors with
whom he was an cspccia. favOrite Gs
representing the unQuenchable hostility
o! tbs aboriginal favage to the hated
paicfaces."
This hatred Tor the U h;trs distinguish,
ed Sitting Bull Rboya all other aluuS,
When he was engaged In hosti!iiies he
WAS as feyoci0us and blood.thirsty as a
beast o! prey, and his atrocities, or those
directed b. him, have earned him death
n thousand hmCs. In pCCce he was a
smooth liar and, protesting tho utmost
never failed to be iusolent
and insulting when the opportunity OF.
Tered. He was breeder OF discopteut,
and his bucks, ever since the campaign
which cuiuiGa!ed in the Fort Butord
surrender. have invariably kept on the
eve OF making "war medicine"
THE CacsEor THE MESSIAH CRAZE.
The Iessiali craze Was brought on by
the Bull, who in the last lew years
thought that tho agency sys:en: OF the
Government had tendency 70 impair
his iDApeDce with his men. lie desired
n sort OF counter.irritant, and no one I
will dispute the fact that he succeeded
in manufacturing it. BE calculated that
The Sioux, aud possibly all the blanket !
Indians OF the West, would rally around ,
his standard as the anointed OF the
Messiah, for old Sitting Bull had dreams +!
Of conGuea: and was another Ca3ar in ,
his ambition,