The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-12-19
STING euLl KILLED.

Il
ST. paul. MINI, Dec. 1s.-GeBeral
Miles last evening received dispatches
sEyfng that in = fight near Standing
Rock agency yesterday morning Sitting
Hull and number of Indian police had
been killed
The first dispatch was from Pierre.
/ stating that Sitting Bull and his son
4 had been killed, but giving no further
II particulars
4 The other messages were from Stand
u ing Rock agency and stated that the
II Indian police he'd starred out to arrest
h Sitting Bull having learned that he
II proposed starting for the Bad Lands at
Il once. The police were followed By 3
II troop of cavalry under Captain FOuchet
and infantry under Colonel Drum
II When the police reached Sitting Bulls
camp on the Grand river. about forty
m hes from Standing Rock. they found
Y arrangements being made for depart
\ uEre The cavalry had not reached the
camp when the police arrested Bull and
\ stated back with him. His followers
| szic'l1ly rallied to his support and tried
| to rescue him
In the fight that ensued Sitting Bull
d ds said to have been killed Five Of the
Indian police were also killed.
The capture was quickly made, and
/ 7the police were taking the chief out of
camp when a body of Uncapapa braves
rode mp and demanded the release of
their leadL-. They were met by a stern
refusal and st once attacked tho 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 a 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-
/ uOss, and the troops hearing the n
made all speed to the scene of bloodshed
I When they arrived they found Sitting
u Bull, five of his braves and seven of the
4 police dead or dying, The Uneapapas,
/ having rescued the body of their chief
l drew su1lenly OF and declined to fight
\ rabe soldiers
Great excitement followed tho death
! ~ Sitting Bull during the forenoon
she Indian drums beat loud Iy and signal
smokes shot up from almost every bluff
and hill Messengers rode post haste
from camp to camp and several headed
| for the BAD Lands to inform the hos
p. ties of the death of their chief
The Uncapapas openly threaten to
exterminate the Indian police and their
families, and are closely watched by
the troops
SITTING BULLS CAREER
| SStttng Bull was born in 1887. His ambush
| of General Custer first brought him fame.
| = Fevious to that he was ''medIcine chief, -
chose boast was that never to the white
| man had he signed a treaty. In the turbu-
lent times in 1874 around his standard rallied
1 the treacherous and discontented of all
tribes. He himself was regarded by many as
| a shrewd coward, and it is said by some that
| at the beginning of the fight with Custer he
| ned to a safe retreat where. seeing the awful,
! uneven conflict being given into the hands of
| ms countrymen, he rushed to the front.
/ plunged into the thckest of the fray and es-
! eaolished himself a chief With these mai
| contents ne coiiinitteo many oeprcdattons
| 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. Patrfck's day. He was
| defeated by Crazy Horse and forced TO re-
| treat IN May three expeditions pushed IN ~
| Sitting Bulls country. They were led iJS
Crook was again defeated.
Then it was that sitting Bull, looking f,p
| better quarters and better grazing land 3
| moved over into the broader valley of tn q
Little Big Horn, the stream made memorial
/ banks. General Terry's scouts cam
across the trail and promptly report
at once to scout the trair' and in looking
| for a man to lead he picked out the man who
| was at the head of his cavalry, the Lieu
| tenant-Colonel commanding the Seventh
| regiment cavalry Brcvct Major General
| Custer, of the United States army, brave,
dashinE. impetuOus warrior. but ~ the event
/ proved a soldier lacking in Judgment to deal
| with an enemy cunning the sioux.
| Custer was the ideal leader of the charge,
| brave TO rashBess and ambitious rs a
| Cesar, but he was not the kind OF a leader to
| scout a trail" He was too ready to fight.
June 20 was the day named by Terry the
day on which he and Ciibbon would reach the
| valley of the Little Big Horn Custer was
| expected from the east the same day. Custer
| disappointed them. He got there ahead OF
| time-twenty-four hours too soon The Sew
enth cavalry was with him few miles
away was Crook with 2,5G0 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 the
river. when Custer first caught sight OF it
he drew rein, took of his broad trimmed hat,
whirled It about his head and shouted: "Cus-
te-'s lucki The biggest Indian village on the
/ ContinentP' Thousands of wigwams faced
the indomitable Seventh.
As he plunged down the slope Il the
last that Reno and his men ever of him,
and soon he was hidden in the clouds of
dust
The story of Clusters charge was never
learned from who followed him.
They all had galloped to their death The
tragic history is but the tale as IL was told by
Indian scouts and the men who had done the
massacre.
Sitting Bull fed for life across the border OF
the Dominion Here he stayed until 1850,
when he surrendered to the United States on
promise of pardon