Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-24

sTINKING BEAR FRIENDLY OGALLALLA CHIEF.
before every one of the sufferers had been at
tended to and then we went up to the Indian
hospital and worked there until daylight"
The wards are s:rupulously clean and every
comfort that can be afforded wounded men is
at hand. DIR. Hartsuff anticipated the greatest
possible demand for material and he is very
glad now that he took so much stuff up from
Omaha. Two Of the surgical features are ex-
traordinary. One is that fully half of those
who were hit were killed and the other is the
large number of those who were wounded four
or five times.
Had it been deemed advisable the wounded
might have been placed in, the Presbyterian
Church. but that edifice was too near the picket
line and rather difficult to defend in case of at
tack. Should the weather turn very cold, and
1t is daily expected to- that church some
other wooden building will have to be occupied;
the tents are too cold for sick men when the
mercury is about to freeze. A new frame build
ing work on which is being pushed rapidly. is
alongside the agents house. and that, when COM
pleted, will become the division hospital.
FUNERAL WITHOUT SALUTE.
The military funeral here has been Invested
of all its distinctive features by the disturbed
condition of affairs. Private Stone of troop b.
seventh cavalry, died the other evening from
the effects Of a shoulder wound received in the
Wounded Knee fight. Ordinarily the dead
troopers horse, fully equipped, and with his
late riders boots in the stirrups would have
been a feature in the cavalcade, but it was not
80 on this occasion. 1t was not the time to
mourn, it was the time to fight. The body was
encoffined and placed in a wagon, and behind
this rode battalion of the seyenth-troops A,
b, and X. A Sioux clergyman, the Rev. Mr..
Cook of the Protestant Episcopal Church, read
the burial service, and then the body was laid
away in a little cemetery without further cere-
mony. The customary volleys were not fred
over his grave because the sound of a single
shot would have greatly disturbed the friendly
Indians and might easily have caused trouble.
One of those little mysteries which are SO
numerous in this world of ours-a mystery
which will probably remain so until the resur-
rection morning-closed its activity coeval
with the departure of life from the body of
him who was known Richard w. Corwin
sergeant major Of the seventh cavalry. For
more than twenty years Corwin had been one
OF the best soldiers in his regiment, vet none
OF his comrades could ever find out where he
came from or who he was The probabilities
are that his real name was not Corwin. but no
one knows what it was. He always said, when
pressed on the matter: "When l die nobody
will ever know more of me than now" He
spoke truthfully, dying at the battle of Wounded
Knee without a word. A number of persons
have written to the officers of the seventh,
making inquiry as to Corwin, but none Of the
descriptions given resemble him III any wav
He was fine-looking fellow and about forty
five years Of age.
STILL ON THE ALERT.
Gen. Miles says he does not for a moment
doubt the genuineness of the Indian surrender,
and it is certain that he feels as he talks. but
no one can dispute the fact that the fortifica-
tons are as perfect today and as fully manned
as they were when the hostiles were hourly ex-
pected to attack the place. On the north side
of the agency, on the brow Of a respectable
eminence, are two earthworks that on the west
side being occupied only by sentry or two
The larger work, on the east-known as Fort
Dougherty-is somewhat irregular in shape