Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-12
A DEAD LIEUTENANT.
The Sergeant Declares He Was Shot
While His Back Was Turned.
LOCAL RAILROAD AGENTS AT SEA.
Victims of the Morphine and Cocaine
Habits on the Increase.
SPEARlNG FISH AS A WINTER SPORT

The body of Lieutenant Casey, who was
killed by the Sioux Indians, passed through
the city yesterday, bound for New York,
where it will be buried. The remains were
in charge of sergeant who has been in
the Indian country for ten years.
The sergeant confirmed the telegraphic
accounts of the killing of the Lieutenant.
He said he 'had gone out to reconnoiter one
of the camps when he met the Brule and two
Ogallallas. Casey had turned his back to
the redskins to get a better view of
the village, when the Brule nred,
the ball passing through his head. The
sergeant stated that the soldiers were very
indignant, ana it was cold-blooded MUIR
der. Casey was popular officer and good
fighter.
Can't Be Conquered Without Slaughter.
The sergeant does not think the Indians
can be subdued without terrible slaughter.
1t is an unusual thing for them to fight in
the winter, but they seem to be well sup
piled with food and evidently had pre-
pared themselves. He has little faith in
the integrity of any of them, and he regards
then, as exceedingly dangerous and treach-
erous. The weather is very cold in South
Dakota, but this does not deter the ardor of
the fanatical savages who are bent on
fight. s~.
"You hear the soldiers side of the story
about the Indian troubles in the West"
said one of the guests at the Monongahela
House yesterday, "but we never get q state
ment from the reds. 1 haven't much con-
fdence in the honor of the United States
soldiery, since you can't get man who has
much respect for himself 10 join the army.
Thirteen dollars month and coarse rations
do not attract the average sensible Amer
ican, and my experience has been that the
ranks of Uncle Sans troops are kept np'by
foreigners.
II remember once in Arkansas soldier
was cut across the abdomen with a knife by
somebody. The soldiers tried to show that
Tin Cup, an old Indian who lived nearby,
was the culprit A party of troopers under
young Lieutenant went to his tepee to
search Tor the weapon. also went to see
how it was conducted.
An Insult to Squaw Resented.
"After looking through his miserable hut
and examining the Indian, the knife could
not be found. Search the squaw,' the
Lieutenant cried, and do it right.
She was anything but attractive,
but she was the wife of the redskin and he
loved her. The soldiers were rough in
handling her. and at the first offer OF any
indignities the old man knocked down one
of the men, with telling blow. To nae his
conduct was justiiable, but he was dragged
to prison and kept there for awhile, until 1
interceded and got him out.
''The Indians are not given fair show.
They have ideas of their own, and the e1-
hibitions of morality on the frontier are
such that they have no desire to
adopt civilization, and no man ac-
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them. The settlers in the West
do mucn to stir up trouble, so that the Reds
will be gradually wiped out They want
their land. and they look on it with long
ing and jealous eye. The average settler is
not much of>a man. have seen lots of them
living in wagons, with their wives and
children half starved, while they spend
their time cracking a big whip and hanging
around the wagon tongue"