Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-05
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Indian Chiefs From Pine Ridge Add to the
Strange Things on That Thoroughfare.

Strange Things on That ThOroughfare.
Hoo. hoo, Wow. wow, XII vi, vi Me heap
big Indian. Ne killo paleface, Me beatee
squaw. Me great brave and many more start
linS whoops and wild cries of a similar nature
have added new terrors to the Bowery in New
York city on recent nights.
And these wells have been uttered BY the real
article in Indian. big men of the Sioux nation,
who came from Pine Ridge agency.
They are Indians that a person would rather
meet In Broadway than on a lonesome prairie
They were brought here from the west to ap-
Iear IN a company playing Thu Secret at
Siblo's Garden.
The red men have lived at a Bowery hotel
and the other guests have been holding their
hair on their heads with both hands for several
days Among the Indians are several who with
out doubt are bad Injuns," not rs bad as
they would like to be. but as bad as they have
dared to be, considering their surroundings.
Charley Black Horse perhaps the most dan
gerous of the lot. and his chum. Yellow Wood
have been particularly wild, and the diligence
with which they put themselves outside of Bow
ery fire water what landed them in n
police court Yesterday morning.
In court the Indians folded their blankets
close around them and eyed the whole scene
with evident disgust While waiting for their
turn they made no comment on the proceed
| ings beyond an occasional Ugh
Indian Interpreter Joseph Flondray said the
! Indians drank too much and had become I'M
manageable at times. Black Horse was the
worst of all and the interpreter admitted that
| he afraid Of him. At night the Indians
/ would chase each other about the hotel and
wboop and yell in a most alarming manner.
Yellow Wood was always beating his squaw
and the other night he pounded her on the
| head with a water pitcher. The last time he
attacked his squaw he with difficulty pre-
| vented from doing her serious injury.
| In a fight with another Indian Friday last
/ Black Horse got slight cut on the knee. lie
/ is revengeful. and Saturday night tried to
break down the door of the room which his
enemy occupied. Vlondray had stood that sor,
/ Of thing long enough and with Mr.. Frank, one
Of the proprietors OF the hotel. he went out
and got policeman. The Indians all hid ex-
/ eept Yellow Wood and Black Horse. The for
mer showed fight. but Black Horse folded his
arms and said haughtily: me great brave. bu,
| i will go with the soldier of the white father y
Being called soldier OF the white father sc
broke up" the policeman that he forgot to
I club Yellow Wood, who concluded to go along
too. Black Horse evidently thought his captor
had been sent ever from Washington.
When the justice examined the red prisoners
each one in turn said IN q sepulchral tone, me
| no drink
Interpreter ylondray did not dare appear a.
complainant against the Indians, fearing the
| vengeful nature Of Black Horse, but he ex
planned to the justice that he would like to have
them locked up for few days. Justice Hogan
| however. concluded to be lenieut and dis
| charged both prisoners with lecture on thu
! advantages Of sobriety. To this admonitior
4 they made reply other than ugh, ugh" and
stalked out Of court stoldly as only rec
. man can