The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-04
THE INDIAN TROOPS
A New Addition to Old Fort
Douglas.
A COMPANY OF SIOUX WARRIORS
Captain Clapp is Now Their Father and They
VIII Die for Him II
Needs Be.


tary institutions yesterday band of fifty
i've Sioux warriors fresh from the Rose
bud agency. They were clad in the uni
form of the Great Father at Washington,
with hair cut short, and marched under the
command Of Captain w. H Clapp, of the
Sixteenth infantry, who had recruited them
from the various tribes in and around the
agency. They are splendid body of young
warriors, fifteen of them having been in
the Messiah outbreaks of last year and
some of them distinguished themselves
therein. They are big brawny fellows, with
piercing eyes trained to the most acute OBJ
servance of everything, and while only
few OF them speak any English at all, they
grasp an idea or command with the utmost
facility, and already Captain Clapp feels
the greatest announcement in his efforts
to make them regulars.
Two years ago the war department dis
banded companies l and K throughout the
army for the purpose of filling up the re-
naming companies who had been depleted
by the constant reductions in the regi-
mental strength, but the last orders issued
were to the effect that company | should be
reorganized with Indians. Pursuant to
this order Captain Clapp left here last De-
pany. Yesterday he marched it into Fort
Douglas fifty five strong
Captain Clapp has, with no further
weapon of defense than a pocket knife,
made his way into the farthest outposts of
the Sioux tribe in getting this company to-
gether and alludes to it with great interest
as showing
THE TEMPER OF THE NATIVES.
There's photograph that Captain Clapp
brought back with him, the picture
of Maya Ska, who was once O great
chieftain of the Sioux tribe. He is
dead these many years. The photograph
represents an old battle-scarred warrior
with the great seams of time deeply fur
rowed in strong resolute face, and the
| robes OF honor and state thrown around
him. When the Sioux wish to confer a
great honor upon man they call the tribe
together and with grave ceremony give
him the title of some famous chief who has
passed to the happy hunting grounds.
CAPTAIN cLAPP Is NOW MAGA SKA
without the scar of time or other scars that
mark the photograph of the dead warrior.
what are the chances for making good
soldiers OF your Indiansl" was asked the
captain.
Excellent, l think, although it is only
an experiment. The Sioux are brave, hard
fighters, and not either so rapacious or
cruel as the Apaches. have never heard
OF any outrages on prisoners from them
They are quick to learn and they are young.
| Some young men read and write already
A signal that means nothing to a
white man conveys volume to
from the Brule Sioux; some belong to the
Wajjaja Sioux and some to the Loafer
band.n
you really think they are born men,
then!n
II do, indeed. Leok at Big Foot's band
last year, which, in the face of three times
its numb ers, matched right into the laws
of death without flinching And they say,
too that this was the first time the Sioux
were ever defeated. 1T has always been
strong tribe, and So generous
Had you much difficulty in getting your
company together"
mo more than we have in getting re-
cruits from other natious. They were
willing to try it because the Indian ia
really anxious to get in the white mans
way of living"
"Do you remember the names of any of
you me1, captalu!"
"Oh yes" said the officer with con-
tagicus smile on his strong, manly face
there is Richard and William Yell
low Robe, sons Of n great chief
tain; Famous Thunder, Little Elk, Eagle
LIN, ouDEt ELK, JUG SlALU6S, 1 GLOW Bull
Lance, Lives in the-Air and Face"
why Is the last one called Face; be-
cause be is very ugly or very pretty?"
mo. 1t is a family name that his fore
fathers bore before him.
"Do you fiEd them tractable2"
"Pe-fectly so, although they require
careful handling. Some of them are quick
| tempered and the one thing they cannot
stand is ridicule. They are lively and full
OF fun, though, and have all sorts of spor
| among themselves. Some of my braves
are great Omaha dancers That's sight
worth seeing. They strip down to the buff
! with nothing but a q string and feathers
on. If they brought their Omaha outfit |
am going TO give r dance some day."
Did they exhibit any degree OF sorrow
at leaving homer"
They seemed sorry, yes. The sguaws
| screams. They, of course, were not SO
demons trative."
WAS there any ceremony on the part of
the tribes when they left!"
"Oh, yes. Yellow Robe, the father of
the Yellow Robe boys. STRANGE Horse.
Sky Bull, Eagle Horse, Hollow Horn. Bear
and number of chiefs, got together and
gave them their blessings. They told them
that they must remember that | stood in
the place of their fathers and that thew
were now my children. That they must
be brave and fight for me like warriors at
all times and never TO turn their backs to
the enemy. Then they warned them very
solemnly that il they ever ran away and
came back to their tribes that they should
die es soon as they came"
Sickness Among Children.
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