Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-08-19
REMEMBER CUSTER"
Reoollections Of Wounded Knee-A Mon
ument Erected.

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Az Fort Riley next Tuesday a monu.
inent to the United States soldiers killed
at Wounded Knee in December. 1890,
will be unveiled. The cerpony will
have more significance than occasions Of
this sort are wont to have
The battle Of Wounded Knee, says the
Kasas City Journal, is the last fight
that has taken place in The United States
between the Indians and the regular
troops. 1t may 60 on record as the last
Indian war in this country after a desul-
tory conflict between whites and reds
lasting for 400 years: In that long span
thousands of liyes have gone out in In.
dian warfare. There have been massa-
cres, long wars, assassinations, bloody
butcheries-all manner Of conflict has
=, IL IL! :hc Tbs advance cf modern c;sil;sa-
ynon against the sborigine.
I Twenty.four United States soldiers
were killed at Wounded Knee, S. D., on
Monday December 90, 1890. The battle
was the elimination ofan extended dis
turbance among the Indians about Pine
Ridge and Standing Rock. Old Sitting
Bull, the willy chief who had SO many
times promised to be a good Indian,
grew surly and threatened TO gather his
warriors and 60 to the Bad Lands TO be-
gin a winters campaign against the
settlers. Trouble brewed all through
the early part Of December, but until
the middle of the 'a1nth no serious out
break was expected by those Of the
whites who knew the habit and disposi-
ton Of the Sioux. On December l5 Sit
ting Bull again announced that he was
sbout to lead the warriors away from
the agency. Fearing that he meant TO
put his threat into execution, the Indian
police were ordered to capture the aged
chief. They proceeded to do their duty
ting Bull was killed The news of the
chiefs death and the manner OF it
served to inhame the Sioux nation and
much var talk resulted. At Washing
ton. however, the old Indian fighters
thought that the death Of the principal
chief would put an end to the troubles.
Out in the bleak hills Of South Dakota
the war spirit Of the Sioux was growing
The death Of the old chief found the
young braves nerved up to struggle
against the whites, and only a word was
necessary to name a new leader and
continue the work of agitation. The
flame was famed until the closing days
of the month, when the battle Of
Wounded Knee began and ended the
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seventy-fve and 100 of the redskinl
were killed, and twenty-four United
States soldiers were counted among tn,
dead after the fight was at an end
Among the Sioux leaders were Higt
Hawk, Little Wound, Big Road, Two
Strikes. Fire Lightning, Young Man
Afraid-of His-Horses and Spotted Elk
Two Strikes and Little Wound were in
command.
The soldier killed at Wounded Knee
we're Captain George D. Wallace, ser
geant Dyer, Sergeant Caffey, Sergeant
Nettle, Hospital Steward Pollock, Cor.
poral Bone and Privates Johnson. Frey
Kelly, Cain, Book, Murphy, killner
Hodges, Forrest, Newell, McCus, Logan
Costello, Ragan, Christianson, Ranaka
Tafrey and Adams.
| Ii is TO these brave men, whose battl,
cry was Remember Custer" that tn,
Fort Riley monument will be unveiled
next Tuesday. They lived there, and il
was from that place that they went of
into the Dakota hills to fight the red
skins in the snow of December even
ing. Fitting it is under the shade o
Fort Riley should be shaft to the me
mory of those brave Indian fighters.
Since the battle Of Wounded Knee
Two Strikes and Young-Man-Afraidof
His Horses have died. Two Strike,
was shot and killed few months ago
and Young Man-Afraid ofHis-Horse:
fell dead with heart disease only recent
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