Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-10-20

visible from the rear windows of the IN.
per story Of the officers quarters, that over
looked the plain.
This plain during the summer was the
scene of many like events, but they all
ended similarly, in the repulse of the red
men.
On the night of June 9th the Sioux
scouts at Rice packed up secretly and de-
serted, going back to the agency at Grand
River. The discharged Arrickarees were
then recalled, and after much parleying
and powwowing," they returned to their
old quarters, and the mails once more ran
regularly.
The Fourth of July was observed at the
fort by an old fashioned celebration. The
cannon gave the patriotic salute at day
break. The regimental band played
patriotic airs and there were horse races,
pony races and foot races for purses made
up by the officers. in which soldiers and
Indians participated. At night there was
a grand display of fireworks, and there
were two audiences vino watched the airy
flight of the skyrockets that were sent up
from the brink of the dark river. The
first were the soldiers and officers families
of the fort. The others, whose dark forms
were visible against the Tighter horizon
were the lettering bands of the hostile
Sioux, who had been called from far and
near by the reverbations OF the cannon in
the morning, and who now looked on Won
deringly, from all the hilltops round about.
The day ended with a brilliant khop in the
library, and an Indian alarm at midnight,
which happily proved to be false.
Soon after this there was a genuine
alarm in which the Sioux succeeded IN
running off the herd of Arrickaree ponies
and killing one Of the scouts. But they
were followed, overtaken and the herd re-
captured, by a band of Arrickarees, under
the chief. Cold Hand. who surprised the
Sioux in a ravine as they were holding a
war dance around the scalp of the slain
scout. They killed several Sioux, and cap.
tured their ponies in turn, which they
brought home to the fort, but were
afterward compelled to return, by the COM
handing officer, on complaint of the
Indian agent at Grand River.
On another occasion, when the Sioux
attacked the fort, the raid wa so sudden
and sharp that the soldiers did not wait
for the command of the officer to form
ranks, but at the first sound of the long
roll, ran singly and in squads, to the west
wall of the fort, scaled the stockade and
began fighting, Indian style, each man TO,
himself. In this way several companies
were outside the fort, before the gates
were opened, or the officers had reached
the company quarters. They did mos
effective fighting, and repulsed the indians
without having had a word of command
from their officers. For this breach Of
military discipline, as soon as the Indians
were gone, the derelict companies were
marched to the top of a hill back of the
cemetery and compelled to stand in ranks
under the hot, broiling sun, during thu
remainder Of the day. The commanding
officer claiming that in the enemie!
country, the utmost obedience to arm,
regulations was necessary, and tina
these men in rushing off as they did in
disorderly way had left the fort unpro
tected, and while they were all ightin,
outside the west wall, the east and from
gates were left open to the entrance o
the enemy had they made an attack OF
those sides of the fort.
To be Continued.