Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29


| Frank Guard wss Rearsd BY the Sioux
and Shot sIttIns Bull.
Frank Guard, chief Of scouts in the
United States army, is esteemed by
the people of Wyoming as more thapf
q rival OF Buffalo Bill. Guard comes
of mixed French and Kanaka paren-
tage. His parents were slain bv the
Sioux in crossing the plains, and the
lad fell into the hands OF the sava-
ges. He was manly youngster,
and he so pleased Sitting Bull that
the chief adopted him and brought
him up. The youth In due time
went through the fortunes OF the Sun
Dance, was declared brave. aad be-
came In all thing save race, q saw
age of the plains
Knowing the hopelessness OF the
Indian outbreak that brought about
the Custer massacre, Guard deter
mined to desert to the whites. He
was detected and pursued. The In
dams shot his horse as Guard swan
river, and lodged four bullets in the
fugitive's body. Believing that he
was slain, they ceased the pursuit,
but Guard reached the shore. and,
wounded as he was, continued his
journey to Crooks camp. On the
way he read afar the Indian signal
fires announcing the massacre of
Custer and his men. He brought the
news to Crooks camp, and the latter
asked whether Guard could lead to
the scene of the battle. Guard said
he could II Crook would have his
wounds dressed and let him have
good horse. The bullets were ex-
tracted, and Guard, mounted on
Crooks favorite horse, rode away.
He reached the battlefield to find
Custer and his men lying stiff in
their blood. AS Guard, his Indian
blanket about him and his hand to
his forehead, Indian fashion, sat
watching the scene, an Indian ap-
preached and asked who he was. He
replied Sitting Bulls brother. The
Indian asked half o dozen other
questions, and finally asked Guard
how it was that he rode granted
horse. Guard replied that he stole it
from white man. Finally the In
dian demanded his name. Guard,
seeing that the Indian was unarmed,
unblanketed his face and looked him
in the eyes.
ugh, Frank" said the Indian.
starting back and turning to run.
Guard permitted him to get within
ten feet of the shelter Of O tree and
then shot him dead.
From that time to this Guard has
been true to the whites. Sitting
Bull once offered 1000 ponies for his
scalp, and Guard always knew should
he ever fall into the hands of the
savages, death in its cruelest guise
would be his fate. He escaped from
the savages after hearing them de-
bate as to the most unpleasant
method Of death for the prisoner.
Upon one occasion Guard, then out
as a scout, became convinced that he
and the command, under q Lieuten-
ant, must certainly fall into the
hands Of the Crows unless the troops
slew their horses and crept away in
the darkness. The officer was un-
willing to Stay the horses, but Guard
said that he meant to escape at once.
This convinced the officer, and all
the horses save one were killed.
That one was left by fire to attract
the savages, and the men crept for
miles and escaped. On that night
Guard, with tears in his eyes, killed
the horse that Crook gave him. Ac-
cording to tradition, that is the only
time that any man ever saw Guard
cry.
Guard was the man who finally
killed Sitting Bull, when the old saw
age refused to give up his arms. Sit
ting Bull made ready to shoot as
Guard, his foster son, approached,
but Guard, with characteristic quick
ness, shot him dead. When there is
a dangerous duty TO be done up about
Fort Mckinney, Guard is the man to
do it. He went after noted despe-
RADIO with warrant not long since,
and was met with q bullet from a
Winchester. Guard dismounted in
leisurely fashion, took aim, and sent
a bullet through the desperado's fore
head.
Guard is now forty -four years old,
and if his approximations are we'll
founded he is likely to have chance
for further distinction. He believes
that the Government has not had the
last of it's Indian wars, and that
another uprising at Pine Ridge is in
evitable. That would be accompa-
MED by uprisings at other agencies
and good deal Of trouble. Guard
has been constantly warning his SUI
periors on this head.-[Ncw York
Sun.