The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-14
ALL AT LIBERTY AGAIN
The Three R bilious Indians Dis
charged From jul.
THEY WERE WELL PLEASED
Judge Woody Advised Them to Go
and sin No More, and They Wan
dered Outside and Joined In
Great Pow-Wow.

MIssoULA, March 13.-At 3 o'clock this
afternoon Sheriff McLaugh in led a little
procession from the count, Jail to the dis
trIct court room. Behind him stalked in
naughty dignity the three In lians, Swa-
sah, Nicola and Louis Coul-Coullee. who
nave been confined IN the jail since the
outbreak at the Jacko agency last week.
Under Sheriff Curran brought up the rear,
bearing the writ of habeas corpus issuei
by Judge Woody yesterday commanding
the sheriff to show why these Indians
were deprived of their liberty. The In
diars pal no attention to anything that
was gong on around them. but marched
straight OIL, well mufflsd in their gaudy
blankets. ~ o of tn m smoking cigareIt, S.
They looked as IL they had Jared well dur
ing their confinement and we're all sleek
and cleaner than most of the reservation
Indians.
All had good blankets of the customary
high colors. Two of them wore wnite
SLOUGH hats. while the third had no head
covering except his heavy black hair.
Swasah is a tall, powerful looking young
fellow, who looked like Fenimore
Cooper Indian. He wore regulation buck
skin moccasins aud looked as fierce and
contempiuous as the Wild Indian of ro-
nance is supposed to look. His compan-
ions were not SO attractive, as one of them
wore pair of old congress CATERS and
the other dumped along in a pair of
heavy gum boots. The latter, as he threw
back his blanket, disc osed pair of CAV
breaches that looked as If they might have
come from Herr Bandmanu's theatrical
wardrobe.
Entering the court room. the Indians
took seats and waited for the legal pro-
ceedings to go on. They were representeI
by Joseph *. Wood, who stated that the
Indians had been held in Jail for more
than a week and that no charge had been
preferred against them. The sherffls re-
turn of the writ showed that tho three In-
dams had been brought to HIM by the
agent OF the reservation and that he hal
been req tested to hold them u.ItIl a COM
plant nad been fled. He also stated that
ne had today received u telegram -lrom
United States Marshal NJ d ,rtnott, say
ing that marshal would De hero to-mor-
row with he complaints. Il
Judge Woody heard the attorney for tie
Indians and then examined the return
made by the sher II. He then ordered the
In iians to be- released. He tol1 the
aborlgines to return to the reserya,Ion
and behave themselves and theft they
wouldn't get locked up again. Az soon
a, they understood that they were free
the red men gravely shook hands with the
| Idge and Ieit the room as calmly as ii
they had not been in d ,ngcr of going to
the penitentiary for year.
! lew minutes pas, o'c,ock gcsswl Of
| Indians hId begun - assemble about toe
| court house and when the three ex-,Iris-
oners came out of the building Nm IT.
tended by an officer there were ftilIv -
OF their friends waiting to receive 3thpm
The delegation was headed bt the 70 i IN
ju lgc whb appeared yestcrd ~ To AS Tor
he writ and the old fellows green feather;
fairly brisilel with delight as he welcomed
the young braves whose loyalty to-tteIr
medicine man had got them into sucn
grave trouble. The crowd held an AMI
mate pow-wow for "A few minutes aud
then went away to celebrate the release
of the heroes.