The evening times., 1897-07-03


day varying accounts of the circumstances
which led 10 the humiliation OF himself
and his command have appeared.
Thus fal history has drawn heavily from
heals;ty evidence, for the real witnesses have
| held their siIence-the Indians vino We're
enga ged in the massacre. From their lips
and from TIC testimony of their squaws
and cniidreA IDany faces navebeea Cleaned.
Yet there is one among the whites-a
| scout wto Eah nveu ulon The plains for
! thirty years who is considered To be IA
mlliar wlun tie real soory Y ,and neis scout
| Allison. Under almost every famous Indian
! fighting general he has served a guide
and pilot across the prairie wastes, and
the personal letters from such men as Phil
Sheridan ana others show in what esteem
he was held by his superiors.
| AT present Mr.. Allison Is employed at the
chronological Bureau of the NationalMuseun.
as an eXperu ulon lDalau uata ana 10
tIanslaiing a number OF records now in the
institutes archives from the native into
the English tongue.
la one sens. or the word he himself is
| an Indian As result of that most beauti-
fulcustOm am olg the American savages OF
| making a blOlher and a member of their
| tribe amy one whom they love aud esteem.
| Mr. Allison was made brother To SjtJiag
Bull himself and il was greatly through
| has efforts ..Iat the Sioux were influenced
TO surrender the nselves to the Government
in S>l. five years after the battle.
During that period he lived with the
BackGoot tribe, sharing often the tepee
Of Sitting Bun. Being thrown in constant
| contact WIN all the tribc, the warriors,
the youth, and the women. the scout was
naturally able TO learn the true manner ia
whi, IA one OF the bravest generals who ever
] led troDfS intO the Western country, came
to his death
WheE ten Custer planned his raid upon
the hostiles. if was only after having
reconnoitered the ground thoroughly and
ascertainng exactly the number OF the
foe On the day OF action he divided his
| comm and into three columns Maj Reno,
in command of one, rode through the
| village and occupied a forest of elm and
! birch nearby.
/ There H. no foundation, Mr.. Allison
says. for the report that the Sioux had ex-
pected the soldiers long before they ar
rived. ChicfGall himself he st rateg &c lead
er OF TIE Indians, asserted TO Mr. Allison
! long before his surrender that the arrival of
the soldiers was entirely unexpected, and
1 it must IT, remembe red IN at this was told at
a time when there could have been no
obie't in raIsifyiug. After his surrender,
however. when lac saw that a contrary re-
port had spread, Gall was sharp enough to
see that il was more TO his advantage to
pander TO tins in preston, and did so. But
! fhRTsa non ial ll.A
that ho man. woman or Child in all the
hostile camp IL any way had the slightest
suspicion that Custer and his men were al
vancing. Inihe first place when the W hite
men arrived they found the Indians ponies
| grazing un'ethcTed at distances from the
Campaigning fromone 10 two miles Were
a Zoe cArec' edevery horse would have been
close a' hand and ready for instant use
la the next place the tepces Were ali
in position snd Throughout the village
the children were playing and The Squaws
busy with theirdrudgery. Every schoolGoy
! knows that the North American savage,
when o.. the waTpath, sends his wife md
| children TO some safe spot and strikes his
lodge. Peace and quiet We're reicnIng
Throughout the place when, like the whirl
Of a cyclone, the blue-coated cavalrymen
l Nstlil- VII a Ntsit iitli,
tion, fear and ala rm, and meeting with TO
opposition as they made their way To
the timber near 10y. When they reached
this their commander, Reno, i'm his excite
mcnt, gave the oIder for his men to mount
and dSrnount three times in succession.
But tbs advisable now tolook at the Sioux.
Heltcr-skelter ever the plain they Went
flying, men, women and children. No dne
had time Tor second thought. So une expected
was the attack.
So frightened was one or the wives nf
Sitting Bull, who was nursing twins three
weeks old, that in her terror she fled from
hei tepee witt but one baby. forgetting that
she was leaving another one behind her.
Not until she was mile from the spot did
the fact break upon her that she had
| abandoned her infant. Back she FASTENED
and as Prgyi,leLce was benignant she re-
sHined her babe. Another squaw snstched
bundle of farotsin her arms and IN her
flight imagined she casped her son.
1t was a mad race for life on the part
of all THE Sioux Nothing was carried with
them. Neither food nor water was taken
along But as they ran the braves kept
firing at the bit OF wood I'm which the
soldiers were. The bullets flew wildly
and not ere was effective until a Win
chester bah knocked d splinter from a
cottor wood tree which striking a soldier
upon TIE forehead, caused the blood to
flow from the slight scratch. Then the
scout says Reno ordered a retreat, and the
ludicrOus sight was presented of two enc
mics in full retreat and each fleeing
When the Sioux beheld this spectacle
they paused in their tracks from sheer
aEazenient. What could it mean? Every
moment the soldiers were getting further
away Then they asked themselves, Why
do these niea flee? 1t must be because they
are afraid, because they are towards Are
the Sioux oowafds? No We will rally and
wrest their mbought victory from them.
Some OF them by this time had come up
to their horses and rode back in pursuit.
speeding the retreat by a storm Of lead
Then returning, flushed with victory,
they belteld Custer upon the river bank be-
side the blurf Here was another enigma!
One party had just fled, but here came a
fresh member.
They decided to meet them likewise
Arms were taken up by every able-bodied
TO give hattie to Custer and his gallant
men, less than one-third their force. Gus
ter, when he beheld their number, must
have thought he had made mistake in
his calculations. Yet there was time for
him to return in safety, but Custer was q
soldier and West Pointer, and if he fled
what would become of Reno? For he
knew nothing of the retreat neIi,ar-