The age-herald., 1898-01-23

heavy voice. Another name, which, per- haps, is a little more becoming, is Little Beard.
 Red Cloud a Mischief-Haker. For many years the worst man on the reservation was Red Cloud, chief of band of Sioux. Usually he ignored all agency laws and ran things to suit himself. When the doctor came to the agency the old chief soon began to make things warm for him. The doctor was quick to perceive the state of affairs and made up his mind that the laws should be enforced at any cost
 One day he was informed by an Indian policeman that Red Cloud was planning mischief. That night a dozen or more bucks from Red Clouds camp were to come to the doctors office and ask for things. They were to keep on asking until the doc tor got mad then they were to have row and do things up generally The doctor ordered number of Indian police to be stationed near by, well armed, and then waited for results. A little after dark a dozen stalwart bucks filed into the office and squatted at the invitation of the doctor in circle on the floor. The doctor turned to the leader and asked him what he wanted. He said he wanted to get his horse shod. An order was written out for the job. The next buck wanted dish pan. The doctor wrote him an order for the dish pan. Another wanted some ammunition. The order was forthcoming. Still another wanted blank ct and so on, each Indian asking for some- thing until the end of the circle had been reached.
 "Is that all you want?" asked the doc tor There was no answer.
 "Well then, there's the door-git,' yelled the doctor, and they ''got."
 Red Clouds One Wife.
 On another occasion old Red Cloud was unusually offensive. He entered the doc tors office and began to abuse the great father,' the agent and everybody and everything in general. The doctor walked up to the old man, took him by his big Roman nose, led him to the door and as the astonished old chief shot out through the opening he received rousing kick from the doctors boot. From that day to, this Red Cloud has had the greatest re- spect for the doctor.
 At one time, in the Omaha council, Red Cloud openly abused the agent and berat- ed the government of the agency. He afterwards came to the doctors office and apologized, saying that he talk one way bucks-another way Little Beard.'
 Red Cloud never had more than one wife, His fellow chiefs had from two to a dozen The doctor tells amusing anec- dote of the chiefs first family trouble. One day the old man came to the doctor and said that he had trouble with his wife. He said he saw that Mrs. Red Cloud was growing old fast and needed some one to help her about her work, so he bought pretty Indian maiden, about 20 years old, and brought her home. Mrs. Red Cloud made serious objections to the matrimo- nial arrangement and made the objections so forcible, with a big butcher knife, that both the old chief and the would-be wife, helper fled for their lives
 Chief Is Now Dying.
 Dr. McGillycuddy is grieved to learn of the illness of old Chief Red Cloud, which, at his advanced age, is very likely to be his last. There is a feeling of pity for the old man. Long ago he saw that his people were doomed and as a consequence, he has led a comparatively peaceful life for the last thirty years He, perhaps, was the shrewdest and most cunning of the several chiefs in planning warfare against the whites, but usually, when engagement took place, he was found missing. Probably the most atrocious piece of work for which he Is held accountable is the planning and carrying into execution the massacre of about twenty soldiers at Fort Mckinney. The soldiers were led into ambush and killed. Before that time he, no doubt, took