The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-19

majesty's commands Not a brigade
nor a troop; the officer bearing the
! written order was but a sergeant
With him was one constable; that was
the force that was to move this turbu-
lent tribe from good hunting ground to
a secluded spot miles away.
Piapot refused. to move The SER
/ geant calmly gave him fifteen minutes
| in which to begin striking camp. Re-
] suit, fifteen minutes of abuse. The In
dams screamed defiance at the sergeant
and fired their guns under his charger S
nose as they circled about him in their
pony spirit war dance.
When the fifteen minutes were up,
| the sergeant threw his picket line to the
constable. dismounted walked over to
! Chief Piapot's tepee and calmly knock
| ed the key-hole out. All the warriors
I rushed for their guns, and one of the
biggest bluffs on record was played by
| the redskins.
But the sergeant continued method
! ically knocking key poles out, and Pia-
pot saw that the game was up. He
must either kill the sergeant-stick his
knife in the heart of the whole British
pation-or give up and move away.
SITTING BULL OUTWITTED.
After the killing of Custer, Sitting
Bull became a more or less orderly ten
ant of her majesty, the queen With 800
lodges he camped at Wood mountain,
just over the border from Montana. An
arrows flight away was the northwest
ern mounted police post. One morning
the police found six dead SaltauX In
dians, sEalped in approved Sioux fash
ion. A seventh SaltauX, still alive, had
seen the killing. The police buried the
dead Indians and took the living one
to their post.
With characteristic cheek, Sitting
Bull came, accompanied by chiefs and
warriors. to demand the seventh Sal
taux. In Wood Mountain there We're
twenty police backing Sergeant Nc
Donald. With. the chief there We're at
least 500 warriors. Sitting Bull threw
his squat figure from his pony and
thrust the muzZle of his gun into Ser
geant McDonalds stomach. Mcdonald
was typical of the force. He pushed the
gun one side and told the chiefs to seep
inside the gate, stack their arms and
come inside the shack for a pow-wow.
They demurred; the sergeant was
firm. Outside, it was play day in Bed
lam. The young bucks rode and
whooped and fired their guns.
''Ser1d your men away" said the SER
geant to Sitting Bull. Sitting Bull de-
INJURED.
"Send them away!" repeated the SER
geant, eff you have authority"
Sitting Bull and his chiefs made to-
ward the door, but there were inter-
ruptions-red- coated objections. And
outside in the yard, the chiefs rifles
were stacked.
Sitting Bull, like Piapot, had brains.
The bucks were sent away. Then the
sergeant persuaded the chiefs to listen
further-mainly by force of the red
coated arguments ne had brought to
bear. 'Tarry here, my brothers" he
said, until I send Constable Collins
and two others of my men to arrest
the murderers. The SaltauX are sub
jects of the queen. We cannot allow
them to be killed for the fun of the
thing"
ADVENTURE OF JACK COLLINS.
Then big Jack Collfns-wiId Irishman
and all the rest of Invent over to the
Sioux camp and arrested three. The
bucks jostled and showed them, fired
pistols over their heads, but big Jack
and his comrades hung on to their
prisoners and worked their way to the
post, with no sign of annoyance until
a big buck spat in Collins face.
A big mutton-leg fist shot out, and
the Sioux lay like a crushed moccasin
at Jacks feet. Take that, ye black
baste!" he Kissed between clenched
ders, we foul fiend,"
. Then he marched his prisoners into
the post, and reported himself for mis-
conduct in striking an Indian.
Duck lake is the "tenderloin dis
trict' of the prairie provinces. 1t lies
hundred miles north of Regina, the
capital of the territories. Last. year
four white men and three Indians lay
there dead, that the peace broken by