The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-30

I was then but fifteen years old, snort,
but sturdy and strong for his years
Alone he started out to search for his
brother among the Indians. From
tribe to tribe he followed traces of his
brother, but for nearly twenty years
failed to meet him. During these
twenty years occurred Hans employ.
ment by the Government as a scot
and the thousand happenings which.
unsupported by documentary eviden .
in the Army and State reports, would
be considered pure romance. .tr.
Although but fifteen years c. e
one of Hans first acts was the SCOT, .
ing out of the Indians, who were theI
swarming about Red Cloud Agenr.
1t was largely through his instgume =.
tally that the great council was he'll
at Red Cloud Agency. SEPTEMBER ~
1876, at which the last gre war -.
tween the white AID lgdian races
was ended. At this council, aside from
General Mckenzie and the United
States Commissioners, were the fol-
lowing famous chiefs Of the red nen-
Red Cloud, Little Wound, Young-Man-
Afraid-of-H Hi Horses, Big Dog, Red
Leaf, Two Lance, Fire Eyes, Bad
Wound, Slow Bull. High Wolf, Big
Foot, Sorrel Horse, Fire Hunter, Annex
lean Horse, Quick Bear, White Crow
Good Bull and Big Wolf.
His work on this occasion brought to
Hans an appointment as a Regular
Army scout. He made a roundup OF
the various camps of Indians, giving
the Army officers information as to
their location, and finally, on October
26, leading the soldiers against a large
band of Sioux, who surrendered, being
the last to stand out against the terms
arranged with Red Cloud through the
friendly agency of Little " ound.
One of his heroic single-handed bat
ties occurred September II, 1877. when
he was attacked by five outlaws in the
sand hills near Valentine, notmany miles
west of Ainsworth. Hans was alone;
when the outlaws surrounded him he
used his gun with such good effect
that two were left dead and another
dying ON the field. The other two
fled, one of them killing Hans horse
as he turned away. Hans caught one
Of the dead mems horses and drove
the wounded outlaw into camp. Hans
was slightly wounded in the head in
this affair. General Crook, to whom
Hans reported, told Hans TO keep the
robbers horse until some one proved a
better ownership. 1
On August IL, 1878, Hans was cap
tured by Chief Black Shield end held
prisoner for twelve days, his life be-
ing saved only by his statement that he
had sought the Indians to make his
home with them. Watching his OPP
%portunity, he stole the chiefs best
pony and made his escape. His horse
was shot from under him by his pur-
suers, but, lodging into a ~ravine, he
eluded the Indians and walked twenty
five miles to Camp Sheridan.
The ~Cheyennes were about this time
raiding the settlement southwark from
Camp Sheridan, md Hans was sent
on scouting duty to locate the maraud-
ers. Hans located them and led Co,
onel Lewis and n detachment of the
Fourth Cavalry against them, routing
the Indians, fifteen Of whom were
slain.
But probably the most wonderful
achievements accomplished by Hans
were two feats. one occurring in the
carly eighties, the other in 1888. The
first achievement is not paralleled in
Western annals, and, indeed, the sec
ond has no equal, SO far as known.
Hans xroc IN Api1apo a., Al. oa,1x-
eighties, when a band of Navajoes, 100
in number. surrounded Hans and his
then partner, "Bilr' Lewis, and killed
Lewis. Hans escaped. but, actuated
by a spirit of revenge, hung about the
Navajoes' camp. At every opportuni
he would pick off one OF the India I
with his rifle, and so expert was y,
in covering his trail that they coriI
not locate whence the death sho
came. Their superstitious natur
were worked upon by these mysterious
deaths. and the Indians begrn moyir-.
They crossed four territories. Hars
chung to them until they arrived in fla
Bad Lands OF South Dakora. k'Ilirs
over thirty of them While on the trai,.
His latest work for Tho Government
as a scout was during the ~outbreai;
at the Rosebud Agency, whom t;le
battle of Wounded Knee occurred. In
1890. Hans was then first scout under
Buffalo Bill, and was the man who
did the real work OF locating the In
dams, learning their plans, their force
and quantity of ammunition. and who
gave to the Army authorities all the
information upon which the war was
quickly ended.
Since peace with the red men has
reigned Hans has been employed as
chief of the secret service of the Elk.
horn road.-Philadelphia Record.