The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-06

This little gem of tropical scenery is
from a photograph taken on forty. acres
of land recently acquired by Freeman P.
Lane of this city on the Isle of Pines,
Cuba. w. R. Miller, recently returned,
negotiated the deal for Mr.. Lane, .purchas-
report Of the scout, together with Little
Bat and Lone STAR rode ahead of the
troops, in order to pacify the Indians.
l. Inc three men drew in close to the
group Of savages which had advanced to
meet them, and then Lone Star recognized
the daring warrior who had tried his
medicine two weeks. before that day. He,
together with several other Indians, left
the main body and advanced toward Cap
tain Wallace.
Suddenly, from within the crowd, arose
the shrill death song Of. the Sioux. Both
the scouts now saw the deadly danger.
in which all three stood, but Captain Wall
lace did not understand and before he
could be warned, held out his hand to
greet the advancing braves
From their positions, neither of the;
scouts could fire and Captain Wallace
walked towards his death. oblivious Of the
terrible fate awaiting him.
The singing Indian grasped Captain
Wallace'si outstretched hand, and sud-
denly drawing his other hand from be-
meath his blanket, struck the brave cap
tain a terrible blow with tomahawk
killing him instantly.
But the medicine shirt failed to pro-
tect the Indian from the bullet which
left the pistol of Lone Star a moment
later and the savage fell dead with IA
bullet through his heart
! The two scouts backed away, firing as
they went, land in turn receiving the fire
of the entire band. Both escaped without
| a scratch. -
But not so the Indians. Several were
killed by the scouts before: the soldiers got
into action. The Indians broke for. cover
and succeeded in reaching a ravine from
whence the soldiers could not drive them.
~ Battle Of Wounded Knee
f General Forsythe wrote an order for
lrefnforc ements andah banded it to- Lone
Star, who rode the fourteen miles to the
agency n; thir :ts minutes tnd, In one
hours and ,twenty-eight minutes the REIN
forcements dashed up, the soldiers hav-
ing left too hurriedly to place saddles on
4 their, horses. l. q IL Il y
+ But they brought the Calling guns with
them. They were new to the Indians, who
did not understand the rapid fire. Three
of these guns were placed In position to
rake the ravine and the slaughter begun.
The savages could not escape and later
In the day the ravine was found to be
actually choked with dead Indians, more
than 200 lying within a. space of few
hundred feet The Indians still call this
! Bloody Gulch.,' 3s:g>
!. The soldiers that day lost Captain Wal
lace and twenty -four men killed and
thirty -four wounded.
i Butsunder the spot on which the Indian
monument rests are the bones of more
than 250 Indians who were killed that
1 day, and for many. months 1t was nothing
i uncommon to discover the bleached .skele-
4 ton Of an Indian lying in the grass any
wherein the neighborhood of the battle
I field. Z. The exact number of killed was
never known.
:. 1t was the last stand of the red race
Sitting Bulls medicine was not good
The -Ci-Wa-na (ghost dance) hac
failed in it's mission, but the Indians still
remember their brothers who died al
Wounded Knee, and to their memory
reared the monument.