The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-18
One OR The OTHER
Duel to the Death Between
Two indians.
AFTER CUSTER MASSACRE
Shaver Head and Crooked
Neck in Mortal Combat.

Beef-killing day at the Standing Roc x
agency, Ammo Domini 1876 and but few
days after the Custer massacre Long
Point, on the eastern banks of the Mis-
souri, opposite Fort Yates, is black and
blue, yellow and red, green and dirty
wnlte, With a Kaleidoscope crowd of
Sioux to whom the butchery of six score
OF huge steers strongly appears.
In the center of the throng rises the
fence of the kindling corral, ten logs
high" Animals maddened by rife shoot
ing, blood. yelIs and waving blankets
need a strong enclosure If they are to be
done to death without inficting reprisals.
AT that day and date the Indians were
allowed 20 shoot forthnight's supply Of
cattles themselves. Later soldiers were
detailed for the work in order to abate
cruelty 70 the animals and danger TO all
residents within the radius of mile
After the steers went down Indians by
the score would leap into the sanguinary-
arena, cut the tongues from the quivering
darcasses and sometimes regaie them
selves on a mass Of coagulated blood
Aiter such a meal Sioux brave was IN
i; pretty
On the morning in question it was evil
OCAl 10 the agent anu MS employ teS,
whose presence at the killing was neces-
sary to secure a proper allotment of the
beef as between tribes and families, that
something more than unduly excitement
was affecting the Indians. There were
four tribes OF Sioux at Standing Rock
Lower lanktonnais, Upper Yanktonnais.
Oncapa, Blackfeet-and generally these
mixed together without thought of tribal
relations and jealousies, as do the nation
alists on Broadway. This day, however,
the Uncapapas and the Blackfeet were
divided and even to the inexperienced
eye were hostile.
Having finished the distribution of the
divided carcasses and sick with sights
sounds and smells that told of nothing
but brutality and sewerage, the agent
was about to take a boat across the Mis-
souri, when sundryfierce warwhoops babe
him pause on top of the corral fence and
look interestedly whence they came and
where, hudred yards away. fully four
hundred Indians, men, women and chill
dren, were rapidly separating into two
groups with lane fifty feet wide be-
tween them.
Into the head Of this lane danced
brorzea figure, thrusting aloft a double
barreled shotgun and yelling al the top
of his voice. At the foot appeared a
gutter but TO less ferocious warrior armed
with a Winchester rifle of the cid maya
sine type, caliber 10.
How were they dressed?
Not at all, unless you call a coup
feather EACH some dabs of yellow, green
and blue paint on hair-parting. check
bone nd breast and a very much abbrevi-
ated and visiyly breech cloth a toilet.
DOTTED.
BY this time the farmer of the, agency,
Waldorf by name. and an cid stager on
the plains. had climbed TO a seat beside
the agent and in a rather uninterested
tone said:
Guess them fellows intends to do some
shooting to kill. There's been bad blood
tween 'em for morn a year. Now they
{ are going to try to let some of it out
DO you mean that it is duel?" asked
the astonished agent, a distinct tender
foot by the way.
'Zactly what l do mean responded the
farmer. And eff younn wait about two
minutes you'll see some passin in Of
cnecks."
Il conceive it to be my duty to put
stop to this outrage was the agents
comment. why, bless my SOUL it's
murder"
II conceive it to be my duty retorted
che farmer. Ito purvent any SIGH durn
fool proceedin' ceptin' you're plum anx-