Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-03
Custer Massacre at the Fair.

August 10, when the Umatilla Indians
and soldiers of the Oregon National |
Guard and the Tenth United States |
Infantry will take part. The mass |
acre promises to prove the most inter-
esting and instructive of the big free
provided by the Exposition manage
ment for the patrons of the western
worlds Fair.
1t was % years ago, on June Is,
1876, that Custer and his troopers rode
into the death trap on the Little Big
Horn River. Shortly after crossing
the river, hundreds of Sioux attacked
the little band, which resisted herol-
cally, making a last stand in a hand
to-hand contest in which every trooper
was killed. The only survivor of the
dreadful massacre was d trumpeter
whom Custer had sent, early in the
fray, to Major Reno for REINFORCE
ments.
The reproduction of the massacre at
the Lewis and Clark Exposition will
have for its location plot of ground
on the Government Peninsula in
Guilds Lake, near the river entrance
to the Fair The lay Of the ground at
this place is similar to the geography
Of the Little Big Horn, and this cir
cumstance will add much to the inter-
est of the bloodless massacre. In
dians from the Umatilla reservation,
CARRIED in the war clothes of the
plains. will form the attacking party,
and the attack will be maintained by
them until the last of the soldiers
representing Clusters band have fall
len.
OF hardly less interest than the
reproduction of the Custer massacre
will be the great naval sham battle on
Guilds Lake at the Exposition, We'd
nesday, August ,. On this occasion.
as in the case of the massacre, it will
be very instructive and the natural ad-
vantages which the Exposition on ac-
count of it's setting will contribute
materially to the success of the pro-
| ject.
Just west of the Exposition grounds,
the foothills of the Cascade Range
reach down to the shore of Guild s
Lake, and here will be a fort, with
real-looking guns splitting harmless
but deadly-looking fire. The attack
make an assault upon the fort on the
hillside and an ironclad in the harbor
near it. From the Bridge of Nations,
which spans Guilds Lake, spectators
may see the ironclad disabled by the
attacking fleet, and watch every oper.
alton. A mosquito fleet of torpedo
boats will add to the excitement, and
several torpedo boats will blow up d
floating craft One of the men, Of war
presently will be disabled and a crew
of Uncle Sans life-savers, who are
giving daily exhibitions at the Fair.
set forth and rescue the unfortu-
mates in true life-saver style.
The committee on conferences and
congresses at the Lewis and Clark
Exposition is sending a letter to the
mayors of all cities and towns in Ore
gon, Washington and Idaho, requesting
the appointment of official and lay
delegates to the convention of Pacific
Northwest cities to be held in connec
ton with and as feature OF the Civ
les Congress, from the l4th to the 10Th
5 of August, in the Auditorium at the
Exposition. Thousands of copies of
provisional program are being sent GU
t in advance of this civics week.
e 1t is believed that these efforts vii
a bring together one of the most i'm
S portant assemblages ever held in Ore
gon, which will mark an era in tn
f municipal progress of the North
k west.
n The greatest specialists in municipa
!, affairs will take part. Among ther
e are William Travers Jerome, the nt
e ted district attorney of New Yor
e City, who will speak on eth
e Battle Against Corruption; Josia
II Strong, president of the America
l. Institution of Social Service an
l. author of "Our Country" Congress
If man John De Witt Warner of Ne
a York, Prof. Charles Zueblin of tt
IS University of Chicago, Clinton Roger
II Woodruff, secretary National Munic
pal League, and John Graham Brook