Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-06-09

work, buildings roads, roads, bridges.
ETC., and pays them $1.25 per day for
their labor. This caused grumblfng
and discomfort among a large number
OF the Indians, who did not relish the
idea of working. There was no danger
of an outbreak, but the authorities
thought it worth while to let the In
dams know they were in earnest.
And so, instead of sending to the
military post for a battalion of blue
coats, they sen to Omaha for Fred NJ.
Hans, known to every tribe Of western
Indians as Lone Star, the best known
Indian fighter and man of nerve in the
west. The man who, at Is years of
age, was Sheriden's chief of scouts was
In the same capacity for Miles, Crook
and other commanders and holds com
mandatory letters from them all.
The Rosebud Sioux Indians knew the
quiet man who was coming the next
day. Among the old men he was re-
membered as the only man of whom
Sitting Bull was yer afraid: the man
who a persuaded, half forced the
willy old chieftan TO come down from
his retreat in Canada and surrender to
the authorities. They also knew him
as the friend of Chief Gall. leader in
the field of the Sioux when Custer
and his men were massacred. The
younger men well remembered the day
back in 1890, at the battle of Wounded
Knee. the last battle of the red men
against the whites. when his slight
man stood forward, pistol in either
hand, and fought Big Foote's entire
band until the soldiers arrived. True.
that was only for a few minutes, but / N
those terrible few minutes nine of their
number was killed and one mortally
wounded. And Lone Star only fired
ten shots.
So, the day following the news that
We-Chach-Pe Wan-Gela would arrive.
the indians were all at the work as
signed them. Lone Star came rode
over the reservation for a few hours.
entered into conversation with many
of the braves, most of whom he knew
personally, and then went back to the
city. The mere fact that he was near
or had been in their midst was enough.
There has been no further trouble and
no revolts against the superintendent
and work.
This quiet man. with the cold, gray
eyes did not acquire such control over
the red man In a year nor by soft
means. During the years OF fighting
from 1875 to 1883 Hans. or Lone Star
was continually in the saddle, scouting
m fighting in the employ of the gov
eminent. The Indians knew him as a
friend when they themselves were
friendly; but as their most deadly foe
at other times. Deadly. because their
| equal in cunning and woodcraft. and
their superior in endurance and skill
with pistols. tLcne Star never used
a rifle during his twenty years OF In
| dian warfare.) II was the fear in
| which he var held that caused him to
be sent into South Dakota during the
fall Of 1890. when the Messiah" craze
and ghost dancing were ait theil
height. For the same reason and a,
the same time he was commissioned
TO capture Sitting Bull, and was the
last white nan 10 see that old chief
alive, the two having a talk OF severstl
hours duration the day previous ia
the killing OF Sitting Bull by the Indian
police.
Two weeks after that tragic event,
on December II. 1890, the day previous
70 the battle OF Wounded Knee. Hans
and the redoubtable Little Bat, chief
of the Indian police. were sent after
Dig Foot and his gung. who had lefl