Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-16
Of Sioux Indians had surprised this un
fortunate party.
Claims Government Land

| Claims government Land
Just outside of Custer City, s. D.,
| Mr.. Browf laid claim to t6S acres OF
| land receiving It free from the govern
ment. He sold half his interest to B.
Goodell for q barrel Of whisky and a
watch and chain. He still wears the
watch Tie whisky he hauled into the
| town square and with a tin cup doled
IL out to the boys" at so cents per
cup. The land never amounted to any
thing.
one morning he and Captain Jack
Crawford, with whom he lived, were
making their bread i'm the bread pan
when party of Indians swooped down
on the town and carried off all the
horses. a Dutchman Just arriving on
horse was hustled off, and the two
mounted the one horse and went after
the Indians. They followed them until
the redskins gained their camp. Then.
unseen, they waited until night, when
they rounded up the horses and made
off with them before the Indians dis
covered their loss.
After this he was regularly engaged
as scout under General Crook and
earned the title of colonel
It is the belief of Mr.. Brown that
General Custer could have been saved
and with him the lives OF the heroes
who perished at the hands of the Sioux
| II he and his company, who were only
fifteen miles away, had been instructed
to go to them.
In 1876 just after the founding of
Deadwood, he started to make a tour
of the world. On his way to Honolulu
he stopped at the Cannibal islands and
met King Thackenblau. about whom
the nursery rhyme, "Hoki, Poki, I'm
KUN PUN, King of the Cannibal
Islands," was written.
Was Guest of Stevenson
In Samoa he was entertained by
Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife
in their beautiful home, overlooking
the bay, which has just been sold TO
the Germans.
He went to Auckland, New Zealand.
and from there to sydney, playing all
through Australia at the head of the
"Froliques" theatrical troupe.
In Sydney he wanted to get ac-
quainted with the society people and
had no way of doing so. He inserted
the following advertisement in the pa
pers:
Wanted good accommodations by
young man in family of social prestige:
None other need apply He received
seven or eight replies. He answered
the best one. The house was large and
expensive looking. His ring was an
swered by butler. The hostess was
we'll dressed and the furniture was rich.
She explained to him that they were
people in society. She was only 30
years old, while her husband was over
TO- He did not care to go out in
society and she wanted some one to
take her about. Mr.. Brown moved that
day and lived there for several months.
His name was put on the governors
lists and he went everywhere with the
wife.
When he left there he went to the
Coral islands and also in Java, where
he stayed some weeks playing before
native audiences.
He travelled through the principal
cities of China, and in Hongkong one
day was walking past what he
thought was pottery. Large earthen
pots stood all over. Mr.. Brown un-
covered one and a decaYed Chinese
head met his gaze. 1t was the execu-
ton ground.
Wears China-Made Clothes
The Chinese tailors made his clothes.
and although they would not fit his
clothes they would copy an old garment
exactly. He sent coat to them which
had had a large hole burned in it.
When the new coat came home a hole
had been burned in it just like the old
one and the maker considered himself
injured when Mr.. Brown declined to
he was engaged in the mercantile busi-
ness of Joseph Barbour & Co. of Lon
don. bonded warehouse people.
He came back to America by way of
Japan and went to New Orleans, where
he played at the west end and Spanish
fort. He was in the grocery business
in st. Louis for three years at 1901
Chestnut street, and from there went
back to Australia
Going through Denmark he became
acquainted with King Christian TX
through an article he wrote for the
Chicago Herald, describing the Danish
people, and was present at the confir-
nation of the crown princes children.
AT Elsinore, where Shakespeare laid
the scene of Hamlet" he walked on the
same tagging that the Danish prince IS
described as having paced in soliloquiz-
ing hundreds of years before.
From there he travelled back through
Europe and across the United States to
Nome, Alaska, which he had difficulty
in reaching, as the ice foes covered the
sea to depth of from twelve to twenty
feet
They arrived at Nome in the bright
sunlight, but it was midnight, and as the
town was fast asleep they had to wait
The Indians carried them to the town
in sleds charging $40 for two miles.
For several months he played there in
Dick DeXter's saloon at $25 a night,
payable in gold dust.
Knew Twain as Compositor
Mr.. Brown knew Mark Twain inti-
mately when he was a compositor on
the Territory and Enterprise, and COM
ing home with him one night from a
dance they We're held up and robbed of
all their money. He also attended
Buck Tanshaw's funeral in Virginia
City with the humorous writer.
He has a letter from Seth Bullock.
United States grand marshal of Dakota
concerning the founding of Deadwood
! by him, and one from the cuarto con-
tennial committee asking him as the
| founder to come to DeadwOod to the
carnival which was held there in 1901
| Mr.. Brown is an intimate friend of
DR.. Frank Dewitt Talmage of Los An
geles. Although he has had such a
| strenuous life he is a mild-mannered
man and looks as though he had worn
dress suit all his life and never seen