The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04

marauders belonged to Company II.
June 20, 1899, the Twenty fifth regi.
ment was on train enroute to Frisco,
where It was to sail for the Philip.
pines. The train stopped for supper
at Winnemucca. New, and the officers
proceeded to a hotel two blocks from
the depot. The troops got out of the
car toward the rear of the train and
locked to saloon near at hand, of
which they took possession, terroriz-
ing the vicinity. Many shots were
fired and the saloon-keeper was Sc
verely wounded. His establishment
was damaged to the extent of 5000 in
goods destroyed and stolen BY the
time the officers reached the scene, all
the men were back in their places in
the cars, and it was not possible to
ascertain who had done the mischief.
October IS, 1899, a dozen members
of Company C, Twenty-fifth regiment,
wantonly assaulted four peaceful In
dams at San Carlos agency California.
beating them into insensibility. A
number of arrests were made, and four
men turned states evidence, securing
the conviction of the others. This is
the only one of the outrages which was
followed by any punishment until the
outrage at Brownville occurred.
February 16, 1900, at night, twenty
members of Company A of the TWEEN
ty-fifth regiment got possession of
their guns and went to Eel Paso, Texas,
nearby, where they stormed the Jail
and rescued two of their comrades
imprisoned for drunkenness and disor-
derby conduct. During the melee
many shots were fired and the jailer
was killed. Two of the soldiers were
also killed.
The soldier in charge of the rifles
at the fort said the keys to the gun
stocks were stolen from under his pill
low while he slept. A rollcall, ordered
at once, showed the guns in the racks,
which were locked and every member
of the company in his proper place,
excepting the two men who had been
killed The Twenty-fifth regiment fur
Neb., on the night of October 80, 1904,
when certain members of it shot up
that town, killing an inmate of a dis
reputable house and severely wound
ing an unoffending cowboy. This case
was very similar to that at Browns
Vile. In a letter to Secretary Loeb,
December 6, 1906, Seth Bullock, the
famous plainsman and personal friend
of the president, said among other
things, about the Valentine affair:
Several shots were fired into a house
in which were a number of people,
killing a woman and wounding a cow
boy who was unhitching his horse near
the house.
mo shots were fired from the house,
nor was there any reason for the shoot
ing by the negro soldiers. There were
twelve soldiers in the attacking party.
The local authorities did everything
in their power to find the guilty par
ties, but, as at Brownville, their COM
rades declined to aid in the detection
of the murderers. The house fired
into was a dance house, and the wo-
man Killed was an inmate of the
house, but this is not considered good
defense in the wild and woolly west,
and should not be in Washington, for
murder"
This record of hte Twenty-ffth reg.
iment, and the unprovoked and COW
ardly shooting of Captain Maclllin just
lately, made a case against the regi-
ment which has caused Senator For
aker good deal of uneasiness. He
has been especially disturbed over the
attempt to murder Captain Macklin.
If the trip of Mr.. Purdy to Browns
vile should result in the disclosure of
| important facts bearing on the case,
the president will also give those facts
to the country.