Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-07-07

i SWord bearer, were killed.
I Murders of stage drivers by IN
dams We're frequent In the late s,70s
and early sos, and small bands Of
hostiles rowing about kept the SOL
diers at Keogh busy until the rail |
road came in 1882. The Indians
broke out occasionally even after the
railroad came.
A large part of the force that took
/ part in the Pine Ridge campaign
went from Keogh. They marched
overland from the post to the scene
Of the trouble, 800 miles distant, in
the midst of one of the frightfully
severe winters that characterize
the region.
Lieut. Casey. one OF the officers
who. left Keogh on that occasion,
was murdered by one of his Indian
scouts near Pine Ridge. Casey was
the originator of the idea to solve
! the Indian problem by making sol
diers of the Indians. He organized
4 W. lAOldAt SOlu1GIS DIT
4 Keogh. The scheme was not success
full and was dropped soon after Cas-
ey's death. The Indians could not
be made to understand discipline
and could not be educated to living
in houses.
One of the interesting stories Of
I'll rrvo 80
Iof young lieutenant named Mar
shall who was assigned to the COM
mand of one of the Indian troops.
Marshall came to Keogh fresh from
West Point. The Indian had all the
contempt for the tenderfoot that
made life hard for the fastener in
those days.
When Marshall left the post with
his Indians for two weeks prac-
tice5 march the older officers expected
good story when he returned. They
got the story, but the Indians told
It, not Marshall, and they did not
regard it as humorous.
Junction, Mont, opposite the
mouth Of the Big Horn river, vas
dead hard then. Marshall camped
near it one night, posted his sentries
and went to sleep in his tent.
The Indians secured some hair
trigger whisky from Junction, filled
i themselves with it, and decided to
have some fun with the tenderfoot
lieutenant. AS a preliminary jest
they sent dozen bullets from their
carbines through the officerss tent.
Marshall came out in hurry, as
they had expected, but the events
that followed were somewhat unex-
pected. ..5SS
Marshall was not large but he was
: we'll knit and athletic. He had a
Il calm gray eye and a prominent chin,
two outward indications the Indians
had not taken into their calcuIa-
tions. s
1t took the officer only an instant
to discover that some of the Indians
\ were drunk, but he did not realize
that the entire command was intox-
/ tcated. He directed sergeant near
l him to arrest the rioters. The ser
7 geant's answer was warwhoop and
, rush at the lieutenant.
Il A savage blow in the face with
Marshall's fist put the sergeant
! down. The Indians were never able
Il to agree on Just what happened after
that, but they remembered that
Marshall took the sergeant's carbine
by the barrel and mingled with
them. e4z r. .
After he had worked through his
troan the members of it that were
not down with broken heads were
falling over one at.ott er in their
anxiety to surrender or fleeing in
the darkness. There was never
Z doubt after that as to who was boss
: of Marshall's troop, and when he
returned to Keogh with his Indians
they We're So thoroughly under con-
troll that they would come and eat
out of his hand, as one of the old
timers put it. g.. ....-
+ General Miles was the victim of a
Joke rear Keogh, according to the
! diary Of one Of his Old trumpeters,
kept in ST.
twas necessary, &c move the COM
mand asross the river on one of the
4 expeditions. The. river was bank full.
as IA result of the June rise, COM
mon to this region. The general es-
sayed the passage of the river on a,
raft, which got stuck in midstream
and was left in this undignifed po-
sition about four hours. The old
B strumpeter's memoirs insist this was
y joke, but do not reveal who was