The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21

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 Brave Priest Tells of Stirring Times
 When Battle of Wounded Knee
 Was Fought. -
 The only white man who was able to keep the trust and friendship of the Sioux at the time of the famous Battle of Wounded Knee. in 1ssO, and through his courage prevented that famous Indian fight from becoming a complete annihilation of all the Sioux tribes is Father Jutz, of New York city.
 Father Jutz spent twelve years of his life among the Indian missions. Born in Austria and educated in the Jesuit school. finishing in famous Jesuit. college near Liverpool he crossed to this country with twelve brothers, and for four years worked in Wisconsin, where he was sent alone to the Japan reservation in Wyoming
 A weather scared, kindly faced veteran of many Western struggles, seventy years old. with blue gray eyes of the dearest hue. he Is today one of the most interesting characters among the Jesuit priesthood-a man whom every Indian in the Northwest loves and reveres for his Kindness. gentle ness and bravery in their behalf. 'ar AA4g AHA11Aht8 nSQ 0b0u lACALOu DY an Indian medince man in Utah." he. says, ''who had declared that the Indian Messiah was coming. Some of the chiefs of the bad lands even travel led hundreds of miles to hear the mes- sage of this medicine man.
 T was personally @ witness of these dances and stood alone within Q circle of six hundred madly raging Indian chiefs. braves. sQuaws and children while they were going through these terrible performances.
 T know them all. Some were from the Pins Ridge mission and some from the Rosebud mission at both of which places had worked. While the speet- acles that I then witnessed were both terrifying and heartrending in the ex- treme, I felt no personal fear for the Indians. for once their confidence is obtained they are to be trusted wholly.
 The Indians were approaching from. the North when they were surrounded by the American soldiers.
 ''Who fired the first shot which re- suited so terribly for the Indians is not known. It may have been an Indian; 1t may have been soldier. At any rate nearly all the band, consist ing of about two hundred braves, wo- men and children, were killed.
 ASu distance of the mission school and later was fought around the mission,
 "A few of those who had gone back to the encampment. later joined those who had escaped from the first en- counter and the next day from the windows of the mission could see that an Indian band Had surrounded a company of soldiers in the valley and were shooting them down.
 Immediately I sent courier to General Brooke and 1t was only through his prompt action in sending a assistance that the little company was saved from complete annihilation.
 T was warned by the general to get away from so dangerous a location, but knew there was nothing to fear, The Indians were my friends and. as 1t turned out, while many of the neigh boring ranch buildings were burned, the mission buildings remained un- and I cared for the wounded on both sides there.
 "All the government day schools and the agency house were destroyed. The Indian braves at the time were all which were supposed to be charmed and would ward or harm, having been worn in the ghost dances.
 They were like children once their confidence had been obtained, and dur ing my stay among them I came to how shamefully they had been treated by the government agents. they were obliged to live upen dead horses. For lack of food they were. found to steal the cattle of the half breeds, cattle that belonged to them. the returns from which too often found its way Into the pockets of the agents.
 "I am sure that there will never be another uprising of these Indians. They are. rapidly becoming extinct In fifty years doubt If there will be a rullblood alive"