Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-05-09

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Wheeler. the Confederate veteran.
and Schofield. the Union veteran. died
about the same time and the bodies
OF both were buried In Arlington. They
sleep practically side by side. A tall
shaft marks the southerner's grave.
over the northerner no monument
save the small government marker as
yet has been placed.
| There Is noble natural monument.
| however, where Schofield lies. 1t is
an oak. stately. towering and sturdy,
an oak that was not young when
George Washington's stepson chose
Arlington for his dwelling place, and
an oak that was old when Robert E.
Lee stood on the porch Of the house
still standing, not a stone throws
distance from Schofield's grave, and
looked across the Potomac at Wash.
ington. then to turn away and to leave
for Richmond to take a commission
In the Confederate army
Not long ago there was levity
In the usually grave senate when
bill was considered to pension
the widows OF several braves of the
Crow tribe of Indians. The levity
was caused by the names, read aloud
IN the senate, of two Of the widowed
beneficiaries of the bill-Mrs. Bull.
head and Mrs. Shavehead. Other
widows who profited we're Mrs. Little
Eagle and Mrs. Hawkman.
The husbands of these Indian WON.
en- won pensions for them in an en-.
gagement in which there was neither
time nor reason for levity.. Bullhead
fought as well as did the hero Of fic.
ton, and perhaps history, Front de
Boeuf. his namesake, OF whom all
readers of Scott know. Shavehead
was not second to Bullhead in his
fighting, nor yet were the other Grow
Indians who. with their leaders, fell In
the fight at the time that the attempt
was made to arrest Sitting Bull at his
camp on the Grand river. December
Is, 1890.
1t was a report of Colonel Fechet,
now dead, that brought about the pen.
sioning of the widows of the Indians
who were killed on that December
day little over twenty-five years ago.
Colonel Fechet for some years before
his death was detailed as the com.
handing officer of the young student
soldiers at the University OF Illinois.
The pension bill by which Mary
Bullhead and Annie Shavehead and
the rest profit was before congress
for years, but no action could be Sc
cured.
Picturesque Names Changed.
No white man ever fought better
than did the red man on the Grand
river, Standing Rock agency, just ten
days before two troops Of the Seventh
cavalry were practically wiped out OF
existence by the braves Of Big Foot
on Wounded Knee creek. Indian
names are always picturesque, but
when the white man starts in with
the water Of his baptismal fount the
picturesqueness Is likely to be washed
away with the savage sin. Here are
the names OF some of the red men
who won medals. One of the leaders
In the fight Of Sitting Bulls camp was
known as Take the Hat; now he IL
plain Dennis. Swift Hawk has be-
come Hugh, White Buffalo is Luke
and Soldier is Eugene.
Colonel Fechet, who made q report
on the bravery Of Bullhead, Shave
head and the others. had very little to
say about his own part of the affair
which ended in the killing Of Sitting
Bull and the dispensing of his follow.
ing. The colonel in fact was content
to praise everybody but himself for
the work done. and the chances are
that no senator on the floor remem.
bered the part which this American
army officer played in that drama of
the plains which served as q curtain
raiser for the last great Sioux war.
Colonel Fechet's Exploit.
It was a bitter December night when |
the little company Of Indian police at
Standing Rock agency was sent out
under orders to arrest Sitting Bull. |
The war department officials thought |
1t was better that the Indian police |
should attempt to arrest the great |
Sioux chief and medicine man rather |
than to send white troops into the
field to accomplish the arrest.
There we're 43 braves in the Indian
police band, and when they came to
the camp Of Sitting Bull they ran up
against 100 Sioux. The medicine man
was killed at the first exchange Of
shots and the most famous Sioux In.
dian, Of comparatively recent history
at least, went where 1t Is hoped the
buffalos are plenty.
The police routed Sitting Bulls fol.
lowers. but they were speedily rein.
forced by another band of Sioux, and
the police were compelled to barricade
themselves in some log huts, from
which they held OF the swarmine
horde until Fechet, then a captain Of
the Eighth cavalry, reached the scene
with two troops of horse. Fechet had
gone into the field with his troops to
await the arrival Of courier with
the news Of Sitting Bulls arrest. The
courier came headlong and almost