Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-03-27

Ridge agency twenty-one years ago
last December and January. lie was
told that Jack Red Cloud was at the
White House and said thai. he would
like to see him and that if ne was as
good looking man as his father he
must be a fine. outstanding Indian.
The general recently received a let
ter from Short Bull. one of the Sioux
chieftains who led his tribe on the
warpath against the whites immedi-
ately following the killing OF Sitting
Bun by the Indian police near Stano-
ing Rock Agency. Short Bull is now
leading a lazy life OF retirement Or
the agency. His warpath days are
| over.
While the Sioux were still on the
warpath early in the month OF jan
uary. 1891, Red Cloud. Jacks rather.
.gho was too old TO go on the war
path no matter what his yearnings
were. was sent out by his military
authorities to the hostile camp to use
his best endeavors TO induce the In
dians to surrender without further
fighting. There had been a fgnt at
Wounded Knee, where ninety OF the
Seventh cavalry were killed and
wounded, and where Big Foot's band
of Sioux virtually had been wiped out
OF existence. The authorities did not
want any more Of it, If they could
bring the thing to an end peaceabiy.
Red Cloud went out on his mission
| and when he came back he said that
his appeals had been of no avail.
Craft OF the Redskin.
After the surrender one of the Sioux
warriors was asked what Red Cloud
said to them when he was deliver
ing the soldiers message asking for
peace. Did he deliver it? Not IL the
I yonths of his tribe tell the trutA.
Tney said that the chief came to them
and that his bleary old eyes lighted
and his voice was young when he told
| them that war was tor men. and
peace was for towards.
An attempt was made after the sur
render to get Red Cloud to tell the
story of the Fetterman fight, in which
| he led the Sioux Jack Red Cloud
brought to his father granddaughter
who spoke English. and she was
asked to act as interpreter. but the
old man refused to tell the story. say
ing that it was not for warrior to
boast, and then he added that some
white man might tell the story.
1t was not long after the Civil war
that Red Cloud met in battle the field
| tried soldiers of that conflict and they
found him worthy to meet them. Min
eral wealth had been discovered In
| Montana and the rush Of prospectors
and settlers made it necessary for the
government to erect military post
| along the trail leading over the
prairies TO the mines. On the trail
to the Powder River was built Fort
! Phil Kearney. While the troops or
dered to the new post were on the
march a scout came riding into the
column with his horse under spur.
Later Red Cloud with his braves met
Fetterman in battle and killed him
and fifty followers.
One man in Washington Is in touch.
by wire and wireless, with every cor
ner of the United States. even up to
lfarthest Nome, Alaska And this
same man. by wire and wireless. is In
touch with the whole world-with the
six or seven hundred wireless tele-
graph shore stations scattered all over
the globe, not to speak OF the op-
orators on the ships sailing the seas OF
the globe.
II he so desired. and IL the govern
Iment which pays him his salary In the
department of war so ordered. this
man could talk with the operator IN
Eastport. Maine; the Harvard Univer-
sity laboratory. the lightship skunk"
Ioff the English coast, with the Rus
sian station at Vladivostok. Siberia;
with Perrin or Zanzibar. some miles
TO the southwark
AS long ago as 1905 the Imperial
German government. observing the
need for the regulation Of wireless
telegraphy, and in order to secure the
greatest benefit from 1t and prevent
the establishment of worldwide
wireless monopoly, invited other ma
lions to Join it in adequate interna-
tioLal regulation--the only effective
| kind. as wireless defies boundary
lines.
It seems that the delegates from
the United States we're influential In
shaping the International agreement.
but, owing to a peculiar circumstance.
they are powerless to further the rati.
fication by this nation. The reason Is
simple: the land.telegraphs Of Europe,
Japan and nations generally are own
ed by the government and are usually
operated by the national postoffice sys-
tem-also always government insti-
tuition.
Where the Hitch Comes.
In the United States, of course. pri-
gate capital controls the land tele-
graph lines. Now. the Berlin conven-
ltion fixes the rates of wireless dis
patches and provides for their trans
mission over land lines to their ter
minus and from their point OF origin
Some neople say that without either
federal ownership or else federal
control of land lines 1t will be fmpos-
sibIe for this country to join the rest
Of the civilized world in contract
essential to the well-being of wireless
telegraphy.
tts not TO catch it. Just as the surest
way to escape illness is to keep we'll