Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-03-22

Bull by the indian police near Stano
ing Rock Agency. Short Bull Is nov
leading lazy life OF retirement OF
the agency. His warpath days are
over. but he was Jealous for tight
score OF years ago and with KICKING
Bear he was declared so dangerous
that the two were led captives to Fort
Sheridan near Chicago.
While me Sioux were still on the
warpath early in the month OF Jan
uary. 1891, Red Cloud, Jacks father
who was too old to so on the war
path no matter what his yearnings
were, was sent out by his military
authorities to the hostile camp 10 use
his best endeavors to induce the In
dams to, surrender without further
fighting. There had been a fight az
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. ii they could
bring the thing to an END peacefully.
Red Cloud went out on his mission
and when he came back he said that
his appeals had been of no avail
Graft 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 ii the
youths of his tribe tell the truth.
They 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 for 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 a 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 a 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 scogt 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.
Circles the Globe.
One man in Washington is in touch.
by wire and wireless, with every cor
ner of the United States, even Up to
farthest 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 OPP
orators on the ships sailing the seas of
the globe.
If~he so desired. and if the govern
ment which pays him his salary in tho
department of war so ordered. this
man could talk with the operator in
Eastport, Maine; the Harvard Uniyer-
sity laboratory. the lightship skunk"
off the English coast. with the Rus
sian station at Vladivostok, Siberia:
with Perrin or Zanzibar, some miles
to the southwark If it was neces-
sary to do so. words could be flashed
from Fort William Mckinley across
to F'ukui, Japan, and no one sailing
underneath the f1ving messages need
be the wiser. And every day the num-
Der of these points in the gigantic
forld-circling system of intercommuni
cation increases-both in efficiency
and certainty. The one man in the
war department at Washington will
have his hands full. and he can talk
all he wants to-
viii Be No Babel.
The ether" says Commissioner
Chamberlain of the bureau of naviga-
ton, sis common property, and with
the cheapest apparatus unrestrained
trivial messages can create babel"
What a magnificent babel it would be
if the tribes and tongues we're at war
with each other! But, despite the in
genuities of the ever-present prac-
teal joker. there isn't going to be any
babel
AS long ago as 1906 the Imperial
German government, observing the
need for the regulation Of wireless
telegraphy. and in order to secure the
greatest benefit from it and prevent
the establishment of a worldwide
wireless monopoly, invited other IA
lions to join 1t in adequate interna-
tional regulation--the only effective
kind, as wireless defies boundary