Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-03-28

told that Jack Red Cloud was at the
White House and said that he would
like to see him and that If he 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, inc OF the Sioux
chieftains who led his tribe on the
warpath against the whites immedi-
ately following the killing OF Sitting
Bull by the Indian police neal stand
ing Rock Agency. Short Bull is now
leading a lazy life OF retirement on
the agency. HIS warpatn days are
over.
While the Sioux were still on the
warpath early In the month OF a n
uary, 1891. Red Cloud. Jacks father.
who was too old to go on the a
path no matter what his y~earnings
were. was sent out by his military
authorities to the hostile camp to use
his best endeavors to induce the In
dams to surrender without further
fighting. There had been a tight 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 u
of existence. The authorities did not
want any more Of It, II they couid
bring the thing to al end ~peaceaply.
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 1t? Not II the
youths of his tribe tell the truth.
They said that the chief came to them
and that his bleary old eye lighted
and his voice was young when he toid
them that war was for men, and
peace was for towards.
An attempt was made alter 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 a warrior 10
boast, and then he added that some
white man might tell the story.
It was not long after the Civil war
that Red Cloud met in battle the tielo-
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 scout came riding n 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 tc
farthest Nome, Alaska. And this
same man, by wire and wireless. is II
touch with the whole world-with ths
six or seven hundred wireless tele
graph shore stations scattered all ovel
the globe, not to speak OF the op
orators on the ships sailing the seas o.
the globe.
If he so desired, and If the govern
ment which pays him his salary n thu
department Of war SO ordered. tnli
: man could talk with the operator II
PASSPORT, Maine; the Harvard Univer
: sity laboratory, the lightship skunk
! off the English coast, with the Rus
sian station at vladivostok. Siberia
/, with Perrin or Zanzibar. some mile
to the southwark.
: AS long ago as 1905 the lmperia
9 German government, observing tn
q need for the regulation of wireless
y telegraphy, and In order to secure tn
greatest benefit from 1t and proven
the establishment Of a world-wid
. wireless monopoly. invited other ne
tons. to join 1t in adequate interns
U tional regulation-the only effectiv
kind, as wireless defes boundar
" lines.
. It seems that the delegates fror
: the United States we're influential
!" shaping the international agreement
but, owing to a peculiar Circumstance
= they are powerless to further the rat
= f1cation by this nation. The reason
:. simple: the land-telegraphs Of Europ'
y Japan and nations generally are owl
F.. ed by the government and are usual
operated by the national ~postofice sy
= tem-also always a government Inst
q tuition.
= Where the Hitch Comes.
N In the United States, of course, pr
vate capital controls the land tel
graph lines. Now. the Berlin conve'
y ton fixes the rates Of wireless d
n patches and provides for their tran
=. mission over land lines to their te
minus and from their point OF origl
Some people say that without eith'
+. federal ownership or else feder
control Of land lines 1t will be impo
q sible for this country to Join the re
n 81 the civilized world in a contra
essential to the well-being OF wirele'
,e telegraphy@