Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-02-22

eminent protested against the objec-
ton. The inscription showing that
Wheeler was a major general Of the
Confederacy already had been cut into
the granite and the hope of the sane
ones is that it will remain there as
long as the granite endures.
/ went to Arlington and read the
Confederate service inscription. II
leads the rest of the record Of Wheel
er's soldier service. Below it appears
the statement of the fact that Wheel
er was a major general in the Federal
army at the time Of his death. He
rests under the blue of the sky and
the gray of the clouds and he rests in
good company.
Not long ago there was levity
In the usually grave senate when
a bill vas 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
beneiciaries 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 wom-
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 Crow
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 a little over twenty-five years ago.
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 we're 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 is
plain Dennis. Swift Hawk has be-
come Hugh, White Buffalo is Luke
and Soldier is Eugene,
Colonel Fechet, who made a report
on the bravery of Bullhead, Shave
} head and the others, had very little to
I say about his own part of the affair
} which ended in the killing of Sitting
t Bull and the dispensing of his follow
8 ing, The colonel in fact was content
I to praise everybody but himself for
k the work done, and the chances are
that no senator on the floor remem'
s bered the part which this American
n army officer played in that drama oil
Q the plains which served as a curtain
9 raiser for the last great Sioux war.
Colonel Fechet's Exploit.
d 1t was a bitter December night when
the little company of Indian police at
t Standing Rock agency was sent out
under orders to arrest Sitting Bull
y The war department officials thought
it was better that the Indian police
d should attempt to arrest the great
Sioux chief and medicine man rather
n than to send white troops into the
n field to accomplish the arrest.
There we're 43 braves in the Indian
police band, and when they came to
d the camp of Sitting Bull they ran up
against 100 Sioux. The medicine mar
was killed at the first exchange o.
shots and the most famous Sioux In
dian, OF comparatively recent history
" at least, went "uele ~ 10 hopSN tH'
y buffalos are plenty.
The police routed Sitting Bulls fol
IS lowers, but they were speedily rein
forced by another band Of Sioux, ant
the police were compelled to barricadF
a themselves in some log huts, from
r which they held of the swarminE
If horde until Fechet, then a captain O
the Eighth cavalry, reached the scene
with two troops of horse. Fechet hat
IS gone into the field with his troops t
await the arrival Of a courier will
the news of Sitting Bills arrest TIT
courier came headlong ard almos
T. ~speechless. Finally he told his tale
Sitting Bull was dead, many of the In
m dian police were killed and the res
were surrounded by hordes of Siou'
ID and in momentary danger OF beinI
1t slain.
ct Captain Fechet had with him tw'
lie troops, a light field piece and an an
r, bulapce. An accident happened to tn
wheels Of the artillery timber chest
and it was necessary to attach tn
II. trail of the piece to the rear OF tn
Mt ambulance in order to move the gu
lie to the front.
Handicapped in this way, the con
lie mand made a ride of AZ miles over tn
lie toughest possible trails in the blacl
II ness of a winter night. Fechet's con
" mand routed the attacking Indians an
20 rescued the police besieged in tn
d. huts.
Khaki.
Exnarienca made the British al