Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-02-24
SENATE LAUGHS
At QUEER NAMES
Crow Indian Widows, With
Odd Applications, Ask
For Pensions
~ GEORGE CLINTON.

iona aco there vas leyity in the us
ually grave senate when q DIN va.
considered to pension the widows Of
several braves OF th" crow tribe 90
Indians The lcyity vas caused by
the NAMES read aloud. In the senate,
OF two Of the widowci 9cnet.ciarie5
OF m, bill Mrs Bulihead and hrs
Shavohead other widows who prof
tied we're Mrs Little Eagle ami Mrs.
iawkman.
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 hc-
ton. and perhaps history. Front do
Boeuf his namesake, Of whom all
readers OF Scott know Shavehead
was not second 10 Bullhead In his
hghting, nor yet we're the other Crow
Indians who, with their leaders. fell in
the fight AZ the time that the attempt
was made 70 arrest Sitting Bull at his
camp Oh the Grand river, December
Is. 1890.
II was a report OF Colonel Feohet.
now dead. that brought about the pen
sionlng OF the widows OF the Indians
who were killed on that December
day a 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 AZ 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 SCI
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 il likely TO be washed
away with the savage sin. Here are
the names OF some Of the red men
who won medals. One OF tho 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 The sponsors
in baptism would have done better II
they had dubbed the stalwart Sol
der. Prince Eugene II Is a Joy 10
note that Iron Thunder. High Eagle.
Spotted Thunder and Red Rear re-
fused 10 drop their names.
Colonel Fechet. who made a report
on the bravery OF Bulhead. 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 a
the plains which served as a curtain
raiser for the last great Sioux war
Colonel Feehet's Exploit
II was a bitter December night when
the little company OF Indian police AZ
Standing Rock agency was sent out
under orders 10 arrest Sitting Bull
The war department officials thought
II was better that the Indian police
should attempt 20 rrcst the great
Sioux chief and medicine man rather
than TO send white troops into the
field TO accomplish the arrest because
the Indians were resti~e and there
was fear that the appearance the
whites would send them on the wal
path.
There we're 40 braves % the Indian
police band. ari when they came to
the camp Of Sitting Lull the ran Up
against 100 Sioux The medicine man
was killed al the first exchange OF
shots and the most famous Sioux In.
dian. OF comparatively recent history
nj least. went where Il Is hoped the
buiialos are plenty.
The police routed Sitting Bull- fol.
lowers. but they were speedily rein
forced b" another band OF Sicu1. and
the police we're compelled 10 barricade
themselves In some log huts, from
which they held o. the swarmlng
horde until Fechet, the 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
speeches. Finally he told his tala-
Sitting Bull was dead. many OF the In
dian police we're killed and the rest
we're surrounded by hordes OF Sioux
and In momentRry danger Of being
slain.
Captain Fechet had with him two
troops. a light field piece and an am
bulance An accident happened to the
wheels Of the artillery timber chest.
and It was necessary 20 attach the
trail OF the piece to the rear OF the
In order 10 move the gun
TO the front.
Handicapped In this way, the com
mand made a ride OF ~ milns over tho