The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-18

were 'hcap Sioux there, at the same
time plucking up handfuls Of grass ana
showing the individual blades to the
General for the purpose OF illustrating
low thick the enemy were.
Curly SAYS that hostile Indians never
kill an Indian scout Intentionally. ire
cisciy III" contrary is the case. In the
early DAYS in the West they invariably
killed indian scouts with white troops
because they regarded them as traitors
to their race. The Rccs and the Sioux
are hereditary enemies, as the Crows
and the Sioux, too. have always been
The Sioux on one side and the Crows
and the I,ccs on the other always killed
each other whenever the opportunity
presented itself. irrespective Of whether
or not the Crows ar I,ces were acting
us scouts for white men.
Curry. like yellow Face and Two
Billy Woman. who wcr" scouts with
Reno as well as Bloody Knife. Is what
IL known in Montana as mountain
Grow; that is. in earlier days their
range was in the mountains rather than
on the plains. as was the case with
another branch Of the Crow tribe. No
one that I ever heard Of ever was told
until recently that Curly claimed a
Scotchman as u father, or that he had
been kidnapped when "A child by the
Comanchcs. Kiowas and Arapahoes,
who are plain Indians. The two for
m'r tribes lived in Texas. while the
Arapohoes ranged in Kansas and Colo
RADIO. hundreds of miles 10 the south.
None of these tribes ever came as far
north as Montana.
AS to what Curly says about having
been sent Ivy Gen. Custer AZ "A mes
scnger to Reno and IIentccn with orders
for them ~ join him Mp the valley, and
which would have been June "a. the
night before the fight. that is absolute
nonsense. The fact is III" entire
column did not separate until well
along in the morning Of June %, when
Custer and his men went up one side
Of the valley tn attack the hostlcs' camp
from above, while Reno and his men,
with Bcntcen in support. and the pack
train In the rear Of these, again We're
I, strike the enemy from the lower
end If the valley. thus catching the
Indian camp between them.
Cluster did not become engaged with
the enemy. however. until about I
o'clock in the afternoon If June -. He
was then some two miles from Reno
the heavy firing in his direction that
h" was desperately engaged. We heard
firing in vulleys. which We took to per-
haps he meant as signals that Custer
was heavily attacked and needed help
which We could not give him.
IF. then, the main column did not
separate until the morning of June %.
how and why should custer have sent
curly with orders to Reno and Ben
teen on June -. when at that very
time they and other officers We're in
| council with him. and So CLOSE that he
could have reached them 10y stretch
| ing forth his hands,
Had Curly, a crow. and an avowed
enemy of III" Sioux. entered their camp
| the night before tn. battle and eaten
with Iain-in-the-F Face. as he says lac
did. he would never have come out OF
there alive. The Sioux would have
| scalpcd him and burned him at the
stake. as was their pleasant custom
with enemies they especially hated
This Indian romancer continues his
| ridiculous tale by saying that Gcaeral
| Custer killed fourteen Indians with his