El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-01

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> Chief Red Cloud Who Surrender
to Col. Taylor, Of Fort Bliss
and loyalty and they had his fatherly
o friendship. When the legendary lore OF
the SiouS is written White Hat viii
be associated with the days OF
Wounded Knee The Mission White
River and the Bad Lands. the com
ing in' OF Little Wound Big Road
and Painted Horse: the surrender OF
Kicking Bear and Short Euu,' with
deeds OF daring Of his faithful scouts.
'HanktOn Charlie No Neck, w oman $
Dress and Philip Wells. quarter
breed. whom those days IL was
often man to man flEhting-had his
nose cut off at Wounded Knee and
sewed on by Doc Ewing while the bat
tie continued When Capt Wallace fell
and when his body was recovered MS
revolver had five cham ers empty ana
there We're five dead indians at his
feet This shows that they were days
8 OF real fighting Lieut. Darlington
now inspector general l. : A. who was
in Fl PasO the latter part Of last week,
en- route to Aqua Prieta and the west.
J second in command at the time was
terribly wounded and Capt Hawthorne
now Col. Hawthorne. OF the artillery,
had his watch struck by bullet ana
forced into his side He recovered
: however.
white Hat Taylor had favorite
indian scout High Backbone shol
while handing MIN note from Gen
Forsvthe to dispatch a messenger LOT
reenforcements TayIor's lieutent Guy
Preston. NOW major at HonoluluJ was
( sent advised not TO 20 by road as ll
was ambushed. but TO take chances his
daring puzzled the red skins by its au-
dacity. DashinS like q lightning tlasn
through the hill covered country, ne
landed at Gen BrO0l-s's headquarters-
with his horse EaspinE blood and drop
ping dead as the lieutenant leaped from
. the saddle
Battle Of The Mission
The next day followed the last OF
an big indian battles with, singular 10
relate, an appropriate name-'Ihe Mis-
sion This close call Of danger re-
lieved by a s5-mile all night ride by
Gen. Fighting Guy Henry.s 'bulIa-
Ices satisfied the majority OF the nos
tiles that the mystic ghost dance shirts
were not bullet proof and enabled the
voice Of reason TO be heard and prompt
ed the willy old chief Red Cloud, 10
/ surrender to Capt Charles Taylor. 70
whom ne gave the pistol used by
Young Plenty Horses 10 Kill Lieut.
/ Casey. He gave his influence in aid
I ing as also did Buffalo Bill ttnen IN
! the campaign as brigadIer general OF
( the Nebraska national guard ana olner
: friends. notably capt tnoW major gen
eraI retiredl Jesse NJ Lee, assisted uy
myself as peace commissions. TO brInS
about a general surrender TO Lieut.
Gen. Miles
I In this campaign Col. Guilfoyie now
I at Douglas: Brewer. Skid Rice. Sickels
/ tOf the 18th cavalry and others lately
/ associated with MeNicOs border line,
made enviable records
severe Campaign.
1T was a winter campaign Of great
/ severity snow was M to the saddle
( Eirths, the thermometer was 80 de-
: Erees below zero. horses were frozen
stiff on the picket lines, one officer
was frozen in camp Lieut. Piper lost
! four men and lost his own left arm
from the cold Banqueting in the open
1 gave mustached men coffee icicles- The
| indians in hostile camps danced be-
! tween fires arranged a Ia checker board
and to the establishment OF all showed
adeptions i'm digging in in trenches
/ Soldiers ON the Rio Graude this winter
/ can thus grasp the JOYS coming 70 the
millions Of men on the Nistula-
Tribute TO Red Cloud"
/ Red Cloud VIII live I'm history as
the most active. energetic, indOmltable
and dashing red warrior OF his time
Sitting Bull though a warrior, eN-
celled as "A statesman and medicine
man chief Josephs as q natural soldier,
with all the natural traits Of gen
cral a graduate in a style of action now
merged into the schooling Of West
Point. Sumsr and other national mill
+ tary academies Geronimo. the crafty,
sure thing fighter with a topography
and climate that made cOwardice an
aid to caution. to gain success without
I danger. but Red Cloud was the Ney,
! the Ringgold, the Hooker. the custer,
/ the sheridan OF the red race
= Time will mitigate our view OF his
feeling Of implacable hate to the con-
! Guerors, everlasting and undyinS faith
( fulness to his cause, and stckler for
{ his peoples rights. when his love OF
( race will be recognized as "a virtue-b3
I justified by the verdict Of the impartial
future historian
when that history is written, no
/ man Will stand as 50 imperial a figure,
/ as lord and master at one time of so
| much Of this continent, no leader
! name viii cover the same length Of un-
{ disputed rulership as this red rover Of
he plains who even aged, almost
blind was in the field and advising
! on the last day and in the last battle,
| The Mission, at Pine Ridge, Nehr-- IN
I 1891. which one might say was
! draw. and marked the end of a strug-
gle OF centuries
Overseas Impression.
ITO show the mark his career has
{ made even across the sea, the follow
( ing quotation i'm the Paris Figaro from
I ~ Miguel Zemoci0s the we'll known
poet and dDimatist is quoted
With Red cloud more than a man
! disappears-it is a whole history. "a lit
efaturc. an ideal and q phase Of lie.
/ The prosaic struggle for existence has
replaced the fight for chiyalrous ideas,
{ and with Red Cloud is buried the last
Polish patriot or the Mississippi. the
I last Richard CoUer De Lion Of the
! Great Lakes
This was the old warrior who when
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