Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-12-01

mined to reach them. I knew the only way I could
do that was to keep going. ran most of the way.
Occasionally would slow down to a walk to re-
cover my breath and recuperate my strength
little; then would forge ahead again.
"'What did you eat on the wayY 1 asked. He
said:
Browse. When l would cross a dry ceulee
would break off a handful of brush, willows or
bOX-eder, and eat it as ran across the next pla-
teau, maybe ten miles, or twenty miles, thirty
miles, Then when l crossed another coulee l
would break off more and eat that 1
After running two days and nights and the
greater part of the third day. late in the after
noon the wind lulled, the snow cleared from the
air for few minutes and the dim outline
of Woody mountain towering away into the sky.
That gave me new hope new courage. l knew
the camp not more than twenty miles
away, and knew 1 should reach it. put
burst of speed and after running few miles
more the wind lulled again, the air cleared and
saw the outline of the great blue forest that sur
rounds the base of the mountain; and 1 saw three
little columns of blue smoke curling up among
the trees"
The Indian told Colonel Shields, with equally
substantial detail, how he found his friends, how
they welcomed him, how he collapsed in their
arms, and knew nothing for two days and nights.
D. T. Berry, official photographer and scout with
Clusters forces, was at Fort Lincoln during the
time Rain-in-the-Face was in Jail there. He gives
this plain, unvarnshed account" in the Wisconsin
Times:
''In 1874 the Seventh United States cavalry was
out scouting along the Yellowstone. DR.. HOl-
Finger and a trader by the name of Baliran
stopped to pick up agates while the
command moved A little later the horses
owned by the two men came up to the command
rderless. The scouting party started back to
what happened to Hozinger and Baliran and dis
covered they had been shot. They secuted around
to see who had killed them but there trace
of Indian white man to be found
1.-THE next summer the Sioux Indians were hold
ing big war dance at Siaonng Rock and be-
tween the dances some of the warriors would get
up in the center of the circle and relate of
the brave deeds of the band. handsome young
chief stepped into the circle and told the Indians
how he had killed two men the Yellowstone,
shooting both. When he had finished he received
great applause from the Indians. This Indian
Chief ain-in-the-Face.
Charles Reynolds, General Clusters famous
scout. was present watching the dancers and heard
the chief tell how he had killed the two men. The
next day he returned to Fort Lincoln, the army
post located near Bismarck, on the west bank of
the Missouri river. Reynolds told General Custer
how he had heard Chief Rain-in-the-Face relate
his deed. On the next ration day, General Custer
sent his brother Capt. Tom Custer, and 100 sol
diers of the Seventh cavalry, together with some
officers, to Standing Rock, to arrest the Indian
chief for the killing of the two
Captain Custer discovered Chief Rain-in-the
Face in the traders store and with soldiers
grabbed the chief wrested his rifle from him and
ordered him to mount horse. The party headed
for Fort Lincoln and upon their arrival there
Chief Rain-in-t Face was placed in the guard
house to await trial for murder in the spring term
of the United States court.
"Two men who had been caught stealing oats
and other grain from the government at Lincoln
were also in the same guard-hOuse awaiting trial
at Fargo. Friends of the two grain thieves cut
hole in the guard-hOuSe to effect their escape and