The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-07-29

WAS OdDON Al4CCAs OOA4OA 49,
just a rosy checked boy Of 10 when Cody
and I got him into u show" Carver
said. Now he is still rosy checked ana
bOyish, even with some gray mars
from sis ranch near Pawnee, Okla, in q
big Lincoln sedan with a Wondrous S4OO
French siren horn. He borrowed for MS
driver the mayor Of Pawnee, Q. Q. MenL-
added" "Pawnee Bill" came to Norfolk
ger. Major Lilies story is well known.
Retiring from the show business a few
wears ago. he established a large ranch
in Oklahoma and keeps a herd OF I
Captain Lutte" North
Comes now and really one Of the
most important figures in this unique
conference-Capt. Lutte" North Of Col
umbus, Neb. Almost everybody in the
state knows Captain Lutte" and those
who are familiar with the history OF the
West since the SOS should recall him IN
stantly. Like "Deadwood Dick" Capt.
Luther H. North was a veteran "a
fighter. He was a captain in the famous
Pawnee Indian scouts, which he organlz-
ed in 1864 to help put down the depre-
dations Of the warlike Sioux and Chey-
ennes. Later his company became a part
of the battalion of four companies under
his brother, the late Mai. Frank North.
These men knew Cody long before he
was Buffalo Bill" and when he, too,
was a leader of Pawnee scouts and
helped fight the Indians.
Lutte" North knew General Terry and
Custer and Crook. Also he lived among
the Indians and became well acquainted
with their language and knew intimately
such chiefs as Gail, Crazy Horse and
Rain-in-the-Face, and the medicine man,
Sitting Bull. Captain North is 81 years
old now. but he, too, has h appearance
and keen recollection OF a man OF on:
Idaho Bill" and Diamond Dick"
Idaho Bill" whose real name is Col.
B. R. Pearson, was burn in 1868 on
Oregon trail, either in Nebraska or Wyo-
ming. His father was a railroad con-
struction foreman Mute Kay Pearson,
who homesteaded in Adams county, Ne
braska, in 1872, where Idaho Bills" sis
ter, Mrs. H. E. Van Booming, still lives
near the town of Hastings. In his young
er days Idaho Bill" was a scout ano
trapper Of wild animals, and In 1SOo
roped wolves and took them to Chicago
for an exhibition. He owns a large ranch
in the Snake river valley OF Idaho, Where
he has raised NAM hundreds OF horses.
At one time 1900 head of horses ran on
his ranges and today there still remain
about 900. He acquired a competence
selling horses to the British army during
the Boer War, and before that time was
la noted buffalo hunter.
Theodore Roosevelt visited Parsons
. ranch of 10000 acres near WeiSer, 1daho,
while president and there made his Ia
nous bear hunt. One of Idaho Bits"
best tricks is to catch lions
and wolves alive by lasSoing them. he
is as picturesque as his photograph and
still wears his hair long, almost to his
waist, and a slender goatee that he says
is nothing more han a wisp Of name.
Diamond Dick,' who in private life is
DIR. Richard j. Tanner, is Norfolk's local
celebrity. He was host to the otner
lplainsmen and chiefly responsible for
/, their meeting. DR.. Tanner freely admits
there were other men known as "D1a-
, mond Dick but says he has used the
name since he was is years old, at Wnlch
+ time he adopted it and went into a show
as a crack shot and rider. His CHIEF
; claim to fame came with his ride on MS
! horse, Gyp, covering $500 miles IN nine
: Imonths-from March Is to November ~
1898. He came to Norfolk unassunlngly
4 more than a dozen years ago after get
! ting his degree in a medical college ano
has been a practicing physician mere
4 under his real name since.
The "POWWOW" Begins
> The six famous frontiersmen sal
4 around a large table. G.. E: Burnham
became chairman of the informal meet
: ing and announced its purpose. To Sc
n Alright some disputed history concerning
what happened at the Battle of the Little
q Big Horn. Was General custer a sulcloe
q as a recent magazine article had stated
: There follows a word-for-word report o
e the "powwoW."
v Mr.. Burnham-In our discussion Of tn
: Custer fight yesterday I asked If you gen
n tlemen had read h article In the COS
mopolitan stating that Custer had com
mitted suicide, and before 1 got Tn
" words out of my mouth Deadwood Die
IS said, That's a damn lie"
IS Deadwood Dick-And I still say 1t.
)" MI. Burnham-Doctor Carver, you Wer
d familiar with the circumstances there
sr the orders that were given to Reno, an
the fact that he did not obey them.
6 think Lutte disagrees with you on Ken
10 mot obeying orders.
O. Deadwood Dick%I disagree with him.
q Mr.. Burnham-Dr. Carver says tina
Reno absolutely ~diSobeyed orders.
DR.. Carver-What do you boys want I
know?
le Mr.. Burnham2They want the res
story of the Custer fight. What hap
pened from beginning to end.
DR.. Carver-The white men killed 10
buffalo off for five years to get the In
dams on the reservations. Crazy hors
was one of the bravest Indians tina
ever lived. When they took the Blac
Hills away from him it broke his hear
He met a white man in a field n da,
Harmed with a Winchester. Crazy Hors
had only a quirt, but instead Of runn1n
away, Crazy Horse, who didn't know VIVA
fear was, faced the man and the WIZ
chester and chased that man clear i I
Deadwood.
The Indians used to go into battle wit
no means of transportation ana Tine
whipped the white men with their ooV
and arrows. Terry, Gibbon and Goofre
couldn't whip the Indians. I am 9
Indian at heart, and v no love K
palefaces. The whites rode into u
camps and chased them out, the Oga
lalas, Uncpapas, Brules and Che,
ennes-they never whipped the Sioux
their lives. The Sioux have never bee
whipped.
How the Indians Whipped Crook
Now they go out with all the gre
generals-they had it all fixed n we
going to eat the indians up. Gener
Crook was the best friend I ever ha
He was going to fix the Indians, b
when they woke up the Indians we
scrapping and they stopped him, whips
him right. Crook hung around III
whipped pup, and then he went IN
lDeadwood, ragged, dirty, and hungry
they had to eat was the horses Tn
killed. Crook was supposed to follow e
indians and they cut OF his supp
trains. Then they whipped him, =
best soldiers, best cavalry that ever w
After the Indians whipped Crook, alol
Icomes Custer with a lot Of soldiers WI
the old Sharp's carbine, that you cal
shoot with, because they kick up. Sno