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Show . v H . . .... . . .'. " i . . 0 : ... r THE WEEKLY NEWS EXPRESS. LA YtON. . JSfltU North1 Laramie.- la-tt- i ypar of Mstoflc Fort - blue-coate- d, column of soldier 1 . the along marching Itpzenian Trait which winds acres wlndswfpt .upland plain and then throngh deep mountain gorge into the land known a Alwmraka,-"thHome of the Crs.".Thl military force of barely 700 men Is the Second Battalion- of 'the Eighteenth 'United States Infantry, setting forth on an expedition which will, make that regiment ' forever. fnfnOus In the a'nnnla.of the American army. ', ' ' ' The Eighteenth already .had an unnsuiri and a brilliant Irecord. Or ganlzed June. 20. 1812. It made Its first, appear a nreo the rolls of the army during the second war with England. Three years later It with the Fifth and r Infantry TMrty-fiTtregiment to form the Eighth United Stateh Infantry, thus loslng.Ua Identity and remaining "foal'-- ' for 40 Under the proclamation or President Lincoln-oMay 4, 1801, the Eighth w.as reorganized anil the - h . Dothl h Chain Of military posts to sent so entire company of the protect travelers1 o.ver the llozeman Eighteenth to the relief of the beTrail. Accordingly Colonel n leaguered- train.-- ' When bt atrrlved stationed with- his 'regi- at the fort, if brought mall from ment gt Fort In Nebraska, was ordered to establish, organize and take command of.the new Mountain District .xC the Department of . the Platte.. - At that tilne the, district had but one poet In ltF(Vrt Re'ho, iOO miles north of Fort Lgramle. Carrington, to move this post' 40 miles garrison It and then with .the- remainder .of hla three' other command, establish posts onp on the Bozeman Trail between tile-- TMyg Horn mountains and thq Powder river, one pn the H!g Rom rlVer.anfl the third, on the Yellowstone rivet-. Qarrlng-tom-Jhe- - Kea-rney . was-directe- .wes-fwac- - . . , So'that why we find tile Secohd Battalion of the .Klghteebth marching .horth from Fort Lqramle this lot suipmbr day ago. Front the .clear Wjomlyig sky the bot sun bluzes down upon them tpercllessly and gs they .plod along the dusty troll they look longingly upon the cool promise of. Cloud Peak Ih the distance. Of the 700, only about 200 are veterans. The rest are raw recruits from the Ejst' -scarcely the best soldier material to be pitted agajnsl such rcddiibt-ablwarriors ns thp Sioux and Cheya amuy-cappe- d enne. - . - .Ltjcklly they cann'ot look Into the future and. see yvhat Is In stpre for all of them In this ktrange Innd ot the loneliness, the n,mnb-Ipcold of a .Wyoming winter, the hunger and the other prlvatlops.'and for some of them a horrible death Under the stabbing lances or Binash-- , of the .SIopx. some Perhips foreboding of their fate. Ivai already come td .them at that council at Fort". Laramie 'when' Red Cloud, eprlng. Ing Into the center of the council ring and.. pointing hie finger at Colonel- Carrington, wxdalmedt 'You. ace the. White Eagle who Absupnka g - . to steal the roa.d! The haf com Great .White F'ather tend ue. presente and'.wJntg.ua to eell him the road, but' the whit chef It becpme With eoldlere fore the Indiana eay yea or nOl I will talk with you no morel, I 'will go now, and 1 will fight you! Atling as I live; I will fight for thp, last hunting grounds' of my ' . peoplel" .So he stalked out of the council and prepared for war, s did Man Afraid, of- Ills hereditary chief of the Oglalns, Crazy llorse ami America p. llorse of thp same to-ste- Into war the regiDuring ment served with the Armies of the West under. Grant afid Rnsocrans and Sherman' jnd Thomnst, Written .on- Its hnttleflmgs wfe the name of Vicksburg, Stpn'e Jllver, MuTfrfies-boro- , Chlcktfinouga, Kcttcsaw' MounAt tain, Jonesboro and Atlanta. ClileKaOianga 'the .Eighteenth was brigaded- with the .Sixteenth and Nineteenth regiments and, as of Thonias famous' i'ohrtcenth Its gallant stand In lmt helped him win tlm nickname Eighteenth? e.xlt-enc- e. the-CIvl- l - - . CAPT. ee J. W.' ffOWCLt, . , , ther federal comnilssloners at Fort Laramie assuring the commander that a katlsfactory treaty of beaee. with all the Indians of the North-- , west had bee.n signed-- . ' , .During the niewb thro months Clarrlngtpa. Sbnt repeated requests to hla department commander For reinforcements but It- was In vain. Not until' November-diany arrive, and then It' wns only one troop of the Second cavalry, CO Strong, la December' about 00 recruit Joined the battalion In the'. Mountain Dls;' trlct and . these had1 to bd divided between Fort Ueao, Folt ITill Kea'r--anFort O. F. Smithy which had been establlabed on the banks of the Jllg Horn In Montntm.. Requisitions for ammunition were liof answered and thg allovtances of the three were re'duced to a point', which made ride, practice fo( the '.reprulta, impossible ..'- In .fact, the stupidity of. the higher official. In handjlrvg .the situation. which faced Carrington and hls command la almist unbe-- . Jlevabfe. At" Fort Laramie, When all was peace,' there were twelve companies of regular troops, while t Fort phil Kearney, where all Wa war,' paly, four compaplea Thul- reported were allowed, General Sanborn, after a tragedy had shocked the whole. co'uniry Into- realizing how , Ironical was Phealdent. Andrew- Johnson's com gratulatory message to congress on December 8 that treaties have been madeet Fort Laramie and all t peace In the Northwest! Less-linn two weeks Intel;, on 'f)emnler,;i, the Indians alliicked - - . - - 1 Aw-- - . I" W V ' - ON THE tribe, and of the Rlack-Shiel- Cunjous. Mini-- . Df course, some of the oflrcers srf scornful of their foe.' A few months later one of- them will be., snylilg. boastfully Give me eighty men. and 1 will ride through the Sioux Nation P .Within a week he will go out with 81 men and not front one will return allvel.-Ruthe ter-ror of that dny Is still six months Now the only coneern- of away. their fommander !? to. reach his objective and begin the work he Iws been commissioned to do. - t . - June 28 the expedition rehrhed, Fort Reno. Carrington decided that It was' not practicable to move the fqrt as he had been instructed to do. Instead he ordered, the- stockade repaired, left 200 men to gai rlson the .post and pushed .on toward the north. On July 13 he esthe banks of. tablished t)la camp-othe Rig Flney .creek, .and two days later began building the 'to which was given the tame of Fort Phil Kearney. Within a week Red Cloud struck .hla first blow against-th. a heed of horses two and 'the .fort killing pear soldiers arid wounding three- others In fhe party sent. In pursuit of the ralderw. From that time on until Its abandonment In 1SC3, Fort Phil Kearney was virtually In a state of .' . siege. without a month passed Scarcely an average of 13 to 20 separate and distinct attacks upon parties of woodclmppers, herders or scouting details and In most of these one or two men were killed end a greater number wounded. Not a wagon train could pass along the Bozeman Trail without being attacked. One day a messenger dashed Into the fort with the news that one such train, en route from Fort Laramie, waa corralled by the Sioux and In Imminent danger of being nlpod out Carrington Immediately n 'Invader's-stampedingFai-Ing- - U . . - the white mans usual for the sanctity of treaties with the red man. They slaughtered game waste-full- y and the Indians, angry over the violation of the treaty and the destruction of their principal food aupply, retaliated with attacks on emigrant trains, parties of miner or any other traveler through the forbidden country. Early In 1S0G commissioners were sent to Fort Laramie to make another treaty with the Sioux and Cheyennes but, without waiting ,w see the outcome of these negotiations, the government decided to , ' O' r?1 ' Ax. AGAINST THE SIOUX. the wood t rilin' engaged In logging operations oil Plncy Island,- a .few miles from the' fort anil Cnrrlrig-odetailed Cilpt. J. Powell .with a force of SO men tor jjo to Its relief. Two days before Powell had .b'eeri called upon for. a slmtlor duty and had performed It eflldently. But Just as tt.ie dplarhqient was' about' to staFt out, CnpL W. J. Fett'erman bogged for the command of the exy pedition, pleading hla senior as Justification .fon the It was Fettermitn who had made the' boast about riding .tlwong.h the. whole Sioux nation with. 80 tueii. Carrington, knowing bis tenth enoy to rashness, gave him' specific .orders to relieve the wood train, drive back the Indiana, but on.no account-tpursue the Indians beyond Lolge Trail. Rlilge and repeated those orders from the walls' .of the stockade as Fetteruians par--tmarched out-. The result Is fnniUhit .ht.stbry, Fettermitn disobeyed. his orders and was lured Into an ambush. Today a ta'Jl monument, of cobblestones .stands cm art eminence known as Mkssacre lull" W the road between Buffalo. tpA Sheridan, .Wyo. It bears bronze, shield with this Inscription i '"On this 'field on the TLR day of December, 1S0C, three commissioned officers and sey.enty-plprivates of the Eighteenth United States Infantry and of the Second Cnlted States Cavalry, under the command of CapL Brevet, Lleut.-CoWm. J. Fetterman, were killed by an ovei whelming force of Sioux under command of Red Cloud. There were no survivors. This tablet makes no mention of two civilians who accompanied the expedition, bringing the casualty list of the "Fetterman Massacre up to $L It also errs In crediting Red Clond with being commander of the Indians. Investigations among the Sioux by Stanley Vestal, biographer of Sitting - . e ' -- eri V.ic. of ik Camel ", The cry ef camel 1 tlighti. shrill and plaintive and often sounded .fdr no particular reason. - Camels also grufit someUtnes. when mounted or wbea prodded to great.' er speed- The more mature animal seem to be quieter than younger c&mejs,. During the rutting season the male camel la very savage, tt. tefjng a loud, bubbling roar, and with hi MIU. v fighting-.fiercel- govievn-metif- . i nglisk Admire) fuwttcr Wheg the English fleet und,-AdmlrhEAdam Duncan made ready to fight the Dutch tinder Admiral r Jan De.Vlnter In 1797, the p - e a 11 - . r . d s ), State3.--CollIer- S ' , , at least EO killed end an unknown number wounded! But Imaginative historian! have boosted that fig. ur to .1,500 killed and wounded! The truth Hint Red Cloud, a! though ppcHcnt at the fight, took uc active part, In U. The .1,000 Indian, who made the attack were led by Crazy llorse, of the Oghilne. Flylnf Tnchinocit Peinfut DiitUt 1 .' a painful and somedisease caused by eat-Ins raw or undercooked pork that con talas tTlchlna worms. The larvae of the worms make tlietr way from the digestive tract to the muscles. ... , Lawr'Gave tan Monopoly Jn the Telgn of James 1 of Scotland, more than' 300 years ago. had a kind of monopoly In traveling, for the laws forbade the Itaveler to lodge at a friend's hoii'e other than public . or . elsewhere, Inn.-keeper- - Hmui of Ry Jons, .Thunder ll.'iwk of the" San Arcs and Ice of the Cheyennes. 81 Indians were killed and lx, wound Pd.- The. soldier also suffered I losy of sli killed, hut the wonder Is Oklahoma- and .that not nil o.f them were slaugh- . ."Storm kill bine-Ifloods Kansas; and lightning tornadoes, nt numbered a tered, tliey y err cause havoc," eoruns the headline, and more than 30 'to 1, so other headlines have been running filr months past.; Hall ruins crops; . During- the next three ypars el lightning bolts kill three; "twisters,.' .the Eighteenths-- service on tin thoso powerful, plain! It took, part In tunny ofhet up uiul knock down little houses. Skirmishes with the Indians. From 1870 to 1S7J R was stationed lc The sultan of Nulu la dead onfhe Isdifferent ldaccs In .the Nouth. Tlu land of Jolo, now onlv sufan .follqwed another period of servlet Once, as spiritual and temporal head, In the Northwest iinUt the outbreak ruled 81 the Muhnmin'edfl-nof the of the Spanish-Amerieawar when ' - . Sulu . . archipelago. was It fir one the ,It regiment reach-ManilThe death of this former ruler, J to In the lliillpploes' Kir. a u, recalls an Inferestfng It played a prominent part- during the entire-- - Philippine Insurrpctliir following the Rpnplsh wad,, J- afid did not return to the- United mnlnl, good Mohaniumdanj did not .States nn.Hl l'.Kl-- Twice later It rf; thlukhe hpnlddeal with, this nation, . turned to. the IslamU ot its relrgldn. He, Was I.ndfle , on In fact, severt isootlied by an t the eleven-yeathat between 1SP8 and YM were spent. the United ?thtes had.no nfliclal re In servlbe nf tide ; the contltienta) . Hgion whatever, . ' ' - ' 'United States.- - . .,The Black Legion, latest Secret murwar fh.e Eight. During the'WorM eenth was-thfirst unit 4f the A. R. der organization, tejls, candidates-- ; F, to plant Its color's on th French! "Yoti cannot Join, unless yrtu are a whiter iTotestant gentile; front; It wa the first. to capture Germnq prisoner, the first 'tp .Inflict willing, to proceed. Against negroes, on-theneniy.and- - the Catholics nod Jews." To "pVoced first to- - suffer casualties at - the against., means to murder. hands 'of 'the enemy. Tl records The Federal Council of the Churches , of Christ .in America, "a rtotestant.or. gahfzatlon..says It 4s shataeful, fqr the Black to use the word find blasphemous to use the flathe "God. Almighty." . and-'lllg- times fatal - - s Trlchlnosls.-i- . , who as the shah n, of Persia' from IS06 to' 1907 received an anntal 'salary of 330,000,. 000, Is believed to have been tha blghest-palruler In history. His Income-waCQO times as large as that of the President of the UulleJ . Weekly, 1 ' Ruler Highest-Pai- d Muaffar-ed-Dl- - - - : Farm Like a . t " I S ' . 'Jr '' vf. Jt'f ' . . - . cap-tnlnc- .request' dm - In-th- st r .ofllelnl-stptemen- e ' . y I . JeastNqw, Sit .Samuel the- - British cabineL appoint' 'him." ably, that the futile - . 1 x ' . -" - :l' k ' Jt , v - ra1 7 n. F. Barry CHIEF RED CLOUD -- . L of the War department show that the Eighteenth suffered the greatest loss In killed and wounded of any regiment In the American array during Its service overseas. Ru distinguished as Is this more re cent service. In the regular array this regiment known best for Its tragic history 70 years ago when It fought the Sioux and Cheyenne In Absaraka, the Home of the Ureas." 1 C . , W . : : ' ; . ..'' I . - . .and wife. - ' :-- . Flip a switch'and you have ''dll the .comforts of any. ' : '. .'. city home. . e ;; t .. klwwn.nk.iw Why do Americans swallow eagerly anything In the way of foreign-madgood, especially If they come from the friendly British Islands! British merchants advertise proudly "Made In Great Britain." Every Ameriurges Buy British. cans seem proud If they can advertise "Made in England or "Made In France." Perhaps our goods are inferior but every American makes his money here why not back our own people! , . '' . .5rn.glr Inexpensive. mbtors...jift the hard work forri the .. shoulders1 of. both farmer' ' : . Roare is .back In. "the, king pleased.-tThis means, probLeague of Nations' "sanctions" effort to coerce Mussolini will be dropped. Many things are eas ler'than coercing MussolliiL ' . ELECTRi G: ; S ERV ICE . Fir fcamtipj Iloare had to leave tbe British cabinet because he opposed the foollslmess of sending a great British fleet1 lnto tbe SlediterixineAn to protect llaila .Selilsslt; not protf Mm In . ' Step. into- the 'yard ' and see for' yourself - ; Tro-testanf- ," . ! ; Wtrn Krwapapc-- Union - Eng-llshma- n More killing, bombing, shooting In Palestine. Arab refusing to discontinue strikes and killings, even at the request of their own leaders. C King Frxturvi Syndicate, In WNU rvlc. ' - , : CAPT. W, J. FETTERMAN . Orte authority,- writing In 155C, re. maFked that "wild watermelon were ' aometlmea so large that a man could , scarcely embrace the fruit-withis expanded arms. e 41845-1022- h. , Huge. Wild Watermelon The bureau of plant Industry snj that there is o exact Information o'd tha .maximum lze and weight of watermelon In their wild state. ' 1 e Eng-lis- .admiral called hi sta.T to geth'er fdr final Instructions. Gen-- . tlemen.Vhe said, "you see winter approaching;.! have only to aJvhe you to keep up a good fire I . vice-rin- g Celtic--nam- ' 1 antl-slave- v .. nt FIRING. LINE - .HORSES tie 13 ChamboTd,, fe.w mile fro Bids. Of aU the great Fmieh Ie8 .on the Loire, Cbambord ca. la jt forest of pearly 3,000 acre. UN. ronndbd by it mossy wall ct 'i miles, rlseS above the tree, a per. feqt palace of pinnacle' nj tew. a . - -- law-maklh- g' :. it n On CHIEF - ' - hi lva win not rw of preIpiteua ock tq J. M many do In Germany, it t bid mysterfbusly .mong OW8 of a iplghty Torest fiueft a fav t revolving-windstorms,-lif- t w y, Fne4 ed e . a castle W d l , " 1 this week , i.vv . ; Largest Orchestra. Known .The largest orchestra In history was assembled toplay a series of. ' concrti at the IVorld FeacQ Jubilee, held Iq Bostoq In 1872 to celebrate the end of. the Civil war. When renthis gigantic onchestra-fiaudered Verdis, Anvil Chqpis, says. Collier's Weekly, It, was. comprise . One Si Shot. Convicted of 1.6S9 Instruments, .which wee, , . supplemented "by 50 anvils, ham-, Thg Many laugh bat-te- r a Ntw 1(J0 St)5. fireman, and jnercjd by Roman Triumph, .of cannon outsfde the Twistdr Ilootfe, gtorm, -by an dectrip buttoo, Justice eupped to The kind . Is very -tin this equntry vrrtfi" frlm . Justice: ;Gaf rtnla. amusing In ..confined to tba.fla- - "The phrase gag rule1 as ukett ot actions tlonal. goverament referring tf Murderers, kidnap- was. the ngme applied to fhe dfcries, of ers', and othey rack-- , of mlgs adopted by. the. house the period efews ara galled, representatives Curing v;ot fot fhelr crimes from 1836 to 1844 to' prevent Receppetitions. John against society, but tion of Adams .this policy, Quincy .fought for fulltfre, t'pny , The. 8 a violation of thp Cbnstltutlon Infome fax. felon .ir JaUtd fo'r and finally won his long battle fs44. failure to divide earn tags .. Americans Boton td Indiana with hi When the first English and Amer-from lean trading ships appeared op the dipxig . A thla program 13 due Northwest coast of America toward ram TUe centrtry. special ProsecM-fo- r tha end. of, 0811 w Dewey, h.o, before, Supreme Court tho native Indians fearabd to the and Americans the has in Bostons, Tot;k city, McCook, New. Justice mn.vlcted a "toiniotclr rtjeketber, as English Klnchotsh (King George), Mf.Drtwey enfis lilijwClinrlesU'Lucky) a.fto- Luciano.. He ami eight Meaning of Na'me,uLndon London Is said to have been origrlute are convicted on 82 founts, that sigmay entail prison sentence of 1,240 inally' Elybdln,. ft associate. nifying towa on the . lake." The and each care for rLuaky j Romans called thd place' Londlnlum, n actual rojiviclion for adapting fhe native name to a Latin Thl form, and the modern, ame la crim, tint for taxdodglng. . subsequent corruption. . , few In thl world, many laugh and-f . . do thing. Fulton said he .would run-- ' Prolific Plant a bonf up the TRiflson river by steam; One-o- f the most prolific plants. In. crowd gathered to laugh. Qf the world Is the ero'pera-,.onWhen It wa suggested early la this the 7,500 specie! of orchids- - This century that men would soon fly-- suc- beautiful .flowet produces, Pearly .75,000,000 seeds In ft single season. cessfully, million laughed. Byron Defeiibach. Boise. Idaho, Had It been suggested that atrarnsiy-office- in Jollier Weekly. f .. would cross the contrnent flylnit blind in a hooded cabin,. seeing noth; Henclie Calleg in- Baltimore ing, guided by a scientific "radio beam, Goucher college 1b Baltimore, Md. the laugh would hate been louder; but I named for John Franklin Go.uch that what Major Eaker, of the army er Who wak pre.stdent air corps, has Just done.- If you should of. the Institution from T800 to l0O8. say row that giant ships will fly around If wasi called the Wom-intlii earth, up la. the stratosphere, At thaj time ' . of Baltimore. college above cloud and stnrois, ea trying thousands of passengers, dropping them at f Tracing Paper . . U their various destinations in smaller-shipwas used as arly paper 4S Tracing hours around the world Irt s I44(X The quotation- IS following be or- less there would more, laughter but U would be foolish laughter, taken, from. Murray English Die What men can Imagine they can do, and ttonary : 1440 Tracy rge or drau-yng- e for. to make an.ymage'or An more. . other thynge." sent by General Bmlogllo, who Musvdlnl to take over Ethiopia, and Tower. Had Odd Record did so, celebrated his. triumph In Rome, The- Tower.of London has; been- - a Mussolini and The Italian ..king, now prison, a'jnint, a mqkeuta . emperor of Ethiopia, 'assisting.and ft Jewel bouse. Its gates are The triumphant general, named vice- locked every night, the password roy of Ethiopia by Mussolini, who sur- being knpw-f- t to the king and, theprised the world with the swiftness of Ms .conquest, led his troops; burned by .the tropical sun, tinder the victory arch of Constantine to the temh of the, un;.Vhat:--Mdkes.-.ThiSknown soldier of the Mg vvaf, . -- ' "M . gold-seeke- - v i ' t solemnly-guarantee- .. . . ' e a f Uhl(knninuga.,r When tlje Eighteenth wns organized In lVol the'mnn appointed to Its command p celomM wns Henry' R. . - d Tli'e Rock genernl of the Ohio mllll la for several years bo fo'e the outbreak of tha Civil war, Although he. rose to the rank of. brlpndierg enorirl of volunteers during that conflict, at .Its close he reverted to his bank of colonel In the regulars and wijli his regiment wns ordered west for service tn.the In-- dlnn country. In the meantime 'gidd had .been discovered. In Montana rnd .the rush of to the new camps followed. Their twite to.ok them the clmlccst through hunting ground of the Sioux and Northern the govCheyennes, lands ernment, under the terms of the of 1Sf. had Harney JSnnborn-'trtaty should be tin 'disturbed by 'white Invaders. Hut emigrants 'to Fie Northwest, a4 well as the Monjpjna Argomlnts, Showed g - bat-.ti- e Carrington,-adjutan- breech-loadin- ! gar-rlwm- - aguliv-dlm- warrior against the Ijttl detachment of eoldierk,. croqohed behind the flimsy' protection' of wagon boxer it lei the form of art oval cohral'on (be open plain, and how tbe hot fire, 'of the soldiers with .their new" rifle and plentiful supply of (7,000 rounds, In. fact) exacted toll from' thelf attacker. .Powolf himself estimated the lost of the Indian- a 3,600 I o GEN. H. B. CABR1NGTON Bull, and ,h! nephew, White .fcull, 'who took pifrt in the Fetturmaji fight,, have proved that Red tloud had no part In this battle. Instead, the Ambush was planned and.tfc Indian warriors were led by Crazy Horse of . the Oglalas and Clack Shield of the Mlnicenjohs, Similarly,' Mr.' Vestal's researches have .resulted Is, the. truth about another famous battle In the record of the Eighteenth, This was the Wagon Box Fight n,oar Fort 1hjl Keprnejr on. August 2, 18(17, wlij CapL J. W. Ppwell, Lieut! JC. Jen-aeBand a, force, of 30 inert bdiit V3 ettatU hy an ovOrw'helriilng numpa ber of SI mix and Cheyennes. . Wildly exaggerated ytorl&f hav been told f thl fight how Red .Cloud directed the attack of M r- r - . . . fell ' r SUMMF.lt fliij .... . . CALL AT OUR LOCAL STORE FOR COMPLETE INFORMA TION ON ALL FORMS AND RATES FOR ELECTRIC SERIYICE. OTAHI PS)VEE & HHGEnT (2. . s |