| Show THE DEATH OF SITTING BULL lie ile wits win ted tto ato resisting capture by lib ills son did you yo ever know just how sitting dull bull was killed asked licul baker of the twelfth infant infantry rv united states army of ono one of the correspondents whom lic he met tho the other day donnat down at the coal mines 1 I do not think lie continued the details were ever printed I 1 never saw raw them and I 1 v vas as there I 1 tell it as nearly ns as tt it can lie be recalled as the correspondent told it sitting bull was at ilia his shack with his sons near luar agency when w I 1 1 en lie he was sent for to como come into the agency the indian police were commissioned to bring him in ill and when an indian policeman gets that order a and I 1 finds ili his man he brings him dead or alive unless the man pets gets the first drop sitting hull bull was disposed to olcy obey the summons but one of his sons as haughty an indian ns as ever lived taunted the old nan man for his hia weakness s lie ile called him a squaw squal tv and that epithet to an indian brave is the of all that is derisive the old man under the boy s taunt aud and the indian police did the rest dittin sitting dull bull was all that his admirers claimed for him when ho he fell the boy who had taunted turn him crawled under the bunk where the old man had slept ile he was there when chead nn an indian from the arfency aff ency came in lie ile heard the story ild he liked old sitting tin hull bull and when he was told that the toy had taunted its his father and was the cause oi of his death Sh avhad said the boy deserved death andee and he was dragged out from under the bed and killed these details lacut baker says lie bs never saw in print chicago herald II eral |
