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Show THE PROVO HERALD; i BY ASHINGTON. Memories of. wars fade rapidly, from the minds of all persons who were oLiii'tlveJvetiKai.idih t he tilit'es In the east the troubles In the past on the frontier twlu the .attention and Interest but for No moment. 'easterner ever gave full credit to the officers and the men af the United Sitttes army who faced danger after danger and withstood 'hardship LVC -- l C. a r West Center, ProvoVUtah fit.; fter-hardship - fyntt Machine-E- Mive Cuts, Self Oilini Miftirvg Iron Ji Eniine and Boiler Repa-iV A Etc. Brass Castings, y n w Xfrovo Foundry 5 f ibwADDBXLAnii Castle TBS 7 with- prewms-lit- "Li.. Gateani Clear Creek 4, .. ,r fc. 4 tie hope of any reward save duty well done. ' - f'T f swm It is probable that not one t -- ' m11 t vi.NAv.M' pW- lor saJe Lr'A ft person in a hundred tan name the battle, fought only 18 years ago and in "which the annuities e Hie regsmall force ular arni engaged aiTUHiiitetl to 50 and wounded. That battle was the battle of --Wounded Knee, and today it Is nearly lost to the recollection of t,he masses There aie several oflieers now stationed n . Washington who had a part :inhat. Dakota' fight. The light between Col. Forsyte's "BieiTTiniie Seventh cavalry and the band of til? Frtv e ixwt.& result- of this gtmyt-ttaithe eat chict SsituiiK. and fostered by tlie'-KUlLoa.wJiuJittn'JLwas. UJt'J'IooiLuf Custer and Jn'sjuuL Bitting .Bull was shot and killed by Indian polic e while the resisting arrest, but he wa killed too late to pieii-uspread. of the doctrine which, he preached- and which had run like pialrie fire among the 'men .qf his nation. re "There-weall 'sorts" of stories "circulated concerntng Utach Timber Co. to-th- men-kille- tion of a pan. of the people who preferred death to exile. , broke The Cheyennes away. A battalion, oi lnian-trwas thrown across their "tracks but the wily sav ages eluded all save a few-othe" soldiers, wbo in a . 1 6 q- - 3tK Worth Street fest PROVO. T" -- UTAH - - JOSEPH W. DUNN, General Manager. Both Phones. y : . SiotiXr-wfitf-thebeen--starte- tA f LT5SJ2rtii1 r.DAI! i wt7i t . v tarn n in ii ii ' 4?" 0 1 " .- " " J ii tm b m n.w m. jbc j mow -- r'-- t;U ij v' i"5L for all points east for Sanpete points.,. 2 for all points 8 for Tintic points 4 for all points east .. . 6 10 BASJ, PROVO-FO- R LBAYB No. - r so Current fime'tablo - " -- a v. 11 1 svui a 'TbH . AND - - j w ...... '. east.T..i ...... j.. ... ... -- ... 1.' " . - 8:41 . PROVO FOR WEST LEAVB a.m. 9:31 U'h1' foTwtTESrnortn . . . .' M " " 7forSaltLake " 1 for all points west and north . .7r. ......... 1 .... ....... .. 9 for Salt Lake and Ogden " 8 for all points west and north ;. rr ;.;;;..';;- - 9 6- 1- Aio. 6 P-- . ,; J LBAVB PROVO FOR NORTH J?o. 122 for Ueber . .7..-.- . "... . ...n-.-.-.- m' 8.30 . . ARRIVB PROVO FROK'NORTH '. Heber " 8:45 p.m. from Tbe only line to Ogden and Denver without change. Free . reclining chair cars, through sleeping can and elegant diners on No. SI: k 121 all through trains. & K. Hooper, G. ' P.AT.i LA. Benton, - F, Fotjtb, " GfA. P. D. - 1 Agent 4 -- Via the death' of the great Slouxcti let Phllanthro-""EflBt- i '. them at ft distance was- the bouse of in lhe east wfhoheverhad seen" afi" Indian tepee Insisted that 8ittlng Dull was murdered and, Bt Sitting Bull, and In ""Ihat the blood", or' theaavage was upon the"head-TTfo- hundredsor ofIt, some" yards of the nation. , away,.. wa a Jiof de col. Edward CrFeehet, now pro OI BQ081 oancen en Tessor of military science at the rnlverslty rt gaged in emptying . Illinois, to learn the.truth of the shooting of Sitg their rifles Into It to the knowledge-- of ting Bull and from building, pie. - Col. (then captain) Fechet made 6ne of the w hich came- - . f eeble- hardest Tide known to the troopsTothe; plaint r- - . return fire. - - " : before he secured the facts Ir- - the casef the Fechet had his Hotchklss' thrown Into ' Capt. to of Sioux the the chef happy great passing - action and a shell hi front of the ' ':rrhunting grounds. ghost dancers, and then the command charged ' Sitting Bull's borne was in a log hut on the down the hill. . Standing Rock Indian reservation of North Its The shell had frightening effect on the Dakota. In the" summer of 1890 he - gath- who held aloof savages, though still pouring in - ered f - his - braves about him. their many- ftrey which was answered by" the soldiers and told thenv in picturesque Sioux language as Fechet himself' took a course to the log that a Messiah was to come who would lead the house, with his life In hisrapid hands every step of Sioux nation to victory; that the whites would be - j the way, annihilated; that the buffalo, would come back, t Inside were found three of tbe Indian onca more take. poapoceraen dead Rnd ihf and that 0TtAlf. wound(-Th" m the earth,1 ,; f,w'EDuinwtT-- B wijijtrjMi--niaiThrough the medicine men sitting Hull woraea coming death, were still using their rifles against so upon the feelings and the superstitions of his the besieging foe,. The soldiers finally drove the warriors that they came to' believe that by' wear; . savages to flight. The few that were left living of the little force, ing certain . garments which were called ghost shirts their bodies would be safe from the bullets of Indian police told this story... Lieut Bull Head of the soldiers. had arrested. Sitting Bull 'and had led the chief When Gen. Miles learned of the teachings of The OvrIand Roolc - " AU Means comfort all the --way when you travel : east Don't" buy a ticket via a broken route the-lo- to-gi &-- -- sharp skirmish lost their commander, Ma, "Lewis The Cheyennes broke away, i A. battalion of Infantry was thrown across their tracks but the wilj savages' eluded all save a few of the soldiers who in a sharp jskirmish lost their commander, - man,-woul- d d -- ,,rtst x '.;- .- JLi thii t..j tufned quickly .chief at his log hut miles away. " rM- - fv, and killed Sitting Bull. Strlke-the- '.SfTl? Catch-the-Bea- - k -' r. ail fornix i rm .. . ,, . , mand.' consisting of two troops, and, If memory 'licerasn Lone Man killed me slippery t.,. niusiae- in me iace- oi me a night the surviving policemen- sought shelter i the memofupthe servesr two' light field pieces,- best Indian ori"the marksmen" "greal mrch to Oak Creek, about 18 miles from Sitting - cabin and held off tbe ghost dancers as has been Ire r . plains. null's holme, there to receive the nrisoner when"1 told r With A11 thin8 were prepared for the charge, when the Rosebud, Standing Rock and Pine - JLha waslurned over by Lieut. Bull Head. tne- amazement of the troopera, the whole band went-:ot( DeIn Ri the Slonx. who: warpath. CaptFeehet and hln men r?pv'"'vlrr'""f1",f heyennarrlo tous at 4:30 a. m. on one of the coldest mornings .Wber. 1890, were a lewalwart' warriors of the-ehiUNorthern of the r tribe Cheyennes. L ! no the.Chey. That of a Dakota December day. There waa ? of eavalry. The Indlani sign at 1 the ' " " body straight so were ennes limited braves in number was due Jde of the Indian police, horyet of the scout which WIU Uu iact mai ia years oerore me nation, exuea Bull Head was to send in advance to Inform" .'.'W y.uiCU wu- - w iueir uc;-e- ic ueam anu tor noma, had met with prao-- "" and longing w " .. .. v. ii. - ... ii ii - . mey anew ii, out ueaui was oetter tnan a return anninnai.on irm.e atiemptia. iqegain-jat onee- - that FeehefsTtief tnsthrct to the reservation c Tll;a Northern .Cheyennes had been sent to a t. Wessels and his troopers of the Third cavalry reservation la the Jndian lerrltofOolloMfijt-fin- a walrlots of the uprisings against the whItes.The3 heart"--.tetatJ- o 8par :thftSCfieyennesur;the h t,..hert forward ranWl. After he in .would have death at knives their ln them old behlnd their home any cost.,,Withand the had made several miles he was met by a scout ; they conflict with the ..... '. they plunged into a who was riding like mad. The runner told Fechet warriors yearned to return, Late in the fall of. the year 1878 th Cheyenn- ethat all the Indian police who had gone to arrest. a p"ce lof el1 dylng' -i- bud-bthe kiH4 BU by ghost daacriCrhraveC.liiWn.Advantagepfthe temporary rah- fiitdfig When the time, cam eforTue'"Turtal Cf tta" !a soldier aenee their of to guardian., gathered and that there were thousands upon thousands", - gether their women and their children and dashad Tea Kettle, a chief, wasjourid to beallre, kmliirthetr-warpalreadyarmed ottbern fully Kettter-wa." nconacJwa'-Te- s; In carried back to of 'the':-tan'wheiw". t,.r .atip-- .. J a had ltve4 from their fathers thenmdewmfortahli the smalf the command timrbackf and over his looked Fechet ' r. A tradition.. squaw sought the wounded warrior's couoh W3t ahead at full gallop, his .only thought being -beginninghadof been told the Indian and and by handed him a talr of scissors which he Instant They be allTe agents to. tare such f the policeroenas might who acterundr-od8rSr4b- at Into iis ear- t- He spurned life Iff ths they and giving no" heed ta the other .thoughr that by the soldiers, take trail the could to back never the of the fact that his- brother braves wjre north, knowledge numbers be overwhelming ahead of him might hut they paid no heed to what was told thenl, but ""dead. a thA f&fA of Custer. It was mey set out The" Sioux nation heard of the bravery t the gaiaerms tueir possession, a terrAIe ride from ILat time on: The Cheyennes- lore of home, natural and sym- Cheyennes and they adopted the women and chli When the morning was a little advanced the to everyone except to those who dren, and some of the boys,' grown to manhood. men of the command heard firing, which seemed . un-,should have naught to do."went with the Sioux on the warrath in their last Indian went an that Teresit thought.. poluts.-c' from ti was the cause of the destruc- - . great uprising. . witu c:imo to the brow, of the ti - Know-WheniY- Vi I ia struck Capt Weasels in the head. The wound was aoV serious" out" Its", effect was to make ""captain and men eager for a charge. - Capt Wessels weft ".ar.-- i Capt. Fechet of You'll ou Go.! sk any ShOrTLIne Agent' fc -rates and particulars. -- -- Kettle two ot Sitting" Bull's men, strode through . goes." It means saving of time in avoidance of changing cars, broken connections etc he , L werea-AccimlfacJrdlai- -- p - TeU the agent, THE OVERLAND" ROUTE as far as it ' The trail led . to one of the low hills that chain the reservation. The Cheyennes had taken refuga near the summit in a natural hollow; The sideB of the hillsjrose sheer and lippery to place of the savages. It was a place admirably A few men -- could hold it adapted a against reglmeriT Capt. Weasels, in command of the cavalry, saw that-tattempt to take the hilltop by assault Lwould be to sacrifice the lives of half of his men He threw a cordon around the hill, knowing that the warriors could .not escape, and trusting that in a few hours hunger would force them to sur-- e mm y r Go Direct Maj. Lewis. the-hu- the-re- the Way. . - " and - n- - within24houra of your very' door.-It- 's health and - pleasure F -- -- -- " - -- , ; y tiie plat'e for Test and reo-reati- on Yachting and other out door sports may be indulged in every day winter.--- -"3".". in the its-oi- a ... S . .. 1 1 -t- old-him whlch-they-hat- -- ed. -- - hand-to-han- d e J' is the fare and tickets are good six months fof. return. A Ask the SALT LAKE ROUTE man to telh you how y0u can go to Southern California and return via San Franoisoo gj sliiht ad-- 1 a nt ns, d s ' f - Ialorcalloa zzi Uckel37l6J SaTlhln Stdt kSe I' 1 --- --- . ; , .pathy-compellln- . On-they- . hllL.-Uelo- hoine-Btckoes- s THE HERALD FOR ALL THE HVS fr'i |