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Show THE BULLETIN Kansas Woman Recalls Gen. Custer's Dramatic Rescue of Two Recent Death of an 88-Year-- Old Captives From Cheyenne Indians 70 Years Ago Plains tribes in By ELMO SCOTT WATSON y, t 7. Her name was Mrs. Sarah Brooks but back in 1868 she was Sarah White, the i daughter of Benjamin White, who had brought his wife and 10 children from Wisconsin the previous year to a homestead on Granny creek, a tributary of the Republican river in northern Kansas. On the morning of that fateful day, August 13, 1868, Benjamin and his three sons had , White gone to the meadows along the .Republican to cut hay, leaving his wife, Sarah, their oldest daughter, and three smaller children at the cabin. Presently a party of six Cheyenne Indians appeared, professing friendship and asking for 'food. Mrs. White prepared a meal for them and as they started to leave they seized young Sarah and dragged her out of the house. One of the Indians leaped .upon his horse and with the aid of another savage pulled her, fighting desperately, up beside him. Then, followed by the gaze of her' mother .who ran after her with outstretched arms, they rode away. Meanwhile, another party of the same band of Indians had discovered her father and brothers working in the meadow near the Republican. The boys escaped by running to the river and hiding in the bushes along its banks but the Indians killed Mr. White and rode away with his team of horses. That night when these Indians rode into the .Cheyenne camp on Buffalo creek, young Sarah White recognized her father's horses and wept bitterly over this evidence that he and her brothers were dead. A Stratagem That Failed. In the camp on the Buffalo she found an old newspaper which she hid in her dress. The next day, as she rode along, she tore off bits of the paper and dropped them unobtrusively, hoping that this might mark a trail which a party of rescuers could follow. But it was a vain hope, for seven months were to elapse before she was to be released from the horrors of her captivity. Three months after she had been captured, her misery was shared by another young woman 'Mrs. Anna Brewster Morgan, bride of a young the farmer in the Solomon valley. He had been attacked while working in the field by Indians who shot him with arrows, left him for dead, and, dashing to his cabin, seized his wife and bore her away. This party of Cheyennes traded her for some ponies to the baif which held Sarah White capuve. The Indians made slaves of the two girls and subjected them to all sorts of indignities. The squaws, who were jealous of them, were especially cruel to them. They forced the white women to cut wood and carry it until their shoulders were raw and sore and when they sank down with exhaustion they were lashed with whips until the blood , ill J c ; : T 1 horror-s- tricken I- ' 1 1 r. ran. Sheridan Takes the Field. These two unfortunate women were only two of the victims of a series of raids by Indians through Kansas that year during which several hundred settlers were slain and members of their families carried away as captives. As a result of these depredations, Gov. Samuel N. Crawford called upon the federal government for aid and Gen. Phil Sheridan was ordered into the field. For the difficult task of punishing the Indians and rescuing their captives, Sheridan relied mainly upon the Seventh cavalry, led by Lieut. Col. George A. Custer. Meanwhile, Governor Crawford had raised a regiment, the Nineteenth Kansas Volunteers, resigned temporarily from his post as governor and led the regiment to a rendezvous with Sheridan at Camp Supply, 100 miles south of Firt Dodge. In March, 1869, Cus- - 10, 1874, a cov wagon, drawn by an ox team, and accompanied by two men on horseback, halted on the banks of a small stream in western Kansas. The party was composed of John German, a native of Blue Ridge, Ga., and a veteran of the Confederate army, his wife, Lydia, their son, Stephen Wise German, and their six daughters Rebecca Jane, 20; Katherine, 17; Joanna, 14; Sophia, 12; Julia Arminda, 7; and Nancy Adelaide, 5, called "Ad-diby her sisters. They were on their way to Colorado where they were going because of German's poor health, and they expected to reach Fort Wallace, not far from the Colorado border, the next day. The next morning their camp was attacked by a war party of 19 Cheyennes who killed and scalped Mr. and Mrs. German, their son and two of the girls, Rebecca Jane and Joanna. Then they carried the other four daughters away and held them as captives until November 8 when the camp of Chief Gray Beard was attacked by a detachment of General Miles' army, led by Lieut. Frank D. Baldwin. When the Indians fled, taking Sophia and Katherine with them, they left the two little girls, Julia ered SHE ! 1874-7- 5. On September (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) died the other day her passing snapped living link between the modern Amerpresent-daica and an era in frontier history which now seems almost as remote as the days when Kentucky was the "Dark and Bloody Ground" and a "Narrative of an Indian Captivity" was a familiar type of American literature. Yet it was only 71 years ago that she was kidnaped from her home in Kansas by a war party of Cheyenne Indians, suffered indescribably while held a captive by that tribe and was finally rescued by Gen. George A. Custer and his famous Seventh cavalry in one of the most dramatic incidents in the whole thrilling history of the Wild West. Six years after the capture of Mrs. Morgan and Miss White by the Cheyennes and their rescue by Gen. George A. Custer occurred a similar incident in which the same tribe of Indians was in volved and in which another famous Indian fighter, Gen. Nelson A. Miles, played the role of res cuer. That was the capture and release of the German sisters during the war with the Southern e" The three Cheyenne Indians who were held as hostages by Custer for the surrender of Mrs. Morgan and Bliss White and who were later taken to Fort Hays where two of them were killed by their guards. There is much confusion as to the identity of these Indians. Custer gives their names as Fat Bear, Dull Knife and Big Head and those are the names accompanying the above Illustration (a wood eut made from a photograph taken at Fort Dodge, Kan., March IS, 1869) which appears in Mrs. Custer's book "Following the Guidon." Grin-nel- l, quoting different Cheyennes as his authority, names them as Younger Bear, Chief Comes in Sight and Island (or Lean Man) but elsewhere in his book, "The Fighting Cheyennes," says that the two who were killed by their guards at Fort Hays were Slim Face and Curly Hair. ter, with 11 troops of the Seventh party of Indians entered his eamp and 10 of the Nineteenth Kansas, and strove to distract his attenset out to find several bands of tion while the remainder made the Cheyennes who were still on preparations to take down their the warpath. lodges and move the village away A short time before a young before the troops realized what man applied for permission to ac- they had done. Thereupon, he company the expedition. At first seized four Indians "chiefs and Custer refused but when he warriors of prominence," Custer learned that the boy's name was calls them to hold as hostages Brewster and that he was the for the surrender of the two white brother of Mrs. Morgan who was women. still held captive by the Indians The Indians insinuate that Cus he permitted him to go along. ter acted treacherously in seizing Young Brewster did not know. inese men while they were makwhich Indians had carried his sis- ing a friendly visit to his camp ter away but he hoped that Cus- and that they were old men of ter's command might find them no particular importance. Howand that, by being with it, he ever that may be, the fact remight aid in her rescue, if she mains that when Custer sent one were still alive, or at least, learn of his four captives to the village what her fate had been. nearing a message that he would Discovers Cheyenne Camp. hang the other three if the capMoving out from Fort Cobb tives were not delivered un to Custer's command struck a fresh him, the Indians, after protesting trail and followed it to the north mat tne women were not in their fork of the Red river in what is camp, finally sent Chief Little now Wheeler county, Texas. Robe to Custer's camp to arrange There he discovered a camp of for the exchange of prisoners. Beseue of the Captives. Cheyennes under the leadership of a chief known to the whites Custer tells a dramatic story of as Medicine Arrow but called the arrival of the two women in Rock Forehead by his own peo- his camp the next morning how ple. A little farther down the he sent three of his senior ofstream was the camp of Chief ficers forward to escort them intn Little Robe, a noted "friendly." camp and how young Brewster, Sometime during this march unable to restrain his eagerness Custer had learned that two to see his long-losister, raced white women were captives in forward past the officers and clasped Mrs. Morgan in his arms. "The appearance of the two girls was sufficient to excite our deepest sympathy," writes Custer. "Miss White, the younger of the two, though not beautiful, possessed a most interesting face. Her companion would have st Mrs. Sarah Brooks (from a photogrrph taken in 1931 and reproduced here by courtesy of the Kansas City Star and the Concordia (Kan.) Blade-Empire- ). Medicine Arrow's camp and henceforward their rescue became his main objective. As the commander of the Seventh, accompanied by an orderly, approached the camp, he began making the customary Plains signal of his desire for a conferenceby riding around in circles as he advanced. As he drew near, he was met by Medicine Arrow and several other chiefs who invited him to come into the camp for a council. Although Custer was fearful that they had a treacherous intent he agreed to their proposal and entered the only by camp accompanied Colonel Cook of the Seventh. The result was that the soldiers camped near the Indian village and a scries of councils ensued. The testimony as to subsequent events is very contradictory. The version which Custer gives in his book, "My Life on the Plains," is sharply at variance in many details with the Indians' version, as given in George Bird Grinnell's "The Fighting Cheyennes." Custer tells how a large been pronounced beautiful by the most critical judge, being of such a type as one might imagine Maud Muller to be. Their joy at their deliverance, however, could not hide the evidences of privation and suffering to which they had been subjected by their cruel captors. They were clothed in dresses made from flour sacks, the brand of the mills being plainly seen on each dress; showing that the Indians who had held them in captivity had obtained their provisions from the government at some agency. "The entire dress of the two girls was as nearly like the Indian mode as possible; both wore leggings and moccasins; both wore their hair in two long braids, and as if to propitiate us, the Indians, before releasing them, had added to the wardrobe of the two girls various rude ornaments, such as are worn by squaws. About their wrists they wore coils of brass wire; on their fingers had been placed numerous rings and about their necks strings of variously colored beads. Almost the first remark I heard young Brewster make after the arrival of the two girls was 'Sister, do take those hateful things off.' " The women were placed in an ambulance and the Seventh started on its march to Fort Dodge, taking with it the three Indian captives whom Custer determined to hold until the Cheyennes came in off the warpath. Mrs. Morgan was overjoyed to learn that her husband was recovering from his arrow wounds in the post hospital at Fort Hays. Later they went back to their home in the Solomon valley and lived there for several years. But the memory of her captivity preyed upon her mind which at last gave way and she ended her days in a Kansas state insane asylum. Miss White also returned to her home and while engaged in teaching school met E. O. Brooks, a veteran of the Civil war. They were married and made their home near the White homestead where she had been taken captive. There she lived for more than 70 years, reared a family of one son and six daughters and tried to forget what she had suffered for seven months as an Indian captive. Death came on May 12, 1939, to end the ugly nightmare of those memories. ! Disobedience Often Sign of Forgetfulness Headquarter! Indian Territory Expedition in the iteld. January SO, 1175. To the Misses German: Your little sisters are well, and In the hands of friends. Do not be discouraged. Every effort is being made tor your wet fare. NELSON A. MILES, U. S. Army Colonel and Brevet Major General Commanding Expedition. Then he gave the photograph to a Delaware Indian scout and told him to find the Indians who still held Sophia and Katherine and give the picture to them secretly. He was also ordered to tell Chief Stone Calf that no mercy would be shown his band if the girls were not returned alive and unharmed. The Delaware scout set out over the snowy plains and after a remarkable journey of more than 400 miles, found the Cheyenne camp on the Pecos river in New Mexico and managed to deliver his message to the captives who had begun to despair of ever being rescued. By this time the Cheyennes, who had been kept so constantly on the move by the vigorous campaigning of Miles and Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie, and who were nearly destitute, were quite willing to So listen to peace overtures. Stone Calf took the two girls from their captors, placed them in a lodge next to his 'and treated them with special consideration on the journey back to the Cheyenne agency in Indian territory. There they were surrendered to Miles. A short time later the four German sisters were reunited at Fort Leavenworth and on the recommendation of General Miles the sum of $10,000 was deducted from the annuities given to the Cheyennes and $2,500 placed to the credit of each of the girls. Miles became their guardian and served thus until they came of age. Addie, who became Mrs. Frank Andrews and mother of 11 children, was, at the last accounts, living near Bern, Kan.; Julia, now Mrs. Julia Brooks, was living near Humboldt, Neb., and near her lived her sister, Addie; and Katherine, now Mrs. Katherine Swerdfefer, was living at Calif. Atas-cader- o, ,.m A TINY basque waistline, rem-inisce- nt of the 1390s, flirtatious little bows down the front and a wide, circular skirt, put No. 1800 in the forefront of fall fashions, and flatter you outrageously! Be among the first to wear this enchanting frock, in faille, flat crepe or thin wooL Designed to Slenderise. Suave, sophisticated lines, shirring and gathers to give an uplifted bustline, a slim paneled skirt and small waist, make this dress By GEORGIA LOTT SELTEB WOT need children be quite "ft11 v- - so heedless and disobedient?" sighed Mary Lance wearily. "I wonder If they really are," answered her neighbor, Mrs. Jaynes, comfortably. "They behave as they do because they are children. They usually act on Impulse, without any thought either of being obedient or disobedient You must expect such conduct until they begin to acquire the knowledge that experience brings. "I am convinced that children need real help in remembering much more frequently than they need punishment This belief is based partly on my own never-to-bforgotten childish experience with a detested red apron. My aunt with whom I lived, made me a big red apron from one of her old bouse dresses and said: Lucy. you are to put this apron on over your school dress each morning until your work is done.' I had no objection to that but several times each week I rushed heedlessly away to school, flaunting the apron's faded ugliness for all to see. My aunt always sent a message by an older girl who was our neighbor, reminding me to remove the apron. 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Many money saving to our years later a portrait bust to his nodes. It always pays to memory was placed in the Poet's patronixo the merchants corner. who advertise. They art) not afraid of their Language of Hawaii m tU.:. The language of Hawaii la EngIf lish. Though other languages are spoken, from the native Hawaiian love-hungr- y I NERVOUS? net-rou-e Pink-ham'- s at Ail-Br- an All-Br- an p WATCH mer-eharuli- to Asiatic tongues, English Is the universal medium of communication throughout the territory. if 1 e- y, and Addie, who were found by the soldiers in the deserted camp. "When rescued they were the most emaciated mortals I have ever seen. Their little hands were like birds' claws," writes General Miles in his memoirs. They were sent to Fort Leavenworth under the care of an army physician and there the women of the garrison nursed them back to health. On returning to Miles' command, the doctor brought with him a photograph of Julia and Addie and when Miles saw this it gave him an idea. On the back of it he wrote this message: T ii n ruuerns ran Arc So Flattering Q IMPULSIVE ACTS OF child are made without thought either of being obedient or disobedient. Help in remembering often much more necessary than any form of punishment. 'Tve never forgotten the unhappl-nes- GEN NELSON A. MILES nr new aA THE SPECIALS |