| Show THEE NATIVE BORN AMERICANS Some of the Sioux Indians Who Accompanied Buffalo Bill Return Much Discontented Special to Tnc HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK July 22With eyes full of tears three native born Americans stood at thebarge office Sunday afternoon and silently wrung the hand of General John R OBrien superintendent immigration The gentlemen were Shunkaka Scapu White Horse Mate Chenumpa Bear Pipe and AldheChunkaSackta White Weasel Their home is at Pine Ridge reservation South Dakota whither they are bound They have ridden aud yelled and whooped it up for the entertainment of the crowned heads of Europe for the past two years thereby greatly assisting Buffalo Buf-falo Bill to increase his exchequer immensely im-mensely These young men came over on the Augusta Au-gusta Victoria from Hamburg in the steerage steer-age and were seasick and neglected As soon as they could make themselves understood under-stood they were taken to the office of Gen eralOBrien where an interpreter translated trans-lated their tale White Horse says all the Indians in Buffalo Bills show are discontented ill treated and anxious to come back home Food and clothing they say are scarce and Rocky Bear the chief and Broncho Bill the interpreter are cruel In their treatment treat-ment of the Indians When White Horse reaches home he will tell his cousin Red Cloud and the probable result will be that Buffalo Bill will be compelled t hire a new lot of Indians General OBrien is taking much interest in the matter and said After meeting these poor fellows whose condition is truly pitiable it determined me to lay the whole matter before the commissioner of Indian affairs and before I rest tonight I shall write a letter which will put him in possession pos-session of all the lacts The general then related that he showed the three Indians a picture of Otakta who died in June here and was photographed while in his coffin White Horse took the bit oT cardboard in his fingers looked at it lovingly then letting let-ting it fall listlessly from his nerveless fingers buried his face in his hands and sobbed like a child The other two restrained res-trained their tears but were visibly affected af-fected |
