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Show BUFFALO BILL'S BRAVES. No Keek's Hetarn to America With a Bad ' Account of Their Kxceaaeii. New Yokk. Aug. 1. Mr. Talm-Wan-ica, otherwise No Neck, chief of Buffalo Bill's Indian police, arrived on the steamship Kaiser William II. yesterday from Bremen. It was reported that he would contradict the stories of the careless care-less management of Uncle Sam's wards abroad, but be did not. Mr. No Neck said he had returned because his children child-ren were dead and his wife was sick. He said nearly all of the Indiaus in the show had been sick or were sick by reason of their new excesses. Five of them had died since. Rocky Bear took charge of the camp last December. Rocky Bear was not a good Indian. He swore at the red men under him and did not take care of them when they were sick. The Indians got $25 a month and spent much of it in playing cards, drinking, eating and seeing see-ing the towns where the show pitched its tents. No Neck said he had complained com-plained to Buffalo Bill about Rocky Bear, and William said: "You are not hero to complain, but to do your work." "Did von like Buffalo Bill?" "I don't know. 1 liked a little squaw in Berlin." "Did Buffalo Bill give you a present when you bade him good bye?" "Yes; he gave me a $100 bill. He said: 'Give them a good report of me on the other side.' " If the newspapers would pay you $100 to give a bad report of Buffalo Bill would you do it?" "Oh, yes." "Alter you complained about Rocky Bear to Buffalo Bill were the Indians treated better?" "Rocky Bear stopped swearing at them." , , "Would you like to go back to the show?" ' T "If Buffalo Bill wants any more Indians In-dians he will have to pay them $ j0 a month." |