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Show ALLE(."EI) ILL-TKEAT.MEXT OF IXHI.VXS. It seems from statements which have apieared in some of the public journals that a number of the ninety Indians of the Sioux nation from the. Ogallala and Brule lauds in Soutii Dakota, who we&t to Europe with the "Wild Weet Show," returned a short timo ago to New York in a dilapidated state coninar.-d with their splendid condition con-dition before their departure from this country. An exchauce savs: "The stories the warriors tell of their treatment abroad indica'e that 'BcfTalo Bill' Cody and his partner, Nate Salisbury, have been paying a good deal more attention to tho gathering gath-ering m of European shekels than they bavototho welfare of the Indians who were tho features of the show. The acreement was that tho Indian sbonld each receive $23 a month, that their passage on land and sea should bo paid, and that clothing, medical attendance and medicines should always be promptly supplied. They were to be returned within two years, free of cost to them or the government at Washington. Wash-ington. While Horse, Kills White Weasel and Bear Pipe, the three Indians who recently came over from Germany in the steerage of the Au-atuta Au-atuta Mctoria, through an interpreter related tho story of their sufferings while In Europe to Gen. O'lJeirne.who was special Indian agent under Commissioner Com-missioner Hoyt. Bear Pipe said that Rocky Bear, their acting chief in the show, and Broncho Bill, tho Interpreter, Inter-preter, treated them very cruelly. The food they received was not fit for dojs, he said. They bad to take what the cook suppliod. "Buffalo BuT" insisted that the braves sbonld strip to the waist and come oat in warpaint war-paint and feathers at every show, and he refused to allow them to wear shirts even In tho coldest weather Many of them were taken sick and were obliged to go to hospitals. The emaciated emaci-ated features and gaunt frames of these three Indians show that something some-thing is amiss. General O'Beirno promised to represent their cause to President Ilairison and the Secretarr of tho Interior, whereupon White Horse said: 'If the President will send for these Indians, he will only need to look at them to know how they have been treated. They want to come home.' Of conns the version of Cody and Salisbury is yet to bo heard, bnt If those who are left with tho show are In anywhere near as sorry a plight as those who havo returned, re-turned, it is high timo that something should be done. In any event the story of the Indians should be thoroughly thor-oughly investigated." |