Show TALES OF THE J E CHIEFS J wats JOHN out in a cow pasture ture u miles from wilmot s lonely grave e there la no headstone to toll lies here there are no loving ed flowers to brighten the soot or three small stones markta alon stones which a child coal down into the creek which floii yet in this little noticed J grave lies the dust of Job nOth hero he was a wahpeton hoi the beginning of the nineteenth tury and bis early manhood was what we would expect h passionate and revengeful he i several of his tribesmen in arn rages here surely was not the terdal from which good citizen made bravery however was which Oth erday always possessed one of the fierce battles between lifelong life long enemies the sioux ami chippewa he carried a bevi wounded tribesman from the field later in the day saved the life other thus the scales might be to balance or though he killed 01 hand he heroically saved on the i I 1 do not know what changed day into the man he became al rate when he decided to bacon nearly like a white man as an ii could lie went at the task wit intensity he showed in everything became a devout church member dressed in white mans clothing this perhaps was not a itself but the spirit lake mass proved Oth erday to be a sincere of the white man a tile renegade with hia ft era killed the settlers at spirit S D and carried off two white en abigail gardner later mrs sl and sirs noble Oth erday and i er sioux a chief offered to adf a rescue and followed the dang band at the risk of their own airs boble died before the fri pair won through to them bit gardner was released Oth erday was fifty she years this time the exciting events life especially this latest exploit enough for one person to have e encee surely he had married a woman and lived comfortably house built tor him by the age his reservation it Is unlikely ft expected further adventures he certainly earned a peaceful lit his later years and it Is doubt he ever longed for other deeds of to perform but his service was not fact it may be said to have begun the sioux outbreak of IS which hundreds of minnesota so were tortured and billed arouse entire region something Som thing mast be and done quickly john Oth erday sioux one oj very tribe whose anger had d forth in such dreadful 1 the call again ue was slit years old but he knew that he answer there was a tween the besieged settlers and paul where they would be sate people needed a guide lest the come lost and die ae they fled sixty two white persons ered by Oth erday led through to saint paul safely nd turned back to the frontier to every aid at his command general sibley and bis troops ing bc en ordered to quell the apri Oth erday became attached to the a scout fighting against his tribes it Is said that no person in the compared with him in the of reckless bravery he d in white and it was his custom 1 so far in advance of the troop they often fired at him mis for an enemy remember the age 0 jo v day it seems incredible that kill several younger men sioux biora and take their horses but who had lived through adirent enough to fill several lives feat not so difficult at the close of this war the old sioux was granted the atoo by congress bong and tried to succeeded at annc but it was too late for anew to begin drawing a plow FI moved to the sisseton and reservation where he livedoti liv short time dying of tuber was buried on the land hoped to some day own there Is a monument f minn erected in honor of w and the three other christian 1 who showed their loyalty so bero during the sioux w now more than sixty yean 1 l death a movement has besca bes ca w the grave in a fitting na I 1 suggest an epitaph tar the here lies the body of a which enclosed the soul oi man 11 B US 1 |