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Show 1EE-- . V V Trib une Travelogs ; Satin Bull, praeueubty reached perihelion In kh spectacular earner by leadia the Hoax in the annihilation of General Cuater'p comma d, hat this part of his fame rests' a an extremely flimsy foundation, which dwindles to a sort of hoax Is the Usht of facta. Bitting BoD was In his tent making medicine' during the battle, when .he was not directing and askating the squaws and children to strike the tents of the village (Separatory to eradiating the Valley. Proud and domineering renegade that he was, with scores of killings to his discredit, be was nevertheless rated as a first-clacoward In a tight place by many of his fellow a Consequently when the Indian crier burst into Sitting Bulls tent with the Information that Yellow startling Heir (Custer) was changing. Bitting Bull first assured himself that the real fighting chiefs, Gqll, Craay Horse, Crow King and Hr. Rain in the Face, were on the jump, and then proceeded feverishly to ilia in- -' cantations uader shelter. Howsoever, Bitting Balls powers as a medicine man were very highly regarded among his superstitions tribesmen, sad In many redskin quarters he was accorded an Important role. If not a leading part. In the famous fight on the Little Big Horn. A RENEGADE LEADER. As the efficient leader a reneor tionreserea-tio- a of bend outlaw gade Sioux, Bitting Bull prowled the plains seeking prey among enemy Indians much of the time. He also pretended to be in quest of the soldiers, hot he was observed to bo very fond of I substituting a lone minor or a defenseless freighting . train oit which , to expend his fighting skill, and from which to replenish his supplies and provisions His sueosaseA heralded afar among the Indians on need both the wild and the egenry Bloux to fioclc about him, confidently behoving him to be divinely guided and protected, aa he claimed to be. Truth to aay also, his attitude and his following at times cast a degree of fear Into the mdiera when his band became numbered in the thousands and were all thirsting for ed venture, WAS INTELLIGENT INDIAN. Sitting Boll's sign or totem was a crippled buffalo buQ, resting on Its haunches. It was adopted by reason ef a wound which made Sitting Bull limp all his life. He walked on the ball of one foot, seldom If ever touching the heel to the ground. He was, nevertheless, of powerful, stock build and his physical deformity did not hamper him to aay appreciable extent. (the Sioux name for sitting bull, usually pro remnant of hie band, reduced to fS men, $7 women and 73 children, surrendered at Fort Buford At that time eon waajn -Bitting Bulls eihool in Chicago, but a eon was with the chief ; At this formal powwow Bitting Bull dramatically placed his much-use- d rifle Into this little fellow's hand and directed bun to present It to Major I Krothertoa, in command, saying the picture language. This ptete surrender this rifle to you through Medical my young eon, whom I now desire to biography le in the Army Museum at Washing ton, having been teaoh In this way that he ha become friend of the whites. 1 wish to be amply authenticated before finding lodgement among the historic treas- remembered aa the last man of my ures. Outlined in ink. the pictures tribe who gave up his rifle. were shaded with colors, making a A DRAMATIC SURRENDER. striking compilation on the blank Sitting Btfll. with about 300 other, pages of a stolen regiment roll book. was then assigned to the Standing The totem or signature on each of Rock aeenev There the proud old the fUty-fi- v etory pictures is a chief found Chief Gall In high and unbuffalo ball on its haunches, connectshakable esteem, and himself in dised bf a ime to th hero in the pic and disreputd. He tried his tare The work wa a crude, but Quite grace medicine and was jeered for hs intelligible to those versed In Indian, he tried his oratory, frequently re- trouble; signs, and has been mocked his listeners; he even by Doos between ftet produced in part. and 1870, this unique biography rep- staged a grand martyr play jn public, be killed as a sacrifice, he that of tbe urging resents the dastardly deeds S hoodlum band for several years pre- but this only brought a laugh. However, fearing his persistence ceding. Bull would cause defection. a Bitting INDISCRIMINATE SLAUGHTER. and his families and relatives, about l, The pictures show as Indiscrimi148 persons, were taken to Fort On his renate slaughter of men, women, chilsome miles distant. dren. Indiana teamsters, snail men. peated pronpusee to be good and to frontiers men. railroad surveyors and wear white mens fetothea, the last of humiliation. Bitting Bull was builders, miners and some soldiers. band as col- stage Rock, allowed to return to They, aido portray the horse-fles- h and and finally to his oldStanding lectors of choice home on the pritfte beef. A few pictographs show Grand river, some forty miles distant, BKUng Bull collecting Crow Indian where he lived in a shack. loop encircling scalps, one lariat-lik- e SUFFERS MESSIAH CRAZE. Crow scalps, a feat wen known thirty Ttie'T. M. C. A. offered him money in actual history. Among his many murders were several worn eh to to aope&r in public in Philadelphia, new which deeds the sutobiographer con and hie- - pride wa awakened In a were fesaes as- proudly as he records the channel, but 'the newspapers was so and the enterprise, gathering of the scores of park against public sentiment, and It failed. Then mulek. over and took tried him Sitting Bull was bom about 1830. Buffalo Biil attenAt 'the age of ten he became famous hard for some time to gain an but it tive audience for the Indian, in the tribe fpr killing large num & was Bull no was use. bat, Bitting bers of buffalo calves. At fourteen disan Indian not a curiosity, and he returned behe killed snd scalped enemy, and in this fight received the heartened, and on the Grand river wound which gave him h4s name. He gan to devote himself assiduously to was. however, rated as exceptionally his medicine The development of the Messiah laiy as a rule, and inordinately vi- erase about this time, a depressing He claimed, nevertheless, to cious. nave been set apart for a great life practice and belief among the Indians, He va s an expert especially Bitting Bull's band, deof leadership manded attention from the authorities horseman and rifleman. n i&hment, fasting and Mv father s name was ne JumpOrgies of sustained dancing were carried on to said ing Bull, a chief1 Sitting Bull In the seventies. T have nine chil- the extent of exhaustion and repeatedly.' This was dedren and two living wives, and one wife that has gone to the Great sirable, as in the unconscious state it believed was that they entered tbe 8pirtt. I have two pairs of twins. I think as much of one as the other. presence of the Messiah. 1 So wretched did they become, and If did not I would not keep them. that I believe If I had a white wife I so general did the erase rpread, would think more of her than Che the government undertook to call a halt. Persuasion failed; and even Bufother two. falo BBH was helpless to influence MEDICINE MAN'S INFLUENCE. Boll in desisting from the pracFather de Sraet, the missionary. Is Sitting The old tice and Its said to have converted him and chief claimed promulgation. he was extremely suctaught him some fVench, he also cessful in communing with the Messpoke a number of Indian tongues siah, and all expected the reappearto a certain mient Bat. the hateful ance In This of thp Messiah. old fellow eieadtastlvefused to speak defiance person of the authorities brought the or understand English because of his order for his arresL dislike the white. though he ofFIGHTS TO THE LAST. ten. inadvc! tently inlected English reInto his talk and epithets Bitting Bulls old fighting spiritdash egressions He aspired even demanded, to be turned, and he secretly planned a made a chief for manv years before for the Bad Lands. R was equally thp honor was accorded him, having secretly planned on the part of the htd a number of quarrels with the officers that tbe troublesome chief tribal powers over the matter is was to be shot down on sight if he regrowing powers as a mfedir.ne man sisted. On December 1J,of 1K90, General and as an outlaw gained for him a Mile sent two troops tavalry and large and influential 'following artd a company of lnfantri, with about in 1868 he was made a chief 'this is twenty Indian policemen, to surprise believed to have come iargelv through the tepee Indians huddled together on the aid of the squaws, who were the Grand. At davllght next morning soldiers and easiest to come under the spell of those strong, well-fe- d his miracles His renegade band police charged the miserable camp of thus grew until at one time he had starving and ragged wretches ho g SOO) fanatical under Sitting Bulls leadership and foolhardy Sitting Hull's tent wa surrounded, fighters about him So formidable diH he become that and the proud- old medicine man scouts refused to visit him for fear dragged forth and placed on a horse, of personal punishment, and inter- captive. Greatly enraged as he was change of communications with him led away, he shouted his battle inwas often effected st second hand. structions to his followers, directing In 1S66 Sitting Bulls hand, spoiling them how to proceed to effect his own for a fight, raided Fort Buford and rescue A formidable opposition was Suddenly a nfla spoke inenvirons, leaving a frightful trail of gathering nearest blood and mutilation. This success side a tent and the policeman followed fell dead. Then Bull rendered him very arrogant and dan- Bitting and In 1869 one of his men was a cyclons of cracking firearms turgerous. killed by a soldier, without provotrampling horses Above all the cation, Sitting Bull claimed, and he moil Bitting Bulls eftmmanding voice practically forced the commanding rang dear; and then his body straightofficer to pay for tbe dead Indian ened up, stiffened momentarily and by a great stock of blankets. dropped into a heap on the hard ground, pierced b bullets from unGAINS MANY FOLLOWERS. This further success greatly aug- known guns. mented Sitting Bull's band, which proudly and defiantly took poaseseion RIVERTON of the whole Yellowstone river valley with A warning to all trespasser. A host of agency Sioux slipped off RIVERTON, June 23. Mr and Mrs their civilian garments snd departed P Balden of Salt iAke visited, for the wilds to join Sitting Bull, of last week, with Mrs. that be was bound to redarn Wednesday H. LovendahL the country from the whites. For Rose Miaa Vera Webb arrived home Frimany years he thus held a terrible of last week from Irovo, where sway, massacring Crows, Blackfeet day she has been attending the E. Y. U and keeping in Ariaras, fnd on She left Tuesday for Salt like to Montana miners and the Ilka the summer. Between July L 1ST, and the early spend Mr. and Mr G. W. Bills and Mr apnng of 187$ seventeen attacks on and Mrs. Joseph Park were the dinwere the whites made, nine persons guest of Mr and Mrs Allison being killed, tea wounded and much ner of Bills Tuesday Murray, The insolent property confiscated Mr. Mae- Darton and children of and intolerant old chief was partic- Balt were the Lake guest of Mr and ularly ferocious in his manner of J. Dannie for a week. handling his victims, being as blood- Mr. A. Mrs. and children P.aamussen P At one thirsty as a beast of prey Midvale. Mrs. Florence Raynor and time he disinterred seven soldiers for of Iowa. of and Miss Bouton. children the purpose of scalping and mutilatleola Raynor of Salt lake were the ing the bodies. dinner guest of Mrs. Elia G. Howard, DEFIES THE AUTHORITIES. Friday of last week. Mrs. L E. Freeman and Mrs. F. ft. Moat of the other tribes of Indtkns were willing to accept the agency or Seal, Sr, entertained at a shower honor reservation plan, but demanded pro- Friday evening of lost week in rau&ic tection from tbe Sioux; the white set- of Mss Pearl Seal. Games and of the evening. tlers and frontier workmen were were the features were reequally insistent that the soldiery Many beautiful presents ceived. Luncheon was served at 11 protect them adequately. Thus It was o'clock to 1876-of 6 guests fifty R that during the winter Mbs Olive Crane entertained at a was officially decided to herd the hostile into the reservations or kill party Pndav of last week in the Riverton amusement hall them In the attempt. This ultimatum was sent to Sitting guests from Balt Jjke, Provo and Games and present. Bull, inviting him to bring his scalp Itandy were Luncheon was in himself peacefully. He coolly re- musio wen enjoed to the Misses served by guest to fifty to General plied Terry's messenger come and get him tf he dared, You FerCtU, OlKe And Alta Crane. Mias Tira Butterfield entertained need not bring any guides; 1 will not run away,' he said. This defy was the Sewing club Tuesday v ning of backed by a swollen horde of Sioux, last week. Luncheon was served to gueet comprising practically ail the free twenty Mr. A. 1 Rasmussen ami children Sioux of the nation, and a surprisof Midvale verc the guest of Mrs II ingly large number of deserting agency Sioux, totaling, it has been G Howard. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday estimated, 30,900 or more. Mr. and Mr Alln Lindahl, Hi Then came the battle of tbe little aul Big Horn, and in rpite of the red Alta Lindahl of Last Midvale Bait of Iake were the mans success the Gloux scattered to Ivan Racier tbe four winds, operating under sev- guests of Mr and Mrs. N G Lin eral leaders the rest of da U. TuesdayBills entertained at dinWks Ebb the summer. Colonel Nelson A. Milee met Sitting Bull in a peace parley ner banday in hme of Mias I earl Beak About twenty guts w in October, but the defiant chief told the ookmel that he would visit the present, A was given in tiontr of shower eetttlemens to trade and buy ammuher SUoox at the home nition, but that he would accept no Miss Eva Mr. and Mrs Nicholas 8U parents, rations nor antral flee. cox, Wednesday evening CORNS THE AGENCY. Mr. and hire Cyril tusmossea and God almighty made ma be de- Mr. and Mrs C W. Mathews of Mid clared with excusable racial pride; vale were th dinner guest of Hr. 'God almighty did not make vne an and Mrs. N. G. Lindahl, Sunday. agency Indian, and I wilt fight and die figbtihg before any white man can make me an agency Indian ' He inMIDVALE sisted at bay cost on being free and to have bis own way is his chosen 23 Mm 0-- jr Jun MIDVALE, territory. The speech was the gage ef battle. Ouuadler of Blnich.m and Mra. Ann). Colonel MUca pursued hitting Bull KtUln ef Plenauu Drove ,peot tTuSkr and his band, and captured dose to of but week at Midvale. 3000. " Mra. EUen L. Slokra ha returned Meanwhile Red Cloud, Bull. Spotted TaU and other Spotted Sioux home, after visiting friend and relachiefs went Into the reservation. tive at Draper. Colonel, later General, Miles adroitly Thursday of last week Mr and Mrs succeeded In keeping the Horse R. R. Fenn entertained at dinner for and Sitting Bull bands Orftxy frotn amal- Mr. and Mr. O A. titokes, M J. Joy. gamating, and Creay Horse finally Mr. Noah, A. R. Cahuon and Oeorge surrendered with 3000 braves. Goet. Mr. H. H. Wheat and children of FLEES TO CANADA. Salt latke spent with Mrs. Sitting Bun, alone of the hostile Hilmn Maietrom. Sunday Uadere stIU on the aggressive, fled Mrs. A. Ray Cahoon returned Mon to Canada, where he was joined by day from an extended visit to the Ha Chiefs OaU, Iron Dog, Sratted Eagle cifio coast. and other. As Influential contusMra. W. Strom Spent last ion from the United Statoi went week InOeorge Sait Lake, the guest of her there for a peace powwow, hut they mother, Mra. W. Arbuckia. J. tola in a most eloquent speech Monday evening, at her home on Ball that he hated them State Y.tttnc Nlel Olsen enterMra. street. end their country; that he loved the tained at as I o'clock luncheon, folBritish and their lands; that tha Unitlowed by dancing. The guests were ed eta tea had made fifty-tw- o x Dr. and Mr. John Z. Brown. Dr. and and kept none Mra. S. f. Peterson, Mr and Mra. El th commission Mra. 2L,,?m McAllister, Harold hock to their miooraM, erenn, Mr. andAnna Mra 1. E, Noall, aU of Ooff, home, end ijr there. Salt lake. few year, of Canada However, Wednesday of last week Mrs, Silas faro and treatment reduiwd the entertained at a birthday party to poverty and starvation: and Brawn for her mother, Mra Phoeba Ann on July 24, ml. Sitting Bull and the t Evans, Twenty guests 2k By x Cedi Alter AND LORRAINE LESTER IN nounced was eo exceptionally brilliant, so resourceful, so diplomatic and so skillful with his hands that he was often credited in stories of the plains with being a an educated The crux of such undeserved compliments was the widespread rumor that he was a West Point graduate. This story was an unwitting transfer of identity, though the skill of tbe Indian seemed at times to warrant the belief in its authenticity. The story involved a very successful career at the army officers' school, a disgraceful brawl at graduation time, which brought a reprimand and a denial of his final papers. This was presumably followed by a revengeful retaliation against all whites the rest of his life. It was a good story, but the hero was another man. , , half-bree- d, half-bree- d. WROTE OWN BIOGRAPHY. There is enough of fact in the biography . of Bitting Bull. which, strangely enough, the egotistical old chief wrote or depicted himself through the laborious processes of n C0 NOW PLAYING K 12:30, 2:15, 4, 5:45, 7:30, 9:15 j The Smashing Dramatic Feature THE LAST HOUR From the story, Blind Justice, by Frank R. Adams, originally published in Munseys . Magazine. Personally 'directed by Edward Sloman. THE CAST: Steve Cline Baades McCall Milton Silla Carmel Myers Pat OMalley Philip Logan Jack Mower Tom Cline Reever McCall William Mallory Bed Brown Governor Logan Quake , Alec Francis Charles Clary. Walter Long Eric Mayne Wilson Hummed Drama that will tug at your heartstrings, 'thrills that will make you hold youo breath, a love story that will charm you and suspense that will keep you. guessing all these and more in The Last Hour. ' MR. AND MRS. MARTIN JOHNSON AMONG THE CANNIBALS OF THE SOUTH SEAS Authentic pictures of strange peoples in Borneo, entitled PATHE NEWS theTjsual GOOD MUSIC were-presen- ' - HORI TRIO BALANCING n Mystifying : there r AND ACROBATICS is only, one boy CRONIN & HART ONE TO FILL in the world n DE PERON TRIO who could WONDERS AND SURPRISES nr IN SIS S&& iiirVI FO0TL1GHT IMPRESSIONS do - Thrilling Amusing Escapes Prom tales, steel vanlts, hand- itrait-jacket- s, cuffs, etc. NOTHING CAN HOLD HEil it CHARLES RAY Monday 12 Noon FlfeE FREE justice dscapo from xtralt Jackoc whil suspended 18 midair ever Broadway to frtmt of State Theater. Kaffin win IN THE SWEETEST STOUT EVER TOLD JAMES WHITCOMB We Promise You Something Unusual and Mean It! BELEYS THE GIRL Helen Chadwick I LOVED AND 7 Richard Dix WE HAVE fr hoa-tii- ea AND COMPANY nr n With LADY RAFFLES M'CULLOUGH self-pu- treat-Siou- r CARL ORIGINAL HERE-T- HE Master Cracksman A MUSICAL FARCE IN NEVER SEEN CHARLEY RAY IN ANYTHPro 1 1 c? ' DUMMIES Kan-dat- of HES the throngs said yesterday WE PRUITTE And-wa- s ss 1 SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1923; SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, -- SO GOOD WBX Noah Beery Alas Hal Walter Long Frank Campoaa Tom WOaon J. F. McDonald Jack Curtia Dick Sutherland PANTAGES And U. S. Cavalrymen From the Presidio. 2000 STARTS m TODAYS5 Mr and Mrs A. P. Rasmussen spent Monday and Tuesday at Kama. Mra E M Hood Is entertaining her sister. Mis Martha Rleck, of Canton, Okla. After spending three week here. Miss Week will take up educational work at Ban Diego, CaL afternoon Mrs. Prank Thursday Richardson, Mrs. A. A. Larson and Mrs It W Rtokes attended a birthday party given for Mr Joseph Gardner at her home in West Jordan. LARK t Mr. William TurLARK, June pin has a her gucats this week her rfister, Mra George Osborne, and little on, Joseph, and daughter, Phyllis, from West Jordan. Mr. and Mr D. A. Thomas had a Mr. and their Kuevt last week-en- d Mrs. K. Kirkhara of Salt Lake. Mr and" Mr. Fdward Penpraze were pleasantly surprised last Monday evening by a number of thetr friend, complimentary to Mr. it being her birthday anniver, sary. Mr and Mr. William Page of River pin visits with friend at I Ark, Monday evening Mra IlArry Lloyd and children returned to their homa-a- x Garfield Jaat Sunday, after visiting relative here for teo du Mrs. William Overaon has a her gUert this wfk bef mother, Mr, Johnson, from Lynn. .Utah. iiftta Mr and Mr Perry Periprase and motored to Bingham last fumtiy Thu radar Mr and Mrs Dave Magee and Mr W J Fahmi w?re Salt Lake visitor latMr t and relay Mr Warren K Moor and la it Marv Franc Hamingson fit Halt last Tuesday M Isafeman has a her (lyrum gw- 4h week Him Etta Johnson, fr Mvgna. Mta-- t Medga iUrenaon of Kalin t vesting wui her aimer her, Mrs. Joy Overaon Mr sad Mr W. ft. Moor are entertaining a their guests this week Mr. and Mrs Harry Pearson of III who sre touring th west jincy rout to San Francisco, Cat en IHC COULDNT. 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