Show WIDOW AFTER LID WIFE OF SLAIN DESPERADO SUES UNCLE SAM squaw set up claim for acres on the rosebud reservation in south dakota valued at sioux falls S D abe widow ot jack sully the desperado and cattle rustler who was killed by a posse un der a united states marshal four years ago together with the descend ante in the family Is suing for the ownership of some 10 acres of government land on the rosebud rea erv atlon valued the land Is claimed by the widow on the ground that she Is entitled to allotment under the presidents proclamation of the sioux act in 1890 the land comila slon has refused the allotment say ing she had given up the rights of her children and their children as sioux indians when she married sully peculiar interest Is attached to the case by reasor of jack sully a meteor ic career as a cattle thief and defler 0 federal authorities jack sully was a stray a derelict apparently of good family who drifted into the south dakota country in its wilder days and fell among thieves he became one of them and was a member 0 a band which swooped down from the hills at intervals and stole cattle by the herd this gang wae finally broken up by the vigilance of the federal authorities catching gang off the reservation and scat bering its members previous to the breaking of the gang jack sully bad married an indian squaw off the rosebud reserva alon it Is this squaw and the ahll dren and grandchildren of the couple upon whose claims the ownership of the worth 0 government land now depends at the breaking up ot the gang sul ly organized another band of cattle rustlers with himself as the loader under the peculiarity of the law at that time sully and his confederates immune from imprisonment for theft as long as they stayed on the rosebud reservation ground from their vantage ground they would make sudden attacks by night picking up cattle by the hundreds and them back to the reservation from where they would sell them retaining for themselves sufficient for food finally the federal authorities se cured control of the situation the gov eminent giving them authority to ar rest fugitives from austice on the re served land previous to this the fed eral marshal had no jurisdiction over the reservation and the state author ties refused to act because they ie calved no pay for it sully s arrest was ordered and he fled the gang was broken up and all but one of the nine of them directly involved are dead or in the biary As a fugitive from justice sully caused the united states marshal many sleepless nights but he was finally captured and taken to mitchell friends assisted him to escape from the mitchell jail at night and he fled to canada while in canada he re calved word that his daughter was sick and his longing tor the reserva alon returned he came back by stealth and though his presence was made known to the authorities no et tort was made to arrest him A big haul and a quick get away to make him a stake for the rest of his life weer planned A big herd of cat tie was rounded valued at 10 the steal was located and sully was surrounded at his house on black bird island in the rosebud reserva alon with the posse surrounding the house having orders to get him dead or alive A neighbor was sent in to ask sully to surrender but he refused and mounting his horse brandishing a pis tol and saying its me tor three 0 them he made a dash tor liberty or dered twice to halt but continuing his mad dash the order was given to fire both sully and his pony fell dead |