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Show THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, MOAB, UTAH GOOD TASTE TODAY “Little Crow Has Taken the Warpath!” by EMILY POST* “Surely the hand of Providence is laid heavily upon the American people in these troublous times”’ said the pious-minded. But there were others who assigned the outbreak of the Sioux to a more muhdane reason. ‘Secretly and with insidious craft, the enemies of the United States have crept to the frontier and incited the > Chief Little Crow. Savages to this awful crime, in which the weakness of women and children are to be made the victims” they said, and, because “atrocity stories’? about the conduct of Confederate soldiers were already beginning to be whispered about, many a man in the North believed that ‘“‘rebel ~ intrigue’ was responsible for the Minnesota massacres. Not an iota of evidence to support that belief has ever been uncovered by historians but in 1862 it was not difficult for Northerners to believe that tale. If they had taken the trouble to examine the origins of the outbreak more closely they might have found them closer at home. In fact, they might have made the dismaying discovery that the hands of some of their politicians were dyed red with the blood of Minnesota settlers quite as much as were the hands of Little Crow’s fierce warriors. Causes of the the appeals of the destitute dians for In- food. The Outbreak Begins. On Sunday, August 17, occurred the incident which marked the opening of the outbreak. Four young M’dewakantons of Chief Little Six’s band appeared at the home of a settler named Baker where were present a Mr. Webster and his wife, besides Baker, his wife and a baby, a Mr. Jones and his wife and their two children. The warriors proposed that they engage in target practice, which the three white men foolishly consented to do. As soon as their guns were empty the young braves opened fire and killed Jones, Baker, Webster and Mrs. Jones. Then they hurried to the Jones home, where they killed and scalped a girl who had been left there. That night the four warriors reached Little Six’s village and told him what they had done. He immediately hurried them to the camp of Little Crow, two miles above the agency. The chief sat up in his bed to hear their story. Immediately he saw his opportunity. ‘“‘The time has come for war’ he declared. ‘‘Blood has been shed. The payment will be stopped. The whites will take a terrible vengeance bécause the women were killed.’’ The chiefs and head warriors were assembled in a council at Sioux Indian Camp As soon as news of the outbreak was carried by terrorstricken refugees to Fort Ridgely, 15 miles from the Lower Agency, its commander, Capt. John S. Marsh of the Fifth Minnesota regiment acted promptly. He had only 46 men but he marched at once for the agency. Untrained in Indian fighting, Marsh was ambushed by a force of 200 of Little Crow’s warriors and more than half of his soldiers killed. Marsh himself escaped the hail of Indian bullets only to be drowned in the swift current of the river. The next morning brought more refugees to Fort Ridgely, but it also brought reinforcements from Fort Snelling until there were about 200 soldiers in the fort, although they were mostly raw recruits. Saved by a Miracle. On the morning of August 20 the dreaded attack by Little Crow was launched. The defenders were greatly outnumbered and for a time it looked as though the savages would sweep over the walls and kill every man, woman and child in the. post. But among the few veterans in the fort was an old artillery sergeant named Jones who had varied the monotony of garrison life by drilling some of the infantrymen in the use of several old cannon left from the time Fort Ridgely Washington: Urcermber 6% 180, VYrcpaotiyiv Goneral He,det f° Rie Orelerea LKR of (hs bnotrans he herarz anol Koaet react petancie fe bu hangin b, (Rs pitiar, Gort Cofitisis Haile Ore) ernest the Indian problem as well as Sther problems of government, delay in carrying out treaty provisions relating to the payment of annuities to the Sioux. So because of dissatisfaction with the treaties of Mendota and Traverse des Sioux made some ten years earlier with the Eastern (or Santee) Sioux—the Sissetons, the Wahpetons, the Wakpekutes and M’dewakantons — the year 1862 found the Indians ripe for trouble. There was still another reason for the precipitation of the outbreak in that year. The Mix treaty of 1858, which provided for the sale of the portion of the Lower reservation north of the Minnesota river, had been engineered by Little Crow, (Chetan wakan mani—‘‘The Sacred Pigeon-Hawk Which Comes Walking’’), hereditary chief of the Kaposia division of the M’dewakanton. When the Lower bands discovered that this sale still further limited their land rights, Little Crow became very unpopular with a large faction of his people. He resolved to “‘take the issue to the people.’’ The result was an Freleng kK Mmirheenths ote ff Secon omnia LR feltinr thames, [fia es Ma Milas th. Chex" ‘ ’ WN? of, L CKo prcored, Meyer" bias Plans. tor Teu!" Sez % N Cte: he ship pres? Reine hang bhow..o~ Var | Mai an eaptiabotas me La, Tu,” a Sefer. nar. Qui ‘a. He mo. Hy,” 4 ae: wie “Do. Wt pay," : Yorn jen. “! MWe S Ste € M10. Atle Aes, 4, LE preorwo, 4 & preme, St?14, AY Mad ‘5, Ne 98, WV v4 ole ¢ From an Old Wood Cut.) § ; A part of the order given by P resident Lincoln for the execution of Sioux Indians convicted of murde r during the Mi t Twenty- three names have been omitted from between No. 24 and No. 373. Post. Mixed Sets of Silver Are Often Attractive EAR Mrs. Post: My husband’s family has presented me with his deceased mother’s flat silver. The pattern belongs to the mid-Victorian period and is not, at least | in my eyes, at all attractive. How| ever, my husband loves it and expects me to use it with his same amount of joy. I shall of course do my best to conceal my dislike for | it although I had so much wanted to add to my own silver where pieces | were needed. What worries me is | having to use together some silver | of one kind and some of another de/ cidedly ornate type. I suppose there | is nothing for you to answer except | | | | | | | that it will look pretty terrible, but it would be consoling to know that you have seen really attractive tables where mixed patterns of this description were used. Frankly, have you? Answer: Yes, I have. I agree with you that if you were able to buy new silver it would be much better to have it match. But many, many tables in beautifully appointed houses are set with mixed N | silver, and the reason is obviously that very few can, or want to, discard inherited silver, especially that which has a sentimental association. Captured Exec utive. Mansion, ato, lLaplais Emily > War. For among the basic causes of the Minnesota outbreak were the very same ones which have been responsible for most of our Indian wars—the greed of the white man, his contempt for the red man and his determination to possess the Indians’ land by fair means or foul. Along with these causes were the contributing factors of the ineptitude of a new administration in Washington in dealing with raged by this defeat, Little Crow resolved to take action which would restore him to the esteem of his people and regain his hereditary chieftainship, regardless of the result of the election. The best way to do this, he decided, was to make war on the whites and regain for his people the land they had lost. Events played into his hands, for the annuity payments, which were due the Sioux on July 1, were delayed indefinitely and their agents turned deaf ears to World's Foremost Authority on Etiquette 1000600000000000000800008 by General gathering back at ‘THE * Bride’s Friends Seated | With Parents at Left Sibley. the white man was strength to strike red foe. + | his his EAR which side the bride’s par- | ents and friends sit? A friend tells | me their correct places are on the left but does she mean left from the | the Post: | | On of Mrs. aisle do Sibley Takes Command. Col. Henry H. Sibley was position of the pews or of the chan| placed in command of the 1,400 cel? volunteers raised to crush the Answer: They sit on the left side Sioux. With his raw undisciplined troops, he reached Fort Ridgely | entering the church and facing the | on August 28, where he was hailed | chancel: | + * a as a savior by the people who had taken refuge there. The next | Coming Out Party day he moved to the Lower | EAR Mrs. Post: Does a form- | Agency and from there sent Maj. | ally worded invitation of a | J. R. Brown with a force of 200 men farther up the river to hunt | coming-out party require an answer of any kind, and who is expected to for the hostiles and to bury the | send the debutante flowers and what dead. ; . | does one say to her in the receiving Brown camped at Birch Coulie | line? on the night of September 1 and | Answer: If the invitation includes early the next morning he was no request. for an answer, then none | attacked by a large force of Sioux | is expected. While leaving cards at led by Little Crow. The battle the party or sending them if you which followed was one of the |} can not go, is a formal exaction | hottest of the whole war and which, even in this day of informalonly the prompt arrival of Col- | ity, is still considered courteous, it onel Sibley with the main body is also one which most hostesses no of the army saved Brown’s force | longer expect except from stran-| from suffering the fate that had | gers. Beaux and family friends been Marsh’s. usually send the debutante Service. flower may have Sew-Your-Own thing easy for step sewing has made everyyou in the step-by- ‘nabweiidionte. We Only Heard. Maybe we’re wrong, Little Sis, but we heard that this is the dress Mommy has her heart set on for you. You know princess lines that flare, and puff sleeves that give you that cunning big-little-girl look go over well with both mother and you. You may have it button all the way if you like—it makes laundering easy and it’s smart. Mommy will let you choose the material if you ask. You won’t go wrong on gingham, silk crepe, broadcloth or percale. So here’s hoping, Little Sis. Vivacious Version. Thumbs up on taffeta; eyes right for pattern 1349! It’s a picture-pretty frock with a knack for bringing out the best in you and your escort. It’s a dream for flowers Sibley then retreated to Fort although even they need not feel Ridgely and opened negotiations | that their not being able to afford with Little Crow for the release | any should keep them from going of the hundreds of prisoners, | to the party. When going down the mostly women and children, held receiving line, an intimate friend in the Indian camp, which came might tell the debutante how pretty to naught. she looked, but a stranger would merely say, ‘I hope you are going. | Then he marched against the to have a wonderful time this winSioux and on September 23 intor or: . a happy time this | flicted a crushing defeat upon winter.” Or if the party comes | them at the Battle of Wood Lake. at the end of several, she might | After this battle Little Crow say, “I hear that you are having a | tried to have the captives killed. wonderful time this winter.” But his influence was waning * . * rapidly and other chiefs, who saw that defeat was inevitable and Seat Hog Problem wished to soften the punishment O YOU think it fair that the| that would be meted out to them, girls coming early to a school | prevented him from carrying out ting k best t > | his bloody intentions. es ne for ee particular ee themselves their Release of the Captives. friends who come in later? We feel Through some of the Christian that those who come first have a Indians Sibley got in touch with right to these best seats and we | these chiefs and offered them | wish you would express your opin- | favorable terms of surrender if ion before we bring the matter up they would return their prisoners for discussion at the next meeting. to him unharmed. As a result the Answer: This is one of the great afternoon of September 26 saw abuses found in all assembly rooms the delivery to him of 269 miserwhere the audience is not given re- | able white men, women and chilserved seats. For a fairly large dren who had endured all the group to keep one extra seat is perhorrors of Indian captivity. Soon haps not out of the way, but to afterwards he rounded up 1,500 send someone on ahead, as is comof the Sioux and placed them monly done, who spreads a coat out in prison at Fort Snelling and in each direction for six or eight Mankato, who come at their leisure is an eviNext a military commission set dence of extreme lack of appreciaabout the task of singling out tion of the rights of others. We can those who should be punished for all understand that people in one the outbreak and 392 of them group like to sit together, since this were placed on trial for muris only natural. But either they der. Of these 307 were sentenced should all come together and then to death and 16 sentenced to pristake best available seats or else on, but President Lincoln comthey should be satisfied with seats muted the death sentences of all at the side or in the back. In short, but 39 who had been guilty of they should keep seats that are not such cruelties that there was especially desirable. no possible excuse for showing them . * s any mercy. On December 28 these 39 paid the penalty on a To Be Wed in Brown special gallows built for EAR Mrs. Post: I am being the wholesale execution. With their married in a street dress in deaths the great Sioux outbreak the presence of only a dozen relaof 1862 was over. tives and friends. I intended getThere remained, however, ting a brown dress since my travelone final act in the drama of that ing coat is of mixed browns with outa break. Little Crow’s followers beaver collar, but on second thought had deserted him and he became perhaps brown would be as unsuita fugitive, flitting from able on this occasion as black. Place to I place in constant fear of betrayal am referring to the superstition that by some of his people. On black suggests bad luck for July those 3, 1863, he and his son were pickin the wedding. ing berries in a thicket not Answer: The reason far black is from the town avoided at weddings is that it is the of Hutchinson. They were discovered by a color of mourning. settler There is no named Nathan Lampson and such agsociation with brown. his The son, Chauncey, who immediately only possible criticism of brown is opened fire on them. The chief’s that it might seem sombre unless 1 Neda but Little Crow fel] lightened in some way by color at ea your throat or by carrying bright © Western Newspaper Union, colored flowers. WNU | lovely been born to blush unseen, Milady, but not you. Anyway, what chance could you have of going unnoticed when you wear one of these exciting new frocks by SewYour-Own—not the Ghost! Cool, Cool, Cool. 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You have nothing to kick about this year.’’ The old farmer stood in a meditating mood for a minute, then replied: ‘‘Well, you know, son, such crops as these are pesky hard on the soil.”’ > woman in the world, is the stand up best for her m James M. Barrie. The language of science & same throughout the world.—@ M. Schwab. Every one should be resped an individual, but no one id@ —Albert Einstein, : Radio for Every 200 Rooms—200 Room Baths RAS WA HOTEL Temple Squé Rates $1.50 to $3. You ane It’s ama RECOMMENDEI ®0 appreciate w hyt at this En distinction te ERNEST Cc eautiful hows -- ROSSITERG = ae = possible to realize that these dark converts to the white man’s faith had reverted to savagery and had given up the Bible and the hymnal for the tomahawk and scalping knife. had been an artillery post. Just as Little Crow’s maddened warriors were about to break the line of the soldiers, which had formed on the parade ground, Jones and’ his men opened fire with the cannon. : The Indian advance halted, dismayed by the hail of iron that swept across the parade ground. A second blast from these ‘‘wagon guns” sent them scurrying for cover and a third caused them to flee in a panic. Jones and his “artillerymen” had not only saved Fort Ridgely but he had also dealt a severe blow to Little Crow’s hopes. But Little Crow was not through yet. There were still settlements in other parts of the state which could be raided. So he withdrew his forces into the wilderness, taking with them the prisoners and the plunder whic h they had taken during the first week of the outbreak. Meanwhile a a missionaries, it seemed im- once. Some of them tried in vain to prevent further bloodshed. But they were outvoted by the hostile element. ‘Kill the whites! Kill the cut hairs (Christian Indians) who will not join us!’’ they shouted. Little Crow gave orders to attack the agency at sunrise and to kill the traders first. During the night warriors mounted on swift horses were speeding in every direction to rally the hostiles for the attack. More than 200 whites were slaughtered in and around the agency. Meanwhile small parties of warriors were _ sweeping through the surrounding settlements, attacking the farms as they came to them, killing the men and children and carrying the women off as captives. The exact number of whites who were massacred during the Minnesota outbreak will never be known but it is certain that more than 1,000 citizens and soldiers perished. fi By ELMO SCOTT WATSON EVENTY-FIVE years ago this summer was a gloomy time for the people of the United States of America. They were still smarting under the stinging defeat of Pope’s army at the second battle of Bull Run and still despondent from the depressing influence of McClellan’s ‘“‘seven days’ retreat’? when even worse news came out of the West. “Tittle Crow has taken.the warpath!” was the word which flashed from the Minnesota frontier and this was followed by an account of such bloody massacre of men, women and children as the nation had not known since the days of Pontiac, the Ottawa, or Weatherford, the Creek. | What made the tragedy seem all the more unbeliev- exciting political campaign which able was the fact that this culminated in an election held at a council on August 3, 1862. Litruthless destruction was the tle Crow, Traveling Hail and Big work of Dakota Indians whom Eagle were candidates for the they had taken pride in call- chieftainship. Little Crow was and ing a “fast civilizing and overwhelmingly defeated Christianizing race.”’ After Traveling Hail was elevated to the chieftainship which had been the glowing reports of their held by Little Crow’s forefathers -progress sent back by the for more than a century. En- |
