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Show u 1 ASI11NGTON. A lltho- j'l A 7 graph that has survived 1 0 tho attacks of tlmo L. J S,,0W'B 0tJI1, Nelson A. prl Miles and Col. W. F. EagcffiJ Cody mounted on splr-Ited splr-Ited horses and overlooking over-looking from n bluff tho last great enmp of tho Sioux Indians whon coming com-ing in from tho. wnrpath. The Sioux surrendered to Gen. Miles In January, Janu-ary, 1801, but they came very nenr, a few days after the surrender, to tho point of breaking away once more. Tho story of It Is this: Gray dawn was breaking at the Pino Illdgo agency when an Indian runner broko headlong into tho village vil-lage of tho surrendered Sioux. Ho stopped nt tho tepeca of tho principal prin-cipal warriors long enough to shout a messago, and then leaving tho camp whero Its end rested against an abrupt hill, ho mnde his way with a plainsman's steulth to tho group of agency buildings, circling which nnd extending beyond, crowning rldgo nfter ridge, were the white Sibley tontB of tho Hokliors. Drenkfast wnB forgotten In tho troubled enmp of tho Sioux. The chiefs and tho greater braves rushed to quick council and the lessor warriors, war-riors, tho squaws and tho children stood waiting wltlf dogged pntlonce In tho village atrccts. The council wns over. An old chief shouted n wordof command that was caught up and passed quickly to tho farthest outlying topee. An army might hnvo learned a lesson from that which followed tho short, Bharp order. Mounted men shot out from tho vlllngo nnd as fast as fleet-footed ponies, pressed to tholr utmost, could accomplish tho dlatnnceu every outlying out-lying rldgo wns topped with the tig. uro of rider and horse, silhouetted against tho morning Bky. Every sentinel wnrrlor had his I - I eyes on tho enmps or the. whlto soldiory. Suddenly, Sud-denly, from tho east or tho agency, whero lay tho Sixth cavalry, thoro came n trumpet call thnt swelled and swelled nnd ended In ono ringing noto that sang In and out of tho vnlleyB and then, subdued to softness, floated on to bo lost In the prnlrlo wilderness beyond. The motionless Hguro of ono of tho hilltop sentinels sen-tinels was moved to Instant life. A signal ran from rldgo to ridge, finally to bo passed downward down-ward Into the camp of the waiting Sioux, who sprang Into notion at Its coming. Tho pony herds of tho Sioux were grazing on tho hills to tho west, unrestrained of their freedom' by lariat or herdsman. In number they nearly equaled the peoplo of tho village, a few ponies for emergency emer-gency ubo only having been kept within tho amp. Upon tho ponlos In tho village Jumped waiting warriors, who broko out of tho shelter of tho tepees for tho hills whero tho hords were foraging on the snow-covered hunch grass. It seemed but n passing moment before every pony In thnt great grazing herd was headed for the village. The animals woro nB obedient o the woid of command ns Is a brave to tho word of his chief, During tho gathorlng of tho ponlos the women of the camj) had slung their papooses to their backs, had collected, tho camp utensllB and wore standing ready to strike the tepees, while the bravos, blankoted and with rifles In their hands, had thrown themselves betweon tho vlllngo and the enmps of the soldiers of Gen. Miles. The Sioux, who had surrendered less than n week before, were preparing to stampede from he ngoncy and to mnko necessary tlio repeating of a campaign thnt had lasted for months, Tho Indian runner had brought won! that Great Chief Miles had ordered his sold i.rs to arms early In the morning and that tl surrendered Sioux woro to be massacred to w.o last man, woman mid child. Tho medicine men had told tho Indians that this was to be their fato and tho runner's word found rendy belief, Miles eont a com lor with a reassuring messago to tho chlofs, but they would not believe. ' Tho braves prepa. id to kill before thoy wero killed and everything wns In rendlnesH for the flight of tho squawB nnd papooses, while tho waiv riors, following, should light tho soldiers lusting for the Sioux blood. Gen. Miles hud planned a review of the forces in the fold as a last act of tho campaign, and It was tho ordor .for tho gathering nnd th$ match -fey:-4hflL-4ul-ljfun.iaJieii! 3 iili ordor ot jnassacro by tho suspicious Sioux. ! : l : '. Trumpet nnd bugle bu-gle calls of "boots and saddles" and "assembly" b u r-doned r-doned tho air. Tho troopors and "doughboys" "dough-boys" had fallen In, 5,000 strong. Tho column started west with flags and gul-donB gul-donB fluttering. The head, of tho command, com-mand, tho greatest that had been gathered gath-ered togother up to that tlmo since tho days of tho civil war, reached tho bluff above tho Sioux vlllago. A shout would havo Btarted the stampede stam-pede ot tho savagos; a shot would havo been the signal for n volloy from tho warriors lying between be-tween tho whlto column col-umn and tho vlllngo. Tho soldlerB passed on and tho rovlew began, but out on tho hills tho Indian sentinels still Btood, nnd betweon tho marching whlteB nnd tho vlllago wero tho long linos of braves still bus-plclous bus-plclous and still ready to glvo their Hvob for tho women and children in tho hoart of tho valley. What a review was that on tho snow-covorod South Dakota plains that January morning 15 years ago! Gen. Mileson his great black horse watched tho 5,000 soldiers pass, soldiers that had stood tho burden of battle and tho hardships of a winter's cnmpnlgn and had checked ono of tho greatest Indian uprisings of history. The First Infantry, led by Col. Shatter, who afterward aft-erward was in commnnd in front of Santiago, was thero that dny. Guy V. Henry, now lying in peaceful peace-ful Arlington cemotory, rodo at the head of his black troopora, tho "buffnjo soldiers" of tho Sioux. Capt Allen W. Capron was thero with tho battery that afterward opened tho battle at Santiago. Tho Seventh cavalry waB thoro, two of its troops, U and K, having barely enough men loft in tho ranks to form n platoon. Thcso two troops had borne tho brunt of tho fighting at Wounded Knee a mouth -boforo when 90 men of the Seventh fell killed or wounded be-foro be-foro tho bullets of tho Sioux. When tho two troops with their attenuated rariks rodo by, tho reviewing general removed his cap, an honor otherwise oth-erwise paid only to tho colors of his country. Tho column filed past, broko Into reglmonts, then into troops and companies, and (ho word of dismissal was given. Tho Indian sentlnols on the ridges, signaled tho camp in tho valley, In another anoth-er minute thoro was a stampede, but It was only that of the thousands of Sioux ponlos turned looao and eager to get back to their breakfast of bunch grass on tho prairies. Two Strlko, tho Sioux, watched tho rovlew that day. Old Two Strlko was ono or tho warriors who went out with a following of braves, on tho warpath tho month previous. Two Strlko woro no ghost shirt. Ho was abovo such suporstltlon, oven though he took no pains to urge his comrades com-rades to follow his shirtless example. Two Strlko wns glad of tho crazo that had brought war, for ho hated tho whites harder than ho hated anything on earth oxcept tbo Pawnees, tho hereditary enemy of his peoplo. Two Strlko know In his soul that tho buffalo Woro not coming buck us tho medicine men had doclurod, and thnt no Messiah was to bo. ralsod to lend his people ngnlhst tho palofncos to wipo thorn from oft the facu of tho continent. What ho did know was that ho was to havo ono nioro chanco to strike !iTTlrG"7TTCT-OTrcfrtrron-thJ a fore the ennoblements of old age took the strength from his arm. Two Strlko was a great warrior. He had fought on mnny a field nnd ho had won his narao from the overcoming of two wnrrlor foes who had attacked at-tacked him when he was alone on tho pralrlo. Slnglo hnnded ho had fought and killed them and "Two Strlko" ho had been from that day. Ho waB the leader In tho Inst battle which took place between be-tween hostile bands of savages .on the plains of Amorlca. For years without number the two nations, na-tions, tho Sioux and tho Pawnees, had hated each other. In ono of Cooper's novels Hard Heart, a Pawnee, Paw-nee, taunts a Sioux thus: "Since waters ran and trees grow, tho Sioux has found tho Pawnee on hlB wnrpath." Tho fight In which Two Strlko was tho lender or tho Sioux was fought against tho Pawnees on tho banks of a . little stream known ns "Tho Frenchman," In .Nebraska in tho year 1874. In tho valley of tho .Plntto river the buffalo were plenty, but tho Pawnees had said that tho Sioux should not hunt thero nnd thoy defied thom to come. "The Pawneo dogs called tho Sioux women," wom-en," Bald tho story-teller and old Two Strlko sneered. It was when tho grass was at Its best that tho Sioux started for tho country of tho Pawnee. Tho teller of tho talo made no secret of the Intention of tho Sioux to exterminate tho Pawnees, sparing neither women nor children If tho chanco for tholr killing presented Itself. Two Strike and his Sioux reached tho edgo of tho buffalo country and there they waited opportunity. oppor-tunity. They did not have to wait long. Runners told thom that tho Pawnees In full strength had started on n great hunting expedition led by Sky Chlof, a noted wnrrlor. When the nilmo of Sky Chief fell from tho Hps of tho Interpreter old Two Strlko smiled nnd closed his flstv Tho Sioux left their encampment nnd struck Into tho heart of the hunting country. There n scout told them that tho onomy wdb oncumped in a prairie gulch and that their women and children woro with them to care for tho hides and for tho drying of the, meat of tho buffalo. Two Strlko led his men by "a way around," ns the Interpreter put It, coming finally to a point less than hnlf a sun's distance from tho enmp In tho valley. Tho Sioux struck a small herd of buffalo buf-falo and thoy goaded tho animals boforo them right up to tho mouth of tho gulch. When the buffalo wero headed straight Into tho valley tho Sioux pricked O'o hindmost with arrows and tho herd went headlong toward tho encampment of tho Pawnees, who "were foolish men" and did not watch for an enemy. Whon tho Pawnees saw tho buffalo they mounted mount-ed their ponlos" and followed thom out through tho far ond of tho valloy to tho level plnln, leaving the women nnd children behind. Then tho Sioux wont, in to tho slaughter, spar- lug neither infancy nor ago, nnd they had almost ended tho killing when the Pawneo brnves returned. re-turned. Then followed tho Inst great battle which has boon fought on tho plains botween tribes of rod men. The story-teller In tho topeo at Pino Itldge did not say so, but it is known from tho nccount of a white man, Adnbol Ellis, who know tho circumstances, cir-cumstances, that tho Pawnees fought that day as thoy had always fought, bravely and to tho death. Sky Chlof, tho Pawneo, rodo out In front of his men, shook his hand and called out that Two Strlko, tho Dakota, was a coward. Then Two Strlko called back that the Pawneo was a dog's whelp and he rodo out, tinned with his knifo, which was tho only weapon Sky Chief held. Tho two Iead6r8 met and fought. They dismounted, dis-mounted, turned tholr ponies loose and grappled. Tho Btory-toller lingered not on tho. details of tho .fight, lie said simply, "tho Pawnees heard Skv Chlofs death cry." ' Tho talo ended. Two Strlko rose, bared his tight arm, drop his hand downward and then upward, and smiled. |