| Show grandson of once famous indian chief served in france 9 charles descendant of sitting bull fought in machine gun battalion in france torrington wyo A grandson of sitting bull famous as the sioux indian chief who commanded the horde that massacred general ouster custer and of his soldiers in montana in 1876 also has seen glood bloodshed it was learned recently tho the grandson andson Oi charlos charles who lives near here served I 1 in n the world war in a machine gun battalion lie he revealed to a correspondent spon dent for the denver post lie he Is a full blooded sioux indian 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighing pounds sitting bull was t the il 0 son of jumping bull and his son in turn was named walking bull and about that time the government charge of 0 the indians indiana and the name became permanently attached to the family charles was born and reared on oil the rosebud indian reservation in south dakota and is thoroughly familiar with the sioux language lie he never saw his famous grandfather lie ile Is 38 and speaks english well he married a french german girl from tennessee then the world war came on and the grandson of oe the fighting indian war chi chief of went to france with a machine gun battalion with three other young sioux braves he was assigned to coln company pany A battalion division they got up to the front line trenches when the germans were bombing paris and they fought through the battle of the argonne and were on the front tor for two weeks before one was killed and th the other two wounded when charles came back from franco france he found hla his wife had bad died and later he married marhad a tall straight sioux indian girl florence edna weasel and moved to the pine ridge reservation lie he has a truck and worked around scottsbluff Scotts blutt bluff neb this fall picking spuds and hauling beets when the cold weather hit he decided he could get along in torrington as well as in the reservation when his son eugene 9 months died last week charles charlea and hla his wife were unable to have the little fellow baptized and burled according to the beliefs that had been taught them by the white man deeply grieved they turned returned r 0 to the customs of their ancestors to assume sate safe conduct of their little one to the happy hunting ground the wife cut off her long black hair and lined the casket with it to keep away evil spirits they said since the white mans medicine was not available then charles charlea dug the grave for or hla his son with his bis own hands bands and he and the undertaker lowered the little body and covered it |
