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Show I IS DEAN OF ALL INDIANS Bitting Elk, Mighty Warrior Who Never Killed White Man, Is Oldest Old-est Redman. Oldest or all Indiana In the United Slates, Sitting Elkj former chief of the Ogallalla Sioux, Is visiting In Denver, the guest of the white man, against whom be always refused to make war. For almost a century he has been leader among his people, but, wiser than other chiefs, he early realUed that the red man was doomed and at every opportunity he counseled peace with the palefaces. Tie could well afford to do so, for his people knew he was no coward. "I have never killed a white man," he proudly boasts, "but I have fought many battles, and I have done many brave deeds In my long life of ninety-six ninety-six year. I was but seventeen when I waylaid and killed my first enemy. That was a very brave deed. Since then I have killed many, many enemies." ene-mies." Kitting Elk Is a total abhtalner. He mokes cigarettes, but Inputs he bus none of the other bad habits of the white man. He Is childless, the hist of bis line, but he expects to live for many years more to be hale and hearty long alter he Iihs passed the century mark. Sitting Elk moves tall itrid rtntely among tils kinsmen, and peffs hi.: pipe with a complacency unruffled by thoughts of any Immediate Journey to the happy hunting grounds Itrlght of eye, keen of mind, the old warrior dons p;ilnt and feathers for his appearance with the younger members of bis tribe In the headlong jaxhes across the amphitheater at the stock yards, ami rides with an abandon aban-don which defies the spectator to single sin-gle him from the reckless redskins who have but one fourth bis years to. their credit. |