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Show Qtories of GREAT I INDIANS j I By ELMO SCOTT WATSON k Copy rig hi, Western Newspaper Union. "CROW DOG SAY HE COME" WAS READY TO DIE WHEN Spotted Tail, backed by the military whom he had aided, aid-ed, usurped the head chieftainship of the Brule Sioux, his high-handed net wns bitterly resented. Chief Crow Dog (Knngl Sunka) took a vow to kill the head chief If ever he dlsgraecl the name of the SIchangu (Brules), Years passed. Spotted Tail, drunk with power, misused his high olhce for personal ends. Ills people murmured but were powerless. Then he coveted the wife of Medicine Bear and, coveting, covet-ing, took her. Crow Dog, a relative of Medicine Bear, remembered his vow. On August 5, 18S1, he met Spotted Spot-ted Tall and shot him dead, after which he gave himself up. He was tried at Deadwood, S. D., xmv'cted of murder and sentenced to ae hnr.ged. Crow Dog asked permission permis-sion to sr.y farewell to his family, promising to return on the day set for the execution. When Crow Dog did not show up the next day, Indian police were dispatched to get him. He was not at home and his wife told them that the chief had wished to return to prison alone and would surely keep his promise. The next day the chief walked into the jail at Rapid City. "Crow Dog say-he say-he come," was his laconic reply to (he surprised greeting of his jailer. Meanwhile efforts were being made to save his life by a stay of execution. His case was carried to the Supreme court of the United Slntes which ruled that the federal courts had no jurisdiction jurisdic-tion over crime committed by one Indian against another on a reservation. reserva-tion. So Crow Dog walked out of prison a free man. Ten years later Crow Dog was In the limelight again, as one of the Brule leaders who fled from the Rosebud Rose-bud agency during the Ghost Dance craze to join the Ogallalas In the Bad Lands. The Brule chief was soon convinced con-vinced that their cause was hopeless and he counselled surrender. But the lrreconcllables were still eager for war. They caught up their rifles and threatened to shoot those who wavered. Seeing this Crow Dog drew his blanket over his head. "I do not wish to know who would be guilty of slaying a brother Dakota," he said. His words so Impressed the warriors that civil war was averted and the hostlles sullenly filed Into the agency to surrender. It was Crow Dog's last war trail.. From that day he lived In peace on the Rosebud reservation until his. death August 12, 1012. CAPTAIN GEORGE SWORD DEFIES DE-FIES HIS TRIBESMEN ODDS of 120 to 1 are not usually considered a good sporting chance, yet Capt. George Sword (Ml-waknn (Ml-waknn Yuha "Man Who Carries a Sword") once too? them and won I At the time he was captain of the Indian In-dian police on the Pine Ridge reservation, reser-vation, recently organized by Agent McGllllcuddy In face of the bitterest opposition from Red Cloud's Ogallalna The last great Sun Dance of the Sioux, held at Red Cloud's camp li 1S81, wns attended by 10,000 Ogallalaf and 2,000 Brules from the Rosebud-reservation. Rosebud-reservation. One morning a Brule chief called on McGllllcuddy and In a most offensive manner demanded food. The agent ended the Interview by kicking him out of the door. Wild with anger the Indian rode away hreatenlng to kill every white man n the reservation. McGllllcuddy had only nine white len with him at the time, and al- hough Sword and his 100 policemen were near at hand, they were an unknown un-known quantity when It should come to fighting their own people. But the agent was not long left In doubt. Suddenly Sud-denly a hand of Indians, stripped to war bonnet, breech clout and mocca- , sins, dashed up to the agency. It wns Sword and his policemen. They hnd discarded their uniforms and In the costume of Sioux warriors were ready to come to death grips with their own people In defense of their white chief. Within an hour the Brule chief was hack with 400 warriors, and although they made a most threatening demonstration demon-stration before t lie ugency, they were so Impressed hy the determined froht presented hy Sword and his men that they did not attack. The n lit day McGIUIcuddy's parTy, escorted by Sword's policemen, went to the 5nn Dance. Just before they reached die Indian camp, Sword put his comr.uny tlirniiu'h a mounted drill, then sink. nly breaking his cavalry for--llli i if jii. he led tliein in u wild charge .trnl'lit at the hl; cump. Kouud and l oi ili I the village his yiiins iii'eHcvl)9 circled, shouting ihelr war cries and shouting over liie heads of their people so fast that the bullets were dropping on the lodges like hail. It was his rhullcn'je to the tribe ItH defying 2,11)0 ! His liiufT was not calli 1. Tor years Captain Sword wa aptiiin of police and judge of tli iMliaii court, lb' helped turn his pco-pie pco-pie from the pursuits of war into the paths of pence. His reward? In hi.i old .'ige ,e begged the go eminent for a pension but his plea w as never granted. grant-ed. He died in poverty "ciob'.T 17. 11)10. |