Show WASHINGTON VC Mi M Ik i LETTER IN IX OUSTERS OUSTER'S JEGI- JEGI ASKS 1 lOIt DC OF HORSE HonSE In IW DUTCHER NEA A Service Ice Writer riter W WASHINGTON Feb I lG-It lG children will wilt just turn off Horses Horses record for tor moment they may mar list to the tab ot of a noble nag nag- which died lt at atthe 1 time of ot the Custer massacre n 1876 and of the Indian scout owned him and still mourns his hoss None Nono of ot Custers Custer's bravo brave troopS survived the bloody battle of ot the Little Big Els Horn river but Wil- Wil William WI liam tam J Daile Bailey who was with Maor neno's fleno's men nearby Is the next thing to an actual survivor And It If he 11 ie can locate one or two of neno's fleno's men who may stilt livo and who saw that horse shot town down by the tho red skins old Dill Bill I Dalley Dailey can collect from the governmEnt as compensation FIt FRAZIER ZIE HELPS hELlS A A bill now In the thc sen- sen sen tie offered by Senator Lynn J Frazier of ot North Dakota to re- re reImburse reImburse the old scout now 73 years old Fraziers Frazier's put ut In an Immense amount ot of york work straightening out the roe roe- records with the tho war department an ani anthe tho ho comptrollers comptroller's office and noW flow all til that Is la needed Is li proof tha that lailey Dalley actually lost the animal Bill Dalley Bailey wa was one of or Immortal Ud ild drummers of o the 3 civil war His Ills parents In Vir- Vir Virginia Virginia irinia ginia inia sided with the tho tand I and young oung Bill DUl barely 13 years old lii ran away to wallop his drum drumIn druma drunIn In a the Union orro army where he two years This makes him today the second youngest member ot of the G A A R It later he enlisted In the reg- reg regular ular ilar army and took th the name of laker Daker lest his parents arents drag him back ack home aa 1 a minor Ho Ito served In Montana and tho Dakota territory and accompanied Custer on the Black Diack Hills HUls ion of o 1874 The Tho army was r ro dued and Bailey Dalley acted for tor two twi years ears In a civilian capacity as IlS In In- In Interpreter Interpreter but In May 1876 ho hc enlisted as II a a scout at Fort A Lin- Lin Lincoln Lin coin coln bringing along alone his own horse for or which records show he be was allowed dally daily compensation compensation- and and two weeks later set out with General Terry on the expedition which culminated In the Ks DIg Horn florn battle battlo of Juno Juna 25 and 26 DIVIDED DI TIIS IllS COMMAND Custer that he faced a comparatively defenseless In- In Indian If dian dlan village formed his Seventh cavalry In three divisions ad- ad advancing a 1 himself on the tho north with five companies and dividing his other six companies between Cap Car tam tain Benteen who advanced fr south of the village and Majar Reno fleno who attacked the southern end of the village Bill Bitt Bailey Dalley of course course ourse was with neno fleno when his horse was shot under er him Reno lost Ii 56 6 officers and men and retreated across the th river to what Is now reno fleno nil Jill Bailey noting noUng a dead sergeant whose hand clutched the bridle ot of ofa a II live horse took tool the tho horse and an also niso managed to get gt to Reno Hill HIli Hil Meanwhile Custer and his com coin coin coin- mand mind of ot men were being wiped out We Ve remained on the bluff un- un under under der fire for two days reminisce Bill Dill Bailey Balley Then Major Malor nero flerO sent me m to the boat for medicine I I met General Terry and returned return with hi mand mond an Indian scout named War Eagle to the spOt spa t where we had heard firing tiring the first day of the battle We the bodies of Custer and his men The Tho general wept with his handkerchief at his eyes as ho h said ald There lies les disobedience ot of o orders I hal hail known most of the tho men me personally and was detailed to the tho taik tuk of ot l identIfication DI CI WAS OUTLAWED Bailey served another year after atte that and then contracted to carry carr to Fort For the mall mail from Bismarck nuford Buford lb He applied first for tor re rc for tor for the horse horre after years ye r only to find rind that intO J lied outlawed his bla claim Before he ho came out of the th west w lit Bailey Dalley had hd married t C l o D 1 wires and d a a n 11 and then s IL daughter Th The Clr fIrst t wife Ito who died was wa a woman and ant the second A Black Black- Blackfoot foot Civilization allon Bailey Dalley adhe nor fter he came emit and the present Mr Mrs Is III of ot hi his own people He served 18 years In the navy yard hero and thoi ther WM wu retired on a pension Ho lie wants the tor for thet tho t horse hOlle largely aa as a matter of prin- prin principle principle ciple but the money would v come comeIn comein co In very handily |