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Show 'CAPTAIN BARRETT' TO LEAVE OGDEN Captain George R. Bartlett, per-hops per-hops the greatest rifle shot In the country, who Is the western representative repre-sentative nf the Peters Cartridge com pany, has completed a threo days stay in Ogden in the Interest of the cartridge company, and will leave this morning for a tour of the state.. Accompanying Ac-companying him will be V. H. Anderson, Ander-son, Ogden's crack shotgun exhihlt-r, who has accepted a position with the cartridge company and will exhibit tho efficiency of its ammunition In company with the ex-United States ftcout, The pnir, each a wonder in his particular line, will give exhibitions exhibi-tions of fancy shooting In every town of any consequence n x'tAh. and when ths t-,ur is completed will probably tour some of the states together. Captain Bartlett s a magnificent type of American manhood, well proportioned, pro-portioned, of easy and graceful 'bearing, 'bear-ing, modest in demeanor, nnj has a pleasing voice. He walks with a slight limp, barely noticeable. In telling of his experiences, he rarely ppeaki. of his own deeds, but tells of many thrilling adventures as though he had merely been a witness. The battle. ti Wounded Knee, in which 400 IndLflns wore killed, has gone, Into history as one of the Moodiest encounters with the Reds. It derived Us name from the locality, because the battle took place in front of Captain Partlett's trading store, and the Indians designated desig-nated his place as Wounded Knee, the name by which he was known to all Indians. His place was located in South Dakota, eighteen miles from the Pine Ridge agency, at the time when the government had endless trouble with the Sioux. Telia of Slaughter at Wounded Knee. "At the time of thai massacre, and H. was nothing else," said Captain Pari Jett to a reporter yesterday yes-terday afternoon, "I was acting as captain of the Indian police Big Foot and a band of his people, hearing of the coming of the Indian Messiah, came down from the northern part of Dakota to the Pine Ridge agency to take part In the ghost dance, which was then stirring up all the Indians iu the wesL The ghost dance became more exciting as It progressed, and the temper of the Indians reached such a stage that the settlers became alarmed. Fearing an outbreak, government gov-ernment troops uoro rushed Into that country from every direction to quell any disturbance or outbreak. "About 300 soldiers corraled the band under Big Foot at my store and partially disarmed them The Indiana, their families and all their belongings were huddled together, while the soldiers sol-diers kept guard over them, being lined up in the soape of a horseshoe, with the Indians in the center. Tho soldiers harbored a bitter feeling against the Indians, because that regiment reg-iment had nearly been annihilated at. the time of the Custer massacre, and these soldiers felt no mercy toward Indians. "During the first night in that camp some one smuggled a ten-gallon keg of whisky Into the soldiers' camp. They consumed the greater part of it during the following day. It was on the morning of December 29, 1S. as the soldiers lav on their arms, when something (happened which slarted the the slaughter of the Indians. A young buck, crazed from the effects of the ghost dance, suddenly arose In the midst of oOO Indians, discharged a rifle and at the same time threw a handful of earth Into the air. Then some one blundered, and JOO Indians and forty soldiers paid with their lives the penalty of that awful mistake. mis-take. Without waiting to learn the reason or cause of that strange action on the. part of one Indian, and without even knowing the source or cause of the commotion, the signal to (ire was given the soldiers. In another moment mo-ment the Maxim and Hotchklss rapid-fire rapid-fire guns and 200 rifles had turned their withering lire upon that mass of Indians. From the elevated point on a hill I had full view of tho entire field. "The rattle of the rifles and the guns had startled all of us on the hill, though we had no idea of the cause or origin, and viewed the massacre almost at our feet, without even a chance to learn what It all meant. The Indians huddled together In that space before my store were dazed at the sudden firing anl killing of their companions A few of the braver ones who had gruns began to' fight back. Their guns were silenced within a few minutes. The soldiers poured bullets in upon the Reds and mowed them down. Covered Their Faces and Waited. "The Indians, seeing that they were doomed, met their fate with that stoicism characteristic of the race. Men, women and children huddled together, to-gether, drew their blankets over their heads and faces and calmly awaited the death-dealing bullets from the funs of the toldlers who had been sent to protect them from harm. "In the excitement and confusion the soldiers kept up an incessant firing, fir-ing, many of their bullets crossing the horseshoe formation and hitting soldiers sol-diers on the opposite side. The soldiers sol-diers did not know that these bullets were fired by their comrades on the other side and became only the more, enraged at the Indians, whom they believed were responsible for thosn deadlr missiles, and kept up their deadly work with increased vigor and tenacity. At last, about inn Indians, all thai were left of the trlho. made a bold break, for the opening In the horseshoe and fled for their lives. They had not gone far when tin Hotrhkies was trained on them and mowed several of them down as they sped from th.i danger; the soldiers continued firing at the receding forms as though they were holding target practice, and few of the Ijidlans reached 'he hills and safety. "The sight was more than we could endure, although all the men In my party, like mvse'.f, were hardened frontiersmen; that bight sickened u. I started lo return to the agency to report, the occurrence I" the general In command, and made ! tour around the camp, which had been turned into a slaughtering place." P.artlett'K early life was one In which many such scenes were enacted, enact-ed, and his pleasant manner and unaffected un-affected style . of recounting them makes his a decidedly interesting character lo meet. |