Show I 1 I 1 F I 1 N judge of or this city CRY located I 1 he agency HIE ME TO WHITE THE tae amt DISTORT I 1 A I dissatisfied cople who never know BW a ihei they sale had t rough squalls it u warriors Mrion ff the start starling iol of troops from fort douglas on new now years day for ime pine ridge agency call to mind the days ot of the establishment ot of t that bat post A great many keople people in ogden are not a aware ware that t the e place we wai located by judge of 0 this city A STANDARD reporter learning learn inc this fact had bad a chat with the judge on the subject yee yea baid said he 1 I located the agency in in the absence of the government official sent seat out for the purpose he did not arrive in time 80 bohe he wrote to me and I 1 proceeded from cheyenne with forty men it was in the summer of 1878 the location of the agency was selected at a point on the old toa road d which rana runs from froin cheyenne a to black hills about 60 50 miles east of fort robinson which was in Ve nebraska braska the I 1 he bad had bro ken loose from gindlin territory where they had been sent they had grown dissatisfied ana anti struck for dakota 1 and there was great excitement s so they went to pine ridge and settled ett led there were about four hundred of them their leader was killed and I 1 they he were captured by united states 6 soldiers ol liers borne some 01 0 them attempted to escape from fort robinson ana anti were killed how many indians were there I 1 in 11 the neighbor neighborhood bood while jou you were building the agency gooey A bout about were they peaceable pea cable or hostile toward you and your men oh they were peaceable pea cable as no the word goes among indian so far as we were concerned yet we were not always ways acure sure when we went to bed at night thai that w wa a wo would old possess our scalps in the morning wo vo got through with our work however without any miss bap hap and appreciated the fact when we left 11 how long were you there about eight months there waa was a good deal of work todo to do we had to put up buildings to for the indians and for the superintendent and bis his men living appart ments offices storehouses corrals and anti such buildings as were required there wan was a large reservation reser valion there and the agency well occupied about one hundred acres of ground who was the chief of the indians at pine ridge at the time red cloud I 1 and he is still their chief he lie was a fair minded indianu and we got along nicely with him but aa as I 1 have bedfor hinted a white nan man feels more assurance of retaining his he is a long distance away from the redskins red kins skins they are easy to get along with if they are in the proper humor provided va vu yi give them all they wk indians are be beldom satisfied in fact the more they get the more they want do you ou that they have been stared into nto the outbreak no they ro ert rot t more to eat than do the U lied S ats sold eol liera jere I 1 am not inclined to think wih with some people that thin this trouble ii the fault of the whites cor nor do I 1 believe the indian ag agents ants appointed by the government have cheated them out of I 1 their heir rations indians are treacherous and cannot can not be trusted athey it they were receiving double rations they would wool d e they wont work I 1 had borne some experience with them while bile build building i ng the pine ridge agency which satisfied me that they are entirely ente rely I 1 was anstr eted to give them employment I 1 found out of the indians there were ere only seven or eight who would work and they did less lees than the two wo white is men who bad had charge of them could have done alone when told the government would pa pay them only only fifty cents a day they RT all struck an and would do no more work then you think the dead indians are the best beat ones 1 I dont say that far for I 1 do not wish to be inhuman but I 1 do think it Is about time for their history to be written their usefulness is past even education tails falls to accomplish their reformation the greater their intelligence the more dangerous they become they should go with the buffalo 11 jude judge has had thirty years experience on the frontier and knows an indian like a book he was with the third colorado cavalry in 1864 when that regiment wiped out the indians at sand ridge killing of them and capturing about 1000 ponies this regiment was organized for the special purpose of t fighting indians and under command of colonel did some hard bard fighting we had not only chiefs and bucks to fight in that battle said the judge speaking epe aking of be the sand ridge affair 11 but the equals were in it they fight ae as well as the bucks and like the bucks must be killed in battle lor for your white soldier is a dead one who leta lets a iqual get the best of him |