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Show Great While Father Makes Tartly Payment for Indians' Ponies "When Sitting Hull's outlaw Kionx massacred Gen. George A. Custer mid five troops of the Sovwith cavalry caval-ry on the Utile I'.ig Horn, tho U. H. rumbled with liicllj'nallun. Amid all the furore the Army branii was struck by a wonderful Idea - since It was almost Impossible to catch mounted Sioux, why not take away their liorncs? "Thin scheme! hud obvious defects, the chief of which wan Unit Silling Hull und moul of Ills followers had already ridden off to Canada. Rut tho army put It into operation with vast eulliiisla.'iin. In the fall and winler of 1117(1 cavalrymen seized li.rOT ponies from ballleil, friendly Indians, nt Camp Kolilnson, Neb., and Dakota Indian a, ;enrie.'i. "Sioux anil Ihelr friends were r r ' 1 1 It to clamor for payment; by 1IW1! Hie U. S. government had paid u iinirler of a million ilollar.'i In ilaniiigeH. Hut even Ihlii li lt v, lionieit nllll unpaid for. "Hy l!)2ll, when an Investigation of Indian claims was aulhorl,od, llmo had not simplified the problem. Hut (his spring, (i!) yearn after Utile Itig Horn, Congress voted to pay off tho last of the Sioux claims. Unit week the President solemnly slcned a hill grinding them $1111, (Kill ($!I,!1'.!0 for ponies, $!),7II) for property IonI In tho seiillle). Nobody iiiicgcsled ro-nlorlug ro-nlorlug (IK Sioux to nioblllly by replacing re-placing Ihc horses wllh seeoiHl-,,"iid JeeiN.""-Tlmo Mac a. I no. |