The Pearsall Leader (Pearsall, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1909 Page: 3 of 8
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ASHINGTON.—Memories of In-
dian wars fade rapidly from the
minds of all persbns who were
not actively engaged in the hos-
tilities. In the east the troubles
in the past on the frontier held
tfce attention and
the interest but for
the moment. No
easterner ever gave
full qredit to the of-
ficers and the men
of the United States
faced danger after
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army who
danger and withstood hardship
after hardship with precit^w lit-
tle hope of any reward sa ' the
consciousness of duty weu^ione.
It is probable that not one
person in a hundred can name
the battle fought only 18 years
ago and in which the casualties
to the small force of the regu-
lar army engaged amounted to
men killed and wounded.
That battle was the battle of
Wounded Knee, and to-day it
is nearly lost to the recollec-
tion of the masses. There are
several officers now stationed
in Washington who had a part
in that Dakota fight. The fight between Coi. Forsythe’s
men of the Seventh cavalry and the band of Big Foot,
the Sioux, was the result of the ghost-dance craze which
had been started and fostered by the great chief Sitting
Bull, on whose hand was the blood of Custer and his men.
Sitting Bull was shot and killed by Indian police while
resisting arrest, hut he was killed too late to prevent the
spread of the doctrine which he preached and which had
run like piairie fire among the men of his nation.
There were all sorts of stories circulated concerning
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BOV BIIR6URS LED BY
PRETTY Y0IIN6 WOKE!
! MRS. WAIT SAID TO HAVE CON-
FESSED SHE AND SISTER MAS-
QUERADED IN MEN'S GARB.
tion of a part of the people
who preferred death to ex-
ile.
The Cheyennes broke
away. A battalion of infan-
try was thrown across their
tracks but the wily sav-
ages eluded all save a few
of the soldiers, who in a
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Memphis, Tenn.—A gang of boy
burglars, led, it is alleged, by two
young and pretty women, has been
broken up and the ringleaders are in
custody. Before the final capture was
made, when Mrs. J. E. Wait, a blonde
of 24, was arrested, the gang had
burglarized the E. A. Gillespie drug
store in South Memphis and one of the
girls had robbed pedestrians at the
point of a pistol.
A little house occupied by the girls
was the meeting place of many of the
boys of\the neighborhood, all in their
teens, in the absence of the husband
of Mrs. Wait. They were entertained,
by Mrs. Wait and her equally attrac-
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death of the great Sioux cnlef. Philanthro-
- n the east who never bad seen an Indian
insisted that Sitting Bull was murdered and
the blood of the savage was upon the head
he nation.
was left to Col. Edward G. Fechet, now pro-'
of military "science at the University of
s, to learn the truth of the shooting of Sit-
: ;il and to give knowledge of it to the peo-
Ool (then caplin) Fechet made one of the
rides known to the trpops of the plains
he secured the facts Ik the case of the
g of the great Sioux chief to the happy
ting grounds.
:ng Bull’s home was in a log hut on the
Rock Indian reservation of North
In the summer of 1890 he gath-
many of bis braves about him
> i them in picturesque Sioux language
biah was to come who would lead the
'ion to victory; that the whites would he
<1; that the buffalo would come back.
• s the red man would once more take pos-
ition of the earth.
the medicine men Sitting Bull worked
* feelings and the superstitions of his
iat they came to believe that by wear-
n garments which were called ghost
bodies would be safe from the bullets
Miles learned of the teachings of
• hi of their rapid spread, the chief's
ist. ordered. Accordingly Indian police
Bull Head and Sergt. Shave Head
hed from Fort Yates to arrest the
g but miles away. Capt. Fechet of
nvalry was ordered with his com-
ng of two troops, and, if memory
cbt field pieces, to make a night
reek, about 18 miles from Sitting
i ere to receive the prisouer when
ned over by Lieut. Bull Head
>t and his men reached the rendez-
m. on one of the coldest mornings
De< ember day. There was no sign
ire, nor yet of the scout which
- to seDd in advance to inform
' officer of his coming.
* r instinct told him at once that
trouble. His men had had the
.if a night ride, bit they were will-
shed forward rapidly. After he
» . era! miles he was met by a scout
ug like mad. The runner told Fechet
Han police who had gone to arrest
:>een killed by the ghost dancers,
= were thousands upon thousands
rmed and in their war paint ready
over his small command and
ill gallop, his only thought being
he policemen as might be alive,
ed to the other thought that
ight be overwhelming numbers
• the fate of Custer. It was
om that time on.
ng was a little advanced the
and heard firing, which seemed
re rent points. On they went un-
I the brow of the hill. Below
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them at a distance
was the house of
Sitting Bull, and In
>nt of it, some
hundreds of yards
away, was a horde
of ghost dancers en-
gaged in emptying
their rifles into the
log building, from
whidhcame a feeble
return fire.
Capt. Fechet had his Hotchkiss thrown into
action and he dropped a shell in front of the
ghost dancers, and then the command charged
down the hill.
The shell had its frightening effect on the
savages, who held aloof though still pouring in
their which was answered by the soldiers
as Fechet himself took a rapid course to the log
house, with his life in his hands every step of
the way.
Inside the hut were found three of the Indian
policemen dead and three mortally wounded. The
wounded, resolved on exacting a price for their
coming death, were still using their rifles against
the besieging foe. The soldiers Anally drove the
savages to flight.
The few that were left living of the little force
of Indian police told this story. Lieut. Bull Head
had arrested Sitting Bull and had Ted the chief
from his cabin only to he confronted by hundreds
of crazed savages. Catch-the-Bear and Strike-the-
Kettle, two of Sitting Bull’s men. strode through
the Indian ranks, raised their rifles and. fired.
Bull Head was shot through the body. Dying, he
turned quickly and killed Sitting Bull. Strike-the-
Kettle killed Sergt. Shave Head. Instantly Po-
liceman Lone Man killed Catch-the-Bear. Then
the surviving policemen sought shelter in the
cabin and held off the ghost dancers as has been
told.
With the Rosebud, Standing Rock and Pine
Ridge Sioux, who went on the warpath in De-
cember. 1890, were a few stalwart warriors of the
tribe of the Northern Cheyennes. That the Chey-
ennes braves were so limited in number was due
to the fact that 12 years before the nation, exiled
and longing for its old home, had met with prac-
tical annihilation in the attempt to regain it.
The Northern Cheyennes had been sent to a
reservation in the Indian territory following one
of the uprisings against the whites. Their hearts
they left behind them in their old home and ttap
warriors yearned to return.
Late in the fall of the year 1878 the Cheyenne
braves, taking advantage of the temporary ab-
sence of their soldier guardians, gathered to-
gether their women and their children and dashed
northward in the direction of the land where
their fathers had lived from the time back of the
beginning of tradition.
They had been toid by the Indian agents and
by the soldiers, who acted under orders, that they
never could take the trail hack to the north,
but they paid no heed to what was told them, but
gathering their possessions they set out.
The Cheyennes’ love of home, natural and sym-
pathy-compelling to everyone except to those who
thought that an Indian should have naught to do
with home-sickness, was the cause of the destruc-
The Female Robbers and Their .Gang
Robbed Many Stores.
tive sister, Lenora Prior, 18. Mrs.
Wait assumed the name of “Silver
Heels," and her sister, “Red Wing.”
The “brains" of the gang, accord-
ing to her own confession, is Mrf.
Wait. She says it is her temperament.
She has had trouble with her husband,
his divorce suit being stopped recently
in Missouri, when the judge heard Mrs.
Wait and her sister were dying in a
Memphis hospital as the result of a
suicide agreement. She gets “blue”
and has thought of suicide often, she
says.
The first intimation of the burglar
band came a few weeks ago when
Charles Lawhorn, George Dayton,
Clarence Brown and Wilburn Brown
were arreffted, charged with the rob-
bery of tlte Gillespie drag store. They
confessed and implicated the girls
When arrested, bfrs. Wait vainglori-
ously admitted, according to the po-
lice, that she and her sister, masquer-
, ading in men's attire, led the gang,
and hinted at yet greater exploits
planned.
Mrs. Wait has two children at Rollo,
Mo. Her husband, an employe of an
elevator company, hustled around and
got bail for her.
BOY SHOWS RARE FORTITUDE.
sharp skirmish lost their commander, Maj. Lewis.
The Cheyennes broke away. A battalion of in-
fantry W|s thrown across their tracks but the wily
sayages eluded all save a few of the soldiers,
who in a sharp skirmish lost their commander,
Maj. Lewis.
The trail led to one of the low hills that chain
the reservation. The Cheyennes had .taken refuge
near the summit in a natural hollow. The sides of
the hillw rose sheer and slippery to the lurking
place of the savages. It was a place admirably
adapted for defense. A few men could hold it
against a regiment.
Capt. Wessels, in command of the cavalry, saw
that the attempt to take the hilltop by assault
would be to sacrifice the lives of half of his men.
He threw a cordon around the hill, knowing that
the warriors could not escape, and trusting that
in a few hours hunger would force them to sur-
render. Meantime the Cheyennes were active.
They picked off many a trooper, and at noon on
the day following the night of their flight a ball
struck Ca$>t. Weasels In the head. The wound was
not serious, but its effect was to make captain
and men eager for a charge. Capt. Wessels went
to the front of his troops and prepared to lead
theta, up the slippery hillside in the face of the
fire of the best Indian marksmen on the great
plains.
All things were prepared for the charge, when
to the amazement of the troopers, the whole band
of Cheyenne warriors, naked to the waist and
yelling like devils, came dashing down the hill-
side straight at the body of cavalry. The Indians
had thrown away their rifles and were armed only
with knives. They were going to their death and
they knew it. but death was better than a return
to the reservation which they hated.
Wessels and his troopers of the Third cavalry
tried to spare the Cheyennes, but the warriors
would have death at any cost. With their knives
they plunged into a hand-to-hand conflict with the
troopers and before they were slain they exacted,
a price for their dying.
When the time came for the burial of the In-
dians. Tea Kettle, a chief, was found to be alive,
but unconlcioua. Tea Kettle was carried back to
the fort and there made comfortable.
A squaw sought the wounded warrior's couch
aud handed him a pair of scissors which he instant-
ly plunged into his heart. He spurned life in the
knowledge of the fact that his brother braves were
dead.
The Sioux nation heard of the bravery of the
Cheyennes and they adopted the women and chil-
dren, and some of the boys, grown to manhood,
went with the Sioux on the warpath in their last
great uprising.
'Twelve-Year-Old Lad Jokes While Hie
Fingers Are Being
Amputated.
Green Lake. Wash.—A boy who has
in him the making of a heroic man is
12-year-old Fred Cleveland, who said:
“It’s going to hurt all right, but I can
stand it;” and then set his lips tight
while his wounds were being dressed
and an operation performed on his
hand. The amputation of several
fingers was necessary because of their
lacerated condition, the result of an
explosion in his hands of a dyi| unite
cap.
A number of small boys were play-
ing on the East Green Lake boulevard
when Roy Glover produced a dyna-
mite cap and suggested that they rid
the place of unnecessary stumps. The
cap was set in place and lighted, but
was slow in exploding. The little
Cleveland boy was ahxious to know
why it did not go off, so he picked it
up and was examining it when it ex-
ploded! lacerating his hands and face
to such an extent that it was neces-
sary to amputate the first joints of
several fingers.
The boy ran to Rev. H. G. Edgar,
who had just passed, and said: “Look
at me, Mr. Edgar.”
The hoy was carried to his home
and a physician summoned.
“The byy was a little stoic during
the operation." said Mr. Edgar. “He
joked to keep down the pain."
Rat Routs Fair Shoppers.
Richmond, Va.—The fashionable
shopping district presented a scene of
confusion worse confounded the other
morning, when a large and much frigh-
tened gray rat made his appearance on
Broad street and started a small panic
among the hundreds of women shop-
pers.
The rodent was spied by some small
boys as soon as he made his appear-
ance from the sewer, the lads giving
chase, and the rat seeking safety In the
medley of skirts which lined the thor-
oughfare.
There was an agonized chorus of
feminine shrieks, followed by a daring
display of spring lingerie and open-
work hosiery, while hundreds of small
feet sought safety in Ignominious
flight. The rat was cornered and
.tilled, hut the shops in that neighbor-
hood remained deserted for the bal-
ance of the day.
His Sentiments.
Oliver—What did jnour father say
when you told him I had asked you to
marry me?
Natica—Shall I leave out the swear
words?
Oliver—Of course.
Natica—Then I’ve nothing to tell
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Davis, J. R. & Hudson, C. H. The Pearsall Leader (Pearsall, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1909, newspaper, May 20, 1909; Pearsall, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth920677/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .