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tho attention andtho interest but fortho moment NoI easterner over gavefull credit to tho ofdears and tho menof tho United States

atmy who faced danger afterdanger and withstood hardshipafter hardship with precious littlo hope of any reward save thoconsciousness of duty well done

It Is probable that not onoperson In a hundred can nametho battle fought only 18 yearsago and In which tho casualtiesreguIar ¬

90 men killed and woundedThat bnttlo was tho battle ofWounded Kneo and today It

recollecaseveral officers now stationedpartin between Col Forsythosmen of tho Seventh cavalry and tho band of Big Foottho Sioux was tho result of tho ghostdanco craze whichSittingBullSitting Dull was shot and killed by Indian police whileresisting arrest but ho was killed too lato to prevent thespread of tho doctrine which ho preached and which hadrun like piulrlo fire among Urn men of his nation

There were all sorts of stories circulatedii

concerningCapt

the death of tho great Sioux chiefpists In tho cast who never had seen antepee instated that Sitting Hull was murderedthat tho blood of tho savage was upon thoof tho nation

It was left to Col Edward G Fechet nowlessor of military science at tho UniversityIllinois to learn tho truth of tho shooting ofting Bull and to glvo knowledge of It to thoplo Col then captain Fcchot mado ono ofhardest rides known to the troops of thobefore ho secured the facts In the case otpassing of tho great Sioux chief to thohunting grounds

Sitting Dulls homo was in a log but ou thoStanding Rock Indian reservation ot NorthDakota In the summer of 1890 ho gath¬

ered many of his braves about himand told them In picturesque Sioux languagethat a Messiah was to coma who would lead theSioux nation to victory that tho whites would boannihilated that tho buffalo would como backand that tho red man would onco moro tako pos ¬

session of tho earthThrough the medicine men Sitting Bull worked

so upon the feelings and tho superstitions of hiswarriors that they camo to believe that by wear-Ing

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certain garments which wero called ghostshirts their bodies would bo safe from the bulletsof tho soldiers

When Gen Mlles learned ot tho teachings otBitting Bull and of their rapid spread tho chiefsarrest was ordered Accordingly Indian policeled by Lieut Dull Head and Scrgt Shave Headwero dispatched from Fort Yates to arrest thochief at his log hut miles away Capt Fechet ottho Eighth cavalry was ordered with hits com¬

mand consisting of two troops and It memoryservos two light field pieces to make a nightSittingJmen ¬

r vous at 430 a m on ono of tho coldest morningsot a Dakota December day Thero was no signof tho Indian police nor yet of tho scout whichDull Head was to send in advance to informtho cavalry ofllccr of his coming

Fechets soldier instinct told him at once thatthero must be trouble Ills men had had thohardest kind of a night ride but they woro willing and ho pushed forward rapidly After ho

had wade several miles ho was met by a scoutwho Vas riding like mad Tho runner told Fcchctthat all the Indian police who had gone to arrestSitting Dull hind been killed by tho ghost dancersand that thero were thousands upon thousandsof thorn fully armed and in their war paint readyfor battle

Fochot looked over his small command andmnt ahead at full gallop his only thought beingto save such of the policemen as might bo aliveand giving no heed to tho other thought thatahead of him might bo overwhelming numbersot thin savages and tho fate of Custer It wasa terrible ride from that time on

When tho morning was a little advanced thomon of the command heard firing which seemedto come from different points On they went un ¬

til they camo to tho brow of tho hill Below

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fireFechet had his Hotchklss thrown Into

action and ho dropped n shell In front of thoghost dancers and then tho command chargeddown tho bill

Tho shoji had Its frightening effect on thesavages who held aloof though still pouring Intheir fire which was answered by tho soldiersas Fechet himself took a rapid course to the loghouso with his life In his hands every step ofthe way

Insldo the hut wero found three of tho Indianpolicemen dead find three mortally wounded Thewounded resolved on exacting a price for theircoming death woro still using their rifles againsttho besieging too Tho soldiers finally drove thosavages to flight

Tho few that were left living of the little forceof Indian police told this story Lieut Bull Headhad arrested Sitting Bull and had led tho chieffrom his cabin only to bo confronted by hundredsof crazed savages Catch tho Benr and StrlkothoKettle two ot Sitting Bulls men strode throughthe Indian ranks raised their rifles and firedBull Head was shot through tho body Dying boturned quickly and killed Sitting Bull StriketheKettle killed Sergt Shavo Head Instantly Pollcomnn Lone Man kilted CatchtheBear Thentho surviving policemen sought shelter In thecabin and held off the ghost dancers as has beentold J

With tho Rosebud Standing Rock and PineRldgo Sioux who went on the warpath in De-cember 1890 wero a few stalwart warriors of thotrlbo of the Northern Cheyenne That tho Choyenncs braves were so limited in number was dueto tho fact that 12 years before tho nation exiledand longing for Its old home had met with practical annihilation In tho attempt to regain It

The Northern Cheyenncs had been sent to areservation In tho Indian territory following onoof tho uprisings against tho whites Their heartsthey left behind them In their old home and thowarriors yearned to return

Lato In the fall of tho year 1878 the Cheyennebraves taking advantage ot tho temporary absenco of their soldier guardians gathered to-gether their women and their children and dashednorthward in tho direction ot tho land wheretheir fathers had lived from tho time back of thobeginning of tradition

They had been told by tho Indian agents andby the soldiers who acted under orders that theynever could tako tho trail back to tho northbut they paid no heed to what was told them butgathering their possessions they set out

The Cheyennes love of home natural and sym ¬

pathycompelling to everyone except to thoso whothought that an Indian should have naught to dowith homesickness was tho cause of the destruc

K tion of a part of tho people

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preferred death to ex

Tho Cheyennes brokeaway A battalion ot infan ¬

try was thrown across tholrtracks but the wily sav-ages eluded all save a towof the soldiers who in a

sharp skirmish lost their commander Mal LewisThe Cheycnnes broke away A battalion of In ¬

fantry was thrown across their tracks but the wilysavages eluded all save a few of tho soldierswho in a sharp skirmish lost their commanderMaJ Lewis

The trail led to ono of the low hills that chaintho reservation The Cheyenncs had taken refugenear tho summit in a natural hollow The sides ofthe hills rose sheer and slippery to tho lurkingplaco of the savages It was n place admirablyadapted for defenso A few men could hold Itagainst a regiment

Capt Vessels In command of tho cavalry sawthat tho attempt to tape the hilltop by assaultwould bo to sacrifice tho lives of half of his menHo threw a cordon around tho hill knowing thattho warriors could not escape and trusting thatIn a tow hours hunger would force them to sur¬

render Meantime the Cheyennes were activeThey picked off many u trooper and at noon ontho day following tbo night of their flight a ballstruck Capt Wcssels In the head The wound wasnot serious but Its effect was to make captainand mon eager for a charge Capt Wessels wentto the trent ot his troops and prepared to leadthem up the slippery hillside in tho taco of thofire of the best Indian marksmen on the greatplainsAll

things wero prepared for the charge whento the amazement of tho troopers the whole bandof Cheyenne warriors naked to tho waist andyelling like devils came dashing down the hillsldo straight at tho body of cavalry The Indianshad thrown away their rifles and were armed onlywith knives They wore going to their death andthey knew it hut death was bettor than a returnto tho reservation which they hated

Weasels and his troopers of the Third cavalrytried to spare tho Cheyennes but tho warriorswould have death at any cost With their knivesthey plunged into a hand to hand conflict with thotroopers and before they were slain they exacteda price for their dying

When the time camo for the burial of the Invdians Tea Kettle a chief was found to bo alivebut unconscious Tea Kettle was carried back totho fort and thero mado comfortable-

A squaw sought the wounded warriors couchand handed him a pair of scissors which ho instant ¬

ly plunged Into his heart Ho spurned life In thoknowledge of the fact that his brother braves weredead

Tho Sioux natloa heard of the bravery of theChoyenucs and they adopted tho women and chill ¬

dren and some of the boys grown to manhoodwent with the Sioux on the warptth in their lastgreat uprising

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NEWS OF THE STATE

Summary of Matters of Special

Interest to Our Readers

CONDENSED FOR BUSY PEOPLE

Gov Willson Pardons Messrs TaylorFinley Powers Davis Wh I taker andSteele Under Indictment In Connection with Goebel Murder

Frankfort KyGov Augustus EWlllson rang down the curtain on tholast act of tho famous Goebel tragedywhen ho pardoned former Gov Wil ¬

liam S Taylor and former Secretaryof Stato Charles Finley fugitives inIndiana John 14 Powers a brother ofCaleb Powers whose whereabouts areunknown but is said by some to beHonduras John Davis of LouisvilleHarlan Whitaker of Butler countyand Zack Steele of Dell county all ofwhom were under Indictment for al ¬

loved complicity In the assassinationof Gov William Goebel nine yearsago Caleb Powers was pardonedsome months ago Tho villain In thoplay is Harry Youtsey now serving alife sentence in tho Kentucky peulten ¬

tiary for tho murder of Goebel GovWlllson says ho is convinced thatYoutsey committed tho deed Thoseover whom indictments aro loft hang-Ing are Wharton Golden of Knoxcounty now of Colorado Frank Cecilof Bell county now a railroad deter ¬

tive at St Louis and William H Culton ot Owsley county said to havodied in tho west a few months agoTheso cases with the possible excep-tion

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of Cecils will bo dismissed leav ¬

ing Youtsey tho only person to sufferfor the taking off of Goebel

NEW TRACTION LINE

Touching Florence Burlington Belleview Rabbit Hash Big Bone

and Petersburg

Petersburg KyW T S Black-burn Dry Ridge Ky a member of acompany that has projected a systemof traction roads In tho northern partof Kentucky and Dr M J CrouchUnion Ky are promoters of a tract-ion lino to operate in Boono countyThe proposed route will begin at Erlanger in Kenton county passing intoBoone county at Florence and touch-Ing the following points FlorenceBurlington Bellevlow Rabbit HashBig Bono and Petersburg It will be abelt line passing through Burlingtonto Big Bone up the Ohio river to Pet-

ersburg where It Is believed a powerhouso will bo located as supplies coaletc can be more easily secured fromthis point

Railroads Are ResponsibleLouisville KyCircuit Judge Em

mett Field in the suit of the KentuckyClothing Co against tho Illinois Cen-

tral¬

held that railroads aro responsi ¬

ble for all goods held by them In theirwarehouses even when consignees revfused to accept the shipment In thocase before tho court the consignee atCenter Tex refused to accept thoclothing shipped by the Louisville conoern The freight depot burned andthe clothing was destroyed Tho rail ¬

road held that Its responsibility ceasedwhen it offered to deliver the goodsbut Judge Field decided that the rail ¬

road would have to pay

Verdict Against Illinois CentralLoulsvlllo KyA verdict for 2080

tho full amount asked was awardedtho Louisville Railway Co in Its suitagainst tho Illinois Central Tho caseInvolved tho unusual point of demolIshment of a street car at a crossingwhile tho gates were up Tho rail-way

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company claimed that as thegates wero not down tho railroad of ¬

fered an invitation to cross whichthe conductor of tho car accepted Thecar was hit by a freight train

Four Prisoners EscapeLouisville KyFour prisoners es-

caped¬

from tho Loulsvlllo workhouseThey smuggled a pick Into tho cellhouse and dug through the wall intothe chapel and thence onto a rooffrom which they leaped to freedomThey are John Mobley John OLearyRussell Davis and Henry Magruder

Former Prominent Merchant SuicidesLouisville Ky Frederick Albright

Sr formerly a prominent Louisvilleshoo merchant and member of Louisvine Commandery No 1 Knights Tomirlars while despondent over reversesshot himself at the Seelbach hotel andan hour later died ot St Josephs In ¬

firmary

Netted Rock BassFrankfort Ky Fishermen living In

this county expect to take steps tohave indictments brought against anumber of river men who have beennetting the rock bass during thespawning season

Louisville KySmashing all rec-ords for speed in longdlstanco motorboat racing the fast Brcr Fox II ar ¬

rived In Loulsvlllo from Cincinnatihaving mado the trip at an averagespeed of almost 27 miles an hour ac-tual running time

Loulsvlllo KyDIrect the chestnutson of Don Do OroFrokcn owned byW J Young and trained by him whichhe regards as a probable winner of thoKentucky Derby was sold to CanadaJack Adkln Terms ot the salo werenot disclosed

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1CAPITAL NOTES

To Widen Capitol AvenueThe stato capitol commission has

purchased two tracts of ground oneither side ot the extension of Capitolavenue from the intersection ot Toddstreet so as to make an avenue 160feet wide from that street up to thomain entrance of tho new capitoL Thoprice paid was 7500

Notice to BanksSecretary Parrish cf ibo state board

of valuation and assessment sent outto state banks and mlsirellancous corporatlons notlco of tho amount of theirassessment by tho board for franchisetax purposes The banks have untilJuly 1 to pay before a penalty attachesand tho other corporations have 30days In which to be heard if they de ¬

sire to protest against the amount oftheir assessment These notices aresent out this year a month earlier thanthey were last year

Only One County Got by BoardThe stato board of equalization took

final action on five counties Boonecounty being the only one getting bywith tho local assessment FormerGov Beckham and the assessor of Nel ¬

son appeared before the board for Nel ¬

son county and succeeded in havingIts increase reduced from 6 to 2 percent in both farm lands and person ¬

alty and town lots Russell countygot G per cent Increase Laruo 2 percent and Marion 6-

Assessments Increased I

Tho state board of valuations andassessments took final action In theassessment for franchise tax purposesof the Central Kentucky Traction Coand tho Blue Grass Traction Co Itplaced the valuation of the first namedcompany at 290000 an Increase overlast year of 174000 and of tho lastnamed company at 294000 an In¬

crease of 26000

Company Held Liable j

For a fight with a conductor overwhether or not ho expectorated in astreet car Henry L Kopper of Louis ¬

ville guts 250 damages Kopper suedthe Louisville Railway Co for theof tho conductor The case was nctIpealed from tho JeffersonpleascourtiHill Is Innocent Declares Gov Willson i

Gov Willson pardoned William Hillof Jefferson county who had beensent to the penitentiary for 10 yearson the charge of housebreaking Thogovernor says Hill Is innocent al¬

though he has served seven years in I

prison

Tax Mutt Be PaidJudge Stout In the stato fiscal court

dismissed tho petition of tho home-Building association of Covingtonagainst Ben L Bruner secretary ofstate holding that when the buildingassociations corporate life expires andit Is necessary to lengthen tho termot Its corporate life that the reorgani ¬

zation tax of onetenth of one per centmust be paid to the state

A Days Doings in Kentucky

Owensboro KyOn the anniversaryMot its sensational failure the DavlcssCounty Bank and Trust Co paid Itsdepositors five per cent

Louisville KyMiss Alice Read awellknown young woman ot Louis ¬

ville and Miss Sallie Pearco a domestic were attacked by negroes on acountry road near this city MissPearce escaped and aroused the neigh-borhood

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when their assailants fled

Louisville Ky Topics touching every phase of state development werodiscussed by representative businessmen gathered from all sections in thoKentucky State Commercial convention held here Nearly every countyin the state sent representatives totho meeting

Paducah Ky Compromises wereeffected with all of the Lyon countydefendants in tha nightrider damagesuits of Henry Bennett A H CardinL W Wood C W Rucker LauraToomey and G W Gordon and thocases as to the remaining defendantswero continued

Louisville KyA syndicate of Chi ¬

cago capitalists purchased a handS9macountry place near Louisville to boused as headquarters for Chicago foxhunters A pack of valuable fox¬

hounds and 15 horses wero includedin tho purchase The property con ¬

sins 50 acres of ground with a hand-some

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residence

Louisville KyTwo men werodrowned In the Ohio river when highwinds capsized the small boat in whichthey wero rowing They were PeterWilson 40 and Clarence Robinson 18Hailstones ranging from tho size otpeas up to small marbles tell hereaccompanied by high winds peltingpedestrians frightening horses breakIng spectacles and playing otherpranks

Frankfort KyJust to get out ofIndiana to get married Otis Lane 30and Alice Reed 30 came to this cityand had tho matrimonial knot tied byRev W H Clark The bridegroomis a member of the police force of Seymour lad-

Paducab KyRobert Leo Hawkinsalleged kidnaper ot tho 15yearold sonof James F Estes of this city Is be-

ing held in jail at Cairo III pendingthe Issuance ot requisition papers atFrankfort according to th tement

Iof Mr Estes

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