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Omaha Daily News
May 10 /93

NEBRASKA DAY AT CHICAGO.

Indications that the Occasion Will Be an Interesting Feature of the Fair.

CHICAGO, Ill., May 9.--[Special Telegram to THE BEE.]-- Complete details have not yet been perfected for the celebration of June 8, Nebraska day. Commissioner General Garner has already commenced preparations and for the past few days has been in Omaha with the perfect plans for a rejoicing such as will impress upon the representatives of every nation in Christendom, as well as Chicago, the fact that there is such a state as Nebraska and that it can whoop things up at this Columbian exposition in real western style.

Colonel Cody and his Wild West will be conspicuous participants in the fete. Major Burke, Buffalo Bill's general manager, told THE BEE'S correspondent this afternoon that he was going into the Nebraska celebration with a whole heart, and remarked that he felt certain the state day would be the day of all days during the whole fair season.

The arrangments have been left to Mr. Garneau. As at present mapped out the plan is for the whole Wild West collection of riders from all parts of the world to act as an escort to Governor Crounse. There will be uniformed and mounted. It has not yet been so decided, but a parade from down town is contemplated. Colonel Cody has already begun advertising Nebraska day with big colored lithographs, showing himself mounted and escorted by a federal cavalryman bearing the United

States flag, and a state trooper carrying the standard of Nebraska.

IMPROVED RED MEN IN COUNCIL.

Sixteenth Annual Illinois Convention Closes With a Banquet to the Visitors.

Red men of high degree, chiefs of renown and promising "bucks" were in council yesterday at the wigwam, corner of Adams and Clark streets. It was the sixteenth annual convocation of the Illinois Improved Order of Red Men. The attendance was the largest and in many respects more distinguished than any previous one in the history of the order. The report of the treasurer showed the great council of the state to be in better condition than ever before. The state membership is 5,000 and the delegates composing yesterday's council represented seventy-five different state tribes. The increase in membership, finance and the general condition of the order since 1888 has been greater than during any similar period. Among the distinguished visitors were: Ex-Congressman Scott, of Bloomington; Representative Stringer, of Belleville; A. F. Heineman, of Bloomington, and Judge Higgins, of Chicago.

William F. Cody, the grand sachem of Nebraska, the "Buffalo Bill of the world, was also there. He paid his respects to the council as a whole, fraternally grasped the hands of his fellow members and characteristically referred to the days when the "noble red men" were less civilized and the "councils" were for a purpose foreign to that of yesterday.

This evening the various degrees of the order as exemplified by the numerous Chicago degree teams will be held in the same wigwam. Thursday afternoon the visiting members of the order will be the guests of the Chicago tribes in a lake excursion. Friday evening Logan Tribe No. 47 will entertain the visitors at the West Chicago club, 50 Throop street, with a grand ball typical in its appointments of teh Order of Red Men.

The Chicago tribes entertained the visiting members last evening at the Chicago cafe. In this period of banquets incidental to the world's fair, few, if any, have surpassed that of last night in fellowship. The menu was excellent, the floral tributes many and pleasing and the interchange of fraternal greetings exceptionally free, instructive and commemorative. Toasts were answered by Owen Scott, Henry Reed, W. A. Hoover, Wilson Brooks, A. C. Higgins. The toastmaster of the evening was S. N. Schneider, on either side of whom sat.

Past great sachems -
Henry Reed, Chicago.
Owen Scott, Bloomington.
A. F. Heineman, Bloomington.
W. H. Holland, Freeport.
George H. Tandy, great chief of records, Freeport.
W. H. Hoover, great senior sagamore, Streator.
A. C. Higgins, Chicago.
Wilson Brooks, great sannap, Chicago.

Among the guests of the evening from abroad were:

W.D. Newton, Bloomington, N. W. Whitley, Spring'ld,
C.W. Roberts, Charleston, J. A. Harden, Kansas.
E. Weisse, Moline. H. C. Sparrow, Bloomington,
B. L Hawley, Danville, S. E. Meacham, Peoria,
Julius May, Cairo. C. H. Keeler, Dixon.
D.A.K. Andrus, Rockford, Wm. Baker, Rock Island.
Chas. Oehlman, Quincy.

The Chicagoans present were:

L.P. Boyle, Frank Stanley, W.J. McGarigle,
C. F> Driscoll, W. B. Shannon, John Byrne,
P. J. Hanswirth, J. W. Reynolds, E. Hartman,
M. Wasserman, E. Mandelbaum, Aug. Gassiero.

The ladies of the visiting members were escorted in a body to the theater by a committee of ladies from the Pocahontas degree. The next annual meeting of the order will be held at Dixon, Ill., the second Tuesday in May next, in the year 404 according to the calendar of the order.

Chicago Herald
May 14, 93

Two of Buffalo Bill's Indians daubed their faces with fresh paint yesterday morning and started out to see the world's fair without a guide. They took the trail that runs due east from the Sixty-second street entrance, and finding that it ended in the lake they

SCOUTS AS THEY WERE

THEY BORE LITTLE RESEMBLANCE TO DIME MUSEUM "FREAKS."

The Vigilant, Cool, Navy Men Who Carried Messages from Post to Camp When the Indians Were no the Warpath Rarely Wore Long Hair - How Some of These Brave Fellows Met the Death That Always Seemed to Stare Them in the Face.

Cheap melodramas and sensational "Wild West" shows have accustomed the rising generation to the sight of an individual with long hair, garbed in buckskin, who shoots at glass balls and calls himself a "scout." These circus tricksters boast of the number of redskins that they have killed, juggle with their revolvers, and are ready, for 25 cents, to sell you a sensational account of the life and adventures and deeds of "Wild Bill" or "Buckskin Jo," or any other patronymic that they choose to adopt and think is catchy to the eye or ear of imaginative and credulous greenhorns. The claims of these self-named mountebanks are not supported by evidence, and even their performances of shooting glass balls whilst in motion are aided by trickery.

Properly speaking a scout is a person sent out in the front or on the flank of a military command to observe the force and movements of the enemy. He should be a keen observer and withal fleet of foot or well mounted. There are a number of unmarked graves along the Arkansas River and the tributaries of the Canadian and Smoky Hill - graves were never loving hands have strewn flowers, resting places over which no prayer has ever been said or memorial slab or stone placed - tenanted by men who died by violence, died "with their boots on." Many of these graves are tenanted by scouts killed by hostile Indians whilst acting as couriers, spies, or dispatch bearers.

In 1867-'68 we were at war with the Cheyennes, and during the winter Gen. Alfred Sully made the campaign an offensive one by moving with his command into the medicine country of the hostiles, south of where Dodge City, Kas., now stands. The entire campaign was under the general direction of Maj. - Gen. Philip H. Sheridan. The war claims of the latter for promotion to be Lieutenant-General, vice Sherman, vice Grant, were supplements by active Indian service prior to March 4, 1869, but Phil Sheridan never remained long in any one place, and several good soldiers, acting as dispatch bearers, were sacrificed owing to their unfamiliarity with the topography of the country in which Gen. Sully was operating.

Thirteen Civilian Scouts.

In consequence of these losses Gen. Sheridan authorized the employment by the United States of twelve citizen scouts at a compensation of $100 a month, and one chief of scouts who was paid $150 a month. These men were sworn into the service at Fort Dodge. In addition to the pay mentioned, each scout was furnished with a good horse, with all the arms, ammunition, etc., he wanted, with rations same as issued to enlisted men, free medical attendance, with fuel and comfortable quarters when within the limits of any government post. Each scout was told that if he chose he could, in confidence, give to the post Adjutant his true name, and that the officer would make it his duty, in case the scout was killed in the discharge of his duty, to communicate the fact to the postoffice address of any person or persons whom he might wish to be so notified.

Without exception the thirteen men were American born. All had histories. Every scout had one address or more to communicate, coupled with some message to give. None of these men were of the Texas ranger or cowboy type in dress or appearance. Only two wore their hair long. One was discharged for cowardice in falsely reporting the location of a large body of hostiles on Coon Creek, between Fort larned and Fort Dodge, investigation having proved the presence only of a long line of high weeds which, seen at a distance against the horizon, were mistaken for men and were so reported by the scout too imaginative or too timid to make a thorough reconnaissance. This man's name was William Seymour, enlisted under the name of Apache Bill. He was afterward killed in an affray at Junction City, Kas. Another scout named Webster was discharged for shooting his horse in the neck while carelessly and unnecessarily discharging his firearms within the limits of a military post. Two of the scouts. Fanshaw and Davis, were killed by the Cheyennes while in the act of watering their horses at Mulberry Creek, one of the small tributaries of the Arkansas, on the south side of the river. Their remains were interred in the Fort Lodge Cemetery.

Fought Until Killed.

On one occasion two scouts, Wheeler and Moore, were sent with dispatches for Gen. Sheridan. They made the trip to a point near Fort Sill, I. T., in safety, and faithfully delivered their papers. A package of official documents was given them in return, with orders to deliver the same to Col. McKeever at Fort Hays. The papers never reached their destination. Guided by Indians, a detachment of soldiers found on Beaver Creek, in the summer of 1869, a human skull, pelvis, and other bones which had been picked clean of flesh by the wolves and coyotes. The Indians said that the preceding year they had caught sight of the scouts making their way northward through the pan-handle portion of Texas, south of the Adobe walls, on the Canadian, and surmised that the couriers had purposely made a long detour westward in order to avoid the region the hostiles infested. The savages alleged that they intercepted the two men near Beaver Creek and first killed their horses. Thus dismounted and more than a hundred miles from friendly aid Moore and Wheeler were killed after a resistance desperate enough to impress the Cheyennes with respect for their bravery.

Another of the scouts was a man named Ransome, alias Ledford. He claimed to have been captured by rebel forces during the war while engaged as a spy. According to his

that gleaming knife made a strange exciting tableau.

Another ex-scout, known as Curly Walker, was killed near Dodge by a resident of Salina, Kas., in an encounter resulting from an effort on the part of Walker to sell al lot of cattle stolen and runoff by him from their lawful owner. This man Walker was cowed once when drunk and disorderly at Fort Doge in a way that Liet.-Col. John R. Brooke is too modest to tell about. Bob Wright was present when he was killed. He was pierced by several bullets from a Winchester rifle whilst dismounting from his horse, and died with one hand on his revolver vainly struggling to release it from the holster in the stitching of which the hammer was caught. In the other hand "Curly" Walker had a revolver, which, in this death throes, he used as a knife, repeatedly thrusting it into the prairie sod, discharging it and bursting the weapon by the act.

Another of the scouts was a man of education from Philadelphia and the nephew of an ex-Union soldier, at one time the postmaster of St. Louis. His fate is unknown.

Scout O. J. Whitman was found dead on the plains, his head resting in his saddle, used as a pillow, his horse and arms gone - scalped - an arrow through his heart. He was killed while asleep.

If these lines are read by any survivors of the fight of Aug. 17, 18, 19, and 20, 1868, on the Arrickeree Fork of the Republican River, Kansas, the place where Lieut. Beecher was killed, he or they will remember Malcolm Graham as one of the men who ran the gantlet of the Indians surrounding that island in the river and made his way unwounded to Gen. Bankhead at Fort Wallace, thus securing relief for the Forsyth party. Graham was one of the scouts under John Austin at Fort Dodge and did good service in that capacity.

Capt. Harry Reade, who for eighteen years was an officer of the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry, was formerly a scout in government service upon the Western plains. He never wore a buckskin suit or affected long hair, however, and in the quiet retirement of his Massachusetts home knows not the perils of the days when he, with only a single companion scout, carried dispatches through a region popular with Kiowa, Arapahoe, and Cheyenne Indians who ambushed the watering places, fired the river bottoms, and whose keen-eyed abilities sought by every artifice and skillful device to intercept, chase down, and kill the government scouts.

The Wild West Show.

"Buffalo Bill's" Wild West show, including the best cavalry regiments of France, England, Germany, and the United States, have all been drawn upon for a detachment of picked soldiers. The Cossacks, led by a prince of their people, the Arab, the Mexican, the native American Indian, fresh from the frontier, and our own famous cowboy are all represented by the very best of their respective types. The sports, pastimes, modes of warfare, customs, and habits of these various peoples are all represented in picturesque arrangement, while contributing to the entertainment of visitors the management of this aggregation has also been especially careful to provide in every

way for the comfort of their patrons. All methods of transportation south have been directed to the very gates of this exhibition. The Illinois Central has erected a handsome 300-foot station close to the entrance, the elevated, electric, and grip cars have arranged to land passengers at the gates, and visitors in the popular Columbia coaches are also taken to the doors. Two entrances have been provided, one on Sixty-second street and one on Sixty-third street. With admirable regard for the comfort of guests arrangements have been perfected by which visitors to teh Wild West can obtain a meal nicely served for the modest summer 50 cents.

EVENTS OF THE TIME TO COME.

Society Has Largely Engaged Its Time for Several Weeks Ahead.

The Carleton Club has made arrangments with W. F. Cody and Nate Salisbury for the club to attend a performance of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show on Saturday evening, June 3. All the boxes have been reserved.

WILD WEST

The completeness of detail adn the genuine historic and educational realism of Buffalo Bill's Wild West have made the exhibition a pronounced success. It is now no uncommon thing to see the vast covered grand stand, which seats 18,000 people, taxed to its capacity to accommodate the enthusiastic audiences which attend the picturesque performances. Every day, Sundays included, and rain or shine, two performances are given, afternoon and evening. The Wild West is a most exhilarating and enjoyable exhibition. Led by the famous scout, Colonel W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) in person, the representatives of the rough riders of the world, the most celebrated cavalry detachments, and the picturesque Indians combine to give a performance as novel as it is gratifying to pleasure-seekers.

FOUGHT WITH A COSSACK.

Two Policemen Have a Lively Time with One of Buffalo Bill's Men.

A lively struggle took place last night

SITTING BULL'S LOG CABIN.

Scene of the Noted Chief's Death the Mecca of Interested Visitors.

An exhibit of more than ordinary interest is one in connection with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, under the corporate name of the

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SITTING BULL'S LOG CABIN.

Sitting Bull Log Cabin Company. The company has purchased the famous log cabin in which the old Sioux lived and where he was arrested and killed, and have rebuilt it, log for log, piece for piece, just as it stood upon the Dakota plain. The door, perforated with

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INTERIOR OF THE CABIN

bullet holes when he was killed, hangs from the same hinges upon which it swung on that fateful day in December, 1890, when the old enemy of the pale face received the wounds that sent him into eternity.

The log cabin is filled with curious trophies and relics, not the least interesting being a

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CURLY, THE CROW SCOUT.

large bull skin on which, with consummate art, Sitting Bull had drawn a number of graceful horses. That he painted them in blue and red and yellow was doubtless due to the fact that he had no colors but those afforded by the mineral hills of the northwest with which to do his work. A fine portrait in out of the old man, done by Mrs. Weldon

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THE WAR DANCE.

of Brooklyn, adorns the cabin wall, and the Sioux Indians in Buffalo Bill's show admire this accurate likeness very much and declare it "good."

At the cabin yesterday afternoon were Rain-in-the-Face, the chief, who led Custer and his gallant 200 into the jaws of death at the Little Big Horn, and "Curly," the Crow scout, who was Custer's most trusted messenger, and who was the sole survivor of that dreadful massacre. It was Curly whom Custer sent to Gen. Terry for aid after he found himself caught in the trap that Chief Gaul and Rain-in-the-Face had set for him. As a study in recent Indian history the log cabin and its habitues can scarcely be excelled.