Sitting Bull's Death
"Did youever know just how Sitting Buil was killed?" asked .Lieutenant Baker of the Twelfth infantry, U. S. A. "I do not think, " he continned, "the details were ever printed. I never saw them, and I was there. " I teil it, as near as it can be recalled, as the lieutenant told it. Sitting Buil was at his shack with his sons, near Standing Rock agency, when he was sent for to come into the agency. The Indian pólice were commissioned to bring him in, and when an Indian policeman gets that order and flnds his man he brings him, dead or alive, unless the man gets the drop first. Sitting Buil was disposed to obey the summons, but one of his sons, as haughty an Indian as ever lived, taunted the old man for his weakness. He called him & squaw, and that epithet to an Indian brave is the cap sheaf of all that is derisive. The old man weakened under the" boy's taunts, and the Indian pólice did the rest. Sitting Buil was all that his admirers claimed for him. When he feil, the boy who had taunted him crawled under the bunk where the old man had slept. He was there when Shavehead, an Indian from the agency, came in. He heard the story. He liked Sitting Buil, and when he was told that the boy had taunted his father and was the cause of his death Shavehead said the boy deserved death, and he was dragged out from under the bed and killed. These details Lieutenant Baker
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