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' YELLOW NOSE, INDIAN Oklahoma Brave Said t eral in the Battle June 25 Who killed General George A. Custer in the battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876? The belief firmly prevails among the old warriors of the Southern Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes in Oklahoma that Custer was slain by Yellow Nose, a Ute Indian now living on his allotment on the North Canadian river, near the town of Geary, Okla. The Indians have believed this for 35 years. Yellow Nose, who is not a boaster, merely says that he killed a man, an officer, who, other Indians said, was Custer. Yellow Nose had never seen Custer prior to the battle. This man, whose tribesmen sc resolutely declare he took Custer's life, is now about 65 year old and well preserved, save that he has been blind for many years from a blow across the forehead in the Little Big Horn fight, which eventually destroy" , ed his eyesight. His body is scarred with many wounds received in battle. He will open his shirt and point to a hardened spot on his chest where a bullet tore through him when McKenzie's men gave battle in Powder River Canyon. Yellow Nose was peering over an embank* ment, not suspecting that danger was near at hand, when he was shot from ambush. When Yellow Nose was four years old he was caDtured from his DeoDle by the Northern Cheynnes, one of whose women he married. He was a scout under General Lawton at Fort Robinson, and later was given similar employment at Fort Reno. In the plains country he met the French-Cheyenne scout, Edward Guerrier, and their friendship brought Yellow Nose to Oklahoma in the early seventies. There was a constant passing to and fro of the Northern and, Southern Indians in those days. ? Yellow Nose tells a circumstantial story which old warriors in Oklahoma support with their own testimony as evidence that he was the - man that killed Custer. A number of Southern Cheyennes from Oklahoma were visiting the Northern Cheyennes at the time of the battle, and took part in the engagement. They brought numerous relics from the battlefields to Oklahoma. In the neighborhood of Cantonment. Okla.. may still be found guns taken from the dead troopers of the Seventh cavalry. For a number of years George Bent, a mixed blood Cheyenne, who lives at Colony, Okla., owned Custer's pocket compass, ' given to Bent by Bull Hand, a Southern Cheyenne. Bent sold the compass in 1879 to Geo. Reynolds, of the Indian trading firm of Lee & Reynolds, then at Camp Supply, Okla. As the story runs among Oklahoma Indians, Custer and his men were first decoyed to the locality broken by ravines by Long Sioux and a companion. Long Sioux lives near Cantonment. When the grass began greening on ' the plains in the spring of 1876, Yellow Nose started with his wife to visit her relatives in the North. inrougnout. tne sioux ana rsiortnern Cheyenne country there was a great unrest among the Indians, and it was apparent that war was at hand. Yellow Nose lingered until it was unsafe for him to attempt the journey home, as small bands of Indians were in as great danger of losing their lives as were white men, if caught traveling through the country. About the middle of June war parties began bringing in reports of the presence of troops in the Tongue river > country, and Yellow Nose went several times with scouting parties to observe the soldiers. Finally the Indians gave battle on the Rosebud, ISiL an(* t^en retire(* in direction of the Little Big Horn, Yellow Nose ^ moving with them. A report spread among the In tiians that troops were advancing with Shosshone scouts, and, inasmuch as General Crook had retired to the southward, the Indians expected the advance from that direcrtion. To their utter surprise the troops came from the east under the command of Custer. There was much bitterness against Custer among the Indians because of his alleged massacre of the Black Kettle village of Southern Cheyenne, on the Washita river, in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. ^ , The villages of the different tribes W stretched for several miles along the west side of the valley of the Little Big Horn. Yellow Nose went from village to village on the night ol June 24 to see the dancing. Strict orders had been given by the wai chiefs forbidding the firing of guns i in camp, as the near approach ol j troops was to be made known by twc A UTE , KILLED CUSTER 0 Have Slain Brave Genof Little Big Horn, th, 1876. 1 mounted warriors, who were to ride ; | at full speed and fire shots as they ' passed each village. I The battle was on Sunday, a j warm, bright day. Farthest down I | the river was the camp of the Nor. j thern Cheyennes, where stood the lodge of the great war chief, Crazy j Horse. About noon Crazy Horse, > Yellow Nose and other Indians were in the river bathing when the firing of guns was heard up the river. Reno J and his men had crossed the Little i i Big Horn and were charging the upper villages, only to be beaten back j in confusion and under such circum,! stances as came near dishonoring Reno. Yellow Nose does not speak nor understand the English language. What he said in recounting his experiences was translated by his i friend, Edward Guerrier, the old I scout. Here he plunged into the de! tail of his narrative. Yellow Nose j was confident that the Sioux would i have destroyed Reno had they not charged so quickly and so eagerly in defense of their women and children, who thereby were given time to scramble onto ponies or flee on foot and escape westward. Had the Sioux held back and let Reno come further down tlje river they could have surrounded him and cut him off from the hills in which he afterward found refuge.. Yellow Nose and his companions were delayed in rallying to the alarm, says the St. Louis Times-Dispatch, owing to the absence of their , I ponies, which had been driven away i to graze. By the time they got their mounts they discovered another body of troops eastward across the river. The Cheyennes divided, some ! going to resist Reno while others, j including Yellow Nose, crossed the | Little Big Horn wrhere a small stream or gulch debouched from the east. Climbing to a promontory formed j by this gulch and the river, the In1 dians sawT the troops advancing toJ ward them along the crest of the divide that ran back from the Little Big Horn. Yellow Nose was mounted on a fleet, wiry pony in advance of his companions, whom the sol, diers evidently thought were few in , numbers, as the crossing was difficult at that point. The mistake of the soldiers became quickly apparent when Indians were seen literally springing from the ground. The | galloping cavalrymen pulled down to j a trot. The Indians grew intensely I excited and set up their war whoops, j The Cheyennes wer not so well arm, | ed as the Sioux, who carried quanti ties or ammunition fastened around their waists, chests and arms. The soldiers fired first from their . horses, dismounting only after they saw that the Indians were not intimidated. The regimental band began . playing, to the astonishment of the ' | Indians, but the musicians threw ! aside their instruments for guns. The soldiers changed from a stand | to a retreat as they were crowded (j upon by increasing and overwhelming numbers. Yellow Nose said that they made three stands. It was the purpose of the Indians to get in the j rear of the troops and gain the cover j of the east slope of the ridge. This ; the soldiers bravely resisted, and in j their fury to dislodge the troops the j Indians precipitately exposed themj selves to a galling fire in the open, j It was not until the close of the fight j that the soldiers were driven to the i west slope of the ridge. ' I At first the soldiers knelt and , j took deliberate aim, each fourth | man holding the horses. "Some stood | up and shot like this," said Yellow Nose, leaning far forward and clutching an imaginary gun. As the | confusion, perhaps despair, increased after the retreat from the first stand, each soldier took possession of his own horse, possibly to be betetr .! able to escape if the battle went 11 against them. Yellow Nose declared that this merely hastened the disaster that fol| lowed. The held horses grew wild (! with fright, and their rearing and [ plunging made it impossible for the [ j soldiers to shoot with steadiness and ' accuracy, many pulling the trigger while their guns pointed straight above them. Riderless horses stampeded in every direction,, leaving thpir dpad bphind. and wptp caught by the Indians and taken across the 1 river. 1 j Senator B. R. Tillman came out in ! a letter to the newspapers last week i i stating that he would be a candidate i for re-election but that his healh : I would not permit him to make any | speeches this summer. He says he 5! wants to die in harness, and asks the I voters of the State to re-elect him. They will be likely to do this. QUEER FOOD SALE IS PARIE Ready Market for Remnants fro Palace and Hotel Tables. "Twelve mounted dragoons sat the gate of the Elysee palace one a ternoon as I passed with a friend says a writer in Business. " 'T1 president is giving a banquet to tl king of Bulgaria,' said my guide, long-time resident of Paris. 'T morrow morning at 9 we must vis the hall of jewelry, at Halles Ce trales.' "Now the Halles Centrales is tl great central market of Paris; po sibly the most scientifically arrang( and largest general market in tl world. But a market of producehow could it have a jewelry ha! and if so, what did it have to do wil the king of Bulgaria? I was soon 1 find out. "At 9 the next morning we wei two of a great crowd massed again a large, closed door in one of tl pavilions of Halles Centrales. Oi route through the market had bee along the broad central avenue whi< traverses the buildings from east west. "We had seen the great vegetab trucks arriving from outside of tl walls of Paris piled high -with veg tables, all carefully washed and a ranged in layers; rows of carrots, < beets, of parsnips, etc., making i the moving truck a most attracts picture. " 'Under the market,' said n friend, 'are huge cellars, 12 feet dee and divided into over 1,000 compar ments, accessible to an undergrour electric freight service?but he: the door opens.' "The crush that followed remim ed me strongly of one that I partic pated in on Oxford street, Londo some months earlier. Then it he been a special sale of ostrich plum< ?I felt curious as to what I no should see. "The large room was set with loi tables each covered with innume able paper napkins placed side 1 side. Each napkin had a few articl of prepared food on it. Apparent it was a huge delicatessen sho Then I looked more closely and sa that the portions of food we: strangely mutilated?a mutton chc would not be complete; one corn< had been neatly trimmed off. "Nor was it alone on its serviet ?with it was a spoonful af peas, nart nf a baked notato a little di of jelly and half of a roll. Next to was a portion consisting of a chickc wing with one tip gone, a few e calloped potatoes, half a stalk celery and a mere suggestion of ma malade. Each portion has a pri? tag; that of the chop, 40 centim (eight cents;) the chicken wing, 4 centimes. Further on was a sma part of a very small bird that carri< with it the suggestion of a cold bo tie. " 'You see before you,' said n guide, 'the remains of Belshazzar feast?he is called king of Bulgar now, but it is the same. That ch( may have been toyed with by son fair queen; but the missing tip of tl chicken wing possibly took the king mind from matters of state, for moment or two. Of one thing 1 sure, that nothing from Preside] Fallieres' plate is here, for that ge: tleman was brought up to pick tl bones clean.' " 'Surely they didn't leave all this " 'Oh, no. Besides the remains < the Palais Elysee banquet are tl contributions from the large hote and the fashionable restaurants. A Paris contributes to this?all Par except the Latin quarter, which here to buy. Your landlady is her so don't turn up your nose at thi for something from here will rea( you in to-night's dinner.' "In less than half an hour not servilette with its offering was lef Faubourg St. Antoine and Rue ? Jacques had taken everything, i Paris takes a waste and makes i it a by-product, and does it so cle erly that the suggestion of offense eliminated." Cut in Harbor Appropriation. Washington, May 2.?The sena committee on commerce has agree to report the river and harbor bi with various amendments, makii the net increase in the total appropi ation as compared with the origin house bill at $7,800,000. It is belie ed that the house will accede to mo of the senate additions, althous there may be a hot fight over son of the senate decreases. flno nf thp Inttpr is a rlprinrtinn i $50,000 from the house bill's appr priation for Winyah Bay, South Car lina, which was $162,000. The on other senate committee amen ments of interest to South Carolir are those providing for preliminai examinations and surveys of Tugal( river, Georgia and South Carolin from the mouth of Panther creek the head of Chandler's shoals, wil a view to its improvement by op* channel work, and of Lumber rive North and South Carolina, from i mouth to the turnpike bridge, ovi said river, in Hoke and Scotlar counties, North Carolina. . CUTS THROAT FROM EAR TO EAR m Otto Stramm Severs Windpipe with Razor and is Expected to Die. at By literally cutting his throat from ,f- ear to ear with a razor, Otto Stramm, the Line street shop keeper who has ie been mentally deranged for some ie time, attempted suicide at noon toa day in the home of a relative at o- Shepard and St. Phillip streets, and it will probably die befor'e night as the n- result of his self-inflicted wound. Some time after his removal to the ie hospital where delicate operations s- were performed on his slashed and id gaping throat, it was reported that ie the man was barely living, and that ? the chances of his recovery were re11, mote. The wound would have been th almost instantly fatal to a man of to less rugged and tenacious constitution, as the arteries and trachea were re severed by the blade, and only the st most prompt attention sustained life ie at all. ir Members of the household in which in Mr. 'Stramm was a temporary visitor, ih discovered him lying on the floor of to the room which he occupied just before 12 o'clock, with his throat slashle ed and bleeding. Help was summonie ed from neighbors and police heade quarters notified as soon as possible, r- with the result that Dr. M. S. Moore of was attending the man when the poA 1 1 rt A A ?? 4, A /N V. ? 1 /V M > Z *. A <9 Z ^ V* Z * A ?VA Qt ii*jc auiumuune aiuvcu, wiium a vtJiy ;e few minutes. Although apparently unconscious, the wounded man strugiy gled desperately with his rescuers, >p the physician and Officers Eaton and t- Finley having great difficulty in takid ing him to the hospital in the mare chine. Little could be done to a wound of the sort without instrud ments, and during the trip to the :i- hospital Mr. Stramm was breathing n, through the gash in his neck, so l(i badly was the wind-pipe and throat es severed. w At the hospital emergency measures were taken by the staff, and the lg parted tissues sewed together so r- sucessfully that considerably later 5y the man was still alive, though his es recovery would be miraculous, ly Mr. Stramm has only recently p. been dismissed from the insane ward w of the hospital, where he was sent re several wesks ago after his store at >p St. Philip and Line streets had been er burnt out, as was thought by his own irresponsibie act. At that time te he had only recently returned from a the asylum in Columbia to which he ib had been committed by his family a OU/1 fr?1 AT* /1c T"T? V? /-\ Y?r\rtAOr? 1 rjr\A V* 1 o m auu JL l ?viiuo nuv 1 ULI^^U, uio uicuin tal disorder. For some three years, ig_ it is understood, the man's actions of have occasionally been irrational and r. at times dangerous, though between ce attacks he has been entirely himself. es He was dismissed from the Columbia [5 institution apparently cured, and afLn ter the trouble in his store recently jd was detained in the local hospital it- for several weeks. The reason of his recent commitment to medical jy supervision was the apparent irre.'S sponsibility of his actions just beia fore the fire which destroyed his }p store and which he was believed to ie have started himself. Since his reie lease he has not taken up the busies ness again, but has been living with a the relatives in whose home he attempted to end his own life to-day. nt The wound was inflicted evidently in n_ another deranged moment, or in reie alization of the mental condition in which he has been.?Charleston ?? Evening Post, May 1. of Narrowly Escaped Death. 1g Columbia, May 1.?Dr. Manney M. ^ Rice, city physician, narrowly escapIs ed electrocution Monday afternoon 1S between 3:45 and 4 o'clock, when a e' lighting wire, charged with 3,300 s' volts of electricity, fell on Taylor 'k street, near the intersection of Marion. ,a Two mules of the Atlantic Bitulithic Company received the voltage ^' and were instantly killed. The 30 driver, Willie Young, colored, leaped from his seat when the wire was !- encountered, and, though badly scaris ed, was unharmed. Dr. Rice and a friend were riding in an automobile, with the former at the wheel. He was about to bring te his car to a stop, when he heard the 5 sputtering oT the wire overhead. He threw his gear into the engine and f the machine darted forward and on 1_ to the sidewalk. Just at this time al the wagon on which Young was seatv" ed passed and the wire fell upon the st mules. The singular feature was that the mules which were killed fell ie at the place which Dr. Rice's car had occupied only a moment before. 01 , Killed in Boiler Explosion, o ly McBee, May 3.?Late Wednesday d- afternoon at Cassetts, a small station la a few miles south of here, the boiler ry of an engine at a shingle mill ex)0 ploded. One man, Marion Shull, of a, Banner Elk, N. C., was instantly to killed. Mr. Shull had been married th only about a month. This mill bem longs to C. M. Triplett, of this place. ir, Mr. Triplett was painfully, but not ts seriously hurt. Several of the men er about the mill were more or less id bruised. The entire plant is almost a total loss. (ford automobiles] FORD ^VI^IEL T FORE-T)OOR TOURING CAR FORD MODEL T TORPEDO RUNABOUT "One"?"two"?"three"?you couldn't count seventy-five thousand in a day. Were you unwise enough to try it, you at least would get some faint idea of what it means for us to make?and sell? seventy-five thousand Ford cars this year. 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