PUCNTTWood herald Made Ludicrous Scene When Military Formations Were Attempted hy Men on Mounted Infantry Mules; Humorous Incidents of Campaign of Terry and Crook Against Sioux as Told by Gen. Anson Mills, Who Participated in Expedition '•j (By MRS. M. E. PLASSMANN) and camp followers of all kinds were 1 them, being unable to understand hew Mills of this march, which was to end EN. ANSON MILLS, in his interest- assembled together with regular troops men could go into battle on foot \ih< mgloriously, is the following: ing sketch of army experiences in the from different parts of the country, horses were procurable. Captain Stanton was our engineer Writer of Indian Stories G south and w'est entitled "My Story," Finally we started from Fort Fetter- In camp that evening the cavah ■ Mficer, and in order to make good in has given us a vivid account of the man on May 29 with 20 companies of was assigned to three sides of a sn.all i scientific profession, equipped him- maren to the Rosebud in 1876, the bat- regular troops, 15 of cavalry and five of lake, the fourth being reserved for wl. • ic>; with a two-wheeled gig drawn by Came West to Hont and tie and the return or. more correctly, infantry, amounting to over 1,000 sol- was styled “Chambers' mule brigai. a mule, which he ornamented with the retreat to the Black hills. For our diers.” and when this arrived the cavalry ol- odometers, thermometers barometers troops were most humiliatingly beaten ^ Was during the organization of this Heers were on the spot “to observe ;i and other ometers, not forgetting some by the Sioux on the Rosebud as Custer army that Calamity Jane joined as a military movements." General Mil. creature comforts, visible to the men Has Remained 50 Years was destined to be a week later on the teamster but her sex being discovered describes what happened: as they passed and repassed. The road <*>■ Little Big Horn. It has taken us a sjie was no^ permitted to go on ’ "Chambers was proud and ambit was extremely rough even for the cav- of their popularity among the adven- good majiy years to acknowledge this A. „___ ...____ ___.. (By MRS. E. L. HOUSTON) fact, although some of the generals j ^e^rney,tPot' ^ar sou^ I T WAS a strong desire to hunt and IY'0 ,1,?nc* amon” adults ! also. During the 20 years of publica­ have been frank enough to do so. !SLnr m16, command, kill the wild buffalo and to taste the! tion of "My Life as an Indian,” the Just as the Indians, on the invasion ,^re fWoileioJ0r r ■ * 3 I moat of this animal that started I book particularly interesting to adults, of the Black hills by the white men, 2?° S£°I, 4 s ! James Willard Schultz, the famous saw clearly that their very existence as rr,r^‘t];e^’ an^ j w/ - i it has continually increased in sales. ) i i J -• M / I writer of Indian stories, west from his ! a free people depended on their ability ed °n i and K.->z- | home in New York, at the age of 18,: Its charm lies in its artistic, as well as truthful portrayal of the love of a to drive out the invaders and compel i were now ready to e^&agc I years. He left home with the permis- the recognition by our government of i J?.} lIVii,Sl0UX' „ ! % wliite man with an Indian woman. m ■ -x. ; sion of his people, promising to return the treaty rights which were theirs; so situationGeneral Mills remaiks. j *\ \ & * | for the fall term at Peekskill military Visits Indians Every Summer the government, having made a useless: ,9n_,Hie*~1<îwin*îi01 iune 16’TWS YaiY academy on the Hudson, but he be- i Since the death of his Indian wife effort to stem the white tide, began to °ut,to. 1 not came so thoroughly interested in the j in 1904, Mr. Schultz has lived in Cal- see that the Indians must be held in Hi at 999*? Y1!00^ where west and in the Indians of the west ; ifornia but he has visited the Indians check or there would be a generaT ,?ele’,and ,1 ^ ,not ^hinic our ■'* U..,' ■ -•%. J-y that he did not return. After many: every summer. He has not only writ- friendly Indians knew where they were, .... f -r- y i..y thri’Jing experiences on the plains with! ten 28 books but he has written a large massacre of miners and other settlers \ i: and of the emigrants along the Boze­ and no one conceived they would find * •• * the Indians in lime of peace and war inumber of short stories for magazines, man trail into Montana. j them in such force as they did." » -Jfe. W' .wùlilÜii! " ••UA ' li'tl Jat V and in hunting the buffalo, he began his first work being for Forest and War with the Indians was determined As was eminently proper, in Indian M 'vrKrrr. to tell of these experiences and. in 1907,(Stream and for the New York Sun, upon and Generals Terry and Crook warfare more cavalry than infantry was * his first book was published. He i For several years Mr. Schultz has prepared to organize forces, the former engaged. I have already stated there v:.-. ’*♦*!*'* ; spent last winter in Montana, work- been gathering' material for a book at the mouth of Tongue river and the ! were but five companies of infantry j mg on his 29th book, a volume telling j which will be of both scientific and latter at Fort Fetterman. The ignor- ! in General Crook's command. The 'M ■ I of the various Blackfeet tribes of In-1 popular interest, the history of the ance of these generals regarding the ; general decided to make cavalry men r. Sf dians with which he has been asso-1 Blackfeet Indian tribes, including the i-- - strength of the enemy was appalling of these and ordered Major Chambers, ■ y:*#* I dated for half a century. war records of outstanding individuals, when we consider there were from 69 to one of his classmates at West Point, I M j A New Yorker by birth, educated un-1 as well as the historical background, 65 thousand Sioux at their nine agen­ to look over the thousand mules the j (1er private tutors and in a military the customs and the beliefs of these cies, and that other tribes had indi­ army had with it and from these se- ; v-t:Xv I academy, he was headed for West I people. This book was completed cated they were willing to bury the led enough to mount his infantry men. I Point, in accordance with the wishes of ! this winter. tribal hatchets while uniting in the Naturally, Major Chambers did not en­ Mils mother and guardian, but he heard I During recent years, considerable at- common cause against the white men. thuse over the command. If his men ( the call of the buffalo that altered Mention has been given by Mr. Schultz Indians had been deserting their were to join the cavalry, they should these plans. “I decided to have one to the names of places in Montana, agencies in large numbers, but where ( have horses and not mules, His pro-. Fort Phil Kearney, concentration p oint for troops. It was here that the "ood buffalo hunt before entering West Annoyed beyond endurance bv hideous they had gone no one knew. The only1 tests being of no avail, he hunted up foot soldiers were mounted on their braying steeds. I Point,” is the way he put it, and he name's given by the government to clue to their whereabouts lay in the the mules and presently five companies 1 added with a smile, "but I never went topographical points in Glacier park fact that they would be forced to live of foot soldiers set out on muleback to ; back. I kept on following the herd.” and Waterloo Lakes park, the Black- to do his duty, however humiliating and airy, there being no trail, and as the s off of the country, in other words the hunt Indians. It being a recognized disagreeable, as well as he could, so soldiers were required to carry, each | Liked to Hunt as Boy feet Indians urged their friend. Api- buffalo, and where the buffalo grazed i fact that some men can learn to ride when the leading company came near one on his person, four days’ simple ra- ] As a boy, he had hunted every kind kuni (Schultz) to help in restoring the would be a good place to look for and others cannot, and likewise some the line designated, he gave the com- lions, the sight of his wheeled con- : of game found east of the Mississippi, ancient names given the mountains them. Evidently the buffalo were then I mules object to being ridden, when the mand, ‘left front into line’ in military veyance aroused their jealousy and en-1 from the Adirondacks to the north and streams by their fathers, names thought to be in greatest numbers south mounting of these unwilling animals style, and the first company came in- vy, and whenever he" appeared they '< woods of Michigan and Wisconsin, with which a story was associated, with of the Yellowstone and the brilliant took place there must have been plen- to line, but no sooner had the mules would cry out, ‘mother’s pies, mother’s ! During one winter vacation, he killed real meaning and beauty.