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SITTING BULL.
Him He Saw and Talked With the
New Messiah.
There is at present among the
Cheyennes and Arapahoe Indians,
in the Indian Territory, writes the
Fort Reno correspondent of the
<ïlobe-Democrat, an Indian upon
whom all attention and reverence
is lavished. This is Sitting Bull,
the Arapahoe, who has seen Christ.
All his relatives belong to the
Southern Arapahoes, and less than
«ight years ago his home was with
them. At that time he visited the
^Northern tribe, and not being par
ticular where he lived, and finding
the supplies issued in the North of
the same quality and quantity as
those issued in the South, he
remained with his Northern kin
tlred. His father had been a chief
and a man of influence in the
affiliated tribes, and when he died
Ilia blanket fell upon the shoulders
of Sitting Bull and his brother,
Scabby Bull. This fact gave him
jirominence among his people and
Lends weight to his utterances. It
is very difficult to extract any
information upon the subject of the
Messiah from the Indians, as it is
«I very sacred and fearful subject to
them. There are a few who do
uot believe it, and the chiefs have
issued an edict commanding all to
«eeept the teaching, and threaten
ing a visitation of severe punish
ment upon any who dare mention
the subject to the witness. Now
that the Cherokee Commission is
among them, negotiating for the sale
of their lands, the tribes are divided
into two parties one favoring the
sale and taking of lands in severalty,
and the other opposing it. Each
party claims the Messiah is favor
able to its position, and the inter
preters occasionally hear some
thing of their new belief. Then
there are a few young men, edu
cated at Carlisle and eiswhere,
who repudiate the whole matter,
but out of fear of the chiefs they
remain reticent. But from these
ecources the following information
has been obtained.
has been obtained.
Sitting Bull was hunting one
day near the Shobhono Mountains,
und as night came on lie was
seised with a strange feeling, and
nt first involuntarily, but finallv
with alacrity, he followed a star
which moved westward through
the sky. All night' the star guided
fjioi, and near morning in the
mountains he came upon the Mes
siah, clad in a white robe. His
hair was long and his beard
«extended to his breast and about
liia head was a halo. When this
sight burst upon Sitting Bull he
fainted. A vision appeared to him,
und in it lie saw all the Cheyennes 1
and Arapahoes who had long since !
fceen dead engaged in a dance. I
Powder Face, Stone Calf, Black '
Kettle, bellow Bear and innumer- !
able other chiefs were conducting j
the dance and invited him to take !
jiart. Presently he wis restored to j
his senses, and the Messiah began !
talking to him. To those acquaint- !
•d with the Indian character the
first question does not seem strange,
lie asked asked Sitting Bull what
he wanted to eat, and was answered
that buffalo would please him. '
immediately lie saw mi immense
feerd near by, and without any !
difficulty killed one. The Messiah '
asked him if all the Indians would J
like to see their dead kindred and j
the buffalo restored. Silting Bull j
says he assured him thoy would, i
And was told to go back arid assure '
&ia tribe that they should be grati- '
tied- He, the Messiah, said he had '
eome to save the white man, but 1
chat they had persecuted him, and
now he had come to dvliver the
fiong tormented Indian. 1 auwed
him the holes ia his hands, made
by the nails when he was crucified,
to convince him that he was the
same Christ who had appeared
1,900 years ago. All day Christ
instructed and gave him evidence
of his power. • He said that the
white men had come to take him,
but as they approached the soil
became quicksand and the men
and horses sank. As evening came
on he bade Sitting Bull depart, and
although he had been hunting
away from his teepe for ten sleeps,
he camc to it in a very few minutes.
He told his people his story and
asked that Porcupine be stint to
verify it. Ile returned with the
same tales, and presumably all
were convinced.
The influence Sitting Bull has
upon the Indians is astonishing,
and he maintains it by a species of
mesmerism easily calculated to
inspire them with awe. He is evi
dently a shrewd and cunning
Indian. A Carlisle boy, who
denounces the fraud and wished
to investigate it for himself,
appeared before him at one of the
dances and asked him to exhibit
his powers. Firstly he has a num
ber of songs entirely unknown to the
Indians, which he says he learned
at the dance he attended in the
"spirit land." These he contin
uously chants. When the young
man appeared before him he began
singing and incidently seized him
by his left foot. Immediately a
sensation like an electric shock
passed over him, and all the lights
changed to a green or purple hue.
Then Sitting Bull blew upon the
crown of his head and he became
cold. He asked the subject to put
his arms about him, but on attempt
ing to do so his arms flew back and
dropped helpless at his side. All
these experiments were made in
the presence of the assembled
Indians, and the effect upon their
ignorant minds can easily be
imagined. This young man does
not believe him a prophet and is
free from the superstition of his
race, yet he feels that Sitting Bull
is gifted with some strange power.
Undoubtedly Sitting Bull possesses
mesmeric powers to some degree,
and finds the Indians' minds a
fertile field to work upon. He
surrounds this power with the
story of the Messiah and appeals
to the Indian hatred of the white
man to more easily influence them.
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His description of the Messiah is
exactly as he is portrayed in pic
tures that hang on the wall of every
church and school-house in the
Indian country. Especial stress is
laid upon the statement that he
has a beard, and shows that Sitting
Bull has taken his storv from
badly equipped missionaries, for
Indians nevei permit the beard to
grow, and his picture of Christ
could not have been self-conceived.
The whole story originated with
Sitting Bull, and the prophets of the
North are but his apostles. They
have not the powers ascribed to
him, and only arouse the Indians
by the excitement of the dance and
the story of the future which
awaits them. Sitting Bull is a
very ord.nary-looking man, a little
below the medium in height and
dresses in customary leggins and
blankets. Last week he paid a
visit to the Kiowas, Apaches and
Comanches at their urgent solicita
tion, and from that reservation the
reports are that the Indians are as
excited as the Cheyennes and
Arapahoes. As a result of this
excitement the Indians abandon
their crops and meet and discuss
the subject the greater part of the
time. The older Indians are fully
convinced of the certainty of the
prophecy, while the younger and
more progressive accept it out of
fear and express no opinion.
lias it occurred to the ingenious
soul ot William McKinley that his
position in the latest campaign has
been very much like that of the
obliging feline who had its paw
severely burned while clawing
chestnuts out of the fire for some
body else? Some kind of tariff
measure had to be made; somebody
had to make it. Mr. McKinley
took the task, and like Arnold of
Winkel ried opened a way for
his fellows, at the same time
gathering all the spears of the com
mon enemy to his breast. It is
much mere gratifying to be com
pared to the Swiss hero than to
an overgentlemanly though unwise
tomcat, but in view of the fact that
his followers did not profit by the
chestnuts he captured, the latter
figure seems most apt.
There is no more striking evi
dence of the fact that Reed, Quay
and McKinley are become univers
ally odious than the attitude- which
even the most conservative of the
best republican papers have taken
toward them. These journals are
in direct revolt against the jug
gling tactics of the partisans
named, and do not hesitate to say
so. Even the sturdy St. Louis
Globe-Democrat has tired of the
spectacle, and after punching Mc
Kinley and Reed with its satire,
advises Quay to break "either his
silence or his neck, it doesn't mat
ter much which."
To judge from the expression of
certain party organs, the issue
upon which the republicans do
the most effective fighting is the
identical issue fought over among
the democrats themselves. The
schism between the followers of
Cleveland and Hill is only widened
by the chunks of dissension hurled
into it by the opposing party, whose
members are wise enough to re
member that a divided enemy is
no enemy at all.
This is a lace age—for some peo
pie. The Vanderbilt's are the pos
sessors of laces which rival the
Prussian and Austrian Crown laces
and are valued at $500,000. The
late Mrs. Astor had a lace dress
which cost $15,000, and it is stated
that another was recently sold to
an American lady for $25,000.
There are a number of ladies in
New York who each own laces val
ued at from $20,000 to $50,000.
•T. A. McKay, of Kansas, has
never studied law, never been ad
mitted to the Bar, never served in
any capacity in a court, and yet
the farmersjelected him Judge ofone
of the district courts. The Farmers
Alliance will send him to Ann
Arbor for sixty days to lit himself
for the bench. This shows that all
the members of the Alliance want
in a candidate is honesty, and they
will do the rest.
Lucius W. Miller, Democratic
Congressman-elect from the Osh
kosh (Wis.) district, is a full-blood
ed Greek. He was picked up
when a child on the battle field of
Missolonghi by Col. J. p. Miller,
of Vermont, who brought him to
America and educated him. Give
the Greek a chance. Every other
nationality gets as much in this
country.
King Solomon's vast fortune
seems to have been pretty thor
oughly dissipated. H. Gotschalk,
of New York, possesses a holy
shekel which was used in Solomon's
Temple. There is hut one other
similar coin in existence, and that
is an imperfect one and is in the
British Museum. These coins are
about three thousand four hundred
years old.
W. C. Burrows, of Kansas, raised
a turnip that weighs eleven and
three-quarter pounds. There ap
pears to be nothing too good for
the Kansas farmer this year.
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