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182 ‘THAT hanging of the twenty-eight Sioux was only a small part of what should have happened. There were one hundred and—I think—ten con- victed after a fair trialk Any man who lived in Minnesota at the time will say they all deserved hanging, but The Drunken Tailor, Andy Johnson, refused to allow any save those convicted of mul- tiple murders to be hanged. Old Cut Nose was one who was hanged. It was proved that at one time he climbed in a wagon and killed twelve women and children with a hatchet. During this war, a farmer put his wife, her mother and five children ina wagon. He walked and drove the oxen. The oldest son, seventeen, came along behind, acting as scout. Indians shot the man and . oxen, brained all the children and the grandmother, outraged the mother till she died. The seventeen-year-old son went on the warpath. The last time he was ever seen, he came to St. Paul after amunition and had a conversation with an old friend of mine. In the privacy of the friend’s room, ~ he took from within his buckskin shirt a string of ninety-cight Sioux scalps. “Tf they don’t get me first, Pll make it two hun- dred, for what they did that day on the road,” he said. But he was never seen again alive. WHEN any man tells you the Sioux war of ’62 and. ’63 was caused by acts of oppression by white men, tell them from me that it is a lie. Little Crow was a younger son, not entitled to be chief. He schemed for power. His brothers op- posed . He made a feast and invited his six brothers. Then he and his friends killed all six while they gorged. Then, in order to make his grip a solid one on the position, he began a war on the whites. This is not guess-work with me. It comes directly from the lips of a Sioux, two of them, who were friendly always. Witness the opposition of Wabasha and Chaska and many others, who opposed Little Crow till his death, bought captives to release them, put on a bold front and dared Little Crow to attack Friendly Camp.—E. E. HARRIMAN. P. S.: First line of “Minnehaha” should end “aye” and not ah. _Meaning forever. OMETHING from Harold Lamb con- cerning his story in this issue: Historically this battlhh—Angora—is pretty much as presented in the story. Likewise the events lead- ing up to it. Clavijo is an historic liar—see Hakluyt. 1 have touched up his native ability and advanced the date of his ““embassy’”’ a year or so, to get him into the battle. Incidentally, the episode of the ring belonging to Tamerlane is related in Hakluyt. Clavijo, it seems, was much taken aback at hearing that the Tatar’s ring was reputed to change color when a falsehood was told. At the moment, Clavijo was telling some pretty tall fibs about :the crandeur of Spain, and he shut up when he ‘heard about the ring —Haroip LAMB. OU will, I think“concede that the cham- pionship is his. ‘To protect him against giving, selling, exchanging or other things I’ve torn his name and address off his letter . Of the February third issue of Adventure. Adventure (and destroyed the pieces) before it goes to the composing-room, and as I handle some 10,000 letters a year and have a rotten memory anyhow, there’s no use trying to identify him. I believe I hold the championship for strange uses to which Adventure has been put. I have in my possession, and looking at me as I write, two quarts of pure cherry juice and ONE GALLON of pure blackberry juice. I do not care to describe the process through which"they are going, but will say that seme day in the near future I expect to have something better than most people are able to buy, at least buy legally. Well, the cover Over one of the containers of this famous elixir is a copy I be- lieve it is doing good service. No samples given nor sold nor exchanged. WORD from F. R. Bechdolt as to the authorities for the facts in his article in this issue: Carmel, California. I enclose “Cochise,”. which tale is authentic. I got the data in many places, and some of it has come with two or three authorities for a single incident. Captain Harry C. Wheeler, formerly in command of the Arizona rangers and latterly sheriff of Cochise County, Dr. D. T. MacDougal of the Carnegie In- stitute, and John Slaughter gave me much of the in- formation. The country | know pretty well from having traveled over it, including the Stronghold. Bancroft’s ‘History,’ Farrish’s ‘History of Ari- zona” (published by the State of Arizona) and other recognized authorities will confirm the incidents as set forth here.—F. R. BecuDOLtT. ae HAVE a limited number of printed indexes for bound volumes of our magazine covering Vols. V to XVIII in- clusive and Vols. XXIV to date inclusive. While they last we’ll be glad to send these to any of you who ask for them. No charge, but since it’s a friendly courtesy on our part it would seem only fair for you to enclose not only a stamp but a large size self-addressed envelope. If the indexes you want are exhausted by the time you write, your envelope will bring you only a statement to that effect, but I guess you ought to be willing to take that chance. Of the above volumes we now have about 300 indexes each. We have no indexes of Vols. XIX to XXIIT inclusive. I know lots of you keep a file of our back issues and that quite a few have them bound and we’re glad to give you the indexes to make your file handier for you.—A. S. H. GComichookszco