Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1889 — "Pize the Bitter.” [ARTICLE]

"Pize the Bitter.”

Gall, known among the Dakota Indians as “Pize the Bitter,” is a noted chief of that tribe. He was for the past eighteen or twenty years the righthand man to Sitting Bull, whose exploits and atrocities are known to all. About the year 1866, when the erection of Fort Stevenson was begun on the Upper Missouri, the soldiers stationed at that point were one day attacked by the Soux or Dakotas, and, after a sharp skirmish, succeeded in repulsing the enemy. The method of attack and the conduct of the Indians led the commanding officer to believe that Gall was in charge. He therefore offered SIOO to the man who would bring in his head. Stimulated by such a reward, some of the soldiers searched among the dead for the celebrated chief, but owing to the rapidly fading twilight the faces of the slain and woubded were not distinguishable. Two of the soldiers in passing thrust their bayonets through the bodies and finally retired to the camp. Now, among those wounded in the skirmish was Gall, who waited for the night to come on, hoping to steal away under its protecting shadows. On the approach of the soldiers he feigned death. He received two bayonet thrusts, one clear through his chest. After all was quiet he managed to crawl away to the .camp of his people, several miles distant. He recovered and continued Iris hostility against the whites with increased zeal until captured in 1881. On one occasion, in 1873, he called upon the Indian agent at Grand Biver Agency and inquired why the Government persisted in retaining troops in his country. The agent asked in return why he continued his hostility, whereupon Gall (throwing off his blanket and exhibiting a magnificent physique) pointed to two distinct scars (one upon either side of the chest, and corresponding scars upon his back), and said: “That makes me angry against the white men.”— Fhiladelphia Press.