Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — CHIEF OF ARMY SCOUTS. [ARTICLE]

CHIEF OF ARMY SCOUTS.

Frank Guard was Reared by the Sioux and Shot Sitting Bull. Frank Guard, chief of scouts in the United States army, is esteemed by the people of Wyoming as more than a rival of Buffalo Bill. Guard comes of mixed French and Kanaka parentage. His parents were slain bv the Sioux in crossing the plains, and the lad fell into the hands of the savages. He was a manly youngster, and he so pleased Sitting Bull that the chief adopted him and brought him up. The youth in due time went through the tortures of the Sun Dance, was declared a brave, aad became in all thing, save raze, a savage of the plains Knowing the hopelessness of the Indian outbreak that brought about the Custer massacre. Guard determined to desert to the whites. He was detected and pursued. The Indians shot his horse us Guard swam a river, and lodged four bullets in the fugitive’s body. Believing that he was slain, they ceased the pursuit, but Guard reached the shore, and, wounded as he was, continued his journey to Crook’s camp. On the way he read afar the Indian signal fires announcing the massacre of Custer and his men. He brought the news to Crook's camp, and the latter asked whether Guard could lead to the scene of the battle. Guard said he could if Crook would have his wounds dressed and let him have a good horse. The bullets were extracted, and Guard, mounted on Crook's favorite horse, rode away. He reached the battlefield to find Custer and his men lying stiff in their blood. As Guard, his Indian blanket about him and his hand to his forehead, Indian fashion, sat watching the scene, an Indian approached and asked who he was. He replied Sitting Bull’s brother. The Indian asked half a dozen other questions, and finally asked Guard how it was that he rode u grain-fed horse. Guard replied that he stole It from a white man. Finally the Indian demanded his name. Guard, seeing that the Indian was unarmed, unblanketed his face and looked hltn In the eyes. “Ugh, Frank!” said the Indian, starting back and turning to run. Guard permitted him to get within ten feet of the shelter of u tree and then shot him dead. From that time to this Guard has been true to the whites. Sitting Bull once offered 1,000 ponies for his scalp, and Guard always knew should he ever fall into the hands of the savages, death in its crudest guise would be his fate. Ho escaped from the savages after hearing them debate ns to the most unpleasant method of death for the prisoner. Upon one occasion Guard, then out as a scout, became convinced that he and the command, under a Lieutenant, must certainly fall Into the hands of the Orows unless the troop* slew their horses and crept away in the darkness. The officer was unwilling to slay the horses, but Guard said that he meant to escape at once. This convinced the officer, and all the horses save one were killed. That one was left by a fire to attract the savages, and the men crept for miles and escaped. On that night Guard, with tears in his eyes, killed the horse that Crook gave him. According to tradition, that is the only time that any man ever saw Guard cry. Guard was the man who finally killed Sitting Bull, when the old savage refused to give up his arms. Sitting Bull made ready to shoot as. Guard, his foster son, approached, but Guard, with characteristic quickness, shot him dead. When there Is. a dangerous duty to be done up about Fort McKinney, Guard is the man iodo it. He went after a noted desperado with a warrant not long since, and was met with a bullet from a Winchester. Guard dismounted in leisurely fashion, took alm, and sent a bullet through the desperado’*forehead. Guard is now forty-four years and if his apprehensions are wellfounded he is likely to have a chance for further distinction. He believes that the Government has not had tho last of its Indian ware, and that another uprising at Pine Ridge is inevitable. That would be accompanied by uprisings at other agenciesand a good deal of trouble. Guard has been constantly warning his superiors on this head.—[Now York Hun.