Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1896 — TALKED INDIAN. [ARTICLE]

TALKED INDIAN.

Dr. Mendenh; 11 Meets a Couple of Old Acquaintances at Crawfyrdsville. The ’Crawfordsville Argus in a recent issue told bow Dr. Mendenhall, of this city, had entertained an old friend and recounted old time occurrences in Indian language. |The Argus said: Dr. Mendenhall, the Lafayette physician who makes monthly visits here, is entertaining at the Sherman house to-day M . L. Allison, a well known western scout, and Waukal Akicita. a full blooded Sioux Indian. Dr. Mencenhall and Scent Allison were old cronies od the western plains years ago and when the lat ter, who was passing thro’gCrawfordsville, learned thaijthe doctor was here, he decided to stop off and pay him a visit. Scout Allison is en route to Dayton, Ohio, to urge a claim of about $5,000 which he has against the government and his red skinned companion is a witness in the case. Allison was engaged in government service during the Siuux outbreak jf 1881 and was offered extra inducements providing he succeeded in causing the Sitting Bull Indians to surrender. He did so and is now out tor the extra inducements that were then offered. Waukal Akicita, or Celestial Soldier, as be is familiarly known, is a first class specimen of one of tbs most powerful tribes of 'a race that is rapidly being crowded out of existence . He is forty years of age and is no* as well up in English as might be ex*> peeled from one who has traveled and seen as much as has his Indianahip. He was with Saulsbury’s Buffalo Bill crowd that made the European tour a few years ago and was also a member of Bill’s Wild West aggregation at the woi Id’s fair. Celestial Soldier is a right clever sort of a chap and while he cannot carry on a very animated conversation he e joys having callers —Lafayette Journal.