Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1885 — POUNDMAKER A CONVICT. [ARTICLE]

POUNDMAKER A CONVICT.

Ho Is Found Guilty of Slaking War Againai tlie Queen and Sentenced to Three Years in Prison. iWinnipee (Man.) speciaL] Poundmaker, Chief of the Indians who fought Col. Otter’s faring column at Cut-Knife Creek, and€nterward attacked find captured a supply-train of thirty-one wagons in the Eagle Hills, was convicted at Regina of making war against the queen and sentenced to three years in the Penitentiary. The Chief, when he heard the sentence, asked that he be hanged right away rather than be imprisoned. Before sentence was passed on him he said: “I was good all summer. People told lites. I saved a lot of bloodshed. I can’t understand how it is that after saving so many lives lam brought here. I could have been on the prairies still if I would.” Then waving his hand majestically he said, with a smile: “I am a man. Do as you like. lam in your power. I gave inyself up. You did not catch me.” E»wabd Valentine, a Virginia sculptor of note, is to receive $15,000 for a bronze statue of General Breckenridge.to be erected in Lexington, Ky.^ It was Henry Cbiy who first gave Cincinnati the title “Qneen City of the West." This was in 13:18, before Chicago had been discovered. E. W. Howe, the Kansas editor who wiole “The Story of a) Country Town," is traveling in Europe this summer. V Indiana is said to be the center of the suicide district of this country.