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clothes. They had. to ~afl General Sheridan from VTashington, D. O., to quiet the Indians down. Now, we had to make a line in three divisions, fifteen miles a part, one non-conimissioned officer to each squad, and. these men was to go to Calciwell, Kansas and. bring him to Pt. Reno that night. ETe came that night, so the next morning Colonel Brisbane and. General Hatch reported to General Sheridan what the trouble was. General Shericthn called all the Indian Chiefs together and asked them why they~rebelled against the agency, and they told. them they were&t going to wear citizents clothes. General Sheridan called his corporals and. sergeants together and told them to go beh~id the guard house and dig a grave for this Indian agent in order to fool the Indian Chiefs. Then, he, sent a detachment of soldiers to order.the Indian Chiefs away from the guard house and to put this Indian agent in the anibulance that brought him to Pt. Reno and take him back to VTa~hington, D. C., to remain there ‘fil he returned. The next morning he called all the ~ndian °hiefs to the guard house and pointed down to the grave and said that, “I have killed the agent and burierl him there. „ The Indians tore the feathers out of their hats rejoicing that they killed the agent.

	On the 12th of the same July, we had general inspection with General Poresides from Washington, then we was ordered back to our supply c&rp to stay there ‘til we got orders of our change. On August 8, we got orders to change to go to Nebraska, to Pt. Robinson, Pt. Nibrary, and. Pt. MelCinney, and. we left on the 8th of August.

	This is my Oklahoma history. I gave this story to the Daily Qklahoman and Times at one time and they are su~posed to publi eh it but they haven ‚ t..

	Now you see that tree up there in front of my house? That tree is 50 years old. It is called thepotopic tree. That was the only tree around. herein 1882, This was a bald. prairie. I enlisted over there where the City
Market sets now. That was our starting camp under Capt. Payne, but he died.