But lately a baleful change had come over them. Acting under some
evil influence, they now pushed their warfare into the white
settlements, carrying fire and destruction with them. Again and
again had the government offered them a free pass to Washington and
the privilege of being photographed, but under the same evil
guidance they refused. There was a singular mystery in their mode
of aggression. School-houses were always burned, the schoolmasters
taken into captivity, and never again heard from. A palace car on
the Union Pacific Railway, containing an excursion party of
teachers en route to San Francisco, was surrounded, its inmates
captured, and--their vacancies in the school catalogue never again
filled. Even a Board of Educational Examiners, proceeding to
Cheyenne, were taken prisoners, and obliged to answer questions
they themselves had proposed, amidst horrible tortures. By degrees
these atrocities were traced to the malign influence of a new chief
of the tribe. As yet little was known of him but through his
baleful appellations, "Young Man who Goes for his Teacher," and "He
Lifts the Hair of the School Marm.
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