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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (!VES JAMES.) 



In the latter he was aid-de-camp to Gen. George 

 Sykes, of the 5th Corps. He was severely wound- 

 ed before Richmond, and was brevetted for gal- 

 lantry. He was again successively brevetted 

 major and lieutenant colonel, the latter for his 

 work in the great Indian campaign of 18(>8- ; 69. 

 He has described his life and adventures in books: 

 The Old Santa Fe Trail (Xew York. 1807): The 

 Ranch on the Oxhide (1808): with William F. 

 Cody, The Great Salt Lake Trail (New York, 

 1898); The Delahoydes (Topeka. 18!)!)): Pioneer 

 from Kentucky (1899). He also complied Buf- 

 falo Jones's Forty Years of Adventure (To- 

 peka, 18!)!)). 



Ives. Frank, billiard champion, born in Plain- 

 well. Mich.. Oct. 5. 18(i(i: died in Progresso, Mex- 

 ico, in A :i just. 18!)!). He began to play billiards 

 and pool when eight years old. and when fifteen 

 had \vun the reputation of an expert. His first 

 play in a public lournament was in 1888. The 

 next season he gave himself up to baseball, be- 

 coming catcher for a team in Petoskey, Mich. 

 While traveling with the team he gave frequent 

 exhibitions of his skill at billiards, and defeated 

 the best-known players in the West. His re- 

 ma rkable successes led to his engagement by 

 Jacob SchaefTer, the " billiard wizard," for his 

 parlors in Chicago. In his first serious match 

 play a handicap with Schaeffer and Slosson 

 Scliaeffer won, with Ives second ; and in a notable 

 play with Eugene Carter, in Milwaukee, he 

 equaled the world's record, then held by Vi- 

 gnaux. Subsequently Ives defeated Slosson, and 

 in 1892 he won the championship of the United 

 States by defeating his old mentor, Schaeffer. In 

 189(5 he won the first prize in a tournament in 

 Boston, and in January, 1898, he again won the 

 championship by defeating Schaeffer, and retired 

 from public plaVing. At the time of his death 

 he was traveling for his health. 



Jackson, William, scout, born in Fort Ben- 

 ton, Mont., in 1859; died on Cut Bank creek, 

 Mont., Dec. 31, 1899. He was of one quarter 

 Indian blood. Nearly all his early youth was 

 spent north of the boundary line, with the Cree 

 or with the Chippewa Indians. At the age of 

 twelve he returned to the United States, and 

 was sent to school. At the age of fifteen he en- 

 listed with several Indian boys from the Santee 

 School, to serve as a scout under Gen. Custer on 

 his expedition to the Black Hills. In 1876 he 

 was one of the scouts that accompanied the Cus- 

 ter expedition, serving under Reynolds as chief 

 of scouts, and when the command separated on 

 the day of the fight, these scouts were all left 

 with Reno. Three days earlier Jackson, Bloody 

 Knife, the Ree, and Mitch Boyer were the first 

 to discover the Sioux camp on the Little Big Horn. 

 When the great body of Indians charged Reno's 

 panic-stricken command, Reynolds called out to 

 his men to stand where they were, and all obeyed. 

 But 15 or 20 men could accomplish little against 

 the 500 who were sweeping down upon them. 

 Reynolds was killed, and then Isaiah fell, and 

 then others, until finally Bloody Knife shook 

 hands with Jackson and said, " this is the last 

 day I shall ever fight," and, rushing out among 

 the enemy, killed two and was himself slain. 

 Jackson, with one companion, retreated into the 

 brush, and afterward, meeting Capt. De Rudio 

 and an enlisted man, they hid themselves, and 

 after two nights of extreme suffering and anxiety, 

 managed to reach Reno's command. When the 

 rescuing column of Terry appeared, Jackson was 

 the first to discover them; for Reno, as soon as 

 the Indians drew off, had sent him out with dis- 

 patches to find Terry. With this in view, he was 



slowly making his way over the prairie, and had 

 just passed over the bloody field where Custer 

 and his troops lay dead when Terry's command 

 appeared round the point of a bluff. For some 

 years after that Jackson remained in Government 

 service. In the spring of 1877 he went down the 

 Yellowstone to Fort Buford with dispatches, and 

 returned on the steamer on which Col. (now 

 Gen.) Nelson A. Miles was a passenger. On 

 the way up the Yellowstone the steamer was 

 hailed by Indians bearing dispatches from Col. 

 La Selles, who was then pursuing a large camp 

 of Sioux. Col. Miles, anxious to communicate 

 with Col. La Selles, persuaded Jackson to en- 

 deavor to overtake him with dispatches, a duty 

 of very great peril. The three Indian dispatch 

 bearers proved to be Cheyennes, who a little while 

 < before had been hostile, but who after Little 

 Wolf's surrender had asked permission to enlist 

 as Government scouts to fight the Sioux. They 

 proposed to accompany Jackson if a fresh supply 

 of ammunition were furnished them; and he, 

 though distrusting them, had no choice but to 

 accept their company. This was the beginning of 

 a scouting service with the Cheyennes which 

 lasted until the wars of the northern plains 

 were ended by the defeat and surrender of every 

 band of hostile Indians. Jackson, under his name 

 Little Blackfoot, was almost as well known 

 among the older men on the northern Cheyenne 

 reservations as among the people of his own 

 blood. At the close of the wars on the northern 

 plains, when scouts were no longer needed, Jack- 

 son, then only twenty years old, conceived the 

 plan of carrying into the enemy's country the 

 war in which he had so long been engaged. At 

 Poplar river and Wolf Point were gathered a 

 large number of Sioux, many of whom had re- 

 cently surrendered, and were only now recover- 

 ing from the fatigues of the wars carried on in the 

 past few years. Jackson determined to raid these 

 camps for horses, and with one companion he did 

 so. They descended the Missouri river in a boat 

 which carried their saddles, landed and cached 

 themselves at night, and after a day or two of 

 reconnoitering picked out the best horses of the 

 Indian herds and drove them westward. This 

 operation was once or twice repeated, but soon 

 became too dangerous. In the winter of 1879-'80 

 Jackson, with others, built a trading post on 

 Flat Willow, in the neighborhood of the Snowy 

 mountains, and traded with the Indians. Some 

 years later, the Government of the Northwest 

 Territories, alarmed by the acts of the half-breeds 

 and Indians in the Riel rebellion, enlisted a com- 

 pany of scouts, who were stationed at different 

 points. Jackson enlisted in this company, and 

 not long after the close of the rebellion, and con- 

 sequent disbandment of the company, he made 

 his appearance on the Piegan reservation. After 

 a time he took up a ranch on Cut Bank, and be- 

 gan to take parties into the mountains to hunt. 



James, Charles P., jurist, born in Cincinnati, 

 Ohio. May 11, 1818: died near Leesburg, Va., Aug. 

 9, 1899. He was educated in his native city, and 

 admitted to the bar there in 1840. In 1849-'56 

 he was Professor of Law in the Cincinnati Law 

 School, and during a part of the time was also 

 judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati. He 

 removed to Washington, D. C., in 1864, occupied 

 the chair of Law in Georgetown University four 

 years, and in 1866 and 1870 was appointed a 

 member of commissions to revise the statutes of 

 the United States. In July, 1878, he was ap- 

 pointed an associate justice of the Supreme Court 

 of the District of Columbia, from which he was 

 retired in December, 1892. 



