SERVED ON THE PLAINS WITH SECOND CAVALRY

Among the crowds of Council Bluffs people who saw the United States regulars pass through the city Saturday morning on their way from Fort Des Moines to Fort Omaha, none was more deeply interested than George C. Wise, secretary of the Elks Lodge of this city. The peculiar interest of Mr. Wise arose from the fact that nearly forty years ago he served in the Second Cavalry, one of the regiments represented in the column, which filed down Broadway.

Mr. Wise enlisted in the United States Cavalry in 1871 in Cleveland, Ohio, and was assigned to the Second Regiment then doing duty on the western frontier. He continued in the service until 1875 when he was mustered out at Fort Robinson. He was with the regiment when it established Fort Robinson, and was one of the party, which found the body of the murdered officer, in whose honor the fort was named, and brought it to the post. He was also a member of the escort for Grand Duke Alexis when the latter made his famous visit to the American plains and of the detachment, which escorted the then United States Indian Commissioners from Fort Robinson across the country to Standing Rock Indian Agency.

A member of the regiment at that time was Second Lieutenant Sibley, who as Major Sibley made inspection of the Dodge Light Guard here a year or so ago, and who has since been made lieutenant colonel and is stationed at West Point.

The Seventh Cavalry, a squadron of which was in the column here, was General Custer's regiment, which was annihilated by the Sioux on the Little Big Horn in 1876.