Show ARE READY TO MOVE The Indian Situation Becoming More Serious A BIG CONFLICT IMMINENT Squaws Come In Draw their Rations and Return to the Hostile Bucks The Situation CAMP AT ADATOX Site of Old Camp Sheridan Sher-idan Jan SFrom our Special Correspondent Corres-pondent in the FieldTho situation at present is becoming more serious and a struggle for supremacy between the hostiles hos-tiles and troops is near at hand A gentleman gentle-man residing at this point just in from the agency tells me that the hills are filled with roving bands of hostiles ready at a moments mo-ments notice to listen to their chiefs call and do their best to exterminate the troops About two hundred squaws came into the agency yesterday intermingled with the frioadlies drew their rations only to return to the bucks Tl o Indians have become so thoroughly infatuated with the ghost dance Watching tho Hostiles Movements PINt RIDGE AGENCY Jan 10Up to noon today the hostiles had not with the exception of a lot of squaws made a move toward coming into the agency Shortly after noon however the main camp of I hostiles was broken and a rapid advance mado toward this point This afternoon about one thousand of them had arrived to within about a mile of the pickets outside tho agency The announcement of their arrival caused a great commotion in the friendlies camp Within a short time hundreds of squaws and children gathered in the vicinity of headquarters whence a view of the bluffs beyond which the hostiles hos-tiles were stationed could be obtained They waited until dusk for their friends and relatives to come it but were disappointed disap-pointed a those outside remained in camp there Tonight thorn is no certainty as to what I the Indians will do General Miles himself him-self is in doubt as to what to expect of them but confidently looks now for a settlement set-tlement of tho matter without further bloodshed In fact he sent tonight to Generals Cody and Colby commanding the Nebraska state militia informing them that all the hostiles are within a mile and a half of the agency and that nothing but an accident can prevent a reestablishment of peace Ho states also that he thinks the state troops may now be withdrawn with-drawn with safety and thanks them for the confidence they have afforded the people in their frontier homes Yet the Indians may get to within gunshot of the agency and then breakaway break-away again thus precipitating a conflict iWr of all kinds oi punishment for their misdeeds seems to have taken possession of them and it is generally understood that one injudicious act on the part of the soldiery or the mad deed of some implacable im-placable hostile would undo all the work so far accomplished Lieutenant Taylor of the Ninth cavalry has gone with some of his scouts in order tolead the Indians at the proper time to the place designated for their camp within the agency The Ogallalas will bo placed near Red Clouds house on the west while tho Brules will be sent to tho eastern side Where the hostiles are now resting the ground is rolling and unbroken and offers an advantage to tho cavalry which they did not have at Wounded Knee The Indians are virtually surrounded by the troops and a revolt now would prove disastrous to them Major Whiteside with the Seventh cavalry can reach any point of the agency in a very short space of time The same is true of Captain Capron with his battary of Gatline guns and also of the First infantry nearly three hundred men of which have been mrfunted on ponies The hostilecamp Is at the northern extremity of the valley beyond White Clay creek and at the base of a semicircle of pinecovered bluffs Their village comprises com-prises about three hundred topees although many are doubtless concealed in the draws which lead out of the valloy in the direction of the mission The site is one from which they might quickly retire were they not followed so closely by General Gen-eral Brookes command The latter lat-ter is now less than five in the hostile 1 miles the rear of hostie Tomorrow General Brooke will press 1 upon them more closely unless they move into the agency Colonel Wheaton is now about eight miles west of the agency with the Second infantry and coming in this this way Colenel Offley is following General Gen-eral Brooko with the Seventeenth infantry What is to be done with the Indians is a question which cannot yet be answered The disposition seems to be to let them rest in peace I is understood they have promised to send a delegation of chiefs to talk with General Miles in the morning morn-ing It has been said that some of them will insist upon going to Washington to lay their grievances before the great father and some hold the suggestion will be respected notwithstanding General Miles has the settlement of the case in his own hands One element which may cause trouble yet is faction fights in the hostile camp A scout told an Associated Press correspondent this morning that they are I still quarreling among themselves and the I scouts cannot imagine how the irnplacables and others will be able to arrive at an amicable am-icable understanding It is believed General Gen-eral Miles will demand of the chiefs the surrender of tho leading agitators and ship them south as he had intended to do with Big Foot and then settle with the others investigation regarding Wounded Knee battle is completed and the report will bo forwarded to Washington Well posted officers say it will dispel the idea that Colonel Forsyths command deliberately shot down women and children Private Stone one of the wounded in that engagement engage-ment died today and an Indian named Hunts Alone |