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Show HIE INDIANS FiWITIXG A Bloody Battle Between Two Factions in the Iudiau Gamp in the B.id Lands, TWENTY TO FIFTY ARE DEAD. Depredations Have Extended to the Black Hills, and It is Useless to Talk of Peace. Pine Ridge, S. P., Dec. 12. Them has been a light between t ho peace and war factious in Two Strikes' band more sanguinary than has been indicated in the Associated Press dispatches. Yankton Charlie, a full-blooded Sioux and government scout, has just come in from the Indian camp in the Had Lands, and repsrts a bloody tight among the followers of Chiefs Short Bull and Two Strikes. Each claimed the leadership and each tried to secure it by force, and the result is twenty to fifty dead Indians. This report is verified by several who have been waiting for some time to escape es-cape to the agency. As the spies took advantage of the tight to make their escape es-cape it is not known yet which chief conquered. Large reinforcements have come in from Standing Rook and other agencies. The depredatious of the Indians have been extended to the foot of tho Hiaek Hills. The Flying Hell herd, owned iu the hills, have been captured, and it is useless to talk of peace. There has been no nt tempt made on the part of the hostilos to move out o their iutrenchments siuee the peace council was held. None of the promises made them then have been kept. There is great excitement here. It is said when the chiefs return from tho agency a council was held. Two Strike and his followers favored peace, but Kicking Bear, Short Bull, and other chiefs composing the niajor-itp niajor-itp of the camp took decided ground on the other side. The council lasted several hours, during which the excitement ex-citement reached tho highest pitch and finally broke up in a tight. The troops havo received orders to be in readiness to march to the Bad lands. |