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Show THE HAD KED MEN. I I' They Have Stopped the Ghost Dance Long Enough to Came in for Their Eations. BUTCHERED A LOT OF CATTLE. Plundered the Houses of Settlers Who Had Fled iu Terror, But No Other Violence Reported. Omaha. Neb., Nov. 28. A special i from Pino V.idgo says: Orders wore issued is-sued this morning ordering all strangers except newspaper correspondents off the reservation. About GOiiO Indians are swarming in and about the agency. A hundred more Indian scouts are being sworn in. Tim Daiicr Musi Eat. Washington, Nov. 20. --The war do-f do-f panment this morning rocived the news It that the Cheyenne. Indians had nband- Iourd tho ghost dance and come iu for rations. This is regarded as a most hopeful sign of the abatement of the excitement. ex-citement. Twelve hundred scouts who enlisted, will, it is hoped, exert a strong, peaceful influence through tho family anil tribal relations. ' rimidcrliig Settlers' Hnusea. Omaha. Nov. 2i. A special from l'ine Ridge says: It is learned that Indians In-dians are en route from Rosebud, 000 strong, plunder ng descried settlers' houses along the route and also killing cattle and feasting nu the fresh beef. Seventy live Cheyennes were enlisted as scouts by General Brooke last night. A watch is being kept over Red Cloud's liand. as it is feared small raiding parties par-ties are preparing to start from his camp. Scouts report that the ghost dancers liaui concentrated their forces, and today to-day Little Wound will ride in for a conference with the agent and General Brooke. Until yesterday a largo percentage per-centage of the Cheyenne Indians were ramped with Red Cloud, but they have moved away from his camp and established estab-lished their own. The ranches which tho Rosebud Indians In-dians have been raiding were vacated by the occupants when the exodus of settlers oci trred two weeks ago. There is no danger of any loss of life, Milt UK" Hull Snllrn and 1'gly. Standing Rimk, Nov. 20. Two scouts returned to Fort Yates from a visit to Sitting Bull's camp. They found Bull and his ndherents very ugly, lie t-ild them ho understood the soldiers wero coming to take him, but he had iy his runners out and on the first news of , .. f-oldiers he and his people would leave, The supposition here Is that if Sitting ; Bull hears of sorbins troublo at Pine Ridge or the military attempts to take Iiim ho and his followers will make at once for the lower agencies, thereby declaring war. Ajjency ( ait l Itutchered. Pif.ukk. S. D., Nov. 20. Everything is quiet at the Cheyenne agency. At a hostile camp on Cherry creek, however, how-ever, several turbulent Indians captured cap-tured the entire herd of cattlo which was to be slaughtered for their monthly rations and, taking the.ni to their village, vil-lage, issued them to suit themselves. The white men iu charge dared make no resistance. |