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Show HJAIK The People of Pocatello Work Themselves Into a State of Wild Frenzy And in Their Alarm Telegraph to Chicago That the Indian art Earning the Town, EXCITEMENT AMONG TENDEBFEET. An Old Resident Says that They j Were Frightened by the Stories of Squaws Sni the Sight of Soma Two Hundred Backs in the Glory of War Paint. THE COVERNOR TO ORDER MILITIA. New from the Seal of War Leader of Mirf Hostile Going In to th Agency, Chicago, Jan. 8 A dispatch from Pocatello, Idaho, received here early this morning, says the Indians are burning the town, and troops have been asked for from Boise City. Excitement Among tit Tendrfeet. Pocateu.o, Ida., Jan. 7. Special to Tub Times. The ludinns are having war dances and the s maws have r.)- ported that the young bucks wanted to burn the town.but nothing has occurred yet- Some excitement among the ten-derfeet. ten-derfeet. Tronpa Aaktd For. Boise City, Jan. 8. Advices from Pocatello state that the Indians on the Fort Hall reservation have been dancing and about 200 bucks la Warrant have taken to the mountains with arms causing great excitement. Governor Wiley has been nuked to order the militia mi-litia to Pocatello. and probably the company of Fnlted Ntatn Cnvitlrr at the Boise barracks will bo sent there. The Indians on the reservation number 1200 or 1400. They are Bannocks, Ban-nocks, who caused a prolonged war 12 years ago. The people at Pocatello have Almost no Anna, and the towns of Blackfoot and Eagle Rock are on the border of the reservation. reserva-tion. The Indians Who took to the mountains are working eastward towards to-wards Wyoming. Tho belief is expressed ex-pressed that if the Indians at Pocatello go On tb Warpath they will be joined by the tribes on the Lemhi reservation, who number' 500, embracing 125 able bodied bucks. . An Ifrgrnt Beqn it. .... ''' "Boicic City, Jan. S.fSpecial to The Times. Governor Wiliey has just reoeived the follcwing message from W. L. Ryder and O. F. Ressigue at Pocatello: Th 're Is drngr o' an 'n llan onthrealc on ihe Po a ell j ie Tviiton. w' r'tnni. e id that troops Ui smt t ro. af lo t rrvtec tie itle ih anil pro itoiy. Wuat ta ' y 1 1 do a d what e ,u pmi nt ilo'y m want to m .' tio ppa. Please mum quirk leply. Not i n Such a ltent. The Times' correspondent has jut interviewed the governor, who says ho will not send troops on such a request, but will hold a conference wilh Adjutant-General E. J. Curtis and Major Noyes of the regular army, nnd their opinion, will decide the matter. He says if any Action la Taken they will request a special to-night. But the attorney-goneral will lenie at fi o'clock, and tho instructions from him will govern.' There are six troops of state guards located in the state, one of which is now at Eagle Itock. with arms and ammunition, and the company com-pany here has been called and can be ready to move by 7 o'clock tonight if there are any further developments. Too Many M. . Chicago, Jan. 7. E. S. Muggins, at army headquarters here, received a dispatch dis-patch last evening from Assistant Auju-tant-Goneral Corbin, at Pine Ridge, saying a number of Indians are coming into the agency from the camp of the. hostiles. How many of the Indians were en route it was'impossible to approximate. ap-proximate. According lo the dispatch the general situation had not greatlv changed from the day preceding. The messago says the dillieuity was well expressed by one old Indian who pnt in an appearance at Pine Ridge. Ho declared "the trouble is that too many lies are passing between the Pine Ridge agency and the Sioux camp. The inference is that when the real situation situa-tion becomes clear to both sides the end will be less distant, than it has been made to appear. |