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Show in iipii General Miles has About Three Thousand Indians Cornered in the Had Lauds. e 0i Determined to Make a Last Struggle for tho Euprmncy at That O Point. CO ALL MEANS OF ESCAPE CUT OFF. i z No Truth in the Report that Gen- Jlrooke has Iteeu Relieved of (lie Command. M Thirty Soldiers Killed in the Battle aro Q Laid at Rust Yesterday at rA Pino Ridge. W REDS SUPPLIED WITH PROVISIONS. An Attempt will he Made to Oet Them to lintnrn to the Agrney Without A Further llloodshei!. Washington, Jan. 3. General Schp-lield Schp-lield this morning received a telegram from ( ieii. Miles dated Tine Hidgo agency January 1st, saying that .'1000 Indians including about ioi) bucks were now encamped in tho Had Lauds about fifteen miles from Tine It'ulgo ugoucy, all avenues of escape being closed by troops. (Jen. Miles says the Indians have gathered some cattle and provisions provis-ions and appear to be determined to make their light for the supremacy of tip point. He says he will niako another effort to get them back to the agency without bloodshed and in order lo do so ho has established a regular siege. (ieneral Scholicld said there was no truth in tho report that General Hrooke had been relieved from the command at I'ine Kidge. General Miles, he added, has charge of tho campaign and has stationed himself at tho most convenient con-venient point for genciai communication communica-tion with his forces. Secretary Proctor had an interview with the president on the Indian campaign cam-paign this morning. The Sotdlere l.tid at Rett. Omaha, Jan. 2. A special from Tine Kidge says: Amid a wild and bitter ( storm yesterday the bodies of the thirty brave boys who fell at Wounded Knee were laid away to their last rest. The cortege, headed by Colonel Forsythe and Major Whiteside, was composed of . thirteen wagons, bearing the rudely- -collined dead, followed by an escort of Companies A, K, B, I, I) and E of the t Seventh cavalry, together with an as- k sisting squad from the Second cavalry. It wound away Irom ciirnv up to the . S, '' little cemetery situated at , tho crest of " , . t-"-- the hill northwest of the agency. The ) surviving memliera of the fated Com- jJ pany K looked lonesome euough with is"1 their fearfully thinned ranks. The va- ' Ntf' cancy, so striking in contrast to tho , rest of the column, caused tears to start iu tho eyes of many a comrade. After the reading of the burial per-, vice by Hev. Mr. Cook, the Episcopal clergyman here, the bodies were lowered low-ered into the graves. Owin.T to the intensely in-tensely critical condition of the stir-ronndings, stir-ronndings, with the enemy Hocking about the agency threatening an attack, at-tack, the usual salute of gnus was omitted, omit-ted, while tho soft notes fram the bugle and the wail of the storm whispered a Inst good by. The remains of Captain Wallace will be sent to Fort Ililey. The body of Captain Mills, who died from rheumatism of the heart, has been sent to Omaha. To Annihilate the Hofttilri, Omaha, Jan. 2. A special from Kushville, Neb., says: It is definitely known that hostiles to about the number num-ber of 1I(!0 are fortified near the mouth of White Clay creek and that (ieneral Hrooke with a detachment of troops is swinging nrount to the north of them. Gen. ( 'arr is supposed to be approaching from the west and (ieneral Miles will make a dash from the south. The force' thus engnged is thought to he. ample for the annihilation of the entire band unless some unforeseen un-foreseen complication or misfortune arises. Embassadors from this hostile camp have again today been suing for peace and offering to surrender their arms. It is not known here whether the terms will be granted or not, but the general opinion prevails that iu view of the recent action of the rebels in slaughtering t(;e traops while under a Hag of truce., not much weight will be given to the pretended repentance. repent-ance. That the hostiles have been largely reinforced within tho past few days there is no longer any doubt. . |