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Show Two Strike, Short Hull and Kick lug; Hear Seem Determined to l'itflit to the r.nd. Kutnors of Another Engagement in Which Quite a Number Were Slain. RED CLOUD WANTS TO GIVE UP Hut lie Is Threatened with Death ISy the lloMilos if lie Goes In. General Pchofield Still Hopes that Further Fur-ther Bloodshed will be Avoided. FATHER CRAF T'S STORY OF WRONGS. lie Says the Indian. Have Keen Abused, Mocked nd Cheated hy III. Hot-eminent. Hot-eminent. Washington, Jan. 3. Tho commissioner commis-sioner of Indian affairs today received from Indian Agent Rover the following telegram dated Pine Ridge agency, S D-, January 2: "Number two and three day school buildings, tho Episcopal church located at White Clay creek, a short distance from the agency, were burned by the hostile Indians. Isaac Miller, a while man and a former for-mer employe of tho beef herd was killed by tho hostile Indians yesterday ten miles north of the agency. About 3000 men, women and children, are camped near the mouth of Grass Creek, fifteen miles northeast of the agency. They a'e hostile and refuse to come into tho agency as requested by the military. They are committing all kinds of depredations and living off our agency beef here. Li ttle Wound, Big Road. Red Cloud and their people are among them, and it is reported they want to come into tho agency, but Two Strike, Short Bull, Kicking Bear and their people object and say they will kill the first one who starts to the agency. Report has it that Red ('loud s desirous of coming to his home." General Schotield this morning received re-ceived the following telegram from General Miles dated at Pine Ridge, Jan. 2. "There is a report from the Indian camp that Red Cloud and Little Wound are determined to come in with their followers, but their lives havo been threatened by the hosliles who are determined to go to war. Thero also is a report from the same source of an engagement betweont the Indians and cavalry in whic--iuite a number of soldiers wer5 killiaod some Indians,. Indi-ans,. - Tf.fli'if is enrreeffl was .urobably, on the line on White river. General Brooke now has command of that line and will give the necessj y directions." General Scholield sail.- o the reporter after this telegram was given out that nothing addit onal had been received up to the present time. "I still havo hopo that we shall yet be able to get the Indians into camp without with-out a fight. The forces now in the field, under the command of General Miles, are about 8000 officers ami men." Father Craft'. Story. New York. Jan. 3. Tho New York Freeman's Jurnal publishes a letter from Father Crafts, Catholic Indian missionary, who was probably fatally stabbed in Monday's battle. F'ather Craft says in the beginning begin-ning the Indians hoped for much aid from the government, to enable then to become like tiie whites. They were, however, in every way abused, mocked and discouraged, Instead of being wards they have felt that they were victims of unscrupulous politicians politic-ians who benefited by tlieir misery. Father Crafts adds: "I know what I say, for I have shared their sufferings for many years in their despair. General Crook brought them to hope. Their confidence in him led them to hope that ho would bo able to realize their hopes. His death was their death blow, and they felt it. The Indians aro not fools, but men of keen intelligence. The reductions in rations increased their fears. Even the Indian agents protested against the cruelty. Mr. Lee, who took the census, cen-sus, made grave mistakes. He counted less thau the real numbers and made false reports of prosperity that did not exist. It is not to be wondered at that they believed in the messiah, whom they first doubted, and listened to every deceiver who promised hope. "Interested whites took advantage of this state of affairs and howled for troops. The army indignantly protested pro-tested against the false statements, but had to go to the scene of supposed danger. The interested whites persuaded per-suaded them that their entire destruction destruc-tion was aimed at, and the Indians ran away in fear ami despair. Father Jutz calmed them anil I brought them back to the agency and the kind ness of General Brooke convinced con-vinced them of their safety. The general's plan to send Indians In-dians out after those still out was good and would have succeeded if the general gen-eral were left alone. Rumor, of a Itattle. Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 3. A special from Pine Ridge, dated Jan. 2, gives more definite rumors relative to the reported engagement between Gen. Carr's command and the Indians iu the Bad Lands. TI e;o would indicate that tho troops were driven back and a number killed, but the news cannot he considered authentic. Scouts who have returned from other hostile camps, however, bring anything but reassuring reports. The Indians wili not listen to peace propositions. propo-sitions. Small detachments of troops have been sent to the scene of Monday's Mon-day's battle at Wounded Knee, whero many of the bodies of the lndiaus slain rtill remain. These will be eithor buried bur-ied on the ground or brought to the agency. |