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Show WILL TRY 10 PAGiFY THE REBELLIOUS OTES Captain Carter P. Johnson Starts for Reservation to Hold Pow-AYow. WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. Captain P. Johnson, Second cavalry, stationed at Fort Robinson, Nob., has started for the Cheyenne river reservation in South Dakota' to use his influence with tho troublesome Utc Indians with n. view to suppressing tho outbreak. Tic has with him tho detachment of cavalry which accompanied tho UVh when they settled on the South Dakota rrscrvn tion more than a year ago, and after tho wandering Indians lino rofuscd to return re-turn to thoir own reservation iu Utah Captain Johnson condnctod ihc negotiations negotia-tions resulting in thoir settling on the Chcyonno river reservation. Ho has considerable influence with the Indians nnd was assigned to the present task at the urgent request of the Indian officials. The captain has received no advices regarding tho imported killing of Ames Baker, the agency farmer, by tho Utos. A telegram from Assistnnt Clerk Craig, in charge of the Cheyenne river Indian In-dian reservation, says thut Clerk East-all East-all has gone to the scene of trouble 'with twenty-five armed men, and that fears are ontortainod that communication communica-tion had boon cut off between tho telegraph tele-graph terminal at White Morse and Thunder Butte, where the Indians are located. |