Show THE DEATH ST PAUL dec 17 to days advises advices from standing rock are to the effect that the arrest ot sitting ball was decided upon by agent mclaughlin when he bieard on sunday that the wiley old chiet and bis followers were about to set out for the bad lands once there it would be a leng time and there would be lucli hard fighting before any of the hos liles could be taken or starved out therefore orders were given to the police and they set out sunday night the troops following by early morning alie police had reached the camp with the cavalry three miles in the rear and the infantry much further away on reaching the campther camp the police found the campers almost ready to moye sitting bull was seized and placed andor arrest but not bound and the police quickly started for the agency but the followers of the old man soon got over their surprise and a sharp fire was at once opened on the police the police respond edin kind and several fell from their horsek among them sitting bull and his eon blackbird the old medicine man had tried to direct mat for a time bo loudly shouted orders but his fall upset the hostiles ho stiles they at once rallied however and surrounded the police who fought bravely and well but would soon have been overpowered had not the cavalry who had been bent for arrived on the scene the police wee at that time almost out of ammunition ana fighting hand to hand but the sight of the soldiers and the roar of the machine guns alarmed the hos lilea and fliey flotd up grand river the cavalry followed for but a short distance and t en returned locarno and took possess bodies of sitting bull and his son four policemen were killed and three wounded and it is thought that altogether eight of were killed crowfoot the twelve asar old son of sitting bull and a number of others viere wounded sitting bulls followers when they fled up river left behind them all their tents and families which will be turned over to the agency after going a short distance did tance up the river the fleeing redskins red skins scattered and went off in all directions through the country toward the bad lands some of them may try to reach the indians of two strikes band further south while others will seek to esca e to the north is liitle chance for them in any direction the soldiers are located all around the bad lands and the indians will huye little chance to get at the few ranches that are located in tho district even if they attempt to yo on small raids the soldiery are placed so as to head them on the effect of the death of sitting bull is problematical ha waa not a chief in the bence of being a leader in battle and never has been he waa addressed as chief but the wily ambitious old rascal with more of the politician in him than ordinarily credited to the savage by working on the superstitions and tears of the indians gained whatever pie he had and just how those who survive him will take his death cannot be estimated the other leader who hated him had gained a considerable following among the ghost dancers and these may attempt something in revenge the people around bismarck and the neighborhood of is rock agency are greatly wrought up over the killing and express fears for the outcome they think the followers that bull had at the time of his death will attack the scattered settlers aloag the frontier and kill whom they can the scene at the agency today to day was indescribable indi the death of the indian medicine man the flower of the tribe will be mourned by the squaw sand thu old will join in mourning for the present it will oe a grand funeral these policemen will have the death song will continue for weeks |