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Show THE INDIANS. Too Story cl a Xaa who KiUd Uinuelf and was Besar rtcled. HUMP REED AND HIS 300 PAINT-CD PAINT-CD WARRIORS. The Fine Bidet! Indians Take a Most LlTelj Interest Id the Ghost Daner. OBJECTIONS T6 THE INDIAN BUREAU. Lee Webster, or Daltlaorc, SaleJdes After a life of Extrara. rne. Oj Teleiraph to the awa.l TUE SiOSTASJL IKDIAXB. Tcllow Ilank U Maid lo Have Bona Reaarrrcttd. Ciiicaoo, 'ov. 20. General Miles this evening received a telegram tele-gram from IlushTille, NeU. Informing Inform-ing him that General Brooke's com mand reached Fine Bldga at 7 o'clocl. this morning. The Indiana are coming in large numbers from rtusebud. There Is much excitement ex-citement and the ghost dance con tinues. General Miles received a com municallon from an officer at Camp Foplar Illver, Mont, dated Xovem-btr Xovem-btr 17th, containing considerable matter of interest with reference to the Messiah craze. The officer retorts re-torts ail Indians In that vicinity affected by the prevailing craze, and even the more intelligent half-breeds believe In it Numbers of young Indians haverecently procured new Winchester rifles. Where, the officer offi-cer could not ascertain. There has been no excitement up there yet, nor any dances, but thire is a deep and universal interest and a telle! that there will be astonishing supernatural super-natural manifestations before very long. Une of Sitting Bull's lieutenants (White Gut) with two other Kioux have recently been up there preaching preach-ing the new doctrine, denouncing the schools and telling, the Indians to rrovidn themselves with arms and ammunition, and join other Indians In-dians next spring in the Black Hills country. They were ordered off the reservation and went to the mountains moun-tains north of the British line, to proselyte pros-elyte the Oallalas and Uncapapas. One of the loyal Indians told this ufficer that In case the Sioux should ojt:U hostilities many ioung warriors war-riors trom thit vicinity are likely to go and Join them. The Oallalas and Uncapapas north f the British line are a bad lot Some of them were lu the Cus-, ter airuir, and some of the older ones' were concerned in the Minnesota massacre of 1SQT. The Gros Ventres Indians at Fort Belknap are in a very turbulent state. As an instance of the stories floating around, the officers tell ono current on the reservation, to the effect that several young warriors started from there to visit Sitting Bull and learn about the new Messiah. Mes-siah. On the way one of them, Vellow Hawk, said he had been commanded in a dream to kill himself him-self as a lest of his filth, with a rrotnlce that ho should be raised from the dead. He committed suicide sui-cide ae-conlingiy, and the party went on without him. When they reached Standing Itjcfc they found Vellow Ua k there, alive and well, having Lttu resurrected and taken to Standing Hock ahead of his com-pntons. com-pntons. 'Itili in the story tent back by the traveler?. OILMUIAI. 31ILEB expressed great satisfaction this evening that General Brooke's troops reached the agency this morning before the Indians had inaugurated in-augurated hostilities', nnd the fur tber fact that the latter are not committing com-mitting any violence. "Now," said be, "they have to attack us in our own position, or else break away from the reservation. The danger now is that the turbulent bucks may leave the reservation. The appearance appear-ance of General Brooke's command, however, will have the effect of sustains sus-tains the authority of the government govern-ment and give protection to the loyal element" KF.El'I.SO UP TH El It DANCES. Tiebbe, S. D., Nov. S). Captain Norville, the special Indian agent stationed at this point returned today from a trip up Bed Illver, where he went on hearing that the Indian?, on account of the Messiah Mes-siah dance, were failing to attend to the distribution of rations and were killing cattle. Ho reports that he found the Indians much excited and keeping up their famous ghost dances with a rest and pereecr-anre pereecr-anre that is alarming. lie found "Hump Keed"wlthabout300 braves of the Two Kettle hand, all painted up and acting in a very suspicious manner. Cowboys who arrived here tonight stated that the Indians had killed a Lumber of cattle and were acting in a strange manner, and the famous Indian, "Stepj, the Cripple," had told them they had better keep on their guard. Some of the chiefs told Norville that several of the hos-tilcahad hos-tilcahad urged them to go and Join the ghost dances, making a threat that if they didn't enough force would be sent against them to kill tbem. All claim to stand In great fear of the hostile. BETORTED BATTLE. Chicago, Nov. 0. Buffalo Bill, who is in the city, told an Associated Associat-ed Frees representative this cvenlDg that General Miles has received information in-formation that a fight occurred this afternoon between General Brooke's troops and Indians between Ituih-vilie Ituih-vilie and Fine Jlidge. No particulars particu-lars have been received and the casualties are unknown. Buffalo BUI expressed an opinion that General Gen-eral Miles wonld, if lellalone by the government, settle the trouble expeditiously. expe-ditiously. General Miles could not be seen tonight, either at his headquarters or the hotel. It was stated that he had gone out in company with Col. Corbin, his assistant adjutant general. gen-eral. Later. General Miles waa seen at midnight, and assured the reporter re-porter that he knew nothing whatever what-ever about a battle having occurred. THE HOW CAUSED BY THE AfJENT. Fobt Niobrara, Neb via Valentine. Val-entine. Neb., Nov. SO. The troops from Fort Niobrara reached Rosebud Rose-bud Agency early this morning, and found all quiet and peaeefut The Messiah craze has not been a prevalent at Rosebud Agency, and most of those affected by it left several sev-eral days ago for Pine Hidge, to participate par-ticipate in the ghost dances. The arrival of Urge numbers of Indians, with a dozen wagons, yesterday, In Valentine, for the purpose of rrefghtlng agency goods to Rosebud, when they knew the troors were marching to the agency, was an assurance to the peopIi that little trouble was to be apprehended. It is also considered good evidence that there will be bo trouble at Ffaa Ridge, when it I tttoogM tscat of U present tow is caused by the new and inexperienced agent OLD ilOHTEKa. OittHi, Kot. 10, Orders hav) been received at Fort Omaha bi iave four companies of the Secorjd Infantry ready to go to the front at a moment's notice. The companies immediately began to pack up, and Inside of two hours everything necessary for a winter campaign was ready to be placed on board the can. These companies, so far at least as the commanders are concerned, con-cerned, comprise some of the oldest fighters in this section of country. effect op eroprtsd tub ohost DAXCS. KAjfaas Citt, Nov. SU A dispatch dis-patch from Pine Ridge from James N. Finley, formerly of this city.now a trader st Fine Ridge agency, was received here tonight The dispatch dis-patch coenUoBS Ore arrival of the troops and coMJaiM as , follows: "The Indians are actually crazed with religious aanaMcIam and the excitement at the ghost dance is most intense. It is the general pinion among the troops that they will be ordered In a day or two to stop the Indians' Shost dance. Then trouble will un-oubtedly un-oubtedly follow. Two or three of these dances are now In progress. A herder who Just reached here reports that several hundred Indiana In-diana have congregated secretly nine miles from this place. They are all heavily armed and are expecting ex-pecting the Rosebud Bioox to join tbem shortly." A OEMERAX. INDIA WAS FBtt-DICTEDi FBtt-DICTEDi Wabhu.oto.1, Nov. 20. A lady signing herself "E. B. B," who professes great psychological powers, pow-ers, publishes a prediction here today to-day that there will be a genera Indian In-dian war next spring, which will result in the almost complete extermination ex-termination of the Indians. Professor Pro-fessor Cones, the noted theosopblat, and ex-disciple of Madame Blavat-sky, Blavat-sky, vouches for "E. 8. B.," saving sav-ing that she has made psychological psycholog-ical forecasts In the past few years on other matters, which have proven extremely accurate. |