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Show TBI IXDIAX BCREAI-. II boats: Be Boa Awar With All, ethtr. St. . Paul, Nov. 20. A local paper prints a letter from a corre-pondent corre-pondent at Rosebud Agency, which says, in part: "It seems to be tbe general opinion among the traders, and even among the red men themselves, them-selves, that It would be much better If the Indian Bureau were done away with altogether. White set-tiers set-tiers in this region are agreed that the Indians ought to be given into the care or tbe army, to be attended to Just, as the soldiers are. The Indiana are bv nature soldiers and admire soldiery and respect army methods. The Indian Bureau management man-agement is a failure, for It only permits per-mits the Indians to gather together arms and supplies for another war during the years or peace. When they finally revolt against the tract distributing ot the Indian Bureau, then and not until then, la the army called on. "If the army bad tbe running of things at Rosebud and along the Pine Ridge during the last few years tbe ranchmen all over tbe rvekntaa would not be now frighten ed and fleeing from their homes. The Indians would have been kept under stricter discipline and at the same time would have been treated with more kindness. As It has been, the red men have killed tbe cows and oxen given to them for breeding breed-ing and working purposes, and have made no secret ot doing so, opealy Jefylng arrest on the ground that they were forced to kill or starve. In this state ot Insubordination the Indiana say they bad better die fighting than to die a slow death ol starvation. They say tbe new religion re-ligion promises their return to eaitb at the coming of tbe millenuium and se they have no great fear of death. Tbe time set for tbe begin-uing begin-uing or tbe new era was next spring, but has since been set for the new moon alter the next one, or about December 11. "Within the past three weeks the redskins have traded bones and everything else they could trade for arms and ammunition and all tbe cash they could become possessed ol is spent In the same way." |