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Show AMONG THE INDIANS. ST Mtnit riratKcportt the "nostlle" '. ' va' Deflaat and ie-j ie-j terralned. 'LOSCR 'HCLO'-rOR THE KILLING OF ShULLCNBCRGER. lir. Landes Clalnu -to Hire Found tbe ltadlla. that Causes . 'lockjaw. ' ncAN's Way or doing bank-business. bank-business. Santa Claas Said to Hare ibe Tresl drncror the U. P. For (trorge (loatd. TcIrniiS tS iS Kttl the idi tnri.ttm.sr. Holdier Heported slarronnded bj fnduinn. ItAfiicCin, S. D., Dec 22. Dlspalclies to Gersiral Miles from Colonel Sumuer today show that .nearly all of Sitting llull'sfollower, together with Dig Foot' band, have surrendered lo lllm. Colonel Sum-mr Sum-mr lu a dispatch said this disposes of all the Indians along the Cheyenne Chey-enne river, and If there, are any more of Sitting Hull's people out he doesn't know where they can be. General Jjraose reports the friendlylndlansatthc Ira4 Lauds; camp, and says the capture of .rjlt-iiiig .rjlt-iiiig Iliill'A people and illg Foot's forcee will aid .the efforts or the friendlica to bring jn tho hostile. An Indian scout reporte to General Rrooke that fchort Jlull's foilowers are .anxious to come In but are 1 withheld hy'tho th teats of Kicking Bear, one'tif Sitlini: Hull's agents. 'The scout thinks, however,- the nendlies will at last succeed In iriuelng out Short Hull' followers. A report has reached General Mile, via Missoula, that two companies com-panies of soldier iu the Yellowstone region a" surrounded north of the CavelluMby 600 or GOO Indians, and nave sent a courier out with a no' Ideation of danger to the "cttlers. 'General Miles says there are Indians in that vicinity, but Ui-iredits Ui-iredits 11:5 retort that troops are hemmed in. He bas, however, ordered reinforcements 5riU omoi:e i'eaci: talk. PIN!: ItllHiKAGlLNCVjS.UDeC Hi Stands First, one of the most sagacious bf Indian scouts, has returned re-turned from tho hostile cam). .General Ilruokc sent bim out last Thursday and Jie 'pent Saturday In the hostile camp. When ho attempted at-tempted to present tho peaceful miction on which he hail Imm sent the Indians leveled thclr guns at lilm and his vuicerws" drowned. In a babel uf war eric. Then ono of the lenders among the hoV.Hes said to bim that they would listen to no ihore eice talk end. would never again allow all a J Vocals of peace to leave their cainpullve. The white sold iits were cowards anil afraid to llslit them. They called Stands Firtawoman and the slave of the white men. Sbinds Kir-t asked them what wduid becoaie of their wives and families when thesoldiers came after them, and the licsli lea replied that they could, protect them. He says there are a few In the hostile camp who would be willing to come in, but the great nujority, he thinks, will not. ANJTIIRIt -'iliSMAIJ" -OU2JI. TdiitlaND, Ore., "Dec. 22. A. J. Clupmau, the sU5ut sent to Nevada by'Gem Gibbon, to look up the Indian In-dian Messiah, has returned. He found tlie man to be a tullblocd Piute Indian, named Omoitlzeow. He has always been peaceable and vigoroJly dieclaimsany incendiary doctrines. Ilesayabo was hunting one day, and was suddenly felled to tbe ground by an unseen force. Hd was then taken to-lieaveo. where he saw all tho whites and Indians that liave died on the earth. He was then brought back to the spot her hu had keen stricken down and Gcd told him that he would be entrusted wltlt tho mission of rerunning re-running tlie world. He says be lias since preached only doctrines of peace and industry. All this confirms the previous stories and Indicates that tno Eastern East-ern Indian exaggerated bis teach logs to fit their ideas. This Indcau livid some time with a very religious re-ligious white family, where he probably got his ideas first. SKIRMISIIKS. Dlwch, Dec. 22. A special to the Ax train .Rapid City rajs troops from Colontl Carr'a command com-mand Iiad a skirmish yesterday with a number of Indiana from Hump's hand who ore on their way to ine hostlles iu the Had Lands. None were seriously hurt. Kore troops have beeu sent out. A report is received re-ceived that a 'large number of Indians In-dians ore trying to join those In the Bad Lands, lut the number Is belle be-lle ved to be exaggerated. Yesterday ten cowboys ambushed a number ot bucks near Battle creek, killing one anil! wounding others. The cowboy cow-boy captured a, number of ponies andeaudlei. A SE.SSII1LK MS-ULUTIOX. WASIHJ.GTOX, Defl.,22. In the Mouse today Hlancbard (Lfl.) ef-fered ef-fered for reference a preamble and resolution lling for the appointment appoint-ment of arcommlttee or five to In-iL.lre In-iL.lre into tbe killing or Bitting Hull and the Immediate causes leading 'tucrcto, the committee alio to In-J Vestigate the existing Indian troubles trou-bles In the Xorthwest. The preamble reci.ei that the killing "anpears to have been ac-'camplislieti ac-'camplislieti under circumsutnees recognized re-cognized neither by the laws of war1 nor the laws of peace,'' and the resolution res-olution directs tbei commission to Investigate "whether a state of war existed which Justified his summary taking off", and if not, what justlti-eatlon justlti-eatlon there wm for his jlojfnt death at the, hands of the Indian police In the employ of the govern-brent." govern-brent." ' |