Show THE INDIAN MOVEMENT ST BT PAUL dec L 1 A press special from standing rock agency says it is considered probable that sitting bitting bull will come in next saturday and when he does he be will be arrested Major mccaugh the agent said today there is no reason why sitting bull should not be arrested as soon as he comes within reach of this agency he has broken his promise to send his children to to school and did not come in last ration day as ordered I 1 have ten scouts and if the old cold recreant comes within the limits of the agency they will bring him in the weather does not get as cold as I 1 wish sitting bull should be captured and confined his influence la Is strongly and constantly for evil and while lie he does not participate in the ghost danced tp the jie extent of j emping about and yelling he kee keep the frenzy at the highest pitero pitch gall and john grass gre are thoroughly loyal probable that sitting bull will be a prisoner before many days I 1 dec L 1 A bee sped all from pine ridge says judge burns of deadwood dead wood arrived tonight having run the gauntlet of the hostile camp and declares he is thankful that he escaped with his life he says the ghost dance is going on con all day andi and night varied occasionally with theold war dance the hostile band ls is made up almost altogether of oc young men who have disregarded the advice of their old chiefs judge burns corroborates fully the previous reports as to the abundance of food and ammunition which they have and says they are making up a big supply of a new pattern tomahawk which is more ugly than the old style what friendly indiana there are left at the agency are coming in and telling agent rogor that they wish the thing could be settled without bloodshed rogers roger reply is in effect that he is afraid it is too late to make peace little wound has made another effort to persuade his braves to forego hostilities and he barely escaped from them with his life the scouts are returning constantly and report increased preparations for war washington dec 1 the reports received by the war depart metot ment from the locality of the threatened indian troubles are much less favorable than for several days past they indicate that between one and two thou thousand cand of the indians who refused to come into rosebud agency in response to the agents orders have started westward towards what is 0 known as the bad lands in their stampede they have committed depredations ou on the cabins and stock of friendly indians who went into the agency general brooke telegraphs the information as not from his own scouts he expects further information these alarming reports have again been beeg the subject of consular consultation between secretary proctor and generals schofield and miles the latter has asked general schofield that additional troops be placed at his command it is understood that his request was for mounted infantry the department will soon have a large number of troops at its disposal in the region where the turbulent indians are gathered the sixth cavalry are now on their way to the scene washington dec L 1 general miles spent half an hour with the secretary of the interior this afternoon in discussion of the indian situation upon leaving the secretary s office he said to a representative ti ve of the associated press that the sioux continued very much excited and lie he feared an outbreak he regarded the situation as alar alarming minor and should hasten back to chicago tonight he expressed a hope however that thi the military would be able to prevent bloodshed topeka Top riKA I 1 kan dec 1 A dispatch was rec received elved at the santa fe office tills dils morning corning in stating that twelve carloads of troops left forts forte bayard and wingate N M for port fort N 1 eight hundred soldiers were transferred dec L 1 the united states troops at port fort logan bogad near denver have been ordered to prepare at once to go to dakota they will probably join the regiment ou on the way from port fort win wingate tia CHICAGO dec L 1 A Ims dispatch patch to th the daily eDaily aels from pine ridge agency confirms the report leport that many indians indiana from rosebel are joining the hoef hoe ciles tiles on their way to the bad lauds lands the correspondent says many more l have stolen away from pine ridge agency the hostile force in the bad lauds lands is now estimated at four thousand it was reported to bight night that the ho hostiles bos liles stiles sent word to the that any spies caught would be killed halfbreed half breed settlers are coining in from all around reporting loss of cattle night hawk one of the hostile chiefs sent a letter to agent roger which the agent will not make public it is reported that it contains this threat send your soldiers to take us we are ready to fight 11 the weather is cooler tonight and snow is falling washington WASHING Tox dec 2 general miles in an interview today on the indian troubles said he be believed the dan danger r 1 imminent the seriousness of ge the situation he said has not been exaggerated the disaffection is more liable to spread than for beare there is a conspiracy of indians of different tribes that have heretofore been hostile but are now in full sympathy with each other each scattered over a large area of country the causes of the difficulty are easy of location insufficient food supplies religious delusion and the innate disposition of the savage to go to war must be held responsible general miles referred to the great necessity which exists for more cavalry although N he said we have about two thousand mounted men we have plenty of infantry but you cannot catch a mounted indian with white foot so soldiers idlers Is it not a novel proceeding for the indians indiana to go on the warpath karpath at the beginning of winter queried the reporter yes in some respects it is replied the general their argument is good though they are better armed than ever and their supply of horses is all that could be desired every buck has a Wiach winchester ester rifle ofle and knows how to use it these ho hostiles bost stiles lles have been becu starved into energy and they will prefer to die fighting rather than starve peacefully I 1 hope the problem may be solved without bloodshed but such fuch a happy epding coding to the trouble seems improbable CHICAGO CHicA ao dec 2 at army headquarters this morning orders were given all employee to remain at their desks unless special leave is gran granted teJ there are important telegrams from the indian country hut general williams refused to divulge the contents until general liesl arrival own the situation is regarded as critical Getie general ral brooke telegraphs telegraph A number of rosebud indiana with some gome from pine ridge agency and some from lower brule and standing idock agencies to the number of have halve gathered on white river biver above the mouth and are very def defiant lant 11 pierre dec 2 letters were received today from the commandants at port sully and vort fort Ben banuett Be unett uett stating that the indian frontier so far as that country is concerned is perfectly safe an officer returned from a personal visit to humps and big foots camps on oil cherry creek and stated the cold weather and snow have driven the indians indiana in from the ghost dances they advise eliat all settlers procure rines rifles and plenty of ani ammunition this winter because the danger of an outbreak in the spring is great dec S cutcheon of michigan called up the senate joint resolution authorizing the secretary of war to issue a thousand stands of arms to each of the states north and south dakota wyoming and nebraska on oil motion ot of carter montana montana was included in the provisions of the joint resolution which was then passed I 1 PINE RIDGE Ar AGENCY jENCY dec 6 As perilous as anybody has undertaken for many a day in the interest of averting great bloode bloodshed lledo was completed yesterday when the goad father jute a catholic priest whom general genera brooke had requested to go out and talk with the ram bantly hostile indiana Indi anc returned to the agency he was the only white man who might think of making a trip and living to get back the reverend father was accompanied by jack red cloud who went by reason of being the widely respected sou of the famous chief ten ven miles from the hostile camp they were halted by the pickets and conducted to camp under cover of winchesters Win chesters A conference followed at which there were present two strike turning ing bear short bull high hawk drw dog kicking bear eagle pipe big turkey and high pipe father jute opened the council by asking the chiefs to st lie their grievance the replies were w eru substantially as follows fol loWE we olleeta to the recent census returns made by lee his enumerator would not give food sufficient for us to live on lee puts us down many less jess for each tepee than the tepee contzius conta ius tf ff we shall starve we will tia toone big eat before starving eimil corner after that we shall LAST FIGHT and white man shall pee fee morre more blood more daod than ever before then we will go to the last hu hunting epting ground ba hapy opy if the white man did not mean to cheat us out oyt of food the great father never would have bave sent soldiers there is 18 no need of soldiers if the great father intended to be fair with us tile the great rather father has done another wrong her has put ut a new boundary line between and pine pin mage agency that makes luany dinati y of us leave loave our homes and give them to others the great father broke the old treaty when he did this we can nu no longer believe the great father he says to us children you shall never be moved a again in unless xou IOU want to move abla anla and then he be goes right ahead and moves us we have done with promises and now we make a promise that WE WILL right FIGHT and the great father will find fand that we must not break our promise we will now be very plain with yau christian father and tell you another thing something of whdeh you may have already thought it is this that hat we are not coming in now a and nd w will ill not lay down our rifles because we are afraid of the consequences consequence we have done wrong we know it II if we should stop now mow we would be punished the great father will send many of us to his big iron house to stay many moons we would die father jute urged them to be peaceful and explained that the soldiers would not harm the but protect the agency that rations should be increased and if they came to general brooke lie would telegraph to washington and got get permission for them to stay on this agency as they rio iio fir far as an depredations are concerned the father told them they had bad be better ater stop committing them and they would be more easily forgiven finally lie urged the chiefs all to comeback with him to this some of the older ones mide made a favorable reply buttee young ones who were heavily in the in majority tally said no but the old men inen anally agreed that THEY WOULD COME IN to father jutes house four miles mile s port northward hward of the agency this morn ing aud and there meet general brouke brooke and tell him iu in person just what they told father jute this brought on a renewal of the bitter opposition from the majority finally the young chiefs cooled ol 01 off ar and two strike addressing father jute said hold your hands up to the great spirit and tell us as though you were about to starton start on a journey to the last hunting grounds of the whether what you say to us from general brooke be true and that we will not be harmed if we come I 1 iu u siny simply to talk to general brooke pa father jute says he complied with the request all the chiefs then extended bands toward heaven and with great solemnity promised they would come OMAHA dec 6 the T bees plue phie ridge special about the conference between general brooke and tile the hostile chiefs says the latter were burning bear big turkey high pine big bad hotte hone and buil bull dog they were decorated with war ar paint and feathers as were also their ponies general brooke explained to to them that the crept father wanted to tell them if thoy they would come in near tile the agency where he be and general brooke coid see sec them thein often and not be compol compel ed to depend upon rumors to learn wh what A t they iu doing he would rive give them plenty to batand employ many of their young men as scouts etc the soldiers he said faid had bad not como come to tight them but to protect the settlers and keep keel peace As to falling failing to locate the boundary line between plue pine ridge and tand rosebud all such differences would be satisfactorily after the indians indiana had shown i how n a disposition to come in as requested by the great father he suggested wounded knee as a place that boult be satisfactory the indian chiefs listened and turning bear then spoke for them chem the effrontery displayed by the fellow was remarkable he said it would be a bad thing for the ind 1 ians to come nearer the agency because there was waa no water or grass for their horses he could not un how bow their young men could be employed ag aa scouts if there were no enemy to be watched they might corne come I 1 in a but as the old men and squads squaws have no horses they should have the great father to send horses and wagons to the bad lands landi anti and take all the beef and other things they had there to the camp that might be agreed on general brooke said all these things would be considered after they ibey had bad chown a disposition to obey instructions instruct ioni no reference was made on either side to the depredations the hostiles ho stiles had been corn com mitt lingon ingon the governments heards beards as we well as settlers homes after the powwow pow wow the chiefs were fed and after the equals at the agency had bad perr performed ormed a lance for them returned to their camp CHI CAio dec 6 the tribune prints a letter from quapaw indian berd territory tory signed by I 1 masse hado aladj 0 11 known to the whites as john daylight in which the writer vigorously defends the messiah emze craze he says thousands have never taken kindly to the christian religion as preached and adds adde the code of morals as practised practiced by the white race will not compare with the morals of the indians indiana we pay no lawyers or preachers but we have not one tenth part of the crime that you have haive if our messiah does come we can force you into our belief we will never burn innocent women at the stake or pull men to pieces with horses because they refuse to join in ghost dance you white people had a messiah and if history is to be believed nearly every nation has had bad one you had twelve apostles we have only eleven and some OF of those these are already in the military guardhouse guard house we also bad a virgin mary and she is in the guardhouse guard house you are anxious to got hold of our messiah so can put him in irons this you may do in fact you may c crucify ru el f y him as you did that other one but you cannot convert the indians indiana to the Ch christian Ostian religion until voa laminate them with the blood of the white mau man J CHICAGO dec 7 general miles said today oday generals ruger and brooke have been doing all they ean can to put the small number of available troops in a position to be ija useful fid anti and bo 0 far as possible thu the threatened cyclone yet ethelend of the indian troubles is by no means immediately at hand band no other civilized country on the face of the earth would tolerate many thousands of armed savages scattered through different states and territories the people of texas western kansas nebraska north and south dakota montana wyoming ming utah eastern washington tId atio arizona and new mexico are seriously interested in this subject while |