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Show INDIAN WAR IN WYOMING. Sheriff's Posse and Indians Engage In Second Skirmish. A second battlo between tho Sioux Indians and tho sheriff's posso was fought Monday on Horscshoo creek, northeast of LuBk, Wyo. Ten Indians wero killed, several wounded and nlno captured. It Is known that tho Indians In-dians havo been reinforced nnd also that tho country Is swarming with ranchmen and othor whites who nro determined that nono of tho Indians shall escape. Govornor Chatterton Is Investigating this Inst roport nnd If It Is truo and tho situation Is as alarming as Indicated, Indi-cated, ho will at once send troops Into tho field to suppress tho Indians. Tho governor has mndo formal demand de-mand on tho commissioner of Indian affairs thnt tho Indians bo surrendered surren-dered to tho civil authorities at onco. Full reports from tho battlo of Saturday Sat-urday evening on Lightning creek between be-tween Sheriff Miller nnd twelve deputies depu-ties and a band of twenty-five Indians show that tho Indians resisted arrest and opened fire on tho officers. Sheriff Sher-iff W. H. Miller, of Nowcastle, nnd Deputy Louis Falkenhnrg, of Douglas, wero killed. Four Indians wero killed nnd wero burled on tho field. Four others, ono a squaw, wero so seriously wounded that they will die, nnd were tnken to Lusk. A number of Indlnns wore enp-turod enp-turod and wero taken to Newcastle Tho Indians wero led by Eagle Feather, alias Charlie Smith, a full blooded Sioux Indian, who Is a gradu-ato gradu-ato of tho Carlisle Indian schcol and who formerly played on tho Indian rootbnii tenm. Eaglo Feathers was seriously seri-ously wounded, being shot through both legs. Blnck Kettlo, a notorious Sioux disturber, was among the killed. |