| Show THE MORMON IS DID IT general biles miles so though de H 6 h 1 I sot lot sore sure BISSIO miES THE baui ihie in 11 prophets thal ladt bi bs responsible sible for tin the messiah fles siah craze ir ui the indiana lc diani ST PAIL PAUL NOT nov 7 general miles commander of the division of the missouri is here on bis his return from bia his western tour Ke garding tig the cause and nature of the religious craze existing exist ioe among the various indian tribes he lie a says s 1 I have je been e n in the utah montana and Ch cheyenne eTenne reservations investigating vesti gating this craze you have hare no dolbt heard that the indian trishya ap are reported to belle lielie vo that a 4 aa has come who la Is to restora resto res ip their former glory and bring back the tb buffalo and drive tho the whites from fro in the land laud I 1 hare have learned that t this his belief ex exists iota among various tribes sioux shoshones Sho and other tribet in allt all the craze is extended to sixteen tribes the snake indiana being the only ones to repudiate it there is no doubt that ninny mail y indians who are holding this belief in the indian messiah ere sincere and a few bavo have certainly seen some tome person on whom they too look to be t that messiah several small parties of indiana indians have gone westward from their tribes to some point which as near as I 1 can locate it is in nevada there they have ben shown somebody so me disguised as messiah M es lab and have spoken with him I 1 am anclin inclined ad to believe that there aie ate more than one person impersonating this messiah as when the 6 sioux bioux have spoken with him be he replied in the sioux language and to the ho he bad had spoken their tongue and eo on with the representatives of each nation or tribe ape speaking aking their own language to each I 1 who do you thick think responsible f for or this imposition upon the indiana indians 1 I cannot state positively but it is my belief that the mormons cormons ara are the prime movers in it this is not a hard statement to believe for there are mormons cormons and they themselves claim to believe in prophets and spiritual manifestations and they even now claim to hold intercourse with the spirit of joe smith besides they have bad had missionaries at work among be the indians lor for many years and have mado many converts 1 do you think this new belief of the I 1 indians will lead to an outbreak and bloodshed 1 I do not think eo so but when an ignorant race becomes religious religions fanatics it is hard bard to tell just what they will do it la is noteworthy however that th a t this so called messiah tells the indians that when he comes to reign over ov er them firearms will no longer be used or necessary lie ile tells them also that with bis his earning coming the dead indians will all be to life the buffalo return and he will draw a line behind on 01 which be he will father gather all the indians ani then be will roll the earth back upon the white this has naturally excited the indians and large numbers have accepted the new belief among those who have done so none is more ardent than sitting bull who is intensely indian in all his ideas do you think that the parson person who is impersonating messiah is a it white mn man or an indian in dlan those that have seen him say that he is muffled up and disjointed disjoined dis joined BO so they do not tee lee his lace face but I 1 believe be he is a full fall blooded white the arg arguments amenta the indians indian use in discussing the matter is the whites have bad had their messiah and the indians now have theirs the situation is not alarming in any way and I 1 do not know whether any action will be taken by the government regarding the matter until after I 1 have made in y report |
