Show ANOTHER OUTBREAK FEARED indian runners tell of a threatened attack redskins Red skins send out insulting messages to the droops two hundred warriors in canoes on the mississippi bound for leech lake one thousand one hun dred soldiers available for service against the indians v minneapolis oct 11 the journals staff correspondent at walker tele araps commissioner jones was wel 1 corned by the chiefs who seemed to be i glad he had come he was informed that runners from the dear island camp brought word that the braves would receive anyone for a conference except soldiers and marshals if soldiers came they would fight they wanted to go to sugar point where the battle was fought for a conference on the pretext that the soldiers could not land then at their camp the commissioner counted 30 bucks in camp and they jost but one man killed and two squads squaws wounded st paul oct 11 A walker special to the dispatch says indian commissioner jones who arrived last night spent the night in investigating the cause of the indian trouble so far as it could be learned in walker and in seeking to learn what settlement of the dolfl cuttles would be satisfactory to the whites the surrender of the twenty indians for whom warrants are out will not remove tho cause of the present trouble or restore a friendly feeling among the indians who sympathize with the indians it Is said the reds have been badly treated by the whites and the battle that resulted so disastrously was the culmination of years of dissatisfaction is they therefore fear further trouble unless there is a thorough settlement bett lement now minneapolis oct 11 the journals staff correspondent at cass lake says indian runners from the south passed here going north and from them information of a more serious nature than any heard heretofore was obtained the host lles at bear island have already learned that gen bacon intends to attack them within 8 hours and are busily preparing to rescue them they are well posted in everything that goes on at walker or the agency they are strongly In trenched and have sent out insulting messages to the whites th indians are being reinforced by other branches of the tribe A pillager passed up cass lake this morning and seventy others are camped eight miles west of here women and children going steadily northward nor hward twenty canoes of bucks four in each went up the mississippi river into leech lake last night it is expected that at least reds will join the hos tiles soon from drainers Dra inerd comes the most alarming reports yet it Is said gen bacon will make another attack in the next day or two he Is determined to get the indians or their bodies if he does neither the indiana will make a break north for the big fork country he cannot follow them and they will have time to do awful damage to the settlers straggling villages and railroad property as they flee I 1 consider the situation critical both here and along the road some of the whites aro starting back to work today but where the troops can protect them two according to reports at the headquarters are in prime condition with the exception ot men who have not recovered from the rigors of hc cuban campaign at columbus barracks there arc CIS men in garrison and of this number or COO can bac made ready for field duty at once at fort sheridan lucre arc men in garrison and of this number can be made ready at once the united strength of the two commands la about 11 OC in the opinion 0 col barr acting commander of the department of ibo hakea it they are ordered to the it will bo be cause a large body ot soldiers is needed to round up the belligerent indians c altered through the leech lake territory with as letlo blood as possible walker minn oct 11 inspector tinker haa withdrawn hla statement ol 01 terms to the indians fearing that he had threatened war in case of noncom non com aliance ance he saya bis mission la not in the detachment of the third one so in the detachment of he third one so seriously that he would be sent back to fort snelling minneapolis ocr 11 A to the journal says joseph gould formerly an indian trader and now a farmer was murdered saturday near leech balce dam it Is believed the crime aca the deed of hostile indians whew ill will gould had in hia operations he claimed to be a cousin of jay gould |