St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-09-04
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the opposite eide, q there !was,i IN general
I ssiG for The tAssasy Ihsy ysse five $eyr
low Medicine to Shakopee. &"':S&
/, just before they; started for the eAgency
in their wagons, Muzza- moni, a chiefsof
the Wakpeton bands. Came, to them tiHc
(Othet- Day. asked Muzza- -moni if all the
civilized, or raru,er Indians, were engaged
in the fracas., Muzsa>inoni replied that
only part of them, were in it, Mont If
those composing thrs 3Hazlewood Republic
had gone to guard Mr.. Riggs, their ,old
Missionary, and were now in and around
his house tor that purpose. They had
made up their minds to guard NJ. Ri g
atsall hazards. "A! few days" before they
had been furnished With powder and :lead,i
and he thought they uyqNld defend hilps'
5s%s %s s'Sa 'il:' D wa'oo a'a
said that y party of Indians, p'robably
Yanktons, we're enca,hped5 near the Doc
tors house; that at dark, Of; Monday even.
iAg they rushed to bis house, plundered
it, and took his horses. The Doctor ana
his family ran into the bush s. As the
bushes aud woods extended to- Mr. Riggs,
house, Other: Day thinks that perhapsIDrj
Williamson and family have, got, safely g to
Mr.. Riggs house. There was young
woman residing in Williamson family.
"a half.brced daughter of Andrew Rob-,
inson-whom the: Indiansas found in the.
bushes and took away, as. they said she
was relative of theirs. Then he asked
Muzza ,moni if they had killed the half:
breeds Muzza- moni said no; they had
made prisoners of them; did not know
what they intended to do with them
After hearing this he came off. =
In answer to miscellaneous questions by
the Governor, Other Day said that Muz
"a moni urged him to d. all he could 60
save the whites that lie could do nothing
. hatever with the Indians. -
lie brought away from the Agency all
the whites but few whom he could nit
reach-two sawyers aRa woman, three
clerks in Louis Roberts warehouse, and
one in each of the other warehouses;
There were two other5:e1wareh = the
clerks Of which had locked The doors and
run off in the night. Don't know what
become Of them
Just as they had harnessed the horses
one OF the traders came to them wounded
with a charge of shot in his abdomen
They brought him along with them until
they came to female nurse to whose care
they lef; him. [rhis was, probably. Gavin
who died at Cedar Creek He said that
10. Browns family. afraid of being seen
It they went. away in wagons. made their
escape in small canoes. and A,ated down
tho river in the night, stopping at Red
Wood on the way. He sawa brother Of
10 Brown who told him they had arrived
safely at the Fort
In reference to the Indians engaged in
the outbreak, he says there is stream
half way between Yellow Medicine and
Lacqui Parle. The Indians above that
stream knew nothing of the fracas, and
were not in any manner connected with
1t.
The chiefs who participated in the coun-
Gil ut Yellow Medicine were as follows {:
The chief of Old Sleep-Eye's band, the
Lean Bear, White Lodg dge, the son of Linn
ing Devil, and Blue Face. The above
are Sissetons, and urged the killing Of the
whites.
The following are the Wappetons who
opposed this advice:
Muzza-moni; the Gun, or Walking.
runner, father.in-law of Little Crow !;
Akipa; Root ofthe-Horn Eneehan !:
Makpi-o-Chasta and Anah -ungomin, one
OF the members of the Hazlewood Repub
lie, who has been one Of it's Presidents.
The only reason given by the Sissetons
for killing the whites, was that a)ready
stated-that the outrages at the Lower
Ager cy would make them implacable enc
mics, that all the Inlians would suffer FIR
it. and that it would be no worse if they
killed the whites.
Before the fracas occurred, war party
OF Sioux went out from the country above
Yellow Medicine against the Chippetwas
They knew nothing Of this affair before
they went, and had not come back when it
occurred.
A few days AGO panic occurred in Me-
Leod county, from its being reported that
Indian tracks were seen near Hutchinson.
Other Day says in explanation Of this,
that party Of ten Indian hunters went
from the Lower Agency in that direction
before the outbreak, and had just return.
ed. He thinks they had no hostile lnten-
ITEMS
It q her Day thinks there were no precon,
"ertiti the outbreak He had been gen.
orally present in their councils, but never
heard such a. thing hintcdy" There ono