Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-03

UastiEities Expected i'm the Spring

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A ST. Louis dispatch to the Chicago
Tribune, dated January q, says:
cit is altogether likely that, AS soon as
the snow has melted and the grass be-
gins to grow, the army will be called
upon to repress Indian disorders, both
in the far North and remote South.
During the autumn, the Grows and
Sioux, away up on the Upper Missouri,
around and above Fort Peck, have
swarmed the country in war parties,
aiming blows at each other, and, after
the Indian fashion, at such stray whites
as they encountered. They will renew
hostilities with the spring; and as, be-
sides the hunters and woodmen, there
is expected to be considerable influx
of white gold hunters into the country
around Carroll, Montana, outrages are
to be looked for.
The Indians at Standing Rock, and
the adjacent agencies near Bismarck,
are now reported quiet, though, when
Rain Face and Wah-pa pa were arrest
ed for numbering whites, there was
caused much uneaslness. Unhappny,
the efforts of the military have been,
in some degree, neutralized by the
conduct of the Agents. Not alone have
the Indians been allowed to supply
themselves freely with ammunition for
their breech- leaders, but the murderer's
presence was known for long time to
the Agents, who: in fact, opposed the
| arrest.
Along the Missouri, from Fort Sully
down to Yankton, the savagcs are in a
very unenviable temper, owing to the
fact that the gold-hunters have success :
fully penetrated and intrenched them
selves in the Black Hills in considera-
BILE numbers. Readers of the Tribune
will remember that, within the month,
three bodies OF troops have been sent
to GUST these miners, whose Intrusion IS
unwarranted. With such terrible wealth
er as has precailed on the Plains, these
repeated efforts show that the Govern
ment is fully awake to the urgent neces-
sity that exists for expelling these IN
truders and preventing the entrance of
others. The Indians at Spotted Tails
Agency, Cheyenne Agency (near the
mouth of the Big Cheyenne), and Lower
Brule, are much excited, and threaten
to take the work of expelling the miners
in their own hands, as soon as the snow
goes. They are in regular communities
ton with the Indians along the Platte,
and the hostile Northern bands; and,
unless the government can anticipate
or restrain them, it is gravely to be
feared thai the savages will not stop
when they have cleaned out the gold
seekers. The Nebraska settlements are
within easy striking distance, and have
always been a temptation to the young
warriors that, at such period OF ex-
element would be apt to prove irresis-
tible. All these Indians are splendidly
armed with Henry and Winchester
rifles, the ammunition for which they
can secure without limit at the Yankton
| Agency and Brule City.
In the Southwest, it is noticeable that
more than the usual amount Of horse
stealing, with concomitant murders, is
being transacted by the savages. AS in
most Instances the war-parties have
been discovered by their trails to have
| been on foot, it is inferred that the In
dams who have been dismOunted and
disarmed by the government are quietly
preparing for another outbreak.
| More important news comes from
Fort Clark. Nearly 5000 Comanches
and Lipans Q,20O warriors, with $500
horses) are reported between the Rio
Pecos and Rio Grande. Five of their
Chiefs went recently to Zargaza, Mexi-
co,-a locality Of unenviable reputation,
even for the Mexican frontier-to nego-
tiate treaty whereby the Indians would
receive citizenship and territory suffi-
Gent for their wants Major
Mauck, with a small scouting party,
was sent out, and his approach
alarmed the ENJOYS, who returned
ere they had completed their negotia-
tons. These savages have been driven
out by Gen. McKenzie's troops, and
are evidently seeking an asylum III Mex
leo, which would serve them as basis
Of operations against the Texan settle
ments This shelter, it is understood,
the Mexicans would be most willing to
grant, since it would in part cover and
facilitate the operations of their own
maraliders. If the negotiation proves
successful, the United States will be
justified in making the matter an affair
of international consequence.