The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1876-09-16
mo. H..
The Indians.
COUNCIL WITH THE CHIEFS AT STANDING
ROCK AGENCY.

New York. Sept. 6.-Bismarck
dispatches say: When Capt. John
son took charge of Standing Rock
Agency, after the suspension of
the agent by Gen. Cariin. he had
council with the chiefs and lead
ing men, in all numbering about .
hundred :.
The Council was . stormy one.
and loud and impatient talk in
dulged in ON the part of the In
dams. and each ssrong impression
made against the whites or in de-
fance of the troops was received
with loud gruets of approval and
chow, how'-the Indian express
sion of unqualified Endorsement.
This was particularly the case
with Grass, chief Of the Blaexfeet,
who has ever been considered
friendly to the whites.
Capt. Johnson, in short ad-
dress, informed the Indians that
the Great Father had appointed
him their agent to look after them
and take care of them. He hoped
they would get along well toge-
ther. He would see that they re-
ceived all that the Great Father
sent them, but that he should issue
rations or goods only to those In
dams actually at the agency to re-
ceive them, and that in order to
do SO correctly he should seHd
some one to their camp to-
count them. They would - re- \
quired to give up "a the Indians
that came in from the hostileswho
must give up their arms become
prisoners. He desired that all
those Indians on the west side Of
the river should move up near the
post, where they could be properly
looked after.
Grass insinuated that the agent
had been in the habit of letting
them go about as far as they
pleased, but now they were obliged
to give up and be treated as slaves,
and intimated pretty plainly
that they should continue doing
as they had in in the past-that is,
as they pleased Whether they
will continue to assume this atti-
tude the future will decide.
There is sufficient force to quell
any outbreak the Indians may
make, with prospect of three adj
ditional companies soon- The only
trouble would arise from lack of
mounted force.
Three companies of the 18th
Infantry are now en- route to the
agency, making the garrison nine
companies in all.
Ore of the great causes of the
trouble at Standing Rock is the
fact that the Indians have been
short Of supplies every winterand
appropriations were SO delayed
this summer that they became abb
solutely destitute, and. an Indian
to be good must have a full stom-
ach-
NorE-This agent was sus-
pended because it was believed he
had a secret interview with Kill
Eagle, one of the hostile Sioux,
and subsequently issued ESQ head
OF cattle, most OF which have gone
to the hostile camp
Red Cloud agency. Neb. Sept.
6.-The Sioux Commission arrived
here. The escort saw no Indians
on the way and found everything
quiet at the agency. which is in
charge of Lieut.. Etting.
Gen. Msckensie, commander of
the district was present to re-
ceiye the commission, and said he
would aid it by every means in his
power.
| There is quite large military
force here, and the Indians ara in
a depressed state of mind in con-
sequence of the concentration of
troops at the agency, and say they
fear they are all TO be massacred
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