The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-09-20
THE RED DEVILS.
The SlOuN'Blackreet Alllanee-Butch.
cry OF White Men and Division of
Spells and Women Captured.
Matters Assuming a Serious Aspect at the
Agencies A Fight or a Foot Race the
uueStiOn-SpOtted Tail SChemlng
With Parties at Fort
Peck.

CHICAGO, September ia letter
from $, Il. Denny, of the Canadian
mounted police, was received here to-
day, at military headquarters, and ia
the first official information sent to
this government Of the proposed ALI.
ance between the Sioux and Blackfeet
Indians for warfare on the Americans
and whites and on the Crow Indians.
Denny was sent to investigate and
diplomatic among the savages, which
he appears to have done successfully.
He visited the Blackfeet nation, was
cordially received, and learned from
them that the Sioux had made ad-
vances for the purpose of get
ting them to join in fight
ing the Grow and other Indians,
and also Americans. The Sioux prom
ised n portion of spells and also II
number of white women whom they
had captured. They promised after
the American whites were eXtermina-
ted to go across and massacre the
Canadian whites. The Blackfeet hay
ing refused these propositions the
Sioux threatened to come across and
punish them. Danny promised to aid
the Blackteet in case they We're attack
ed under these circumstances, which
pleased them so well that they made
profuse demonstrations and assertions
of eternal friendship for the whites
and threw themselves on the kindness
and protection of Canadians, saying
they realized that in time they would
be deprived of forage and provisions
by the encroachments of the whites.
The letter is dated July IS and is d.
rected to Lieutenant-COlonel A. &.
Irwin, northwestern mounted police
CHICAGO, September l9th.--The fol.
lowing has been received from Gener-
al Terry at military headquarters da-
ted Fort Buford, Indian Territory, Sep.
TENDER llth. "Arrived here on the
seventh. On the ninth information
reached me that II considerable body
of hostile Sioux had appeared at Wolf
point, about eighty-tive miles above
Buford. |, therefore, directed Major
Reno, of the 9th, cavalry, with his own
regiment to march from his position
on the Yellowstone to that place. go
up the river to-day to meet him."
RED CLOUD AGENCY, Nebraska, via
Sydney, Septem Der l9.-I improve an
opportunity to send out dispatch in adj
vance OF the time set for the council
to-day. Matters begin to assume n
serious aspect and appearances indi-
cate there will be no Indians here to-
day, Notwithstanding the fact they
have all been told II week ago that |
they would be expected to give final
answer to-day. With the exception of |
about dozen lodges of the loafer Band, |
all Indians belonging to this agency |
have moved down to Shadrow creek,
twenty miles away, osetnsibly Tor
the purpose of consulting with the
Spotted Tail indians. But |
is known here the |
move was for the purpose of getting
away from the commissioners, with
whom they do not wish to treat as
Spotted Tail Indian told one of our
party, on condition that his name |
should not be made known, that the
Indians at both agencies were consid-
ering whether they had better run
away from the agencies altogether or
fight. The commissioners now think |
they will proceed to Spotted Tail to-
morrow, hold council there, if no In
dams attend here 1t is curious fact |
that Red Cloud has been for two |
months past in frequent receipt of let
tiers from Fort Peck, on the Missouri |
river, some of which are 80 heavy as
to require nine cents postage. 1t is
reported that the tenor of these letters
is urging him not to sell foot of the
Black Hills country. ] have some ad-
ditional points from Gruard, Crooks
scout, who came in the agency. He
says the capture Of corn, sugar, and cof'
fees landed at the mouth of Powder
river, by an overloaded steamer
last month; gave the hos
tiles an abundance Of supplies.