Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-01

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lean, the commissioners would not
dare to set trap for him while he
was on British soil. Here Ki-we-nee-
pa-me-troo, the Man-with-Strong-
Limbs, one of Sitting bulls head
men, spoke up and said that although
they did not suppose that the police
would permit them to be attacked,
would they be allowed to bring say
800 warriors to the conference. Mai.
Walsh said if they did that the COM
missioners might dread treachery.
Sitting Bull then asked what force the
commissioners would have. Walsh
said he did not know exactly, but he
had urged the commissioners by let
ter not to bring heavy escort. Per-
haps they would have 100 cavalry.
On the other hand there would be no
police ready to t.ke the part of the
Sioux, in case the commissioners at
tackled them. On this Sitting Bull
agreed to come to the conference
with only his head men, thirty in
number. These, he said, would in
no sense be an escort; they wese his
advisers, and their presence was~nec-
essary to him. Walsh then asked
him where he would put his force
during the interval. Sitting Bull
said he wonld move them westward
from Wood mountain, SO that they
might be near at hand when he ac-
cepted the commissioners terms and
surrendered them to the troops for
execution. This was said laughing
ly, and his head men standing by
laughed. After further parleying,
Sitting Bull pledged his word tomeet
the commissioners at this post, he to
be accompanied by his head men only.
and his force to be at least sixty
miles away from the opening until
two days after the close of the inter
view. Walsh in turn pledged the
queens word to keep the Indians safe
from harm before, during and after
the meeting, and to treat them as the
queens guests, supply them with one
of the queens interpreters, and see
that the commissioners took no un.
fair advantage of them. Sitting Bul
promised to reach here not later thar
than the 18th inst.
The westward movement of the
Sioux force has accordingly begun
Breaking camp at Wood mountain OF
the 11th, they pursued the Trader
road, and are now little over eighty
miles east of here. Col. Mcleod
has dispatched police to show then
their new camp, sixty mile:
southeast of here in the Dead-Horst
valley, through which runs q small
tributary OF the East Fork. Provi
sions will be supplied them, severa
dog-teams having already left her,
with pork, tobacco and molasses
Should the conference break up with
out any result being reached-and i
is thought Sitting Bull will not leav'
here this winter-then the police vii
help them to move camp either bacl
to Wood mountain or to the north O
of these hills, where the land is some
what better sheltered.
The commissioners are. eXpecte,
on the 18th. They are being escort
ed by two or three troops of the Sec
ond cavalry. The conference will b
attended by many loafing Indian
from the Canadian tribes, who eX
pect to see tobacco flying in abur
dance on an occasion so important
Sitting Bulls force, by actual count
consists of 1910 souls. Traders al
circulating story to the effect this
he intends to trap the commissioner
and police alike and then proclaim
general Indian rising, but this is u
terly baseless. The police will tax
: every p.ecaution against surprise
and are satisfied that the Sioux chit
, is sincere in meeting the commission
7 ers, 'just to oblige the queen," ;
he says. The weather is eXtremel
cold, ranging from 20" above zer'
! as high as 500 at noon, and dow
] to zero almost every night, with vie
e lent snow blasts and piercing wind
{ The police are very anxious to g
rid of Sitting Bull, and will use a
fair means of persuasion to indut
e him to accept the commissioner
terms.
: FT. WALsA, NORTHWEST TERRITOR'
: Oct. IS, Via HELENA, M. T., Oct. 2
: l877.-The United States commissio
: sent out by the government to fin
and treat for peace and good wi
9 with the Sioux chief, Sitting Bul
: has at length succeeded in comm
! face to face with the redoubtab,e Ii
, dian chieftain, and have failed
L bring him to any terms. In shor
the committee has met and Sitting Blu
I has dismissed it abruptly and disdail
2 fully. The expedition has failed
it's purpose and the Sioux question
E as far from satisfactory solution {
when Gen. Terry and his broth'
commissioners first set out on the
: long and tedious journey to the Nortl
west. 1t is sad to be compelled I
thus preface my dispatch, but trut
compels the admission.
AN IMPLACABLE FOE.
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