Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-22
A host Of RumOrs and Stories Showing
A Big Scare With Little or
No Cause.
TERRIFIC FORCE OF 8 WARRIORS
Which Seems to be the Bulk of the In.
Lvading Army Of Fire-Water Red
Skins Though There Are
Fifty in the County.
COL. FORSYTHE REACHES SCENE.
He Will Accompany the "Globe" Re
porter to Ascertain the Bot
tom Facts.
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HEADQUARTERS AT THE Front via Rush
CRY, Minn.. June 21.-!The excitement
created by the Indian scare has not greatly
abated. Arriving here. found several Scan
dinavlans who had come in from Qrantsburg,
driven in from sheer fright. found these
people, and all could get from them was that
men advised them to get away soon as pos
sible. None had seen Indians, and meme knew
Of any violence or outrage having been per-
petrated by them. Many of the men returned
TO their homes today, somewhat
ASHAMED OF THEIR SCARE.
but they took the precaution to leave
their wives and children here. There are sew
eral families at North Branch and several at
Sunrise, whose fears got the better IF their
valor, and induced them to forsake their home
steads, leaving their COWS tied in their stalls
and their houses open to any proving thieves,
whito or led. The
HISTORY OF THE SCARE.
40 far as I have yet been able t. learn is some
thing like .hs A half-breed named Anton
Gordon who keeps a kind of house of enter
tainment for lumbermen and store for Indians
npon the St. Croix, ninety miles from here, is
intimate with the Chippewa chief George
Matros. Matros told Gordon that the Sioux
had sent
TWO PIPES TO THE cH1pPEwAs,
which the latter accepted Gordon asked Ma
tros the significance of the token, but Matros
would not disclose the secret. Gordon suspect
ed mischief to the whites and begged his friend
not tn ioin in tho dance hut tn withdraw from
his tribe il trouble was intended. Matros was
reticent and taciturn. Gordon warned him
that trouble void lead to disaster to the Chip
pewas, in losing their government grant.
Matros, however. would promise nothing. This
tale was told by Gordon wherever he went.
The people became alarmed, and as the Indians
came into the stores and seemed to be laying
IN stock of provisions, mistrust and fear be-
gan to spread. Gordon says that the
CH1PPEwAs HAVE BEEN DISSATISFIED
nbont their pine lands which rendered them
ready to turn willing ear to the willy Sioux.
All this may be very will, but it answered the
purpose of rousing fears among the settlers
whose homes are scattered about, in all
sparsely settled egions. 1t is no wonder that
people living mile or two away from their
neighbors should feel little uneasy under
such circumstances. To add to this dread, the
Indians began to assemble at certain points,
and children. At Grantsburg and at Bruins
wick large numbers collected. These gather
lngs are for
A BIG DANCE,
but the settlers say it is a war Dance and not
the accustomed medicine dance. At Grants
burg the dance is to take place on Monday
night. but have not yet ascertained when the
affair is to come off at Brunswick. So far az
can Judge from the very Unsatisfactory infor-
nation | can get from the frightened settlers,
there is
NOTHING IN THE WILD RUMORs,
and the extraordinary gatherings are n" more
nor less than a merry making among them, q
MAY day festival, or more correctly ''doe
day. feast. Rumors, of course, are rife. but il
is difficult to find any one who knows any.
thing of himself. The very men who have
left their homes can only explain their actor
in the way stated above. They we're told by
some one that
RISING WAS FEARED,
but they knew not why. The only thing like s
real scare that have heard of occurred to-day
when stage from Grantsburg- The
driver had entrusted to him letter to n mar
named GustaysOn, who was working here. Tit
letter said that the people were rushing away
from Trade lake, distance 8 miles south Of
two men
HAD LOST THEIR LIVES.
Immediately upon getting the letter Gustav
son, half frenzied, started off for his home on
foot to rescue, una1 med and single. handed. hi
wife and three children from the bloody rcd
skins. Diligent inquiry by your correspond
ent only led to the fact that two mtn had dis
appeared from Trade lake, but how they dis
appeared no one could tell, probably by run
ming off in the scare like many others. 1t is
however, possible that the late trouble has fol
its origin the fact that
TWO INDIANS WERE KILLED
at the place named. 1t appears the Indians are
on their way to the reservations to draw thei]
rations, and as they proceed they are in the
habit, ut every camping ground, Of practicins
a new dance, with the intention. when they
get heir rations, of making big feast anc
having u big dance. One of the Indians will
the small party camping on Trade lake, tolc
the whites that the practicing of the new fan
dango was for dance, and an attack wa.
to be made ON the settlers. For this the In
dams set upon their brother and put him t.
death, and denounced him as liar.
TOO MUCH FIRE WATER
was INDUCED in and free fight ensued, il
which another brave became good Indian, il
the only way that the frontiersman can thinl
IF good Indian. Another tale, authenticated
by gentleman who protested to know of wha
he was speaking, narrates the death of an In
dian under very different circumstances.
appears that a lumberman went to an India1
tent near Pine City on Wednesday, takins
with him some whiskey with which he pliet
the Indian and his squaw, for what purpose i
left for inference. fight ensueu in which
the Indian was dreadfully maltreated, and tn
gentleman asserts. who saw him after the trou
lie. presented pitiable spectacle. The India,
died to-day. The matter, however, has moth
ing to do with the supposed alliance of Siou:
and Chippewas-the new
MYSTERIOUS DANCE AND THE GREAT PIPE
which is being passed from one tribe to an
other. That there are Sioux among the Chip
pewas the people seem to be positive. The
place their assurance Of this on the word o
Gordon and Matros The latter say
that he bias himself seen twenty
the Sioux in the neighborhood. TIL
singular circumstances which aroused the sus
PIGEONS and excited the fears of the settlers
were that the Indians have not for weeks at
tended to their business. They do not hunt