Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-31
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Monday Evening, March 81, 1879
SITTING BULL INDICATIONS.
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AGENT LlNcOLN's REPORT.
Washington. March 25, 1879 Indian
Agent Lincoln, at Fort Belknsp, N. T., hiss
sent . letter to the commissioner of Indian
affairs, dated March 10, giving information
that a halfbreed coming toward the fort for
The purpose of trading was attacked and
killed by y party OF Tet0ns. His compan.
ion was pursued and fired upon, bu, escap.
ed. Agent Lincoln adds
The occurrence Indicates intense hostility
toward everything that 10 their wy,
and no whites would bA safe for q moment
II they should come in contact with them.
wARLIKE REPORTS.
In his monthly report datedMsrch 8,
Agent Lincoln says
I'VE still have reports of q warlike char.
acter regarding the Sioux, and latterly they
have assumedta definite character. My in
formation first came to me from Denton.
A courier came in from the Cypress from
Major Irwin, OF N. w. NJ. police, stating
that some hundreds OF Sioux were or had
started to Cross the line to make war on the
Grosventres and Assinaboines and this
post. The melting cause of the Sioux hos
I lily they claim Is on account of the AS
sinaboines attacking a party Of six Sioux
and killing five of them, and stealing a lot
OF horses at the same time at q point sixty
to seventy-ive miles below his post, on or
near Milk river. have Investigated the
matter, and am convinced that the Assina-
BONES are entirely innocent. 1t is clearly
my opinion that there will be trouble with
the hostile Sioux within the next two
months, but am not full certain that their
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have a scout out with instructions TO find
the Sioux camp and get all the informa.
,ion possible, and es speedily as possible.
SITTING BULL.
A supplementary report, dated March 9,
says:
The scout whom l had employed to try
to visit Sitting Bulls camp has returned.
He failed to reach his camp, thinking, from
the reports of a band of halfbreeds, that it
was not safe TO do 80. He reports Sitting
Bull as on this side of the line, on French
mans creek, and his camp extends for two
miles up and down the creek. The drift Of
the information which he was able to gather
was of the same character az all the late
rumors-namely, that as soon AZ the grass
begins to grow they (the Sioux would &C
to war and sweep everything out Of th,
country.
REPORTS DIscREDITED.
The commissioner of Indian affairs dis
credits the reports Of Sitting Bulls in,ende,
plan Of operation. In the first place, h
says, hostile Indians do not tell what the,
are going to do, az represented in the stories
and, in the second place, Indians do not a,
tack Notifications. They do not fight e1
posed or the open field or exposed to sol
diers in forts. Sitting Bull and mis- follow
ers may mean to make trouble, but the
certainly will not do it in the manner ind
Gated. They would not declare their pu,
pose months before the time Of action, wbe
the only effect would be IT, put the Canada
police under additional obligations to max
the attempt a failure.
SHERIDAN Is SUSPICIOUS.
Gen. Sheridan is slow to credit the storie
retailed at the northern posts regarding Sit
ting Bulls strength and his wariike prep
%arat,ons and intentions. He says the ex
perience Of the past has not been such as j
circulated to inspire confidence in the truth
fitness and disinteres,edness of the Indian
who come into the posts and tell big yarns