Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-31
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YANk TON, DAKOTA.
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Monday Evening, March 81, 1879
SITTING BULL INDICATIONS.
Reports from the Frontier Favorable
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Repsres from the Frontier Favorable -
an Indian Wsr.
AGENT LIHcoLN's REPORT.
Washington, March IS, 1879 Indian
Agent Lincoln. al Fort Belknap. n. T., has
. letter to the commissioners Of Indian
affairs, dated March 10. giving information
that q halfbreed coming toward the fort for
The purpose of trading was attscked and
killed by q party Of Tetons. His compan.
lon was pursued and fred upon, but escap-
ed. Agent Lincoln adds:-
The occurrence Indicates intense hostility
toward everything that comes 10 their wsy,
II they should come In contact with them.
wARL1KE REPORTS.
In his monthly report datedMsrch 8,
Agent Lincoln says
w still have reports of q warlike char.
acter regarding the Sioux, and latterly they
have assumed q 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 wal on the
Grosventres and Assinaboines and this
post. The inciting cause of the Sioux hos
t lily tEey claim is on account of the AS
sinab0ines 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 this post, on or
near Milk river. l 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 W
months, but am not full certain that their
hostility will be extended to the whites. l
have a scout out with instructions TO find
the Sioux camp and get all the informa-
ton possible, and as speedily as possible.
SITTING BULL.
A supplementary report, dated March 8,
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 eide 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 AZ soon az the grass
begins to grow they (the Sioux would &C
to war and sweep everything out Of the
country.
REPoRTs DIsCREDITED.
The COMMISSIONS of Indian affairs dis
credits the reports Of Sitting Bulls intended
plan Of operation. In the first place, HI
says, hostile Indians do not tell what they
are going to do, as represented in the stories
and, in the second place, Indians do not at
tack Notifications. They do not fight e1
posed on the open field or exposed to sol
diers in forts. Sitting Bull and mis- follow
ers may mean to make trouble, but they
certainly will not do it in the manner indi
Gated. They would not declare their pur
pose months before the time of action, wbel
the only efiec, would be to 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
ling Bulls strength and his warlike prep
a%rat,ons and intentions. He says the ex
p%erience Of the past has not been such as il
circulated to inspire confidence in the truth
fnlness and disinteres,edness of the lodi IN.
who come into the posts and tell big yarns