Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-03
CANADIAN SAVAGES.
Driven to Despers' ion by Want and Raid
ing the Mounted Police Station-A Cen
eral Outbreak Imminent.


ing the Mounted Police Station-A Cen
eral Outbreak Imminent.
Especial to the Minneapolis Tribune.l
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Dec. 2.-Advices re-
ceived from the territories say the situation
there is becoming serious. The Indians are
coming in in large numbers to the mounted
police stations and settlements, demanding
food and threatening to take it by force. At
Prince Alberta number of Indians made raid
on the cattle Of the white settlers. and carried
them off. Capt. Herchmer, of the mounted
police, with twenty men, arrested three ring
leaders, and was conveying them to the police
barracks at Shoal Lake, when body of In
dams, armed with Winchester rifles, stopped
him at - ford, and threatened to
MASSACRE EVERY WHITE.
in the district if the prisoners were not re-
leased. Herchmer released them. At Fort
Mcleod $500 Indians 1came in, saying they
were starving. Provisions were arriving from
Fort Benson, but not in quantity sufficient to
relieve the Distress. Buffaloes we're supposed
to be going north, but the herds keep on the
American side, and the Canadian Indians are
afraid to follow in pursuit. The American
tribes threaten to attack them.
...- SITTING BULL,
with seventy five warriors, is encamped fifty
miles southeast of Fort Walsh. He is very ill
and dependent. His followers are all going
north to Prince Albert, raiding the stores, set
tiers houses and traders on the way. Liable
Martin, the famous missionary, and now bishop
of st. Paul, has had Z conference with the
police regarding Sitting Bulls return to the
United States. Sitting Bull will not go back
unless he receives ample guarantee not to
be punished or sent to strange reservation
and he wants to retain his arms. As at present
situated he is harmless. Several warriors
1.:r~- HAVE DESERTED EM
and gone north. Settlers in Prince Albert
county are drilling. Arms and ammunition
have been receiving from the government and
| the battalion organized month ago by Col.
Osborn Smith, commander Of the dominion
forces in the northwest, now numbers five hun
| dred men. They are under command of an ex-
! officer of the British army, Capt. Scott. Com
panies have also been formed in the outlsying
settlements and recruiting for the police is 90
ing on actively. Lieut.. Gov. Laird is still in
Battleford, but the women and children have
| left for Winnipeg. Fur traders are compelled
to come to a stand still, owing to the scarcity
of buffalo Pemmican is selling at forty cents a
pounds and none coming in. The government
| and Hudson Bay company are making great
oAeA Aoas fsAu sP6iAuk no expense TO felleVe Cne
distress, but want Of means OF transportation
| ia serious drawback. Col. Richardson, sti.
pendary magistrate OF Battleford, and Mr..
! Dewdry, chief Indian commissioner, are at
Ottawa, comforting with the government on
| the position of affairs. The Canada Indians
blame the government for permitting the
American Sioux to settle on Canadian soil and
I slaughter buffalo ont of season. At Prince
Albert large body of
MINNESOTA MASSACRE sIo,Jx
have been settled for some years, ard Sitting
Bulls people are joining them and urging them
to join in rising. Laird has gone to see the
Minnesota Sioux to warn them against the Te
tons.