Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-20

be the means of getting the young warriors
of the powerful Sioux nation to dig up the
hatchet and avenee their wrongs.
The prevalent Impression here is
that We are on the eve of . bloody Indian
war. The mail carrier just iu from Pine
Ridge agency, Red Clouds new location,
states that since the news of the Cheyenne
outbreak and its result have become known
to Red Clouds people there is much weep
ing and wailing among them, and they say
their hearts are bad. Capt. Vessels start
ed with his company this morning at 4 p.
m. for Indian creek and will take up the
trail.
LOOKING AFTER HORSES.
Fort Laramie, Wyoming, Jan. 16.-Capt.
Johnson's command camped to night at
Silver springa forty miles north Of here, on
the old Deadwood stage road, reported that
Cheyennes were seen last night six miles
from Bluff station, on the Cheyenne aud
Deadwood stage road about thirty miles
northweatof Red Cloud they were evidently +
making for the station to secure . herd of
horses there belonging to the stage company.
VI RoM THE CAPITAL.
Washington, Jan. 16.-An officer Of the
army who has had long experience with the
Indians of the northwest, now temporarily
in this city, says that in his judgment there
is serious danger of the Cheyennes, now in
Indian territory, breaking away in the
spring and making their way across Kansas
and Nebraska to the northwest hunting
grounds. The Cheyennes, he says, are the
finest Indians physically now alive. The
men are brave, strong and desperate fight.
ers, and the women are chaste. The
Cheyenne warriors did the most
Of the fighting during the lats
Sioux war, and at the massacre of Custer it
was the Cheyenne bucks that played the
most havoc in this disastrous campaign.
The Cheyenne warriors now in Indian ter
ritory, are desperate. They say they cannot
and will not stay there. Its death anyhow,
and they might as well be killed lighting in
the field as die like dogs in their present
Imprisonment, for that ID. all it is. There
are abouttwo thousand Cheyenne bucks who
are determined to break away. There are
but two courses to pursue with them. They
must either be disarmed, and then all their
ponies taken away and q sufficiently strong
force placed about them, or else they must
be taken back to the northwest and allowed
to affiliate with the Sioux. If the latter
course is pursued it will be less difficult and
less expensive to maintain control of them
than if they are retained n Indian terrific
try. The plan of the officer shove referred
TO is to gather all the Sioux and Cheyennes
in the northwest and draw a Gordon of troops
about them, and let the responsibility for
their management be turned over to the
military.
INDIAN COMMISSION.
In this connection it msy be stated that
the Indian commission appointed by the
senate and house at the last session is equal
ly divided ON the question Of transferring
the Indians to the war department. 1t is
thought. however, that q majority of the
commission will favor the transfer of the
Sioux and C~heyennes to the military.
THE FORT ROBINSON MASSACRE.
In regard to the Cheyennes confined at
Fort Robinson, DR.. McGillicuddy, who has
been appointed Indian agents at Red Cloud
agency, vice Irwin, who has resigned, says
that when the Indians were informed that
they would be taken to Leavenworth they
said they would die first, and then the off,
GERS in command tried to freeze and starye
them into submission Wood was first re-
fused. This had no effect upon them. The
squaws and children we're freezing, and the
officers offered to let them come to the fires,
but the Indians would not suffer them to 70.
The squaws would not leave their bucks,
and said they preferred to die with them.
Then followed the fight and the subsequent
result.
Gen. Crook thought proper to despatch an
officer from Omaha to Camp Robinson to in. |
quire into the recent Cheyenne outbreak
report the facts for the information of
The higher military authorities. Capt. W.
Schuyler, III .de-camp to Gen. Crook,
the man selected to make the investi-
CATION, and he left Omaha q few days ago to
carry ont his instructions. He could not
have given very much time to an investiga-
ion, for his report bearing date of Wednes-
Law, Jan. ID. was telegraphed to Gen. Sher.
Ian on yesterday, as follows:
Omaha, Neb, 15.-Lieut. Gen. P. 81.
Chicago, Ill: The following Just
eceived from Fort Robinson, Neb., Jan. is:
len. Geo. Crock, Omaha, Neb.: Upon
I'LL investigation of the recent Cheyenne
roubles here, l find the facts are as follows:
the Sd inst. the head men were notified
Y Capt. Vessels that the authorities in
Washington had decided that they must go
ack south. Without giving q decisive an
wer, they retired to consult with their PEG.
lie. On the next day, Hog as spokesman,
S4~asOSoA Ae8oelvOs euyIuSs o6 uHU
be Others on numerous occasions, that they
'ere resolved to die first. A few having
cen examined and professed Q willingness
, 60 we're allowed to return to the prison
n their effects, but were forcibly detained
y the others. The attempt to starve and
them out was now the
My alternative. On the 9th
it was decided to arrest Hog as the
,ading oppositionist. He having been
18th difficulty induced to come ont, was
toned, but after a struggle in which a SOL
Ter was stabbed. The Indians in the pri-
knowing of this, Immediately barrica-
ed the doors and covered the windows with
10th to conceal their movements, tearing
p the floor and constructing rife pits to
ommand all the windows. From this time
,e prison was like . den of r~attlesnakes.
nd any white man who had shown his head
4 the room would have met certain death.
was supposed, of course, that the Indians
I'D no arms other than . few knives. Du.
ing the evening the building was as quiet
. . grave, and the six sentinels who sur
bundled it suspected no danger. At ten