Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-06
SITTING BULL,
Like the Father of His Country, will
not Tell a Lie He has Prepared
His Little Hatchet and Wants
all Other Redskins to do
Likewise
And go for the Scaips OF the Ameri
cans, of Whom He says that Every
One of Them who Wears TrOus-
ers is a Liar-But John
Bull says, No.

World: The rumors that have reached
Washington concerning a threatened attack
by Sitting Bull and the general disaffection
OF the Indians along the boundary are dis
credited by the interior department here.
Colonel Macleod, the commander of the
mounted police, is here just now securing re-
crults for the force. He says the stories sent
to Washington are as usual thing the pro-
duction of scouts and traders. The scouts
are well paid, some of them drawing ten
dollars day, and they are naturally anxious
to keep up the excitement and make the
Washington authorities believe their services
are indispensable. The traders are also in.
terested IN the movement of United Statss
troops and coucoct the cock-and- bull stories
IN the nope of inducing the war department
to send achievements into their neighbor-
mood. The latest teiegraphic advices from
MAJOR irvine, who has charge of the police in
Colonel Macleod's absence, are to the effect
that Sitting-Bull with his Uncpapas Is en-
camped near the boundary line on the White
Mud river, that he is we'll disposed to-
ward the Canadian tribes, and that his hos
tility to the Americans is not shared BY his
head men. About Christmas the police heard
that SlttlDg-Bull had sent messengers to the
Crows, with whom he was formerly at
variance, asking them to join him in Cana
dlau territory and accompany him in the
spring on an expedition against the American
troops. On being questioned by the police,
Sitting Bull admitted that he had entered
into negotiations with the Crows, but it
turned out that they had rejected his over
lures and even threatened him with violence
If he attempted to cross the line. Sitting
Bull said to the police: 4 never deny any
thing | do. | did send messengers to the
Crows, asking them to leave their reserVa-
tiols and join my Gimp, in order that we
might make combined move against the
Americans. did this because wanted to
6uht tha q MAJ 7 - -.
every man whose skin is red to confederate.
There is no American who wears trousers
that is not a rascal White-Bir and
other leading men among the Uncpapas
denounced Sitting-Bull's warlike projects
and said they had had enough of Gghting
sinS demanded against the Americans, and
that a contederacy of all the Indian tribes
was impossible. The police are satisfied the
counsels of White-Bird will prevail; indeed,
Slttlng-Bull has lost caste with his people
and many lodges have moved out of his camp
northward. These say he is tyrannlcal, and
that he Is always Matching wild schemes and
urging his people to undertake impossibilihes
On the twenty-eigth of February FIVE Unc-
papas, from Sitting-Bull's camp, went hunt
ing across the boundary. Four of them
viz: Sitting Elk, Hairy Bear, the Man on
Horseback, and the Night that Kllls-had
previously visited the Crows to persuade
them to Join Sitting Bull. They were en-
dIuBcu ten ullltS sDULU OF the line IN the
Crow country, when a band of Crows at
tackled them in The night, killing Hairy-Bear,
woundIng his four companions and carrying
off their horses and provisions Spotted
Eagle, a Teton Sioux chief, immediately
started from Sitting Bulls camp with two
hundred and fifty young men, pretending
that they were going for Hairy-Bear's body
and to get some buffalo meat they had cached.
They returned on the fifth instant, but started
out again on the tenth. Major Irvine talked
to Spotted-Eagle, but as his explanations
were not satisfactory, 1t was deemed advIs-
able to warn Colonel Moall, the officer in
at Fort Benton. This, Il IS be-
lieved, was the basis of the sensational re- |
ports sent to Washington that Sitting Bull |
and his braves were on the war-path. SPOT |
ted-Eagle and his band, however, returned |
quietly on the twenty second instant, and are |
now IN camp at the east end of Cypress hills. |
They declare they never had any intention of |
attacking the Crows or of making trouble |
with the American troops, and add that what |
they saw of the temper OF the Crows and |
other tribes durIlg their expe dition has con-
Vinced them that Sitting-Bull's talk about a
war cOntederacY is madness The Washing
Ton reports that Sitting Bull had formed a !
contederacy OF Canadian Indians, and that
4 horde OF Canadian Backfeet, Pieoans.
Crees and Bloods are encamped IN Amer.
can territory, near the Bear Paw
hills, are also without foundation.
Ielegraphic advices from Fort Walsh, Cy-=
press Hills, via Helena, say no Canadian In
1lans are south of the line, except a few As
'lnlbolne hunters, and that the Canadian :
tribes are well disposed. Three weeks ago -
Alexander Mackay, Scotch half-breed, re-
ported that ne and a number of Saulteaux
hunters had BEN attacked and robbed by az
2and of Canadian Crees, who had told him
hey we're going On the war-path with Sit
lng-Bull against all white men. The police
uslted Bear, the Cree chief, and ar
ested the thieves. Big Bear-gave them
very assistance. and denounced Mackay's I
tory as untrue, and said Sitting-Bull was
ray. The police report that the Indians
IN both sides are unusually quiet, and do not
anticipate any trouble this year. At present
ne police force consists of three hundred
md twenty-nine rank and file, divided into
TX divisions, as follows.