Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1880-02-27
SCORES OF SAVAGE SIOUX
THEIR TOMAHAjEHSC COLORED
BY BLOOD or EPALE-FACES.
John O,Brien and w. D. Parshell are
Scalped by B1ack-Cat-Fish's
Band of Hostiles-.Greht
Excitement.

Band of Hostiles-.Greht
Excitement.
Especial Dispatch to The Tri6une)
BLOOD.
Fort BuFoRD, D. T., Feb. 27.-Reports
have reached here of the killing of W.. D,
Parshall and John O'Bfien, on the Red
Water by Indians belonging 70 the band
of which Black Catfish is the head Chief.
A halfbreed who says the report is true
was told by some of these Indians that
they had killed two white men and had
captured from them two mules, q wagon,
two good guns, and "heap ammunition"
Parshall and O'Brien, who are both we'll
known on the Missouri are known to have
been in that section of country. There is
bad blood between the Yanktons and As
sinaboines; small parties OF them have
twice fired upon each other, and both
tribes have had warriors killed and
wounded. Mr. Henderson, who was in
from Wolf Point yesterday. says that the
smallest spark will cause an explosion
between those two tribes and predicts that
before the boats are running up the river
the Yanktons will have wiped nearly
every Assinaboine from the face OF the
earth. Indians continue to arrive at the
the agency from the hostile camp and all
of them have or profess to have the agri-
cultural fever.
Especial Dispatch to The Tri6une)
A TEDIOUS TRIP.
Fort BuFoRp, Feb. 2G.-Messrs. Norris
and Talbert, of Fort Benton, are here.
They are two deputies IN search of horse
thieves. Their trip was tedious one and
many hard bl1zzards were encountered
They bring with them some important In
dian information, as they passed over
miles of country filled with the camps OF
the hostiles, who but a short time since
were dancing around some white victim
who came within range of their rife.
They state that the entire camp OF the
hostiles is on this side of the line.
ESTIMATED STRENGTH OF THE REDS.
The strength of The hostiles is greater
than Is generally supposed. Two hubs
dred lodges of Crees ana Sotos are in
scattered camps from old Fort Belknap
down to what is known as the Big Bend
of Milk River, about eighty miles from
Belknap. Here is also found the half
breed camp, containing over one hundred
families, and at this camp the remnant of
the Nez Perce braves-those who Joined
Sitting Bulls camp across the border pre-
yious to the surrender of Bear Paw.
From this camp scattered all along down
Milk River are the camps of the host,les
DESIGNATED in general as Teton Sioux, the
CAMPS being made up of Ogallalas, Unk-
papas, Sans Arcs, Blackieet Crees, ETC.,
etc. The noted chief,
BLACK BULL, IS AT FRENCHMAN's CREEK
with a very large following, and Sitting
Bull is located near the Mud Fort'' on
Frenchman's Creek. At the mouth of
Beaver Creek there are one hundred lodges
and ten miles below this point another
camp of forty lodges near the mouth OF
Rock Creek. At Dry Creek twenty-five or
thirty lodge and on down until Tiger
Butte" was reached are small camps scat
tered along the way "In fact" SAID M.
Norris, 1T is almost impossible for me to
CONVEY to you the idea OF the swarm OF
Indians IN the Milk River country today
They are represented as destitute and hav
ing no blankets. They make their leg
glngs of skins, and food is scarce article
at their camp. There are no butfaios in
their vicinity, the. game having gone
| toward the Missouri. \ buffalo bull has
only to show his head anywhere on Milk
River to confront an Indian who will
knock HIM down with club, which evi-
dentIy means the supply OF Indians is AN
pie.
PLENTY OF AMMUNITION.
A curious fact related by these gentle
men in connection with these nOnads ia,
mat though they are so "iIaid up: III 9th
er particulars, they have very ample
! supply of ammunition-in fact a gener:
| Gus surp]as. People are wont to hear oi
llalf.breeds or whites trading ammunition
to these savages, but here is q new yer
! sion, with the boot on 'to'ther leg, for j,
IS said by these eye.witnesses that the In
! siians trade ammunition to the half.hreeds
| for other necessary artic]es-that they nrt.
wearing about their waists double frills,
| all filled, and even bracelets about their
arms made up of belts of cartridges, and
that those Indians who held any converse
with them, were sure to propose, # any