, 1881-01-20
ffe Makes Tracks for British
Soit, and Cannot BE
Caught.
Many Of the Hostiles, Boing Hungry,
Would Not Follow Their .
Chief, =,
l,mt Are OH Their Way tu Fort Duford
for Foul, Clot1es, mud An- ~ >.
nunftton. .,
Their Doplorablo and Boggarly oohditi6n'
aa Pictured BY Our Correspondent i, !,

gptetal Dtspaith to Thu Ckteago Tribune.
FoRr ucrorsu, u. r., .}an. 19.-Dur party,
consisting Of MI. Allison, Government seqlit,
Mr.. Dtchi, Chicago Tialcs c1rrpsp3hdtht,
nnd myself, loft ollrcninp u. Little T1iyhpine
Greek OH the afternoon nf Jun. u to visit
tito hostile camp. 1Ve fpuMl tho camp tlye
niles beIow tic mouth nf",Stf1k River,
un tile north bal,li Ut tlt Missouri. Upon
thu arrival " tho party nj thu cas,lp your cor
respondent could lear tic iintnc Uf Mr. ALL
sotl from ovcty man, w0inn1i, alll rhtll lit
cAlnp. VI were met by seyernl Ut tho )leal
illci mid conducted 10
THE gU1.plEiss' lodge,
w1lcre they lad their talk.' They tnid 3tr,
A!llsOn t!at Sitting Bull md I.a,nc Bruc, lila
heasl men ot the calnp, with about forty
lo.lges, lett their cauIi, oil the
ilth Of January for Woody Mount
aln. As suu1l MS they heard That
they m1lst coule III a1ld surrender OF thu
soldiers would ~ and fight t!len they
started to nove across the line. They nre
travelling up big porcupine CreeG, wl1ic!,
emrtics into Milk River about eg'lt nlles
from Its lnout',s rhc country Mt tho head Ut
this stren,n Is very rough, a.ld 1t will bH al'
most
IMPOSSIBLE Fot THE EoLuiEiss TO FOLLOW
THEM.
neforo this time he Is OIL Canadian soil
Sitttng-Bn!l will not surrender until lie Is
forced 10. There is IL wll!to lnan
by tho name Of Tlonpson, WHO
llas been living with Sitthg-puli.
who has considerable Influence with the
casnp. 1t Is supposed tllat lie Is tho cause Of
the camp moving north. 1'lie ca,np that Is
moving to surrender numbers ilfty-one
lodges. Tie head lnan Of this calnp Is Gnod
Lear, but
TIE MOVEMENT or TIE CAMP
Is conducted entire!y by the soldiers lodge.
They say they will move III rs faSt as
possible to Fort BNford, where they will
surrender to AINj. Brollerton. The
SNOW is very deep, aud tllcIr horses
arc very poor, dying every dny.
They requested Mr.. Allison to l,aye
soinc provisions sent them, Which he lro'n~
iscd to do, lie promised tu meet tllcn ut
Wolf Point OH the 10Th Of t!lis month with
provisions, and retnain with the cslnp until
they arrive ut Fort Bnfnrt. Although Mr..
Allison lsos hot Succeeded III getting Sitting
Bull to surrender, he deserves
Auiit:.tT DEAL UF CREDIT
for what lc las done. T]la Indians speak Of
lin with great deal Ut prnisc, ant say that
they know he Is tvllEng tl,cm tho truth,
There Is n large number Of them out
hunting. They are not expected
to return till tonight, so 1t
will delay. 4 move till tho nIornlng Of tho
1stl,. Long Dog, 1,uted uncapapn, who
was at tho llrul of Il purity who killed three
white men near tho ,nbutli Of tho
3fusselsl,all III 1873, AMI burned their
bodies, Is with tic camp. lie
made II short speech to Mr. Allison III Which
he said: II NH not II thief nor Il sold!er, but
aill good lual, md nil going With my
! people tn surrender" G0oa Bear satd he
| was glad to see whito inca come to
Ills ca,np; TINT he was n good man, mud was
| going to brlng his cGmp III to surrender. The
canp ls in n destitute condition. They have
no provisions except meat, and
a very few clothes. Their lodges
| arc very small anl nearly worn
out, mil they are in very bad condition
generally. The best thing they can do Is to
surrender, for By doing 80 they will Eot
clothes and provisions from the Government,
which Is II largo item for them. Tlley are
III 1,u condition to fight ut present, for their
ponies are very poor, and 1t 1s almost I'M
possible for thom to travel. They are nearly
MI related to tho Uncupnpas TINT sur
rendered to Col. 1lges Mt Poplar River.
mud they want to. 10 to Bnforl
OIL that account l met Col. 1lges about ten
| miles above Poplar River OIL Ills way to Visit
the camp to lind out what hc could do
| towards furnishing them will. pro.
yisions. At Wolf Point there aro
about Us lotlges OF Ass1ntbolMbs
who have been OIL tho reservation for several
ycars and sceul to b. iii good circumstances
and couteutcl. They lIaye bfcn friendly to
the wl1tns, 10 fur US KNOWN, ever sincu
they ]laye becn Oh their Agency. III
addition to this, tlleto will bo about
sixty lodges Ut Cheyes,1les WIN sprEendorelt
to ucn. Niles placed OH tlIts Agtncy lit tho
spring. at Poplar River there arc about $50
lodges Of YuMktonnnts. THEY hayo Il jarge