Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-04
POPLAR RIVER AGENCY
MAJoR fLGEs IND HIS .cOMMAND
CAPTURE A HOSTILESIOUX GIMP.
Gall and His Followers Prisoners--The
Long Pending Troubles With the Sioux
Brought Nearly to IL ClOse--PrObability
That sitting Bull Will Now Soon Come
In--HerOic Endurance of Officers and
Men in Carrying on Operations in VIM

CAMP POPLAR RIVER, Jan. ., via Fort Blu
ford.-To Brock, Adjutant General, Depart
ment of Dakota After my talk with the hos
tiles on the 31st of December, which led me to
believe them to be sincere they, through chief,
The Crow sent Inc very impertinent message,
that they would not move and would fight me.
l moved against them to-day, surrounded their
camp, shelled them and compelled their sur
render. Killed one and wounded two, but
about three hundred hostiles, and about three
hundred horses and forty guns. They threat
ened fight, but showed none, and deserted
their villages. burned up about sixty of
their lodges, which will hurt them badly. Will
start at daylight after the hos
tiles who . have gone ., to i the
distant. The Yanktonnais, by six of their
principal men, assisted me to-day and were a
great help to me and will give them some
ponies. have Gall jas prisoner and will
have The Crow tomorrow. These people are
in great distress for want of food and cover
ing and / will do what can for them.
Thermometer degrees below zero.
(Signe0 ILGEs, Major.
This good news from Major Iges, announc-
ing the capture of the most dangerous ele-
ment remaining of the hostile Sioux, requires
little explanation. These Indians came
down from over the border, beginning
six weeks ago, few at a time, intending to
surrender at Poplar river agency, but finding
only small garrison there, and having their
pressing necessities relieved by gifts of
food from the Yanktonnais, they became
quite saucy. ReinforcementS were, therefore,
sent from Fort Keogh to Poplar river, and
these reinforcements, the Fifth infantry
made their long march in the terribly cold
weather of two weeks ago. On the arrival OF
the achievements these Indians became less
threatening, but they were gathered under the
chief Gall just across the river from the post,
and were not disposed to surrender. Finally
Gen. Terry sent orders to Major
Ilges to capture them if they would
not voluntarily surrender, and this he did on
Sunday. Yesterday he probably took in the
stragglers and those who escaped from the
hostile camp, and so brought the troubles
about the hostile Sioux very near TO a close.
1t is probable that Sitting Bull, who with his
remaining followers, is encamped near the
mouth of Milk river, will now come in and
surrenders voluntarily---as he intended
to do until deferred by the
secession and opposition OF the
At headquarters here the news is received with
great satisfaction, in which the whole country
will share. And honor is due to the officers
and men who have braved greater danger
than Indian hostility and endured a greater
hardship than often falls to the lot of soldiers,
in carrying on a successful campaign during
q winter season of almost uncXampled severity,
in which few either of officers or men have
escaped suffering and injury from the cold.