Morris tribune., 1885-04-08
THE NORTHW WEST.
THE TROUBLE WITH THE. REBELS
u sTILL GROWING.
The Indians Pillage the Government
Warehouse and Join the Rebels
Fenians Alleged To Be TAX
ing Hand In tho Matter.

WINNIPEG, April IA dispatch from
the camp at Tanch~ood Hills. forty-six
miles north Of Qu'Appelle, says the Indians
up to this point are quiet. Gen. Middleton
has talked with several bands and dis
tributsd food among them. They say tho
Indians north would not fight if they had
something to eat A vast quantity
Of provisions will be required
for the northern settlers and Tho
people Of Prince Albert Between Ba-
touches, Clarks and Battloford nearly all tho
Indians are on the war path. The settlers
have Lost everything Tho Teton Sioux arc
burning the homesteads at Garilsmis cross-
ing north Of Grandin. The VIII he northern
country is in bad shape Risl is reported TO be
at Grandin st Laurenn with $50 Lalf-breeds
and $40 Crees and Teton Sioux. Fisher,
Dumas, Gurnot. AMI Maxine Sepine
have large force at Batouches. The set
tiers up north are al most starving and help
is urgently required. Mukay's flour mill,
at Prince AlbertS, has been fortified. Hostile
Indians are in the woods on the other side Of
the river. Gen. Middleton was in commune
cation with Battleford by wire Friday.
Fort Pitt and Ottsr's brigade will probably
have some fighting. Rers scouts were at
Humboldt on Monday
WINNIPEG, April 13.-The telegraph to
Battlefori is now in good order. Advicss
from there say: Our position is very un-
satisfactory. Indians rsi tel the south part
of the town last Mon:lay. and burned the
store Of Wahaffey & klinkskiil. and next
morning the government houses and stable,
besides a number of farm houses in the
neighborhood. All tho s,ttlers are In the
garrison here awaiting relief. but we can
Ill .-a1xr to p
tack u.s.
Six thousand American tops arc sta
toned along the boundary to prevent Amer
icah Indians from cros|in. A msn named
Mcintosh. settler. who has arrived at
Brandon from Duck Lake. says: "Riel has
5 900 men and six -puunler cannon. The
Sixty-sixth battalion OF Montreal, arrived
hers Friday morning. They left for the
west Immediately.
The story OF the Frog Lake massacre was
told by H. Quinn, nephew of the Indian
agent at that point, who escaped from the
Indians. Fourteen per soas ars known to
have been killed and probably many others
met the same fate.
! 1t is known that the Indians have at
tackled Fort Pitt, but whether successfully
or not cannot be ascertained, as the fort
was only held by twenty y-five policemen and
handful of settlers an | was surrounded by
j, 100 Indians, headed by Big Boar, one Of
the most ferociou' chiefs in tho northwest, 1t
is believed that the assault must have sue
ceeded and the garrison been killed.
The Indians at Saddle Rook pillaged the
government ware house aud have gone TO Join
the rebels. AT Battleford party Of four
In !ians approached the fort and were fred
upon. Two were killed. The others escaped
Tho rebols have taken all the provisions
from Saskatoon settlement, It Is said that
the Blackfeet and Bloois refuse to smoke
tobacco brought by the Cree runners. At
Turtle mountains the house of a white set
tler named Perrett has been sacked. The
Indians are coming in from the American
side in two and threes ami assembling at
Wood Mountain.
One division of Canadian troops is now
north of Touchwood hills, advancing toward
rebel headquarters, another is going by
Saskatchewan river to Prince Albert, while
a third is moving to Calgary and thence to
Edmonton AMI Battleford Consul Taylor
says that 200 American troops are patrol
ling the border to enforce tine United States
laws.
BRANDON April 13.-Word from the In
dian settlement in Turtle Mountain south Of
here says the Indians are becoming trouble
some and are stealing right and left. The
American Indians aro coming over from st.
Peters. Settlers are greatly disturbed, and
say If troops are not sst as once there will Be
serious trouble,