Savannah morning news., 1886-02-07
REDSKINS IN WAR PAINT.
CAUSE FOR GRAVE APPREHEN-
SION IN MONTANA.

Arms, Ammunition and Horses Being
Secured with Suspicious Avidity-
Rieps Ex- Lieutenant Holds a Council
With the Crees and Another Rising
Expected in Manitoba in the Spring
GerOnimo's Coming Surrender.
FORT KEoGH, Mont, Feb. 6.--The fol-
lowing dispatch has been received from
Lewiston, Mont: "On Jan. 30, at Gabrial
Dumont's ranch, five miles from here, six
Cree Indians arrived from the Northwest
TO hold a council with Dumont, one of
Rieps Lieutenants. They report that
about 80 lodges of their tribes are near
Fort kssiniboine. There is trouble ahead,
and another rebellion in the early spring
is looked for. They claim to be starved
out. StOckmen are on the lookout, fear
ing that the Crees will run of their
hoTses.'
UNEAsINEss AT RED LAKE.
CHICAGO, Feb. Ga special dispatch
published here this morning in reference
to the reported uneasiness of the Red
Lake reservation Indians says that the
bucks of the Red Lake reservation, it is
reported, are fitting hither and thither in
a most uneXplainable and mysterious
manner. Frequent expeditions are being
made to CroOkston and neighboring towns
and arms and ammunition are procured
in quantities. 1t is reported that in sew
eral of the towns not a FIRE arm remains
for sale in the stores, and private individ-
uals have sold their guns to the Emporium
ing Indians, who report a great amount OF
game this winter. Indian runners are
traVersing the country in every direction
and frequent pOwwOws in almost every
direction are had.
ALARM AT WHITE EARTH.
Parties who have recently traversed the
White Earth reservation report alarm
and uneasiness over the action OF the
Indians. A large camp which has been
from time iInmemoTial on the Upper Rice
Lake has been removed to Rice Lake in
the dead Of winter, something very un-
usual. The young bucks are very jub-
liant and excited. They have taken to
paint and carry red streaks on each
cheek, something not observed on them Of
late years. Their camp on Rice Lake
presents unusual scenes Of activity, and
Indians from all over the reservation eX-
cept those at White Earth are gathering
there. Farmers in - townships and
along the eastern part of the northern
counties report a great sale of stock and
horses to the Indians in exchange for
furs. A trader in furs among the Indians
says he never saw the Indians so eager
anu aCJlFe Az LH6g are now IHGf are
selling everything for guns, ammunition
and horses. He could not conceive the
cause of this movement, and was unable
to say from what he had learned whether
or not 1t portended trouble.
RELEASE OF THE vANDALEs.
WINNIPEG, MAN, Feb 6.-Baptste and
Pierre Vandale, two OF the prisoners SEN
fenced to seven years in the penitentiary
for being participants IN the Riel insur-
Tection, are now in the city, having been
released yesterday nom confinement by or
der of the Governor General. This Is be-
lieyed to be the precursor to general am
nesty to all the prisoners now at Stony
Mountain. The released cOnvicts leave
for Batouche tomorrow TO Join their fam
lilies. There are twenty-five more half
breeds in the penitentisry. 1t is doubtful
if POundmakeT and Big Bear with the
other Indians will be released Just now.
pending the result OF the Indian scare out
West.
GERONINO'S sURRFNDFP