St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-04
TIRING OF The talk.
Standing Rock Sioux Have
Had Enough Of the
Palaver.
Commissioner Cleveland Tries
His Luck in Pepsuad-
ing Them.
A Young Man Takes Morphine
Rather Than Be
Married.
Big Strike Among the Labor
ing Men Of Duluth
Three Drowned.
Special to the Globe.


STANDING Rock, Dak., Aug. 3, via
mail to Bismarck. fight on the
reservation now is between the COM
miSsionerS and the four chiefs, Gall,
Mad Bear, John Grass and Big Head,
who are backed by Sitting Bull. In to-
days conference the commissioners re-
quested the chiefs to rise and tell the
Indians that each could act for himself.
This request was repeated several
times but the chiefs treated it with con-
tempt and silence. The commissioners
then told the the Indians that the silence
of the chiefs was evidence that the In
dianS were being kept from signing by
Intimidation. This statement has en-
ragged the chiefs. who, though they say
nothing to the commissioners, will do
some pretty plain and bitter talking to
their Indians in the council tonight.
Notwithstanding the attitude of the
chiefs,
THE LAMP OF HOPE
still burns for the tenacious commits
sioners who are struggling to induce
the Indians here to consent to the OPEN
ing of the 100000 acres of their reser-
vatiOn to settlement, but how long the
spark will remain is difficult to say.
The Indians have been losing interest
in the conference, and yesterday not
more than One-half of their number
came in to listen to the commissioners.
Those who did come had very little
to say and listened languidly to the
speeches until the sensation which was
created by the charge made against
their chiefs. The greatest interest CEN
tiers in the private councils of the In
dians. for here it is that their true SEN
timents are learned. Last night Sitting
Bull made speech, in which he re-
minded the Indians that they had the
power
UNDER THE OLD TREATIES,
to hold their land or to give it away.
He called their attention to the fact that
it requires the consent of three fourths
of their number to open the reservation,
and that if those at this agency refuse
to sign, it will be impossible for the
whites to take the land unless every
Indian at the other agencies consent.
This. with the opposition of Red Cloud,
he thought impossible. Mad Bear
and John Grass contributed their
usual oratorical efforts, the latter
stating that the whites had land enough,
more than could be settled for years,
''and yet" said he, '.they are here try
ing to get our lands for nothing"
Flying-By, one of Sitting Bulbs most
faithful lieutenants, said it would be an
nh to- thn Ind. = Al
should
PERMIT THE COMMISSIONERS
to fool them now that they have rem
dered their decision. and said that they
would never sign. 1t was an exciting
council, as a few of the Indians who
have weakened, and who by their edu-
cation know, realized the fact that the
treaty was fair, attempted to speak fa-
vorably of the conduct of the whites.
These were young Indians of promi-
nence in the tribes, and they were
quickly hooted down. Rain-in-the-
face, who does not forget his
bloody conflicts with the whites during
the Sioux wars and frontier massacres,
is persistent in his opposition. He is
one of the most adroit politicians on the
reservation. and although his band has
been taken from him, he has his follow
were taken last with sitting Bull
ON HIS FAMOUS TOUR,
are aiding the old medicine man in his
work of discipline. They know the
value of money, and are explaining to
the tribes how small an amount they
will receive for their lands under the
treaty. The squaws who were sent
home over week ago, ostensibly under
instructions to attend to the work on
the farms here, are said to be at work
carrying messages from the camps to
the runners between the agencies. 1t
is also pretty reliably reported here to-
night that the Indians who have failed
to appear at the conference during the
past two days have gone out to council
with the sQuawS and learn the reports
from Pine Ridge which are being sent
by Red Cloud. This condition of affairs
Is NOT ENCOURAGING
to the whites, all of whom regret that
the opening of the reservation and the
development of the country can be thus
retarded by the reds. 1t was 1880 this
morning when Chairman Pratt called
the conference to order. The chiefs
were all present, but the absence of so
many Indians made the circle look
small. Most of the time was occupied bv
Comm SsiOner Cleveland, whose remarks
were to the point, but did not seem to
affect the stOlid and determined braves.
He told them that three years ago a bill
was introduced in congress to take this
land from them without pay, but the In
dian Rights association of the East and
Senator Dawes fought and defeated it.
He said that this same association. COM
posed OF
THEIR TRUE FRIENDS,
had indorsed this treaty as the best that
could be done for the Indians and
called upon them in their own behalf to
accept it. Before closing he reminded
them that if they failed to accept this
treaty they might be compelled to give
up their lands without recompense.
Judge Wright reminded them of the
white man and the Indian who want
hunting and divided the game, the white
man taking the turkey and giving
the buZzard to the Indian. He admon-
ished them to accept this treaty so that
they would not share fate similar to
their brother in the story. Owing to the
large number of absentees the CONFER
ence to-day was short, and was ad-
journed until Monday at 10O'clock. The
commissioners went out yesterday af-
terHOon to
INSPECT THE INDIAN MISSIONS
and crops and hope by social visits of
this character to create good feeling
among the resolute and immovable
Sioux. 1T is rumored this evening that
the commissioners have reliable infOrma-
tion that at least one-half of the In
diaus are willing to sign, but this is
donhtfuI No matter how the Indians NAV