St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-08
THEY STOP At PIERRE
And Talk Of the Vivid Imagination Of an
Alleged Reporter,
WHO COULD SEE SIXTY NILES.
Three Hundred Signed at Standing
Rock and Good Progress Was
Made.
WHO COULD SEE SIXTY NILES.
Special to the Globe.


PIERRE, Sept. THE renowned
Sioux commissioners and party whiled
away the greater part of day in Pierre
while on their recent trip down the river
from Standing Rock to Crow Greek
agency, and while here were hand
somely entertained by the citizens, who
seemed to consider that nothing was too
good for them. The three gentlemen
who compose the commission, as well as
the several other ones who help COM
pose the party, seemed to have no re-
straint in telling all about their opera
tons thus far and their plans for the
future in winning
OVER THE DUSKY RED MEN
to their inducements. A great many of
the facts in relation to their Standing
Rock operations were never known or
given to the public, or if given, were so
grossly miScOnstrued that their mean
ing was lost. A slight history of this
matter might prove interesting to the
many who have scanned and made their
deductions from the correspondence
that regularly appeared in the Pioneer
Press for some time, purpOrting to en-
mate
FROM STANDING ROCK.
For instance, it was claimed, and it
came straight from Judge Wright of
the commission while in Pierre, that
those Standing Rock specials were only
the baSest canardS, manufactured in
the fertile Imagination of the Bismarck
correspondent, who only attended the
commission three days, ana managed to
make up the balance of his numerous
lcs, xrrifbiu thn Of Ii
sanctum sanctOrum, OF holy of holes,
in Bismarck. Far from meeting with
such disastrous defeat as these specials,
gave, it was claimed that as high as 300
of these Standing Rock Sioux had
SIGNED THE TREATY
before they left, and that the pot was
boiling over when they went, diSSen-
sions being rampant among the tribe of
Lo, those who had signed being both on
the defensive and offensive, and Great
ing many arguments to back up their
action i'll doing as they did. Capt.
Pratt was heard to remark, in speaking
of the opposition of the chiefs, that
THEY HAD SITTING BULL
and another chief bound down ''hide,
horns, teeth and toe-nails," from which
doughty old Bull had been brought to
see the error of his ways, Major An
derson, the agent at Crow Creek and
Lower Brule agencies, wired Secretary
Villas that the Indians in his charge
were ready to sign, and to send along
the commission. The commission
thought the time Opportune to leave
Standing Rock for spell, as they had
set the ball
ROLLING THERE IN GOOD SHAPE,
having invaded the enemy's camp at its
worst point and carried it with reaSOna-
bly, good success, and upon the receipt
of orders from the secretary they imme-
diately pulled up stakes, boarded
the first steamboat and departed
for Crow Creek, where from late
aborigines are literally tumbling over
one another in their haste to ratify the
treaty. In Pierre the spectacle was
witnessed by many of the full-bloOded
| and full-cOcked redskins on a hunt
over the city for the commissioners,
who, when found, had the pleasure of
SEEING THEM SIGN
the papers in favor of the bill, after a
brief explanation. Talk about the In
diansl Before leaving the Sioux COM
missioners Uniformed our citizens, in
almost the exact words, that they had
no cause to be uneasy, as the necessary
| NUMBER OF signatures SHOULD anu WOulu
be obtained inside of the next ninety
days at the outside limit. Judge Wright
/ informs US that he has acted on just
thirty commissions similar to the pres
ent, that failure was recorded on but
four of them. and that the present was
as easy a task from the start as he
found on the other twenty-siX that were
made a success. This is from the lips
of one who was appointed to the place
by the president for his past expert
ence in such work, which leads one to
believe that the administration is in
keeping with this work, heart and soul,
and know
NO SUCH WORD AS FAIL.
Pierre is more hopeful since the COM
missiOners have come and gone. and
while her citizens can only regard them
as gentlemen in every sense, they have
the best faith IN their ability to perform
the duties that will soon prepare the
vast Sioux domain for free habitatiOn
for unlimited numbers of the sons of
man.