The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-08-31
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
The Sioux Commission 10 In q
Quandary a. to What
Course to Pursue.
Inpertant Oessrreac1 h Iowa, Ne.
raska ana Minnesota, with aNewsy
Grist Frsn tAe Tsrritsry.
r~EnRlroRlAL r
In . Quaadssy

ing Rock to sign either paper presented,
are in somewhat Of q ~quandary, owing to
the conflicting reports daily dispatched
from the agencies; some stating that the
prospects are quite favorable for the com
m~issioners, and others report the Indians
in q sort Of rebellious mood, and in no
very promising condition to sign the
treaty. The Standing Rock Indians are
In o happy frame now that the commits
sioners have given MP the important trust
conferred on them by the government. The
Indians have been attending their crops
during the past ten days, and assembled
at the agency recently to listen to the final
confab. It is said they are making extern
sive preparations for a powwow and dance
to come of in the near future. Those
who have been anxious that this reserva-
ton be thrown open for settlement have
come to the conclusion that there is q
Jonah with the commission, and but little
hope is entertained for the commissioner
success at the lower agency. The .princi-
pal point Of danger has always been at
Standing Rock agency and adjacent to the
reservation, which stretches westward
from the Missouri just south of latitude 46.
At tho Cheyenne agency Near By, White
Swan, Grow Eagle and One Feather are to
be the principal spokesman on the occasion
the Of commissioners visit there, and they
are all spoken of as we'll qualified for the
task. Grow Eagle was conspicuous in the
memorable Minnesota massacre in 1862.
For u year or more these chiefs have been
hurting annthemas ut the Dawes bill,
which provides for reducing the already
not too large reservation, and as usual
there was division of sentiment. But
Ickn sfv,fnrnnotin,n &u0,n That ,orS0,,
snys that the ants have brought
over most of those in favor of a sale. For
six months or more the %neiehboring whites
have been fearful of an outbreak among
the red men. Fort Bennett is on tho West
Bank of the Missouri, almost thirty miles
above Pierre, the western terminus of the
Chicago and Northwestern railroad, and as
the Missouri is navigahle for large boats
the facilities for n hot Indian campaign
would be first-rate to that point. This
section Of the reservation contains
about three thousand Indians, mostly
supported by Uncle Sam, rs the
exhausted and they know but very little
about farming. The soil is fertile, hence
the white mans eagerness to pos css it.
II is quite likely, now that the Standing
Rock Indians have refused to sign the
treaty that none of the other agencies will,
in consequence Of which the treaty will be-
come u dead letter. The many who
worked hard to get this great bill through
congress are sadly disappointed. and a
number Of towns nearest the agencies,
which have been building mp on the
strength of the tide of immigration which
would naturally have flowed through them,
will feel something of q setback. The
people of north Dakota feel that it is TIC
Hroyvhock IN tho wocf Micoouri oNuukrv nv
any part of north Dakota. The towns of
tho northern portion of the territory have
been making their usual natural and
steady growth and building up no faster
than the development of the country war
ranted. When railroads find lands pre-
occupied by settlers which they wish to
PISS through they do not find it an easy
matterto have things all their W way. az
they do when they build into n country
ahead Of settlement. So while the process
Of railroad building and the settlement Of
now towns may not be SO rapid now as il
would have been were the 1000, 900 acres
will be moro permanent and reliable.
People will not make such rash moves III
their frenzy for precedence. In short, the
remaining vacant lands, instead of being
culled over and falling into the hands Of
speculators TO a great extent, will
eome into tine hands far
mcrs and become doxeloped, makfhg Z
population and with that will he endur-
ing. Relative tov. b failure of the Sion,
commission, Delegate Clifford, who wa.
instrumental in having the bill passed
said that another bill could possibly III
passed emitting tho clause which require,
the Indians cons mt, but it would he on
Of the question to get it through before
congress- adjeurns. He believed y hill
could be passed. by the house, but 1t woult
not go through the senate. There is ont
man in the senate, lie says, who is opposed
to such legislation.