Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-17
TheDoings Whisky
That Alleged Indian Outbreak at
Mile Laos Lake.
NO GENERAL UPRISING or HAND.

hut One Nan Killed Instead of Seyen-A
Dearth of News from the Scene of the
Troubie-The Troops Mt 'faud-An In
dian Chief Says the Redskins VIII Helm
Capture the Bucks Who Committed the
Murder.
MORA, Mimi, June 15.-The train bearing
the troops from Fort Smelling arrived here
at 4;3o yesterday morning, having made the
run In tn zee hours Mora is twenty-four
miles from the reservation, on the shores of
Mile Laos lake, and very little concerning
the reported Indian outbreak can be learned
here. Evan Mickelsen, an ignorant Nor
wegian, Who brought the first news from
the lrke Thursday, was interviewed by Capt
Stauch, the commanding officer, and told a
much miller tale than was contained i'm the
telegram to the governor signed by him.
Mickelsor says the telegram was written by
H. +. Briggs, one of the squatters on the
reservation, and the man who wrote the first
alarming letter TO the governor telling of the
threatened trouble over the digging of
canal from the lake across the reservation
Briggs got Mickelsen to sign the telegram
because II would give the question more
weight with the governor to have the in
formation coming from different sources.
Only One Man Killed.
Instead of seven killed and wounded Nickel
sen admits that he heard of only one man be-
ing asSai I'd by the Indians Mickelsen has
been stopping at the Briggs ranch for several
days. At daylight Thursday morning a
young Norwegian named Blorg, living five
miles fur her up the lake, came to the Briggs
ranch and said the Indians had shot Ole
Magnusol, his neighbor, wounding him ia
tally. The Indians have been gathering on
the shores of the lake near Magnusons for
several days past, preparatory to holding
their several dances and powwows. They
are plent fully supplied with whisky, and in
proper mood to carry out oft-repeated
threats 20 murder the whites. Magnuson
was shot at from ambush, and fell at the
the door Of his house with two bullet wounds
In the head. The Indians left him for dead,
and he crawled to the house of Blorg, half
a mile distant, to give the alarm.
Mic ickeIsen should Have Waited.
Mickeken did not wait for further particu-
lars, but started at once for Mora, where he
| arrived at in the afternoon The officers
were trifle chagrined when they learned
the f,imsy foundation for the reports which
had brought out three companies of United
/
down a supposed Indian uprising, and tele-
graphed Sen. Ruger full statement of the
situation Three hours and a half were lost
in waiting for orders from headquarters.
Then the order came to send detachment of
twelve men to the reservation to ascertain
the extent of the trouble, holding the larger
body at Nora in readiness to march. Capt.
flannoy was detailed in charge of the de-
tachmeni. Four wagons were secured to
transporr them and at 10 o'clock the expedi-
ton we'd. 1t reached the reservation last
night
The Squatters the Land.
There are between sixty and seventy squat
ters on the reservation, according to the
most reliable estimates. Few of these have
families. SO that The total number of whites
may be placed at about 100. The settlements
are all OH the shores of the lake. that being
the only part of the reservation available for
agricultI raj purposes The rest is pine land