St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-20
THE REDS WAITING TO SIGN
At the Cheyenne Agency They Are Sat-
isfied and Will Sign.
THE TERMS rendered
After They Have Been Fed and Had
Palaver With the Pale
Faces.
Special to the Globe.

FORT BENNETT, Cheyenne Agency,
June 19.-Cheyenne agency Indians are
all solid for the Sioux reservation bill to
become law. At least this is the senti-
inert to-day, and there is hardly any
doubt in the mind of the agency official
that this sentiment will grow stronger
day by day instead of decreasing. The
most hostile have come round, and a
dozen chiefs are anxious that their name
head the list. The action of the Rose
bud Indians has pleased them, and
to-day Couriers Little No-Heart. clerk
of the Indian court, White Horse and
Crazy Eagle left for Pine Ridge agency
with instructions that the Cheyenne In
dians would sign, and asking that Pine
Ridge do likewise. This is one of the
largest agencies comprising the
these Indians virtually assures
the final success of this measure so I'M
portant to South Dakota and especially
to the towns tributary to this vast UNI
cultivated and uninhabited stretch of
rich soil. One year ago your cor
respondent made a complete circuit OF
the reservation. He held interviews
with the leading chiefs. and while he
found them obstinate, sulky and silent
on this matter, he knew they were OPP
posed to the opening, and determined
to fight the commissioners to the end.
Why this feeling was a secret that no
one could understand. 1t was known
that Sitting Bull had issued his edict,
and talk as they may this
CUNNING OLD 10,
weels an immense power, the influence
of which Was felt in the efforts put
forth last year to secure the signature.
By an estimate made from the ration
lists $50 names are required to plant
Cheyenne in the winning column.
Douglas Carter, chief clerk, who as
sisted your correspondent in looking
have expressed their determination to
sign and are openly announcing their
position to the Standing Rock Indians,
who visit this section for the purpose
of ascertaining their views and taking
the information home. The question
may be asked ''What has brought about
the change of hearth" Nothing only
the silence of Sitting Bull, the positive
assurance where the dividing line shall
be, and all the concession granted to the
lobby that visited Washington last year.
They have received all they asked for,
and the complexion of the commission
is satisfactory, they having protited by
the mistakes of their predecessors.
Buck Williams, who is married to an
Indian woman, and has for years Op
posed the bill, is now canvassing every
lodge and tepee, and, with his Wife's
assistance, are doing telling work. Buck
says when the commission arrives it
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thoroughly posted. He predicts one or
two councils will be held, feast. and
when the roll is called Cheyenne will
DO HERSELF PROUD
by having no boilers, but unanimous
assemblage who believe that the work
is destined to improve the condition of
the Indians in many ways towards CIV
iliZatiOn.
BY the way this is the home of Chaska
and his wife. Mrs. Chaska is working
hard to influence the reds and her aid
will be of benefit as her rela-
tives are found in nearly every
tepee. The lady seems to take to her
husband like a duck to water, but she has
not yet succeeded in teaching him how
to work. He is very poor scholar in
this respect and finds more enjoyment
in wandering around the agency stores
smoking cigarettes and wearing out the
seat of his pants.
CHAsKA'S BAND,
however, will swell the vote on the
opening. Agent McChesney is doing
good work for the cause. and while he
is Democrat the people along the
border acquainted with his efforts
have protested against his removal
which was likely to occur a few weeks
ago. 1t would have been fatal mistake
and jeOpardiZed the chance for success
at Cheyenne. A grand future is GER
tainly in store for Dakota upon the
opening of the reservation. Its I'M
limited areas of the richest soil in the
world, capable, in connection with
most favorable climate, of producing, in
limitless profusiOn. and rare excellence
all the grains and fruits and vegetables
of our zone; its boundless prairies.
affording grazing for multitudes of
stock, its running streams and pictur-
esque scenery, it's mines of various
mineral awaiting development, and it's
Salubrious climate-all these among its
natural advantages, shadow forth
for Dakota. a coming grand and
noble history; and will place it, in rank
of magnifcence. second to no state of
the Union. And this proud distinction
will be attained, not in the remote but
in the near future. The most Indifferent
observer cannot fail to mark the many
and obvious evidences of this-DakOta'S
manifest destiny. F. G. K.