New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-16
THE CHIPPEWAS ALL DRUNK.
UNABLE TO CARRY OUT THEIR PLOT TO
MURDER SETTLERS.
NOT YET KNOWN THAT MORE THAN ONE WHITE
MAN WAS K1LLED-THE CONSPIRACY OF THE
sAyAGEs DuscIoHD BY AN INToXI-
GATED MESSENGER.

GATED MESSENGER.
ST. Paul, MINI. June l5.-The staff cor
respondent Of |" The Pioneer Press,' with the ey-
petition sent by General Ruger against the Chip
pewa Indians, plegraphs from ShoemalSer's Bay,
Mile Laos, tonight that Captain Hannoy and
Lieutenant Freeland, with the detachment Of
soldiers, arrived at the hike at s:45 last night
after a difficult march through a wilderness Of
pine, with bat one inhabtant in twelve miles.
There is really some danger Of general uprising
Of the Indians
The story Of the shooting Of MlGnuson is veEi-
fled He had q shack and claim on tho south
west shore Of the lake, on Monsomeny Bay. where
! the Indians have theis summer home and VIII
hEr half-breed named Eias told
! Captain Hannay that the shooting was done by
young Wadcna,' which In English means
tough" a sou Of the scout Keg-wed-do-Sha.
| MaSnuson was called 20 tho door Of his shack
| at I2 o'clock on Wednesday night by party
| OF Indians led by the Wadenn, and was fired upon
| without warning; 32-calibre bulht entered
about the centre Of his right cheek Snd cane
ont just in front Of the right car Another bullet
| entered the cheek on the left Of his nose and
| lodged somewhere near the base OF the skull.
Magnuson fell unconscious, but afterward revived
and crawled 70 BergS ranch mile and a quarter
| away.
On Thursday morning" Jack" Mcqueen and Earl
| Tucker two ncighboring settlers took MngnusOn
| across the hike in "A SailbOat. They intended TO
sct him 10 BrBinerd. but he probably died on the
way The white settlers scattered over the
entire four townships forming the reserve claimed
by the Indians and extending along the south shore
of the lake The fear of the Indians is great
that they dare not communicate with each other
freely and at K. II. Briggs's ranch, on the south
east shore where the soldiers camped for the night,
only vague rumorS Of what had happened over on
the southwest shore where the real trouble is could
bc obtained although the distance is less than four
miles. All the settlers the Briggs ranch
gathered there, armed, prepared TO defend them
selves expecting An attack by the Indians at any
time There are nine men besides Nicholson, the
two Briggs brothers, John Donnison. IT, X. Refs
land John Aschn, Sem Mnttson. james Vnton,
Lars Petersen and John anderson, all Of whom
have squatters' claims. Only Reisland and Mr.
Briggs have families here
Briggs and his followers firmly believe that the
kiIliug Of Maguson was not the worst outraga
committed by the Indians at the other end OF
the reserve 1t Is said that three families, mum
bcring eighteen persons who recently settled on
Mosomcny Bay, are missing. Whether they have
fed in safety or have been waylaid by the Indians
is n question. They visited BY Indians on
Wednesday and threatened with assassination II
they did not move or IL Is probable that they
moved Us their household goods had not yet been
impaired.
There Is every evidence that the Mile IAcs band
had planned u general uprising TO take place las
Wednesday Henry Vegnctte, n ful-bloodrd In
dim, grandson OF the second chief OF the tribe,
who lives at Nora and is at Shoemakcr's BAY
running a store for Mora merchant, told
Captain Hannay much in long
interview with that officer at the Briggs ranch
hast night Vegnette says the Indians failed TO
carry out their purpose because they were too
drunk Vegnctte reserved in his talk, and Cap
tain Hannay would not give the details furnished
him, but il plainly TO be seen that he was |
much surprised by the revelations made. The |
main body Of the indians At the village on Mos, |
he estimated, and they are plenbtnlly supplied |
with liquor too. II is the general opinion
of the settlers that IT., the =, worst has has
of the soldiers will only serve 20 excite the drunken
sayngcs All the Indians are armed with WInches-
ter repeating rifles and revolyers. They would be
more than q match for twice their number OF
drilled soldiers in fight. The Mile Lacs band,
which numbers in all about 900 Is not Ri on
the reservation, There are two villages OF perbaps
600 on the Knife and Snake rivers twenty miles
10 the southeast II is not known that any OF these
have Joined the main band, but II IS knOwn
that the big, chief Wo-we-eon.eg, or
them 70 come. One OF these messengers an In
dim lad Of seventeen stopped at mhcimyS Dam,
half way between here and Mora, on wednesday
noon, and told the cook there unde: the influence
OF n class OF liquor, TINT the Indians had pre-
pared TO drive the whites OIL the reserve or XIII
them, and that he on his way 70 Snake
River with n meSSnr from Round Earth telling
the warriors there to come 10 the lake at once.
The detachment shpt with picket line on
duty all night This morning Captain Hannay and
his men, guided by half-breed scout. will march
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