Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-15
THE NUMBERING REDSKINS.
Reviving the Ancient Pastimes OF
Shooting and Soalping.
ELEVEN sQuArreRs DISAPPEAR.
Houses Burned and stock Gone--Regs
ular United States Troops March,
ing for Mile Lacs-Thc Indians
Supplied With WhislSey.
Lntcst Rennrts From Morn.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, June lA-lSpecial Telo.
gram to THE BEE. The latest intelligence
from Mora says That Jens =. Stevenson
reached that point ut 3 80 this afternoon, di-
rect from the scene of the Indian massacre
at Mile Lacs, He says the reds are still on
o great spree and threatening to burn houses
ana Kill the inhabitants. The only persons
known to have been massucred are Olaf
Magunson, who was shot through the head
and right lung with Winchester, and tho
father and son of a family named Swanson.
The father was scalped and his body thrown
into the lake; tho son was brained with q
club.
He says that thrce families, consisting Of
eleven persons, who squatted on the reseva-
tion in April have disappeared and their
houses have been burned. Their stock Is
also missing. Whether they have fed south
ward, or boen murdered is uu open quos-
tion.
Companies A, d and X, Third infantry,
United States army, arrived ut Mora by q
Manitoba special train from Fort Smelling nt
4:30 this morning, They are under command
of Captain G.. w. II. Stouch, and immedi-
ntely made preparations TO march across the
country, twenty-nine miles to to Mile Laos.
He had not completed the marching arrang-
ments when he received an order from Gen
eral Ruger, ordering the main body of the
command to be kept at Mora, and u detach-
ment of thirteen men, under command of
Captain Hanna to be sent on to the reserva-
tion. The detail, accompanied by dozen re-
porters, left Mora at 10 o'clock this morning.
If serious opposition is met couriers will DO
sent back to Mora at once, and the command
will be moved to the front in body.
1t is expected that important arrests will
follow this march, and an attempt be made TO
check the ingress of sguatters. 1t has been
ascertained from Evan Nicholson, who
sent the dispatch to the governor,
asking for, aid, that on Wednesday,
Olaf Magunsop, who was holding claim on
land reserved to tho Indians under treaty,
was attacked by u party of bucks, shot twice
in the head ana body and killed. The Indians
had been on an extensive spree and were
drunk at the time of the murder, and after
the killing went from point to point OF tho
reservation warning settlers and others
be killed. Briggs Bros, living at Mile
Lacs, hearing of the murder, wrote out a
telegram stating the facts and forwarded it
to Mora to be sent to Governor Merriam
over the signature of Nicholson. This was
done, and Nicholson remained here TO meet
the troops.
ST g 'iff Williams, of Kannabec county, who
is here, confirms the story .of the killing OF
Magunson. He says that the Indians are
made desperate by the vast quantities Of
whisky being illegally shipped into the
reservation by white men. The small towns
lying on the outskirts of the reservation
have firms in them making regular busi-
ness of this whisky shipping. The
Indians have moro genuine griev-
ance in the settlement of whites upon
their lands. Claims are being taken up, al
though the government will give no title.
rl.,h nplYa in iva n
the tlme and minor conflicts between them
and the whites are not infrequent. There
are $50 Chippewa bucks at the source OF the
trouble; the whole outfit, with their families,
making between five and six hundred per-
sons. Mora is the nearest railroad point to
the reservation, and the people here agree
that whisky and squatters are the chief
causes of the outbreaks.