The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-09-13
chssf Gras. . Worry Sick 1na,.n.

ChSef Grass . Very Sick Indian.
This report comes from Fort Yates: At
no time since the bloody massacre of Gen.
Custer and his brave band On the banks Of
the Little Big HON has there been such
excitement among the Sioux Us now.
John Grass, the great chief Of the Black
Feet. the famous orator and law-giver Of
the Sioux nation, is dying, it is alleged by
his friends, from the effects Of herbal
poison mixed with his food by q brace Of
young bucks, adherents Of Sitting Bull.
The alleged prisoners have fled to Stand
ing Rock. whore Sitting Bull now is. A
m0unte courier was dispatched to Chey-
enne agency to notify White Swan, his
mother in-law, and return with her il
possible.
For several years there has been much
bitterness of feeling between Grass, the
most progressive and intelligent of the
Sioux chiefs, and Sitting Bull, who is re-
garded with disfavor aud suspicion. Grass
urged the Sioux con. mission to remove
Sitting Bull from the reserv ton and inn
prison him. The commission promised to
submit , is recommendation with their in
dorsement. Fearful lest he should be
emo before he had squared accounts,
it is claimed Sitting Bull sent two of his
young men to poison Chief Grass. Later
they stole two ponies belonging to the
sick chief and departed i'll the direction of
Standing Rock. Ii Grass dies there will
he . general uprising among the Sioux
that may result in the determination of
Sitting i,ull aud his band.
A later report from bismarck suys: The
latest reports from Standing Rock regard
/ mo John (trnC.7 nrn f1,.,t tho nOnrlur nh,of
still lives aud is in Il fair way Of recovery.
Tho ruinor that he h ID been poisoned by
Sitting Bull lacks confirm ,tion, although
the feeling existing b, tween them would
warrant such u suspicion. The sunstroke
theory is still believed ut the agency and
III atl probability is co rect. Grass him
self says that he cannot recover, but there
are hopes that he will. An effort will he
nude to remove him from his humble hut
to thea agency, where he will be given the
best of medical treatment. The Indians
IRE very much grieved over his illness, md
o gloom has been cast over nearly every
tribe on the reservation. Since the OPEN
lug. of the reservation Grass has been
looked upon with affectionate admiration
by his people, aud his cath would be a Sc
verc blow 10 them. The latest report
from the stricken chief is that he is resting
we'll, but he is very weak and helpless.
Montana Forest Fires.
Rain has %extinguished the Montana
forest fires that have been rigging for the
past monte The damage to timber has
been quito severe, but not SO heavy as was
anticipated. In the vicinity Of Elliston
and Ten Miles snow to the depth of four
to six inches covers the ground. Fifteen
hundred people, it is estimated, turned out
at Elliston and other places to fight the
ire. AT times they worked all night.
Many am out with scorched faces,
burned clothing and blood-shot eyes.
Huge cinders were blowing in the air, and
welcome as it was there. On n late morn-
ing the top Of the range was covered with
snow, u very rare occurrence at this sea-
son of the year. Fire shoulders in the
trunks of trees and may take o fresh start
If the wind rises. Many bridges IRE
burned. as we'll as miners cabins. The
snowfall saved the towns of jay Gould.
and Gold Mill and the mining property
there. The fire at Ton Miles was q dis.
astrous one. The timber in that section
was fir. cedar and pine, ard was sal l to be
the finest forest in Montana. Hundreds
of tho trees were four feet thick at the
trunk. There was one pile of logs which
stood twenty feet high and 800 feet long.
The area burned is very large and the oc-
cupatiOn of the woodmen in that section
is gone forever, as everything is burned to
ashes.
The Northwestern Napoleon of Finance.
The assets of j. Frank Colon, the
Minneapolis attorney accused of extensive
forgeries, it is stated on good authority,
wi ! come within a few thousand of COW
ering his liabilities, unless the latter great
ly exceed the 1927, OO0-the amount of the
Blaisdell paper. The estimate which
Mr.. Colon placed on his property aggro-