The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-19
A NEW LEADER.
Rain-in-the-Face in Command
Of Sitting Bulls FusitiVes.
Troops on The Way to Intercept Their Re-
turn to the Bad Lands.
Death Of Bull Head, the Lieutenant of the
Indian POliCe-TrOOps Closing
on The HOStileS.
Special to THE MORNING CALL

word that Sitting Bulls followers, who es-
capped when their chief was killed, had
camped the night before at Turner Greek,
Bad Lands. Colonel Merriam's command
of the Seventh Regiment has started to in
tercept the hostiles.
Stockmen to-day say Sitting Bulls men,
with stragglers picked up, amounting in all
to about 800 warriors, were seen to-day 60
ing south under the leadership of Old Rain
in-the-face. There is little doubt they were
bound for the Bad Lands.
CLOSING ON THE HosTILEs.
PINE RIDGE, Dec. 1S.-Officers counted
up the returned dancers to-day finding 1924,
and issued rations to them. 1t is believed
the hostiles in the Bad Lands number 500.
The trool are closing on them.
ANXIOUS TO FIGHT.
RAPID CITY Is. Dak.), Dec. 1S.-M. II.
Day, who has just returned from scouting
expedition, says that on Monday eighteen
men approached the camp of the hostiles
on the mesa, but were driven back across
the river by the Indians, who came out SEEM
ing anxious for fight. Several shots were
exchanged, but no lives were lost.
BRAVERY OF THE INDIAN POLICE.
ST. PAUL, Dec. 1S.-A correspondent of
the Pioneer Press at Fort Yates, n. OAK,
WAS one of the cavalry officers who partici-
pated in the fight in which Sitting Bull met
his death. He telegraphed that paper to-
night long and detailed account of the
fight and incidents leading up to it, Bull
Head. WHO was In tcharge of tie Indian po-
lice, was bitter enemy OF Sitting Bull
When the courier from the police came
back on the road and notified the cavalry OF
the fight the latter started forward on gal
lop. The hoStlles were in the timber and
were firing on the police. A few shells
from HOichkiss gun sent the redskins hur-
rying up the river out of range. The po-
licemen formed in line and presented
fine appearance as they received
the soldiers. but the spectacle a few
yards behldd them was horrible in the ex-
treme. Eight corpses lay about on the
ground riddled with bullets and mutilated.
Sitting Bull was on his back, and his face
was hardly recognizable, so shot up and
battered was it.. The correspondent thinks
a number of hosties who escaped were
badly wounded. The police entered the
camp early in the morning, proceeded quickly
TO Sitting BrlPs house and surrounded it.
Several went inside and arrested Sitting
Bull, who gave the alarm by yelling. Sew
erai OF his lleutenants repeated il, and the
fighting then began. The police stood the ir
ground heroically in spite Of the tremendous
odds against them.
Catch the Bear and several other hostiles
rushed into the house and began firing at
the police. Bull Head was shot in the leg
He whirled aud put bullet into Sitting
Bulls head, and at the same moment Red
Tomahawk shot Sitting Bull in the stomach
Part of the hostiles retreated TO stable, a
hundred yards off. and the policemen pur-
sued and drove them out The policemen
also got possession of the house. and took
in their dead and wounded. The hcstiles
then fell back into the wood, and the fight
was kept up until the cavalry drove them off.
DEATH OF BULL HEAD.
A Pioneer Press special dispatch
from Fort ates says: Bull Head, the
Lieutenant of Indian police, who led in
the capture of Sitting Bull, died this even
ing. The reports at the agency tonight in-
dicate that the fugitiyes fI0m Sitting Bulls
camp are preparing 10 return to their aban-
doned homes.
BEsIEGED BY REDSKINS.
DENVER, Dec. ia special from Chey-
enne River, via Rapid City, at $3.50 this
morning, says: ga courier is Just in and
aroused the camp. He states a party of
fifteen men were besieged fifty miles from
.
Indians have made three attem pts to fire the
ranch and one was nearly successful. One
OF the occupants is Hon. NJ. ii. Day, Aid-de-
Camp to the Governor of the State" The
courier who brings the news has had to
make break through the Indians, firing
both pistols right and left One of the
bullets from the Indians penetrated his
overcoat. He rode by circuitous route to
the camp. General Carr has sent Major
Upper with 100 men to the rescue.
WAGoN-TRAIN ATTACKED.
A special from the Sixth Cavalry on the
Cheyenne River, via Rapid City, says:
Major Perry's command Joined this com
mand early this morning. Scout Gus Craven
reported that near Smlthyille a large num-
Der OF Indians were seen on a small creek in
the brakes. A number of shots were ex-
changed. While some of the Government
wagons were crossing Spring Creek they
and their escort were attacked by forty In
dians and over 100 shots exchanged. One
soldier was wounded and another was shot
through his hat. A troop of Captain Wells
cavalry came to the rescue and the Indians
ran away. Craven rel orts having seen
sixty tepees which contained 100 In
dians, camped near the mouth of Spring
Creek early this morning. Troops were
sent out, but the hoStiles again returned
to the Bad Lands. General Carr sent
armed parties to guard the ranch where an
Indian was killed yesterday. He was a
HNPhS" u 1iSh'hs Dodi' 1cotciuhy ueu-
eral Carr sent troop of cavalry up into the
Bad Lands to watch any movement of the
hostIes.S Signal stations have been esta pljshed
between the troops and our camp by three
relays. Should the troops be attacked they
were TO be reinforced from here They re-
ported about seventy tepees in the Indian
stronghold and totally inaccessible The
only known outlet for these Indians is the
trail which goes uD Cottonwood across the
road from Rapid Greek to Wounded Knee,
This pass will be closed tomorrow by a
large body OF the Sixth Infantry.
A SMOKE DANCE.
AUSTIN (Tex.), Dec. 1S.-The Governor
has information from the border that the
kiowas and Comanches are engaged in n
smoke dance, and the settlers are becoming
alarmed. The Governor has ordered arms
and ammunition sent to the settlers in Greer
Couuty.
NEVADA INDIANS.
CARSON. Dec. 18.- Twenty-six Indians
were taken to the Indian School TODAY.
after being washed and properly cleansed.
The Superintendent has agents on the hunt
and expects to land over 100 on the ground
before next month.
Captain Sam, chief Of the Piute Indians
has just arrived from Mason Valley. where
the Bannack Indians have gathered in a
ghost dance. He says stranger Is in their
midst proclaiming the. coming of the Mes
siah. Sanhas notified John son Sides to 90
among all the Nevada Indians and explain
the advantage of cooperation with the
whites in the case of war.
BEHIND THE BARS.
a Somewhat Notorious Lawyer Of ALBANY. n