The morning call., 1890-12-07
INDIAN GRIEVANCES.
Re ult Of a Catholic Priests Visit TO The
Hostile Camp.

PINE RIDGE AGENCY Is. Dak.), Dec. c.
As perilous a mission as man of God has
undertaken for many a day in the interest
of ayerting great blGodshed was completed
yesterday, when good Father Jute, the
Catholic priest whom General Brooke re-
Quested to 60 out and talk with the ram
PANTY hostile Indians, returned 10 the
agency. He was the only white man who
might even think OF ever making the trip and
living to get back. The reverend father was
accompanied by Jack Red Cloud, who went
by reason Of being the widely respected son
Of the famous chief.
Ten miles from the hostile camp they were
hal;ed by plckets and conducted 10 the camp
under the cover Of Winctesters. A confer
ence followed. There were present Two
Stroke, Turning Bear, Short Bull. High
Hawk, Crow Dog, Kicking Bear, Eagle Pipe.
Big Turkey and High Pipe. Father Jute
opened the council by asking the chiefs to
state their grievances.
CENSUS RETURNS.
The replies were substantially as follows:
I'VE object to the recent census returns
made by Lee. His enumeration would not
give food sufficient for us to live on. Lee
puts us down many less for each tepee than
the tepee contains. We shall starve. we
shall have one big eat before Starving time
comes. After that we shall fight our last
fight, and the whteman Shall see more blood
and more dead than ever before. Then we
shall go TO the last hunting-ground happy.
If the white man did not mean to cheat us
out OF food the Great Father never would
have sent soldiers There is no need OF
soldiers if the Great Father intended to be
fair with us.
BROKEN PROMISES.
The Great Father has done another
wrong. lie has put new boundary line
between the Rosebud and Pine Ridge agen-
ces that makes many of US leave our homes
and give them 10 others. The Great Father
broke an old treaty when lie did this. We
can no longer believe the Great Father He
says to us: Children, you shall never be
moved again unless you want to be moved
and then he goes right away and moves us.
We arc done with promises, and now we
make a promise that we Will fight, and the
Great Father will find that we will not
break our promise.
we VIII now be very plain with you,
Christian Father. and tell you another thing,
something OF which you may have already
thought: We are not coming in now, and
Will not lay down cur rifles because we are
afraid OF the consequences. We have done
wrong and we know it, If we stop now we
will he punished. The Great Father will
send many of us to his big iron house to
stay many moons. We would die"
FATHER JUTE's ADVICE.
Jult uIGeu LIcUl 10 De peacoaDle,
and explained that the soldiers were not
present TO harm the Indians but to protect
the agency; that the rationS had been in
creased, and II they came in General Brooke
would telegraph TO Washington and get per-
mission for them to stay on this agency, as
they desired. SO far as the depredations
were concerned, the Father told them they
had better stop committing them and they
would be more easily forgiven. Finally he
urged the chiefs to come back with him. TO
this some of the older ones made favorable
answer, but the young ones, who were
heavily in the majority, said No" But
tile old men finally agreed that they would
come i'll to Father Jute's house, four miles
northwest OF the agency, this morning and
there meet General Brooke, and tell him in
person just what they had told Father Jute.
This brought on renewal Of bitter opposi-
ton from the majority
Finally the young chiefs cooled off and
Two Stroke, addressing Father Jute, said
Hold your hands up to the Great Spirit
and tell us, as though you were about to
grounds OF the red man, whether what you
say to us from General Brooke be true,
and that we will not be harmed if we come
10 simply to talk to General Brooke"
Father Jute said he complied with the re-
quest. All the chiefs then extended their
hands toward heaven, aud with great So
lemnity promised they would come.
HosTILEs VISIT GENERAL BROOKE.
ST. PAUL, Dec. Ga special dispatch
from Pine Ridge Agency says several of the
hostile chiefs, accompanied by number of
armed warriors, came in to the agency this
morning and held conference with Gen
eTat Brooke. He told them to come back to
the agency and cease h0stilities and they
would get all the provisions they wanted.
they went back 10 camp to report to their
followers. making no promises.
AFTER RATIoNs.
STANDING Rock AGENCY, Dec. 6.-The
Indians OF this reservation to-day drew
their ratiops, all the families being repre-
sented. Sitting Bulls wife and boys were
here. Agent Mclaughlin had arranged
plan to arrest Sitting Bull but received an
order suspending for the present any ar
rests whatever.
THE DISARMAMENT DISSOLUTION.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Gin response TO the
SENATE resolution asking for information re-
sspectlng the disarmament OF Indians in the
Northwest the Secretary of War to-day
transmitted to Congress letter from Ma jOr-
General Schofeld and mass of official cor
respondence. General Schofield in his letter
says: There can be no practical disarma-
ment OF Indians except by making them ac-
tually PRISONERS OF war and holding them
under such restraint that it would be impos-
siDie 1or them to secure arms or ammuni-
ton. This would seem to require change
IN the general policy followed in the treat
ment OF warllkc tribes of Indians, as it
would continue military control over those
who may have been subdued until such con-
troll becomes manifestly no longer necessary,
and this. 1t is suggested, may possibly be
done by joint action between the War and
Interior departments in such manner as not
70 interfere with measures of the Interior