Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1890-06-20

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STONE JOURNAL 10 express his sincere
thsLks tn Col. Swsine. Major Carroll,
Capt. Hooton and Agent Upshaw for
many courtesiss extended and valua-
BILE aid given him In pursuing bis In
vestiRa'iops.
From Mr.. Chas. Greenfield, of the
Independent staff, more details of the
trip were learned. Mr.. Greenfield's q
story l. ss follows:
After the council on Saturday night
we had the pleasure on Sunday of lis
tening to . religious discourse from
Porcupine. q Cheyenne Indian who
had shortly before returned from q
visit to the new Christ. who is to de-
liver the Indians from bondage. He
said that he had found the Deliv.
erer in camp near Pyramid Lake, in
Nevada, where he was surrounded by
quite following Of both whites and
Indians, to whom he daily preached
the new faith. On being iuterrogated
rs to the appearance Of this personsge
he described him as small man, too
light for an Indian and too dark for q
white man, but he believed him to be
white man. While preaching the
doctrine of deli serance Porcupine ap
peared to be en- rapport with the idea,
but there seemed to be but few of the
Cbeyennes who followed him, and the
msjority of them declared both he and
his fellow thinkers to be fools.
In the afternoon council was held
at the rgency at which Col. Curtis,
Major Carroll, w. d. Smith. Major
Upshsw and myself represented the
whites. Two Moons, Little Wolf,
Buffalo Hump and other red NEE Of
lesser note spoke for the Cheyennes.
The principal feature Of this council
was tina, Two Moons promised on be-
half of the Indians that they would
put away their guns. On Monday we
went over to the mission on Tongue
river. Here American Horse and
White Bull were the Indian orators.
We had been informed OF American
H"rse'- ability a. a speaker and the
possibility Of his occupying the whole
time that could he given 10 the coun-
ell, So when he was designated by the
Iudians as their spokesman, Col.
Curtis bsiefiy aJmoDished him through
the interpreter to confine his remarks
10 the matters under consideration,
and omit any mention Of the flood or
other antiques. Being thus called
down aud interrogated as to the exist
ing status. he proceeded to deny any
trouble with the whites or any desire
to iniure them. He also denied that
white settlers bad been warned to
leave the country. That he was and
is an accomplished liar was developed
in this way: Before the convening OF
the council we had been shown very
complete system OF bresstworks on q
hill near the mission, sffording thor
ough defense for about seventy In.
dams. These works were cotup posed OF
large rocks, some of which would re-
quire the strength OF four men to put
10 position. American Hor.e was
ask ed what these Notifications meant.
and after evsding the question once or
twice finally replied thst they had
been made by the pspoo~es for play
bouses. Be said the Indisns had no
complaint TO inske Of the whites.
their only complaint was lack Of grub
He said . seven days ration would
only last three davs. and " they had
not been very tough Indians, they
would all have been dead now. He
promised Col. Curtis that they would
ell leave for the sgency the next day,
and in the morning they nearly oil
pulled out. There were about fifty
teepees there. Returning from the
mission to the agency and on the main
road about mile from the mission /,
we found that the Indians had built
another breastwork In the brush At the
foot of hill which would have made
q splendid smbush. A large number
of settlers on the Rosebud were inter-
viewed In regard to cattle killing.
Much evidence was adduced In regard
to these depredations that cannot be
contradicted, and which will be em.
bodied In Col. Curtis report TO the
governor. The settlers were unani-
NOUS In the belief that the Indians
will have to be disarred before this
will stop. At the agency we found
that Msj. Upsbaw had made repeated
applications to the Indian department
for an Increase Of ratious. He allowed
Col. Curtis 10 examine his books and
papers and II was found that In every
report made for the past thrss ysars b
had strongly advocassd disarminR the
Indians and increasing their rations
He said that The Indians were doing
nothing 10 support thsmWlvs an<