New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-29
SITTING BULL STIRRING Up TIE INDIANS
NO FEARS OF AN IMMEDIATE UPRIsISG-THE
MESSIAH BELIEF

NO FEARS OF Az IMMEDIATE UPRIsISG-THE
MESSIAH BELIEF.
Chicago, oct. - (Spccia.-Captain IIugeins. ad-dc-
camp to General Miles, seen BY reporter this
evening about the Indian millennium regard
ing which Agent Mclaughlin has made a report To
the Interior department. This millennium craze IS
not phase OF the Indian question" said the Cap
tain :" The Indians feel their inability to cope with
the white man without supernatural assistance. and
their desire to receive such aid has long since developed
into the b"licf that II will come sitting Iiull Is
quoted as saying that aid will be received when the
grass grows. and that the whites will be wiped from
the face of the earth. leaving the red once more
In possession Of the country. have known OF this
doctrine being preached for at least ten years An
Indian known SmohOlla hats been preaching
millennium for years and holding secret meetings ana
ceremonies which had their origin in tlds belief. In
the Crow Agency local disturbance was cinSd about
year ago by this Messiah excitement, and TWO or
three Indians were killed.
do You anticipate trouble In the spring.
"Wcll. It Is hard SAY what will occur II is not
at all improbable that there will be local disturbances
and some Of them may be serious. Their ghost dances
and secret conferences are likely to bear fruit especially
when such man sitting Bull Is al the head But
do not think general uprising possible
At the Army Headquarters this morning, Colonel
CorbIn said that far the reported contemplated
outbrpsl OF the indians at the Standing Rock Agency
is concerned II has become TO be an old story. "Od
sitting Bul has had few dissatisfied followers about
him for long time. but II can think bc safe to say
that tihr Is no truth In the report. Then again
General Miles is now in the field right mp In thnt
country aud hr will no doubt give the matter his
personal at 'itIon."
Minneapolis. Mnn.. oct. oa.-"The Journals BIS
marcl y d.. special says: Kicking Horse. the grcat
siouA prophet to hc responsible" for most 0f the
trouble at Standing Rock Agency. lie says that no
Ina, visited Heaven and r"thrn"d Ia earth TO tell the
Indians what good things In store for them MaRr
Mclaughlin ordc.cd him of the reservation and con
fined several other tNuhic>omc spirits In the guard
house. The Indians have been making day and night
hdcou>. KIcainc Horse is cunnrg enough to mix
Christian doctrine with hi> prophetic utcramccs. II"
tells them that they muNt not kill the whites. As tho
Great Spirit would take carr Of them. lie declares
that the time will soon come when the Indians Will
occupy the earth to the exclusion OF the whites. II
IT spring instead of fall. there would he danger
OF uprising. but 1t is not believed that will now
take place sitting Full Is doing all he can b. fom"ni
q disturbance.
Standing Rock Agency y. d.. oct. 2s-For the
| last four weeks Sitting Bull has been inoiting tho
sioux Indians in this vicinity 10 an uprising. 1Io
enlisted the svmpaihic> ~ large nunIler of Young
buck, by telling them III" story Of his gre bravery
| on the field Of the Custer massacre and several
hundred Of tr'n had agreed 10 so on the warpath ai
his bidding The old ohirf however. several Of whom
were he famous campaign the Little Zig Horn
Offered -trcnuoh olj"cioii-. and one Of them cavc
up the plans Of the Indians 10 Major Mclaughlin tho
agent Sitting Bull has Just recovered from long
illness and IS ugly Companies q and II, 10th
Infantry. and Troop aud u. 9TH Cavalry. arc AT
Fort lat", and could probably qne a disturbance with
out other assistance but II affairs should assume
serious phssr. through general uprising Of ih" Sionx
along the Missouri the regulars at Forts rOttrn and
>ullv could be brought into service IN few hours
Rushvile, Ncb.. bct 25.-Tlr Northern CHEYENNE
Commission consisting Of General Nelson 4. Miles.
. H. SInallcy. and Joseph IefssS. ha- completed it,
confr"urc With the SOA and Cheyenne Indians at the
Pine Ridge Agency In regard O the transfer ~ the
Chcvenne> IN satisfactory manner and started la.t
night for the Tongue River Agency Montana. to
pctc its laiJOrS.