Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-11-22
sHoRrBUIE's SERMON.
He Tells His Deluded Followers That the
Whites VIII All BE Killed.

CHICAGO, November 21.-This even
ing General Miles was in receipt of 4
telegram dated Rosebud Indian Agency,
South Dakota, in which the officer
making the official report from that
agency, has the following interesting
communication, which he made TO his
superior officer. He says:
''In advance of my formal report
send you the sermon Of Short Bull, the
so-caled Prophet of the Messiah. at this
Agency, delivered by him at Red Leaf
camp:
My FRIENDS AND RELATIvEs:-I will
soon start the thing in running order. |
have told you that this would come 10 pass
in two seasons, but since the whites are in
terfering so much will advance the time
from what my father above told me. The
time will be shorter. Therefore YOU must
not be afraid of anything. Some of my
relatives have no ears, so | will have them
blown away. Now there will be a tree
sprout up, and then all the members Of our
religion and the tribe must gather together
That will be the place where we will see
our relatives But before this time, we
must dance the balance of the moon, at the
end of which time the earth will shiver
very hard. Whenever this thing occurs |
| Will start tne Wlllu W DlOW.
We are the ones who will then see our
fathers, mother sand everybody. We are
the tribe of Indians and the ones who are
living the sacred life. God, our father,
himself has told and commanded, and
shown me TO do these thing. Our father in
heaven has placed mark at each point of
the four winds. First, a clay pipe, which
| lies at the setting of the sun, and represents
the Sioux tribe; second, there is holy ar
row lying at the north, which represents
the Cheyenne tribe; third, at the rising of
the sun there lies hail. representing the
Arapahoe tribes, and fourth, there
lies u pipe and nice feather at
the south. which represents the Crow
| tribe My father has shown me these
things, therefore we must continue the
dance. There may soldiers surround you,
but pay no attention TO them; continue the
dance. If the soldiers surround you four
deep, three of you upon whom | have put
holy shirts will sing a song which | have
taught YOU and some Of them will drop
dead, then the rest will start to run, but
their horses will sink into the earth. The
riders Will Jump from their horses but they
will sink into the earth and you can do
what you desire with them.
Now you must know this, that all the
| soldiers and that race will be dead. There
will be only 5000 of them left on the earth
MY friends and relatives, this is straight
and true. Now we must gather at Pass
creek when the time comes. Then we will
90 among our dead relatives. You must
not take any earthly things with you. Then
the men and women must disrobe them
selves. My Father above has told US TO do
this, and we must do as he says. You must
not be afraid of anything. The guns are
the only things that we are afraid of, but
they belong to our Father in heaven. He
will see that they do no harm. Whatever
white men may tell you, do not listen to
them. My relations, this is all. / will now
raise my hand to my Father and close what
He has said 10 YOU through me.-