River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-10-30
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low the Coming of Their 4" Messiah ~
Sitting Bull Stirring Up the Excited In
dians-An Outbreak Fesred-A woman's
Evil Influence.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2s-The Indian
Bureau has received from Agent Me-
Laughlin at the Standing Rock Indian
Agency report upon the prospective
outbreak among the Sioux in conse-
! quence OF th promised coming of the
new Messiah" The agent says:
Il trust that l may not be considered an
alarmtst and do not wish to be understood as
considering the present state OF excitement so
alarming TO Indicate any immediate upris
/ ing or serious outbreak. but l do feel it
/ my duty TO report the present craze and
nature OF the excitement existing among
the Sitting Bur factions of Indians
/ over the expected Indian millennium the an
inhalation Of the white man and supremacy Of
| the Indians, which is looked for not later than
next spring. Some members Of the Sioux tribe
who have lately developed into medicine men
have promised them that the Great Spirit has
| promised them that their punishment
/ by the dominant race had been sufficient
/ and that their numbers having now become
/ so decimated, they will be reinforced by all In
dams who are dead; that the dead all re-
/ turning to reinhabit the earth, which belongs
to the Indians; that they driving back with
| them as they return immense herds of buffalo
and elegant Wild horses TO have for the catch
| ing; that the Great Spirit promises them that
4 the white man viii be unable to make gun
i powder in future and al attempts at such will
1 DE- a failure, and that the gunpowder now on
1 hand viii be useless as against Indians, as IL
/ viii not throw bullet with sufficient force to
/ pass through the skin of an Indian. The
| Great Spirit apologies for having deserted
the Indians FOR a long period, but he is now
with them and against the whites, and will
| cover the earth over with thirty feet of addi-
/ tional soil well sodded and timbered, under
which the whites win all be smothered, and any
whites who mcy escape this great phenomenon
will become fishes in the rivers Of the country;
but in order to bring about this happy result
the Indians must do their part and become be
levers and thoroughly organize.
Sitting Bulr is high priest and leading
! apostle OF this latest Indian absurdity In
word, he is the chief mischief maker at this
| agency, and if he were not here this craze so
/ great among the Sioux would never have got
| foothold at this agency He has been disturb
| ing element since his return from confinement
/ as a military prisoner in the spring Ct lSS3
| but has been growing gradually worse the
! last gear. which is partly to be accounted for
| by the presence of a lady from Brooklyn, N Y,
/ Mrs. c. Weldon. who came here in June, 1852
announcing herself Us member of DIR. Bland's
| seaiety. the Indian Defense Association, and
| opposed 10 the Indians ratifying the act of
| March 3, 1889 While here she bestowed
| numerous presents upon Sitting Bull, consider
! able Ooag money, which had a demoralizing
effect upon him. Initiating him with his impor
| tance
The woman is now located on the north bank
OF Cannon Ball river, just outside of this resar
walton and about twenty five miles north of the
| agency. Sitting Bnll has been frequent Wis
| itor to her house. and he has grown more inso
| lent and worthless with every visit he has made
there; her lavish expenditure OF money and
other gifts upon him enabling him TO give fire.
| quent feasts and hold councils.
ION the gth inst, upon an invitation from
| Sitting Bull. an Indian named Kicking Bear,
belonging to the Cheyenne River Agency, the
chief medicine mar of the ghost dance among
the Sioux, arrived II Sitting Bulls camp, on
Grand river to inaugurate a ghost dance and
initiate members, Upon learning OF his arrival
there | sent a detachment Of thirteen police
men, including the captain and second lieu
tenant, 10 arrest and escort him from the res
ervatiou, but they returned without executing
the order. both officers being in a 'daZed condi-
tion and fearing the powers OF Kicking Bears
medicine.
Sitting Bull was very fnsolent to the officers
and made threats against certain members of
the force but said that the visitors would leave
the following day on the 14th sent the lieu
tenant and one man back to see whether the
party had left and to notify Sitting Bull that
his insOlence and bad behavior would not be
tolerated longer ana that the great utnce must
not be continued. The lieutenant returned
and reported that the party had not started
back to Cheyenne before his arrival there on
the morning Of the 18th. but left Immediately
upon his ordering them to do so, and
that Sitting Bull told him that he was deter
minsd TO continue the ghost dance" as the
Great Spirit had sent a direct message by
Kicking Bear that to live they must do so,
but that he would not have any more dane
ing until he had come to the agency and
talked the matter over with me- but the news
comes in that they dancing again.
Desiring to exhaust all reasonable means
before resOrting TO extremes have sent mes
sage TO Sitting Bull by his nephew, One Bull,
that want TO see him at the agency, and feel
quite confident that shall succeed in allaying
the present excitement and put stop to this
absurd craze for the present at least"
The officials of the Indian Bureau
here look upon the situation as serious,
but they expect to be able to counterfeit
Sitting Bulls influence and curb the
millennium craze.
UTEs MAKING TROUBLE.
DENVER, Col, Oct. S-Telegrams
and letters in great numbers have been
addressed to Governor Cooper during
the last month asking that steps be taken
to protect settlers in Routt County, Col,
dams The Governor about ten days ago
notified the Interior Department that
trouble was brewing, but no move has
been made. Alvices from the seat of
trouble are that the Indians are becom-
ing very bold in their attitude toward
the settlers. The Governor sent the
following at o'clock Monday night:
ITO THE PRESIDENT, EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON: Reliable advices are being
ceivcd that the Ute Indians from the Uintah and
Incompatible agencies are of the reservation
in large numbers and committing depredations
IN the western part OF Routt County, this State.
Aside from the damage to private property
interests and slaughter of game their presence
is a constant menace to our people and
serious consequences are to be feared from the
present temper Of the settlers. The case is an
urgent one and I earnestly request immediate
ac5on for the protection OF the citizens and the
promised return OF the Indians to their reserva-
ton. JOB A. COOPER, Governor"
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