Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-29
NOT EAGER TO FIGHT
Big Foot and His Bucks Preferred to
Surrender.
MNAfIUS DONNELLY IN POLITICS.
Comment on the Seizure of the
SeaIer Adele.
STOCKS QUIET BUT FIRM
BIG FOOT'S SURRENDER.
Maj. Whiteside Would Not Allow the Chief
tn Parley.

Maj. Whiteside Would Not Allow the Chief
to Farley.
CHICAGO, Dec ga dispatch from Wounded
Knee, SD, gives the details Of the surrender
Of Big Foot's band as follows:
Sunday morning dawned bright and warm as
a summers day. Every one of the soldiers
had his overcoat of and was talking weather.
The fifteen Indian scouts had been gone two
days and no word from them. Little Battle
started out at daybreak and at 1880 was seen
dashing over the ridge for camp waving his
hat. In II few minutes he was at Maj. White
sides quarters with the good news that Big
Foot was only eight miles away.
Boots and saddles were sounded and IL ever a
lot OF men got out of camp in hurry it was the
veterans of the seventh. In a few moments
they were hurrying over the ridge eastward
turned north and cast, descending the slope to
the Porcupine valley, where they soon found
Big Foots band drawn up in line like soldiers
and apparently ready for battle.
BIG FOOT WANTS TO FARLEY.
There were over $50 warlike bucks heavily
armed facing the cavalry that they met in 1876
on the Little Big Horn. One shot from any
source and tragedy would 20 over the wires,
but Zig Foot advanced from his side and Maj.
Whiteside from the boys in blue. Big Foot
started in for long talk Oh how weary he was of
running around and said he wanted to open his
heart to the chief of the soldiers. Whiteside
was there, however, for business, not talk, and
said that he must surrender or fight. Like
magic up went u flag Of truce and Big Foot
surrendered his band Of over $50 warriors and
$50 women and children. The prisoners were
marched over to the old camp on Wounded
Knee The battalion have surrounded the In
dian camp and will keep vigilant guard over
them until more troops arrive.
The prisoners include the Sitting Bull gang
that fled after their chiefs death. Scouts just
in report that Short Bull and his braves are on
their way to the agency and are in camp now
at the Catholic mission, only six miles away.
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
La CROSSE, Wis, Dec. 29.-Dr. Frank Powell
white Beaver in an interview says: THE time
has not come for any member of Buffalo Bills
party to make full and complete explanation
of the manner in which Cody was to influence
Bull to leave his reservation peaceably,
but may hint at some Of the
arguments that would have been used. He
Sitting BULL would have been told that his re-
moval to a military post had been decided upon
as necessity; that by going peaceably and
without apparent reluctance he would deserve
and receive the approval Of the Great Father
and the Great White War Chief, Miles. He
would have been promised (and the promise
would have been kept all reasonable aid for
his people and such personal emol-
uments as would have appealed directly
to his mercenary and ambitious nature.
As last resort all diplomacy, promises, reason
ing, and appeals proving useless, he would have
been bundled into n light wagon, ready for the
purpose, and hurried into Fort Yates as fast as
horses could carry him. And right here lies
the great secret of the whole plan, and to betray
it now would involve number of Sioux In
dians who are devoted to both Cody and my
self, our acquaintance with many OF them hav-
ing begun upward Of twenty years ago."
GEN. MILES GOING TO PINE RIDGE.
RAPID Cry, S. D., Dec. 29.-Gen. Miles
headquarters will be in the saddle after today.
He will probably start today for Pine Ridge,
going through the Bad Lands with an escort of
scouts and the sixth cavalry.