Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-12-17
DEATH OF THE CHIEF
TIE Effect of Sitting Bnll's Fall
Is Said 10 be Prob
lsmstieal.
IDAHO IrcIRNS COMMENCE
THEIR DANCING.
Report OF a Battle Near Baly's
Rarch, Colorado, is not
Authenticated.
THs urEs AND NavsJos re-
PORTED uRRuLY.
Two Kettles, Fine Specimen OF
a Sioux Indian, Killed by
a Raneh.r.
THE uTES AND NsvsJos RE-
PORTED unRULY.
Ey Telegraph to iae NEws.l
THE DEATH OF SITTING uIII
ne Vas Ordered Arr~~s-.. sy s,s'
Agent s<cI..uahIia-


Agent NcI..uGhiia-
ST PAUE, Dec. I6.-Today's ad-
vices from Standing Rock are to the
effect that the arrest Of Sitting Bail
was decided upon Is Agent aic-
, L4aughlin when he heard on sunday
that the willy old CHIEF and lis fDI.
lowers We're about 70 set out tor the
Bad Lands. enco there il would
I've TONG tsrnc and there would b
march hard fighting, before any Of
the bostiles could be taken or starved
out Therefore. orders we're given
70 the police, and they get cut Suu-
day night, the troops following. by
early morning ,he police had
reached the camp, with the cavairy
three miles in tie rear, aui lie IN
FAINT much iaIt,,er away. On reach
ing .nnp The police found the camp
er- almost ready to move. Sitting
Bull was seized and placed under
arr 1t, but not bound, aud the Follce
I quickly started for the agency. But
the followers Of the eli man son
got over their surprise. ami 2 sharp
fire wasat once opened on the pciice.
The police responded n kind AMI
several fell from their horses. among
iheia Sitting Bull and his son,
Blackbini. The old medicine man
had tried 10 direct matters fOr ! time
by lcudly-sb0uted orders, but his iali
UPsEr TIE HOSTILE
They at cnve rallied. however.
and surrounded the rciice, who
fought hfayeIy AM well, but wenFl
SOON have been overlowefel had
not the cavalry, = no aad been sent
! 90. arrived on the scene. The
Ice were az that time almost ont r
ammunition and fighting hand I.
hand. but the sight Of the soldiers
and the roar Of the machine Cvus
alarmed the hostile, amt they He'd
up Grand River. ,Ihc cavalry FOL
owed for bnt Eior. distarcr, and
lsn returned 20 camp aud tOot pos
sesios of the bodies Of sitting Bull
aud his son.
-Four policemen were kiiIed and
three wounded, and IL Is thought
that altogether eight OF tie hcstIl.s
were killed. CrOwioo,, :he Twelve
yearold son VI Sitting Bull, and
number OF ether were wounded
Sitting Balis followers when
they fed up Gard liver, leit he
mind thesr iii their tents and
families, which viii be turned owe
the agency. Alter goirg 2 shoTl
{ stance up the aver, the fleeing
.edskins scattered ard went Of IL
III directions through the cggutry
'waTi the Bad L.lds- some o.
.em MAJ try % reach the in5isus
OF Two Strikes ianu, fuE;iicf south,
" Lille others Wiii s,s-'s - escape %
the north. lioGeEe-. there i little
change f>r them IN any direction.
Tee soldiers are located all around
line Bad Lands AID the Indians
y i'll have LITTLE ChauCs To e at int
few IancEeTs that EIe lUCaiei in
that district. Even II they attempt
70 20 on small raids, the s0l'iiers are
placed. 50 as 10 head them OF.
THE EFFECT Or TIE DEATH
OF Sitting Ball Is probiemaiicai.
He WAS not chief in the .-- OF
being a header in battle. aBu never
has been. He was addressed a
chief, but the willy, ambitious cd
rascal, with more Of tie politician
in him than ordinarily credited
the savage by working on L
superstitions and ieaIs Of the o.
dams, gained Whatever prestige ) !,
had, aud just how those who 81
vive him will take his death rsn'io
be estimated. The ether lpade
who ha. Il him, will surely not So
TO avenge bis death. Stiil, Ee ha,
ga!uei considerable iollowii
among the most dancers, and the /;
may attempt something in reveDp
The people o-ound Bismarck :
in the neighborh0Od of Standiuy
Rock Agency are greatly Wrou
up over the killing and express fe
for the outcome. They think the
followers that Bull had nj the time
Of his death viii attack the scattered
settlers along the frontier and kill
whom they can.
The scene at she agency tOiay
VS. 8tAt-ItAha.hiS- Ash1 NNeAth Va
the Indian medicine men, the
flower Of the tribe, will be Elourn.d
by the squaws for weeSs anu tbeold
warriors viii join in mourning loT
the present.
II will be q grand funeral these
policemen viii have. The Death
song will continue FOR weeks.
SITTING EUI.L WAS wILLISt. 70 iiE
ARRESTED.
The Pioneer Press has just re-
ceiyed from Standing Rock Agency
by courier 10 BismaTcE the iirst
authentic accounts Of yesteriay's
battle that have been received. TIE
facts OF the trip q! tie police al
soldiers have been already given.