Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-11-22
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
SHORT BULLS SERMON.
The Prophet Agitating the
Messiah Craze.
CROWDS GATHERING At SPRINGFIELD.
Assad Farran on StanIey's
Rear Guard.
Experimenting WITH ARMoR PLATE
Slight Railroad Accident
i'm Massachusetts.
Experimenting WITH ARMoR PLATE

Slight Railroad Accident
i'm Massachusetts.
THE INDIAN CRAZE.
short BULBS sermon at Red Leaf
Camp-DescriptiOn of the Ghost
Dances Information Received at
Washington-TrOoPs In Texas and
California ordered to Prepare for
Immediate Recommendations had
ly Scared.
CHICAGO, Nov. N.-This evening Cen
eral Miles received telegram from Rose
bud agency, South Dakota, in which the
officer reporting says: In advance of my
formal report send you the sermon of
Short Bull, the so-cal1ed prophet of the
Messiah at this agency, delivered by him
at Red Leaf camp:
THE so-cALLED PROPHETS SERMON.
NV friends and relatives will soon start the
thing in running order. have told you that
this would come to pass in two seasons, but
since the whites are interfering 30 much, I will
advance the time from what my father above
told me. The time will be shorter. Therefore
Relatives have no ears, 50 viii have them blown
away. Now there will be a tree sprout up and
tribe must gather together. That will be the
place where we will see our relatives. But be-
fore this we must dance the balance of the
MOON at the end of which time the earth will
SILVER very hard. Whenever this thing occurs,
will start the wind to blow. We are the ones
gaa S hsR Ct an
ones who are living the sacred life. God our
father, himself has told and commanded and
shown me to do these things. Our father in
heaven has placed mark at each point of the
four
the sum- and represents the Sioux tribe. Second,
there is q holy arrow lying at the north which
represents the Chennine tribe Third at the
Arapahoe tribes; and fourth, there lies a pipe
and nice feather at the south, which represents
the Grow tribe. My father has shown me these
things. Therefore we must continue the dance.
There may be soldiers surround you, but pay no
Spon Mhom have put holy shirts viii sing
Top M
but their horses will sink into the earth. The
SINK into S The earth and You may DO what you de-
Now w: you must know this, that all the soldiers
relatives, the straight and true Now we must
gather at Pass Creek when the trees are sprout-
ing. Then we viii go among our dead relatives.
You must not take anything earthly with you.
Their women and men must disrobe themselves.
My father above has told us to do this, and we
must do as he says You must not be afraid of
The are fne only snng at
will see that they do no harm. Whatever white
men tell you, do not listen to them. My rela-
tions this is all will now raise my hand up to
my father and disclose what he has said to you
through me.
THOSE GHOST DANCES.
KANSAS CITY, Nov 21.-Mrs. James A.
Finley, wife of the postmaster and post
trader at Pine Ridge agency, has been sent
here by her husband for safety. In an in
terview to-day she described the ghost
dances. The first the agent learned of
them was last August, when crowd of
Indians left the reservation to hold as they
said, council, and when the police found
them they were engaged in-~the dance.
Since then they have been holding them
regularly. One ghost dance that saw
was participated in by 4S0 Indians. In
preparing for the dance they cut the tall
est tree they can find and having dragged
it to level piece of prairie set it up in the
ground. Under this tree four of the head
men stand The others form circle and
| begin to go round and round the tree.
They begin the dance on Friday afternoon.
1t is kept up Saturday and Sunday until
shutdown. During all this time they do
not eat or drink. They keep going round
in one direction until they become SO
dizzy that they can scarcely stand, then
| turn and go in the other direction and
keep it up till they swoon from exhaus-
| ton This is what they strive to do, for
| while they are in a swoon they think they
see and talk with the new Christ. When
| they regain consciousness they tell their
| experience to the four wise men under the
| tree. All their tales end with the same
| story about the two mountains that are to
belch forth mud and bury the white man
and the return of the GOOD old
Indian times. They lose all their senses
in the dance. They think they are
animals. Some get down on all
tours and bob about like buffalos. When
they cannot lose their senses by exhaus
ton they butt their heads together, beat
them upon the ground and do anything to
become insensible, 30 that they may be
ushered into the presence of the new
Christ. One poor Indian, when he recov-
ed his senses, said that Christ had told him
he must return to earth because he had
not brought with him his wife and child.
His child had died two years before, and
the way the poor fellow cried was the most
heartrending thing ever saw. At the
end of the dance they have a grand feast
kill several steers and eat them raw, drink
and gorge themselves to make up for theii
fast"
At last Fridays dance a brave was t.
| go into dance and SO remain four days
At the close of this period he was to come
to life as buffalo; he would still have thu
form of man, but he would be q buffalo
They were then to kill the buffalo, and
every Indian who did not eat piece Of
was turned into q buffalo was perfect,
willing, and suppose they have killet
and eaten him by this time. If the gov
eminent Just let's them alone there will b.
no need of troops; they will kill themselve
dancing. Seven OF eight of them died a
q result of one dance near Wounded Knee
They are now dancing on q creek abou
Eve miles south of Wounded Knee, an
dancing with all their arms. Each India
has about four clubs made out of roun
stones twisted in raw.hide. They throN
those around during the dance, strew tn
c ground with them and beat their head
against them.
THE CRAZE EXTENDING.
WAsHIN GroN, D. c., Nov. 21.-Such il
formation as was received to-day at th
war department was not reassuring. I
|! the course of the afternoon the followin
telegram was received from General Mile
CHICAGO, Nov. 81.
Adjutant General, United States Army, Was
ington:
8 The number of Indians going from Rosebt
agency to Pine Ridge agency is increasing. r
liable advices show that the Messiah craze is e
tending to our Indians near the mountain bord
and between the Sioux nation and the Canadit
border.
[Signed] MILES,
v Secretary Proctor carried the dispatch
to the White House when he attended Il
cabinet meeting at noon and they formt
i subject of discussion at the meetin
Afterwards Major General Schofeld, co1
manding the army, was in consultation WI
the secretary for an hour respecting Il