Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-21
SITTING BULL'SSPOOK
His Wrath Seen By a Party
of Bucks.
1t Beckens Them Towards the
Bad Lands.
The Appariti0n Starts the Ghost
Dance in Earnest.
General Miles's Gordon Gradually Closing
i'll on the Hostiles-Other
Eastern News.
Associated Press Dispatches.

MINNEAPoLIs, Dec. 20.--A Tribune
special from Pierre, S. D., says: A
ranchman from up Bad river reports
that the hitherto peaceable, sem-civil-
lied tribe of the Two Kettle Sioux have
begun wild ghost dance. Night be-
tore last some of the bucks, when re-
turning home, claimed to have seen a
white figure on top of bluff. One of
them said it was Sitting Bull. The al
legged phantom motioned them to fol-
low, and glided from hill to hill in the
direction OF the Bad Lands The ranch
man says the Indians accepted this as
proof that Sitting Bull is the Messiah,
and that he was beckoning them to join
his followers. The ghost dance is in con-
sequence of this, and the ranchman says
the Indians as far down as Willow creek
are affected. If the story is correct, it
is serious affair.
THE GORDON TIGHTENING.
RAPID CRY, S. D., Dec. 20.--General
Miles has received advices from General
Brooke that 500 friendly Indians have
lett Pine Ridge to attempt to bring in
the hostiles. Dispatches from Lieuten-
ant-Colonel Drum, at Fort Yates, an
nounce that the Indians there are quiet.
Thirty-nine of Sitting Bulls Indians,
who left the agency on Monday, have
sent in word that they will return. Gen
eral Carr has thrown out cavalry force
to intercept the band now reported
moving across the reservation to the
Bad Lands. If the force fails to inter-
cept them, they will be pursued and ar
rested. General Miles says no advance
will be made until the result of
the Pine Ridge conference is known.
Big Ram and Hump have sur
rendered and returned to the agency.
No Indians, except the band mentioned,
are now going to the hostiles, aid the
Gordon is constantly tightening. Gen
eral Miles discredits the report of a
large band of Indians in the vicinity of
Camp Crook, on the Little Missouri.
No further engagements are reported
from the lower ranches. The govern
ment herd has been located on Alkali
creek, and force of twenty men has
gone to round it up. Two companies of
the Seventeenth infantry from Fort
Russell are expected here this afternoon,
and will at once follow the forty. five
Cheyenne scouts from Pine Ridge, who
started from Cheyenne this morning.
The available force along the Cheyenne,
under General Carr, is about 1900.
A TOWN RAIDED.
PIERRE, s. d., Dec. 90 George La
Plant came in today with the report that
Indians raided the town of Midland,
Nowlin county, night before last, and
that brisk skirmish ensued, the In
dians afterwards escaping to the Bad
Lands. The report is discredited here.
OLD TECUMP's OPINION.
New YORK, Dec. 20.-The 270th ami
versary of the landing OF the pilgrims
was celebrated tonight at the eleventh
annual dinner of the New England soci-
ETY. of Brooklyn. General Sherman was
one OF the principal speakers. Speak
ing OF the Indians, he came down to the
troubles of the present time, which he
thought were exaggerated. Ii the entire
control of the Indians was given to the
army, he said there would be no more
outbreaks.
THE KICKAPOOS NOT DANCING.
KANSAS Cry, Dec. 20.-A dispatch
from Oklahoma City says there is no
truth in the report that 1000 Kickapoos
are dancing. The other tribes have al
most entirely stopped, and no alarm ex-
lists.