Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-12-20
zoo INDIANS REPORTED DEAD
FROM STARVATION.
No Public Money for the Burial Of
Dead Bodies, Furnished BY
Sonlless Corporations.
a RAT sLAeee ~ The FEN DIS.
rkicT. ENGLAND.
Remarkable Case OF a Negroes. wha
Lives Four Days with a
PiercedHcart.
By Telegraph to the Ssw..i
TBE sNnIss TGOuRLE.
fhe Hosfiies'' Closely Guarded BIZ
the SOIdiers.

fhe "Hosfiies'' Closely Guarded b.
| the Soidiers.
RAPID CITY, $. D., Dec. lp.--
Four hundred men Of the Seven
teenlh Infantry started today for
General Cars cam; at Rapid creeh
anu cheyenne river. General
Miles has concentrated there about
! twelve hundred men. with artillery.
! There is n large encampment OF
hostile Indians In Green fasin on
the Bad tanJs, n5out ten miles
from Cerr-s camp, and the Indians
have been making raids on the
ranches from there. Troups are
being disposed to guani every pass
and outlet, and the cavalry are
scouting about to intercept Sitting
Bull's followers, who are srrpcsod
to ee heading for that roiSh The in
dications are that General Miles pro.
posesho,dinx theindiens in the basin
unti re1dy 10 make a movement
Into the Bad Lands simultaneously
with General Brooke's forces. AS
the troops are disposed now, IL ap-
pears that the escape Of the hostiies
Is impossible.
TWENTY FAMILIES LEAVE THEIR
HOMES.
PIERRE, Z. T., Dec. 49, George
No-rie, n storekeeper at Cheyenne
City, near the mouth Of Cherry
creek, has just arrived. He says
the entire population of twenty fam
lilies and also number of friendly
Indians have left there, some going
10 Fort Bennett, some 10 Oaks and
Others to Pierre. He says Just be-
fore leaving there night before last
twenty Indians from Sitting Bulls
band arrived and held n big council
with the Cherry Creek Indians to
see whether they should fight or
not. and they were joined, after the
council, by over one hundred and
fifty Cherokees, all Of whom started
for the Bad Lands.
Morris says that during the time
the refugees Were getting away TO
the Bad Lands sharp firing was
heard between the Indian police
and the hostiles and that battle
was 10 Doubt fought. but rs the set
tiers made haste 20 reach The towns
he can give no further particulars.
As t.oops were ordered TO that point |
yesterday il n believed the hostiles
We've routed and capturei. Morris
says Sitting Bulls Indians are well
armed and are determinei 10 avenge
Bulbs death.
TWO HUNDRED INDIANS DEAD FROM |
STARVATION.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Is.- DIR.
Gland, Of the Indian Defense Assc-
citation, has received = long letter
from the Indian chief. Red Cloud,
at fine Ridge agency, under date Of I
December 10Th. Rel Cloud says he |
Is a constant friend OF the whites,
ana. his people nave no intention OF
going un the warpath. He never
had anything to do with the ghost |
dance. He complains Of the Gov
eminent Tations being cut down |
more and more every year. The
past two seasons were 50 dry that |
the Indians could not raise much |
and the nations were 80 scant that |
they had to kill their own cattle to
avoid starvation. Many becam /
sick from want of proper food and
2l7 have died from starvation since
the fall of last year.
A SCOUT ARRESTED.
OMAHA, Dec. IA special from /
Camp Carr, on the Cheyenne River
says: John Farnbam. scout, was
today placed hinder arrest Farm
ham is suspected Of giving informa-
ton concerning the movements Of
troops 10 the hostiles. He is a squaw
man. The troops are ready for
rs soon as orders are re-
ceired, and viii have no difficulty
in penetrating TO the Indian s.roBg-
hold. Several easy routes have
been found in and out of the social
ed impregnahle stronghold.
gULL HEADS WIFE.
FoRT YATES, y. d., Dec. ID
bOdy was buried today
with military honors. His sguaw,
who was upon Csnnonball River
when she heard Of the fight, started
at once for Fort Yates and walked
eighty miles without rests She
reached her husband before his
death and fell in faint wher adj
mitted to the room.
More than forty OF Sitting Bulls
followers have reported to the agent
lni are now in camp close by. The
are reported 10 be south
Of the reservation, near Moreau
River.
POSITION OF THE CREEK INDIANS.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. ia Gu
.hrie dispatch says a number Of
Creek Indians today asserted that
heir people had no sympathy with
he Messiah craze, although Sitting
Bull had sent couriers to all the
different tribes TO incite AN uprising.
They had been successful only with
he unciviiized Indians.