Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-11-22
THOROUGHLY ALARMED.
Settlers in North Dakota Fleeing
From Indians.
Reported That the Redskins Have
Already Begun Depredations.

Troops on the Way to the Scene of Ex-
element En- trenchments Thrown Up
by the Whites.
MANDAN, n D., Nov. 10. - Every
house in town is full to overflowing with
refugees from country districts The
most intense excitement prevails in the
country. Settlers are prepared to be-
lieve anything about Indians, because
of their queer actions lately. Several
families came in Tuesday afoot, dis
tance of twenty miles and over, being
too poor to own wagons In town less
tension exists, owing to the receipt OF
300 guns from the State government
and the fact that a company of soldiers
will be here to-day from Fort Totten.
There were 200 armed Indians in town
last night but the citizens were armed,
too and patrols were out and people
slept with their clothes on. A date will
be fixed by committee of citizens and
Indian agents notified that after that
date any Indian found in this county
without pass from the agent will be
killed on sight. The population is
thoroughly aroused and although con-
servative men are doing their best to
quiet the angry populace, there is every
reason to believe that unless the Gov
ernment takes immediate steps to in
crease the force of soldiers here at Fort
Lincoln every Indian coming into the
county will be killed.
AT Glen Ullen, forty miles west, citi-
zens turned out en- masse and threw up
circular breastworks by moonlight,
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A supply of rifles was sent to each set
tlement in the county. kilograms are
coming in constantly for supplies of am
munition- A telegram received by
correspondent from New Salem states
that $50 Indians are camped south of
that point, and the people are clamor-
ing for guns and powder. A number of
men bent on driving out of town the In
dians camped here, deferred action on
the Indians promising to be peaceable.
To-day they will be moved off.
While the correspondent was writing,
this band of redskins was having grass
dance, making the night hideous. Their
shrieks could be heard for miles. While
the excitement in town is subsiding be-
cause of the presence of plenty of guns,
agitation in the country is worse than
ever. This is caused largely by the in
solent and menacing attitude of rowing
bands of Indians travelling through.
Agent Mclaughlin wires that there is
no cause for alarm, but everybody be-
lieves this is buncombe.
OMAHA, Neb., Nov. accompanies A,
B, G and d of the United States infan-
try at Fort Omaha, under command of
Major Butler, left for Pine Ridge
agency, to hold the Indians in check,
yesterday afternoon, provided with ra-
tions for fifteen days. The four other
companies here were notified to be
ready to move at short notice. Tho
troops at Fort Mckinney left in the
morning for Douglas, Wyo. The troops
at Fort Niobrara will leave for Pine
Ridge agency to-day.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-The War De-
partment is in receipt of no informa-
tion tending to confirm or discredit the
alarming news published in the news
papers about threatened Indian up
rising. Several new men are now In
dian agents at points in the Sioux na-
ton, and being unfamiliar with the In
dian character, they have become, in
the opinion of the War Department Off
cials, unnecessarily alarmed by the DEM
onstrations of the Indians, and have
given out to the newspapers an express
sion of their fears, which will prove to
be unfounded.