Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-29
EAST OF TIE ROCKIES.
Sitting Bull Bent on a War With the
Whites.
FATAL FIRE ON A STEAMBOAT.
Startling Disclosure Make III
the New York Census
Returns.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RHooRD-UNlOs.l
TRouBLEsoME INDIANS.
A Band Captures the Wives of Two In
dian Policemen.

A Band Captures the Wives of Two In
dian Policemen.
OMAHA (Neb.), November 2Sth-A spe-
cial to the Omaha Bee from Pine Ridge
says: The beef issue passed off yesterday
without exciting features. Eve hundred
and ninety steers were turned loose. Hawk
Head and Big Horse, reliable Indian police
men, have reached the agency with news
that their families have been stolen by q
band of 200 Indians that had deserted from
Rosebud a few hours before and had
rushed of to join 1900 Indian deserers.
They are now only fifteen miles northeast
of the Pine Ridge Agency. When Hawk
Head and Big Horse discovered their fami-
lies were missing, they Immediately set out
in pursuit of the deserters. The latter re-
fused TO give up the families. the police
men begged snd entreated the deserters to
give them back their wives and children,
but they only got curses and threats of
their lives. Before they got away from the
band the members of the latter said:
"Go tell the soldiers at Pine Ridge that
we are part of 1. 800 other Rosebud Indians
now near Pine Ridge, and from now on we
are going TO kill every white person we
meet, and if the soldiers come we are ready
for them"
1t is predicted by the correspondent that
within thirty six hours troops will be or
dered to disarm or shoot down the marau-
ders, and when the troops do start after
them the end will be no Custer affair. A
move will undoubtedly be made under
cover of darkness and by q forced march
The attack and finish will both occur be-
tween the rising and setting ofthe moon.
The scene of the action will be some fifteen
or twenty miles northeast of the agency.
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WASHINGTON, November 2S.h-Acting
Indian Commissioner Belt to-day received
q telegram from Agent Dixon, ct the Crow
Creek Agency, South Dakota, saying that
none of his Indians have vet been dancing
A small band of Lower Brules, near the
Rosebud Reservation, have been dancing
and he has dispatched force of police and
scouts to stop it. He has also called home
all the Indians having passes TO leave the
Reservation, and says he considers ii i'm
possible to be surprised in any outbreak
Lower Brules may make.
REPORT DIsCREDITED.
BRISTOL Is. d., November 2S:h.-Much
excitement was created here this morning
by report brought in by a stranger that
Indians were at Pierpont and Langford,
and that the town of Pierpont had been
burned Later in the afternoon it was
learned that the whole thing was scare,
and the reported burning of Pierpont is dis
credited.
BREAKING UP THE DANCES.
CHAMBERLAIN Is. D., November 2Sth.-
The Lower Brule Indian police last night
started in to break up the ghost dances, and
to-day eight of the leading dancers are in
jail at the agency. Another dance is re-
ported as organizing for tonight, and the
police are ready for it. Affairs were lively
for time, but the police are too much for
the new adherents of the Messiah craze.
No danger of an outbreak is feared.
INDIANS NOT YET UNDER CONTROL.
PINE RIDGE Agency, November 2Sth.-
Little Wound is in, and reports his inabil-
ity to control his band in the interest of
peace. The cavalry expects an order to
march tonight on the Rosebud camp on
the Porcupine, although General Brooke is
reported TO be in favor of waiting until the
Sixth Cavalry reaches Fort Meade and
troops can be placed at Forest City, above
Pierre.
SITTING BULL DETERMINED TO FIGHT.
MANDAN, November 2Sth.-Word comes
from Sitting Bulls camp from different
sources that he is dancing his men more
vigorously than ever, and he is compelling
the children to join in the dance. He is
reported to be more hostile and determined
10 fight than ever. This afternoon two
cavalry regiments arrived from Fort Custer
and proceeded to Fort Yates.