The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-12
THE SIOUX RESERVATION
Ing 'reat Rush Continues, but settIers .nd
Indians Are In Good Humor '""

IAuL, FEB. II. "A Pioneer p,oo
naioerlaln special says: Every incon,
ing Train is heavily loaded with se+tIan,
nu Luz Inc reservation, and the stra.n,
Gov ti.aniCy crossing the river is almos,
Ion1inu0us. Several thousand have oI.anS
Desun Inc erection of homes. Tho na Nc, uauy
nv .boGs are being forced to 90 further in az
10 ,tt nUeilot. Agent Anderson has ceasoS
rec aG;vuap! tne removal of settlers. haVino
h6t ha ~ Instructions from WASHINGTON
est IF +bb e to guard the inter,
care eaae ana ne says that if all the buiidin lbs
Sl ~ oy settlers on the lands fled $50
~ Sne INDIANS prior to issuing the n,. upIn
.ne'lon are not removed, he will bnrn go
, one OF Them to the ground. Reports cry cry
fo, eo from 1nnumerable localities nf
~ ur,ng coionleS to start at once for the
,,.ate st tba Inc rush promises to he
Lower Brule, which agency 'comt,; at
ABOUT two thousand red men n'a,ns
IA the best of humor and are
hugely the lncessant strife betwear onioy
o mal.S nlen Tor the possession of the Ionds
cedeo oy them. The tough elemen 14nu US
oUmMon on the border has not vet mt in gu ~
adI,e but this crowd will undonht
yatIo LII I'm In as the opening of the reser-
effort ;s oI Ia; generally known. Every
H. Sfot
Marsnal Fry and his deputies to nr esasus
IEroer, and thus far the excited sett1ase
nav been held in check. A large o pust
i ns TINS morning with a large p Saao9.
VI lumber and provisions fon
d p9lnt on the survey of the Milwani koa
rGao ABOUT sixty miles in the interio,
nronort iney expect town of respectable
fa,l ,,,a SaEns 10 De built during the next
y weeks. A party of old timers nersoH
\ thoroughly acquainted with the resa suns
Ilon ana who positively know of The va va
sCence OF coal, started out this aftarn "a
IT,, JUG purpose OF prospecting and locatina
,lalms on White river The rush is or ing {
uo.sase tonight and interests unahated
~ -. eue present rate of settlement it ,von1J
~ bo saae more than three months to settla |
government. gu ny tne r
w II. Prentice, town-site hoo, /
artner OF United States Senator Pe diu P
rev, was shot in the leg. He was to oIe, V
( mousse at Fort Pierre and militor,, $500 AZ. b
lori1tes refused to give him up to fr;en "I
: ~ t,l' Guy. boomers returned to this sido
! one river all worn out and somewhat
. so over the loss of ten teams and II
,m n t; IOaoe "a with supplies. About the II
ere mal,; sna1 South Pierre boomers :,
,oWd, though somewhat smeIla,. as
age desperate effort about holt tt
u, h norm at Boat Landing. This crowd nj
l aaas :; about two hundred. They snc- sc
dis c waking the other bank but were
~ st ~ thelr wagons into the inte-
OF OF the reservation and some of the he dc
, oif 81 are scattered over the lands W.
al oil oit1 them were caught and returned an
ca large number of honsea h,,;I I4Iie SIP
dams ia and half-breedsl who w ~ 10 10
, ALL aa Inc land adjacent to mile square ~
's ST. night several boomers built houses III
,r rap q lnaa IN IN that neighborhood and all
l gnt long boomers were sneakinr ousr
ana twos and mny escaped the ar
ards. This morning the Indian noi Iue In
i ba.a colony OF boomers ten miles west
mere, whose houses and effects t n1Se
rned and carried the boomers to 10y I%oy
ny o Inc boomers are becoming anxious to,
eApect mat tomorrow the order to ~,
wv tnem the reservation will be read soS