The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-27


Full or FIGHT.
sioux Indiana Grow Moro Thrsstsning-
An Alleged Plan 60 Amb1sh and Slau1h.
ter General Brooke and His Troops
4 All Sorts Of Rumors Anoat-lGors
Soldiers Ordered to the Scene.
BLUNT, s. D., Nov. 24.-The excite.
ment at this place in reference to the
Indian trouble Is at its height. General
Bowers and members Of the Midland
Pacific survey at work eighty miles west
of Pierre reached here Sunday afternoon.
They say that the Indians are in fren-
zied condition and are liable to commit
murder at any time. Friday night ct
II o'clock fifty Indians surrounded their
camp. burst into the tent and took pos
session. They were all we'll armed with
rifles and side arms and could have
massacred the whole outfit but after .
pow-wow the reds left telling them to
be many miles away before the sun
rose. Our people will ask the Governor
for arms and ammunition. 1t is feared
that much damage will be done ii proper
precautions are not taken. The Indians
on the Winnebago south Of town have
left to join the ghost dances at Rosebud.
ALARMING NEWS.
PINE RIDGE AGENCY, s. D., Nov. a.
News of startling nature reached here
Sunday from the Rosebud agency. It is
embodied in the following dispatch
which was forwarded to General Miles
at Chicago:
Information has been received that tho
hostile Indians are moving from Pass creek
toward Pine Ridge, agency in two parties;
bucks with Short Bull along the White river
route and the old men, women and children are
on the Medicine Root road. This news
comes from Indians who have returned
from Pass creek. and Louis Richards
says 1t is reliable. They report that they are
going to Pine Ridge agency to get the Indians
there to talk to the Commanding General in
their behalf. The report also says that Chief
Two Strike intends to stab the commanding Of
fcer as signal for the attack by his band
There seems to be no doubt that the leaders
mean war and they are only using Short Bull
Is pretense to keep the Indians together"
AN AMBUSH PLANNED.
PINE RIDGE AGENCY, S. D., Nov. Ga
The first knowledge that the ghost
dancers had commenced plotting to en-
trap the soldiers was brought to Indian
Agent Roger Saturday night by Will.
lam D. McGaa, formerly an Indian
scout and now wealthy ranchman
living in the vicinity of Buffalo Gap.
McGaa was travelling overland on horse.
back and alone. He enjoys wide
friendship among the Indians generally
and Friday night he staid at one of The
lodges about midway between this point
and Buffalo Gar. A little curiosity
prompted him to feign sleep and keep
his ears open during the early part Of
the night The result was that he Sc
cured information as startling as 1t was
valuable, and it removes every yestige
of doubt as to the bloodthirsty rillainy
which has taken possession of the ghost
dancers. The Indians were de-
liberately plotting to lead General
Brooke and his soldiers into an ambush
and shoot them down.
Their plan, as McGaa heard it from
their own lips, was to continue the
ghost dance till the troops tried. to stop
it. The place selected 10 carry out
their murderous design Is sixteen and
one-half miles north of here, and more
advantageous locality for so develish q
deed probably does not exist any
whore else on the face of the entire con-
tinent It is where the White Horse
creek empties into the Wounded Knee
and lays in somewhat the shape Of an
amphitheater. The plot was to have a
ghost dance in the center of this amphi-
theater and have the woods on either
side of the road full of Indians. When
the militia came up to stop the dance
they would be easily shot down by the
Indians in ambush on either side.
LITTLE WOUNDS DEFIANCE.
PINE RIVER AGENCY, s. D., via Rush
vile, Neb.. Nov. a. The Sioux and
Cheyennes mean war. Early Saturday
morning Agent Roger received the ulti-
matum OF the leader of the hostiles. 1t
came by courier from the great camp of
the ghost dancers, now massed on the
Medicine Root and was written by Lit
tie Wound, the chief who, to all appear
ances, will lead. the Ogallalas against
the soldiers. The letter reads as fol.
lows:
''DR. ROVER: understand that the soldiers
have come on the reservation. What have
they come for! We have done nothing. Our
dance Is q religious dance, and we are going to
dance until spring. If We find then that the
Christ does not appear, we will stop dancing;
but In the meantime, troops or no troops,
We shall start our dance on this creek
In the morning. have also under
stood that w nnf tn Ia xoA a 90
any longer. All that I have to say to that
Is neither you nor the white people made
me chief, and you can throw me away as
you please, but let me tell you, DR.. Roger,
that the Indians made me chief, and
BY BY them shall be SO recos-
have been told tnat you intended TO- stop o %e
rations and annuities. Well, for my part, I
don't care: the little rations we get do not
amount to anything; but Dr. Royer II such is
the case, please send me word so that me and
my people will be saved the trouble of going to
the agency. We do not intend to stop dancing
LITTLE WOUND"
ACTION AT THE WAR OFFICE.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24-Secretary
Proctor did not receive any information
Sunday from the seat Of the threatened
troubles with the Indians He had a
consultation, however, with General
Schotield respecting matters in that Sec
ton, in which the situation was talked
over. The regiments of cavalry which
it has been decided to send to the Pine
Ridge agency are the Seventh, now sta
toned at Fort Riley, Kan, and the
Sixth, now in New Mexico and Arizona.
The former, it is learned, has started
to Pine Ridge. The Sixth regiment is
scattered at three or four different points
in New Mexico and Arizona and it will
require some little time to get the sew
eral detachments together. The regi-
ment has been instructed to be in readi-
ness to move at moments notice.
IN THE MUSICAL WORLD.