The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-23
THE INJUN MESSIAH.
interviewed by a Truthful
Scout at Walkers Lake.
COL. BULLS MEN SURRENDER.
Democrat Wants the Taking-On of
Great Medicine Man Investigated
Friendlies After Hostiies.

PORTLAND, Dec. "a. I. Chapman, a
weii-known Indian scout. returned here
today from Nevada, where he went in No
yember for the purpose of interviewing the
so-cailed Messiah, in obedience TO orders
from General Gibbon. -He first went to
Walkers lake, in Nevada. and talked with
the Flutes, who told him tie Messiah had
been receiving calls from ali the tribes in
the West.
Chapman found the Messiah at the west
fork of Walker river, in Nevada. Speaking
of his interview, Chapman said:
The Messiah, Quoitze ow, as he gives his name,
is a full-blooded Piute Indian, and has always
been peacefully disposed. He spoke freely of
his call to preach. His FIRST experience with the
Almighty was one afternoon while hunting.
Hearing noise, he started to learn its cause,
when he was thrown TO the ground By some TN
known cause. He was then taken TO heaven,
aud there saw all the whites and Indians that
had lived and died upon the Garth He was
afterwards brought back to earth to the same
spot where ne had fallen dead. God told him he
had been looking for mortal whom he could
entrEst with the mission of reforming the world,
and had decided upon Quoitze 0w. Having been
informed OF his mission he set out to perform ".
He taught the Indians that they should work
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summer the Indians told him unless il rained
soon the crops would fail. He told them to go
home and in three days an abundance of rain
fell. Quoisze got the idea from religious family
with whom he had lived.
Chapman thinks Quoitxe is only indi-
rectly TO blame for the uprising, and that
his doctrine imbued the Indians with
more independent spirit 10 resent their
wrongs.
WASHINGTON CRY, Dec. 81. - In TIN
House today Blanchard of Louisiana
offered for reference preamble and reso-
luton calling for the appointment of
committee OF five to inquire into the kill
ing OF Sitting Bull and the immediate
causes leading thereto. The committee is
also TO investigate the troubles in the
Northwest The preamble recites that the
killing appears TO have been accomplished
under circumstances recognized neither by
the laws of war nor those of peace" and
the resolution directs the committee to in
vestigate whether state OF war existed
which iustined his summary taking of,
and if not, what justification there was for
his violent death at the hands of the Indian
police in the employ OF the government.
The commissioner Of Indian affairs has
received from Indian Agent Mclaughlin
VI the ESut DStNcen
police and the followers of Sitting Bull on
December 5, when that chief was cap
tured. The report does not differ mate
rally from what has been already printed.
The agent speaks in the very highest
terms of the judgment and bravery of the
Indian police, and strongly urges that
general allowance be made for the families
of those killed. Besides the Indian police
Nnluntaars EoIa xal
Thunder, Otter Robe and Young Eagle,
who participated in the fight, rendering
good service and deserving recognition.
Major-General Schofield has received
telegram from General Miles, dated Rapid
| City, Dec. -, as follows: II believe that
all or nearly all the followers of Sitting
Bull have been captured. Colonel sum
mers reports today the capture of Big
| Foot's band of scouts. numbering 15O. He
has been the most defiant and threatening.
| Results so far have been satisfactory.
DENVER, Dec. "a special TO the NeWs
| from Rapid City says: Troops fr, IN
| Colonel Summers command had a Skin
mish yesterday with a number of Indians
| from Humps band, who are on the way TO
| join the hostiles in the Bad Lands None
are seriously hurt. More troops have been
| sent out. A report is received that a large
number of Indians are trying to join those
in the Bad Lands, but the number is be-
lived TO be exaggerated. Yesterday ten
cowboys ambushed a number of bucks
near Battle creek, killing one and wound
ing others. The cowboys captured num-
Der of ponies and saddles.
RAPID CITY, :. D., Dec. 22-Dispatehes
10 General Miles from Colonel Sumner
today show that nearly all of Sitting Bulls
followers, together with Big Foot's band,
have surrendered to him. Colonel Sum
ner's last dispatch said that this disposes
of all the Indians along the Cheyenne
river, and if there are any more of Sitting
Bulls people out he does not know where
they can be.
| General Brooke reports the arrival of
! friendly Indians ut the Bad Lands camp,
and says the capture of Sitting Bulls
people and Big Foot's forces will aid the
| efforts of the friendlies TO bring in the
| hostiles.
An Indian scout reports TO General
| Brooke that Short Bulls followers are
anxious TO come in, but are withheld by
/ the threats of Kicking Bear, one of Sitting
| Bulls agents. The scout thinks, however,
| the friendlies will at last succeed i'll bring
| ing out Short Bulls followers
n report HAS fcaCheu ueIefai Miles Via
| Missoula that two companies Of soldiers
/ i'll the Yellowstone region have been sur
| rounded north of the Cave Hille by 500 or
/ 600 Indians. and have sent q courier out
/ with a notification Of danger 10 the settlers
/ General Miles says there = Indians in
/ that vicinity, but discredits the report that
/ the troops have been hemmed in He has,
/ however, ordered reinfor Q. cnts sent.
! OMAHA. Dec. pa Spe ial TO the Bee
/ says: Sitting Bulls band of fifty warriors,
I led by Big Foot, has just surrendered TO
( Colonel Sumner, who, with 200 soldiers
/ succeeded in surrounding them in the
/ vicinity Of Standing Rock while thew were
/ making for the Bad Lands.
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