Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-12-18
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tion Between Gentlemen and
L Railroad Presidents.
by Telegraph TO the SEws.i
| GENERAL NILES.
He Arrfsee at Rapid City and Com
mandates With Carr.
RAPID CITY, Oak, Dec. H.
General Miles arrived here today
and is in communication witt
General Carr. He knows nothin,
Of the reported engagement a
bAlS's ranch with loss Of life and Il
Is undoubtedly untrue. Genera
Carr is encamped at the junction o
the Rapid and Cheyenne rivers
forty miles east, with 400 men
Thieving bands Of Indians abou
there are stealing cattle ami there
has been some skirmishing with the
Indians, In which one buck i.
known 10 have been killed. The
troops will coon cross the Cheyenne
river and proceed toward Pine
Ridge, when trouble may ensue.
s59 INDIANS IN CAMP.
WASHINGTON, Dec. If.-Qsners!
Schoiield this morning received a
telegram from, General Miles dated
' Long Pine, Neb., December 10th.
as follows: General Brooke reports
Two Strike anu about eight hun.
dred Indians now camped st Pine
Ridge Agency, and this, with the
other Indians at Pine Ridge and
Rosebud, are all that can be drawn
from the disafiected camp. The
others are defiaut and hostile, and
determined to 90 to war, and he has
No hope that any other effort at
pacification would be successful.
He estimates the numter of men in
the hostile camp in the Bad Lands
at go. General Ruger's estimate
represents 200 men on Cheyenne
River and 300 or the Standing Rock
Reservation, making in all $50 men.
Every possible means Is exhausted
TO retain and restrain the friendly
Indians on the reservations. The
sixteen thousand Sioux who have
been restrained and professed loyal
ty should have positive assurance
with the least possible delay that the
government will perform and fulfil
its treaty obligations.
No information was received at
the War Department in regard 10
the reported fight, in which two
officers and fifty men were killed.
The report Is discreiited.
EXCITEMENT AMONG NEGROES.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. l7.-Chief Of
Police Speers was called upon to-
day ny 4 delegation Of negroes from
two OF the lowest neighborhoods in
the city and asked for permission to
hold ghost dances by the residents
Of these localities. The men who
called upon tie chief stated that Z
Messiah had appeared 10 them anu
told them TO prepare for the suprem-
acy of their race al the same time
the Indians would be placed in con-
troll in the west. An investigation
shows that there is much excite
ment among the mos. ignt rant class
of colored people, which has been
brought about 10y some man who is
going about among them pslming
him off as Messiah.
TWO DIFFERENT REPORTS.
ST. PAUL, Dec. IL Gen. Ruger |
tonight received kilograms fro q
Fort Yates and Rapid City on tho
Indian troubles. One stated ;...l
all was quiet today Mt Standing
Rock and about 100 of Sitting Bulls |
friends are still out. The other was
TO the effect that one Indian who
had been caught stealing on Coles |
Ranch, southeast Of Rapid City, |
had been shot. There was firing |
heard forty-five miles from Rapid
City on Plumnier's Ranch, Indians |
and ranchmen exchanging shots,
but no one vas hurt. These two |
little brushes reported from Rapid |
City are probably all there was to |
last nights report Of many killed.
THE sEvESTENTH INFANTRY.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. III
Seven companies Of the Seventeenth
Infantry, Lieutenant Colonel Ofiiey
left Fort Russell this
evening for Fort Robinson, 10y rail.
The battalion includes twenty-one
officers and go men. Many vete-
rams are found in line and rank.
They take rations for thirty DAYS,
200 rounds of ammunition for each
man, and a Hotchkiss machine gun
with 1000 loads.
INDIANS cA1IPED NEAR WHITE
BUTTE.
Dickinson, y. D., Dec. IA
courier from Captain Fountains
on Cannon Ball River
avs teamsters from the South report
! number of Indians camped near
White Butte. 1t IL believed that
hey are preparing for flight 10 the
British possessions. Cavalry moved
u that direction this morning hop
ng 10 intercept them. A body Of
has been thrown out to
'uard all passes through which The
ndisns might escape.
THE FUNERAL.
F0RT YATES, Dec. Il. = The
of the Indian policemen
1ok place this afternoon with mill
Rry ceremonies. Sitting Buil's
ody was laid away in the post
with few honoE. /.
A RAILROAD STORY.