Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-12-16
THE INDIAN War.
Chief Sitting Bulls Career Is
Closed.
history OF His BLOODY LIFE
The Indian Situation Is Ma
Longer a Dangerous
One.
SITTING BULL KILLED,

Y VnoHiNoION, DeC. tO.-lEUia
r Commissioners Morgan received tn
, following dispatch, dated For
1 Yates. N, d., Dec. Is.
"The Indian police arrested Sit
, ting Bull ut his camp, forty mile
, northwest of the agency, this morn
> Ing at daylight. His followers at
tempted II rescue, and fighting com
nenrcd. Four police were killed
and three wounded. Eight Indian
were killed, including Sitting Bul
aud his son Crow Foot, and severa
Others were wounded.
Commissioner Morgan showed
this telegram to the president lat,
last evening. The president said h,
had regarded Sitting Bull as grea
disturbing element in the tribe ant
now that he was out of the way ht
hoped n settlement of the difficul
ties could be reached without fur
thcr bloodshed.
| HISTORY OF SITTING BULL.
Secretary Proctor said he did not
think the killing would have any
bad effect on the friendly Indians.
They had not been kindly disposed
toward Sitting Bull, and had no
love for him.
Sitting Bull was born about 1887.
He was the principal chief of the
Dakota Sioux who were driven from
their reservation in the Black Hills
by miners in 1876, aud took up arms
against the whites and friendly
Indians, refusing to be transportel /
to the Indian territory. In June,
1876, they defeated and massacred
Gen. Geo. A. Custer's advance party
of Gen. Alfred IL. Terry's column,
which was sent against them ON
Little Big Horn river, and were
pursued nOrthward by Gen. Terry.
While Sitting Bull did not take au
active fighting part in this massacre,
the actual commander of the fight
ing Indian forces being Chief Crazy
Horse, he was in his tent at the
time aud organized and conurived
the whole campaign. Sitting Bull,
with part of his band, made his
escape into British territory, and
through the m ediation of Dominion
officials, surrendered, on promise
o: pardon, in 1880. since that time
he has lived on the Sioux reserva-
ton in Indian territory. When the
Messiah craze first broke out, it was
not tl,ovght that Sitting Bull was
mixed up In it, but subsequent
events proved that the old fellow
was at the bottom of the whole
affair. After the troops arrived
about Pine Ridge and Rosebud
agencies, Sitting hul! moved his
camp farther away, aud has persist
emily refused to meet the agents or
army officer, with the exception OF
one council held with Agent Nc
Laughiin, at which no satisfactory
answers could be obtained from
him. Orders were issued for his
arrest IA few weeks ago, but the
orders were cOuuternanded ut the
time of Buffalo Bills visit.
INDIAN SITUATION TODAY.
CHICAGO, Dec. lG.-Up to noon
to-day no further news is received
ut army headquarters regarding the
Indian situation in the North West.
Speaking of the death Of Sitting
Bull, Adjulant General Corbin said
to an Associated Press reporter that
IL was most probably the beginning
of the end of the trouble. He said
that as sitting Bull was now dead,
Indians who had had great faith in
him ~ II medicine man would come
into the agency within the next two
or three days, when they hear OF his
death, If they do not, General
Brooke has things in shape to make
short work of them. They are
penned up in the bad Lands where
nobody lives aud where they can do
no damage.
GRAVE APPREHENsIoNs.
MlNNEAPoLIs, Mimi, Dec H.
The Evening Journals, Bisnlark,
N. d.. Special says; The country
around about il terribly wrought up
over the killing of Sitting Bull. ~
stead of creating m easy feeling ~
has aroused much apprehension. IL
ia feared that many families OF set
Tiers will Inll before the vens-
.,uce of sitting Bulls followers
sitting Bulbs Son, who was killed.
il ouly |. years old. Enierpfis'hg
nisnurk merchants offered $l'o"
for sitting Bulls hide.
| pANCING Al CHIco.
| culco, Dee. l6,-The Indians oi
,he rnncheri,s near Chico nave
,.,n,m.uc,d "A Messiah or ghost
dance. Some three hundred par''c''
pants will dance.
Il tn hnlnU
THE Mup.--The mud Is oe'hs
scr.ned from our streets, hut 'heh "
.ov., gets too deep for patrons W