St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-12
REDSKINS FALL OUT.
Forty Indians. Under Rival
Chiefs, Shed Each Others
Blood.
A Tie Vote on Ignatius Dom
nelly in the Otter Tail
Convention.
Dairymen Put in Another Day
in Interesting Discus
siOnS at Glencoe.
c. N. Perkins Chosen Presi-
dent--General News Of
the Northwest.

PINE RIDGE AGENCY, S. D., Dec. II.
Tired OF waiting for the soldiers to
come and get killed, the indians in the
Bad Lands have begun fighting among
themselves. This news was brought in
last night by both government scouts
and friendly Indians. The battle took
place yesterday in the amphltheater of
Grass valley. The Strike and his fol-
lowers circled around Short Bull and
his followers all the forenoon. act
lively skirmishing, each leader
bound that his supremacy as chief
OF the whole body should be
acknowledged. The killed are reported
all the way from twenty to forty. AS
the scouts and friendlies had to escape
during the confusion the result of the
skirmishIng is not known. Gen. Brooke
sent Little Bat and five other Indians
back with Old Two Strike, under the
agreement made in the council that one
should return each day and report the
progress of the reds in coming in. Not
one of these men have returned, but are
held close prisoners of war. IL is re-
ported that Little Bat has been killed,
Brooke has issued orders for troops to
march on the Bad Lands tomorrow. and
active preparations have been iu prog
ress all day.
CHICAGO, Dec. 11.-Capt. G. III.
Conord in report received BY Gen.
Miles to-day says the 1,70G Indians at
the Yankton Sioux agency are receiv-
lug ratiOus enough now for barely two
days out of seven, and are starving.
Crops have failed them owing to the
work there is no employment obtain
able for such number during the
winter. On ration day the poor
devils, many of them old and decrepit
OF both sexes, are so famlShed
that they cannot resist eating at
once practically all that they receive,
Notwithstanding another supply OF food
is not due for a week. Capt. Conord
adds it is a standing complaint that
these same Indians have 81, $50 owing
them for railroad right-Ofway locked
up i'll the United States treasury, and
that individuals among them are still
unpaid for services rendered the gov
ernment as far back as 1862.
KANSAS CITY. Dee. 11.-Dr. 81. Won
Leuttwitz. of the United States army,
was at the union depot this morning OH
his wav from Fort Reno, Ind. Ter, to
Pine Ridge agency. esays all unciv-
ilized Indians of the Indian Territory
have tine Messiah craze, and there is
dancing going on. No one is particular
ly alarmed, however, as there are enough
soldiers to prevent trouble. He antici-
pates no trouble until spring, when ne
predicts one Of the greatest Indian up-
risings in the history of the country.
He emphasizes the statement that the
only good Indian is dead one. Even
the government scouts have been par
tieipating in the ghost dances. He says
there are 5000 young bucks in the terri
tory, who are eager for glory, and the
old chiefs encourage them by telling
stories of former victories. He tells of
three young squawS who went to school
three years and as soon as they re-
turned put on blanket and joined in
the ghost dance. He says the Indians
are better armed than the whites.