Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-18
ANOTHER REPORTED BATTLE.


a camp near Daley's ranch has the follow
ing from Rapid City, OAK: ga rancher
just arrived in great haste to our COM
handing officer reports command of
cavalry attacked and two officers and fifty
men killed, but the Indians were repulsed
with heavy losses. The number of Indi-
ans killed is not known. The Indians
were put to rout This report is probably
credited. tits not known whose command
it was. 1t is probably that of Major Tup-
per of the Sixth cavalry and his three
troops of one hundred and forty men.
Our command marches to their assistance
to-day"
OMAHA, Dec. ia special from Pine
Ridge agency says the Indians are nom
communicative on the subject of the death
of Sitting Bull. They showed no excite
ment, but they are closely watched and no
one is permitted to talk to them on the
subject. A council of leading chiefs
among the friendies, including Red Cloud,
is now being held as to the best action to
take in regard to the Indians still in the
Bad Lands. General Brooke received or
ders from General Miles to defer the march
to the Bad Lands for the present.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-No information
has been received at the war department
in regard to the reported fight in which
two officers and fifty men are said to have
been killed. The report is discredited at
the department.
STANDING Rock AGENCY, s. D., Dec. IT,
-fGod almighty made me. God almighty
did not make me an agency Indian, and
I'll fight and die fighting before any white
man can make me an agency Indian"
he Ia INV
Bull to General Miles, and the detailed re-
ports of the great medicine mans death
gave to the declaration the full force of
prophecy. All eye witnesses agree as to
the facts that, all circumstances considered,
make the final tragedy involving the ex-
termination of probably the brainiest In
| dian that ever lived one of the most pic
turesque and characteristic incidents of
American history. That the government
authorities, civil as we'll as military, pre-
| ferred the death of the famous old savage
| to his capture whole skinned, few persons
here doubt.
The expedition which started from this
agency for Sitting Bulls camp, forty
| miles distant, to take him dead or alive,
was no haphazard undertaking. On the
contrary, there is every reason to believe
! that the whole affair was a carefully
| planned military maneuver originating
with General Miles and authorized by
President Harrison's cabinet. 1t is con-
coded that the operation against Sitting
| Bulls personality was suggested by the
| effectual quelling produced BY the removal
| of Medicine Arrow, the great Cheyenne
leader, when the Cheyennes threatened an
unprecedented uprising The promise to
Idle fighting" quoted above and made by
Sitting Bull personally to General Miles
on the occasion of their first meeting, had
much to do also in shaping the determins.
as well as the old chiefs often
| expressed wish to be remembered as the
1 last Indian on the continent to give up
his rifle. When General Miles left Chica-
go headed in this direction it was the be-
ginning of the end. Simultaneous with
the general stepping quietly aboard the
train at the railroad station in Chicago,
the expedition which had been with equal
quietude under preparation at Fort Yates,
which forms part of the agency, was also
ready to move Almost at the same mo-
ment that General Miles car glided out
for the northwest the members of his com
mand here silently took their departure
and were quickly lost in the darkness that
enveloped the wilderness stretching to the
camp of Sitting Bull ON the banks of the
Grand river. The van was lead by men OF
Sitting Bulls own blood, superbly mount
| ed and eecoutred.
| Close behind them came Captain Fou
chefs cavalry command with two pieces OF
light artillery. To the rear of Fouchet's
cavalry was the infantry command of Col
| onel Drum The distance and the capa
bilities Of the troops to Withstand the ia
, tigues of such q journey in such an in
, tensely cold night had been figured out
| nicely, and when the first faint light Of
dawn appeared the expedition was withir
| easy distance of its destination. The
, broken order of a triple separation Of
forces had been carefully preserved ant
: the Indian police were the first to sigh
, | the huddled cluster of ugly looking tepee
| on the river bank.
I Despite the early hour all was astir il
the village where on every hand was evi
dence that hurried exodus was contem
, | plated. The ponies of the police wer
a | pushed for all they were worth, and be
| fore Sitting Bulls dazed adherents had
Q | chance to realize the situation dozen @
Q the police had pulled their animals u
n short on all sides of the chiefs abode. N
8 time was wasted in ceremony. The prou
t old medicine man was hustled out on
d waiting horse, and in trice faced towar
civilization. He ragged and sputtered in
fury of rage for moment and the
Strengthening up shouted command
g his followers. Suddenly there was pu
IS of smoke beside tepee and a sharp crac
10 of Winchester. The policemen at Sittin
Bulls right, grasping the chiefs bridl
y reeled in the saddle, and topping owe
b was trampled under the hoofs of IL
10 ponies, now in the mad heller SHELTER
ic retreat from the village. The shot WI
ar instantly answered by yolley fro
t. the police at their hlanketed tribe
at men, many of whom were already noun
= l ;oI no
Of volley told with deadly effect, and the Fl
ing in moment was general on boi
in | sides. Sitting Bull could be heard in Il
It confusion still attempting, though ca,
es tive, to direct the fight. Raising his gaul
OF form he was reckoning his sons and wa
i'd riors on when, without warning, his boo
he Strengthened rigidly, then dropped limp I
.e- the hard prairie. The police halted roul
the corpse, not knowing for the nome
on but that it was trick of the willy old chic
ul The sudden movement and the fall of S
ok ting Bull disconnected the pursuers, w
1T. remaining at distance, sullenly fired
intervals toward the police. The latt
held their ground, knowing the caval
on under Captain Fouchet would be at han
,re To the surprise of all, however, the h
"a | tiles, who had been consulting amo
=, themselves, began a movement to close
eo from all places. The rattle of Winchest'
30, was now redoubled by both parties,
,g- police using their ponies as protection.
! was at this critical juncture that Capt.
tn Fouchet's men dashed up, and the mach
to guns, which had been put in positit
rec opened on the redskins The latter WI
oat too dismayed at this unexpected onslaul
er- to stand for moment, and all bolted
led the river. The cavalry followed onl,
lis. short distance, deeming it better policy
- to drive to desperation the now leaderl
the mob. a ta A.aa sa3z ~
ing The corrected list of casualties folio
Ca Police killed-Litt1e Eagle, Afraid
go, Soldiers, Hawk Man; Broken Arm; Z
but Head, mortally wounded; Shave Head, b
IRE ly wounded; Alex. Middle, wounded in
and leg.
Sis Hostiles killed-Sitting Bull, Crow FL
ish, Sitting Bulls son; Brave Thunder and
and son, Catch-the-B Bear, Black Bear, Ii
ner Assinaboine, Spotted Horn Bull.
the There were no casualties among Cap
tier Fechet's men.
:een ----
wed senator Gormanss House Burne
LAUREL, Nd, Dec. 17.-At abou
O'Clock this morning fire broke out in
han ator Germans residence and it was
de- discovered until the whole dwelling
was enyeloped in flames. The inmates mari
IL, a.oo,,od NTH THAR 1tvao Tho houaa