St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-22
MILES Is ON EDGE.
Despite Quieting Reports He Con-
siders the Situation Critical.

siders the Situation Critical.
CHICAGO, Nov. 21.-At IL o'clock to-
hight Gen. Miles was shown Associated
Press dispatches received from WASH
Ington, which told Of the report made
by SPECIAL Indian Agent Cooper at the
Pine Ridge agency to the acting COM
missioner of Indian affairs at Wash
lngtOn, as also the dispatch from
Washington sent by the general
to-day detailing to the secretary of war
the status of affairs in the Northwest
among the Indians and at the agencies.
Whed aSken if he did not regar the
situation in the Northwest InuIa., coun-
try as critical, Gen. Miles piled: IL
have regarded it as critical all the
while. 1t is not new matter. 1t is
not new subject, for this religious
craze has been going on for over
one year, and l have not consid-
cred it a tritlimg matter, but upon
the other band quite a serious subject "
AS to the ordering of troops in Texas,
Arizona and California to be prepared
for an emergency. that is well, is it not?
1t is the business of troops to be pre-
pared all the time. That is their pro-
fession, but as to what they are going
to do | don't consider it the business of
any officer to announce it. or to publish
1t, and, on the other hand. | consider it
very detrimental to the service.
1t is no benefit to the public to know
this, becaure the public expect that the
troops will be i'll condition for any serv-
ice, and that they will act to the best
advantage, and the announcing of their
purposes or plans Is simply giving in
formation to the enemy. aud it will be
received in tie Indians camp quite as
soon as it is spread over the other Dor
tiOn of the country. They have inter-
prefers and educated Indians, squaw
men aud people who Sympathize with
them, encourage them, in fact. and give
them all lie information Of that kind,
which Is simply giving information to
the enemy.
Anything later tonight from Gen.
BrOokei"
IL received telegram this eve
In which Gen. Brooke indicated t, 3
was separating the loyal from the dis
loyal and getting those who were well
disposed away from the others, Separat-
Ing them so that he could give his at
tention to the disatfected, diminishing
their influence and numbers; and the
information from Rosebud agency was
that the Indians were great deal eX-
cited and very much alarmed because
they did not know what was going to
happen"
Then you regard the situation as
very serious, do you?o
alt will require the utmost care and
prudence to prevent an outbreak, and
then we may not succeed. The trouble
Is not only at one place: it is at great
many places widely separated from so
to 100 miles distant and the understand
ing is that the first hostile shot shall he
the signal for the assembling and con-
centratIOn of all that are disposed to be
hostile to join in. That is the under
standing which the warriors have in the
different camps"
''NoW as far so regards the number of
troops up in the Indian country and
their ability to cope with the turbulent
Indians who may he there and under
take an outbreak at the Rosebud agency
under command of Gen. Brooke"
''Well, you take it in that entire re-
giOn of country, there are perhaps as
six to nine dismounted men. There
may be, take the mounted and
dismOunted soldiers, they may be
about equal, but of the mounted
troops they would number as one to five
OF six. The place they had their con-
clave, at which there were representa-
tives of sixteen different tribes, Ara
panOes, Utes, Shoshones, BannockS and
others. They then returned and the
Sioux were very much taken with the
craze, but they thought the medicine
was not enough, so they added to it the
hostile. That is. they all believed that
he was the Christ whom theyhad seen out
there and that he was going to give the
lands to those whites and Indians who
believed in this doctrine, but he was go
ing to do it IN his own way and advised
them not to be disturbed, but to abide
their time. But that did not suit the
Sioux, VINO were anxious to do some
tning to remove the whites. That
doctrine was very taking with the