Los Angeles herald., 1890-11-19
THE REDSKIN SCARE.
Alarming Rumors Still in
Circulation.
Settlers Fleeing from the Sioux
Reservation.
Troops Now Marching to the Scene
of Disturbance.
Citizens of Mandan, N. D., Under Arms
And Afraid to Go to Bed For
Fear of An Outbreak.
Associated Press Dispatches.

A5oOCldttu ITeSS DlSDaICQeS.
MANDAN, N. D., Nov. 18.--An easier
feeling prevailed this morning because
OF the receipt of arms and ammunition
Six mounted friendly Sioux have been
sent TO patrol the borders of the reserva-
tion. Settlers are coming in from all
directions. The gravest fears are enter
tanned for the safety of settlers in the
southern part OF the county.
MTNNEAPoIIs, Nov. 18.--The Tribune's
Mandan, N. d., special says: Every
house in town is full to overfowing with
refugees from the country districts.
Most intense excitement prevails in the
county. The settlers are preparing to
believe anything about the Indians. In
town somewhat less tension exists owing
to the receipt of 300 guns today from the
state government, and the fact that a
company of soldiers will be here tomor-
row morning from Fort Totten. Tonight
there are 200 Indians in town armed,
but the citizens are armed, too, and
patrols will be out, and the people will
sleep with their clothes on. A date will
be fixed by a committee of citizens and
the Indian agent notified that after that
any Indians found in this country with
out pass from the agent, will be killed
on sight. The population is excited,
and though conservative men are doing
their best to quiet the angry feeling,
there is every reason to believe that un-
less the government takes immediate
steps to increase the force ofsoldiers at
Fort Lincoln, every Indian coming into
the country will be killed.
WAsHINaToN, Nov. 18.-The war de-
partmeut has received no news of any
change in the situation at Pine Ridge.
Standing Rocke and the other Sioux
agencies. AS competent officers are on
the watch at all points where trouble is
threatened, whose business 1t is to re-
port any significant events, it is taken
for granted that no immediate trouble
is at hand.
Acting Indian Commissioner Belt has
received no recent information from
South Dakota, which justites the evil
dent alarm of the settlers in the neigh
borhood of Pine Ridge agency. Belt is
of the opinion that the government will
not be justified in making any arrest or
attempting to surpressing the ghost
dances, so long as the Indians commit
no acts OF violence. This would surely
make trouble. The proper course to pur-
sue is to let the Indians dance themselves
out. 1t will not be long, he thinks, be-
lore they begin to lose faith in the Mes
siah, and the whole craze will collapse.
Belt is, however, strongly in favor of
keeping strong military force within
call. This precaution has already been
taken, and the government is not at all
apprehensive OF trouble.
BISMARCK, N. D., Nov.1S.-Fhe Tribune
says there is no substantial foundation
for the wild rumors of an Indian uprising
at Standing Rock. The Indians are liv-
ing peacefully on the reservation. The
agent there reports everything quiet and
orderly. Conservative opinion is that
the Indians do not dream of an out
break.
ST. PAUL. Nov. 18.-A Pioneer Press
dispatch from jamestown, N. D., saws:
The Messiah craze has struck the In
dians at Fort Totten, and they are in
clined to he ugly. One hundred armed
bucks were seen crossing the railroad
track at Minnewaukan, en- route from
the Turtle mountains, to join the
Sioux at Standing Rock. They said
they were going hunting.
CHICAGO, Nov. 1&-Telegrams from
Valentine and Crawford, Nebraska, and
Cheyenne, Wyoming, say troops have
been ordered from the forts to proceed
to Pine Ridge to keep the Indians in
check.
SALT LAKE Cry, Nov. 1S.-All the
troops at Fort Douglas, except one com
pany, have received orders to hold
themselves ready to march to the scene
of the Indian troubles.
OMAHA, Nov. 1S.-According to orders
issued this morning, companies A, B, G
and d of the Second United States
infantry. at Fort Omaha, left for Pine
Ridge agency this afternoon, with full
complement of mules and wagons. The
other companies were notified to be
ready to move at short notice.
The troops at Fort Mckinney were
ordered out and left for Douglass, Wyo-
ming.
The troops at forts Niobrara and Rob-
inson, which are not far from the scene
of difficulty, will march tomorrow.
1t was stated that two reliable In
dians, now in Rthe city, had told the
army officers that there was no Messiah
craze among the Indians just north of
the Nebraska line.
Private advices from Valentine give a
different origin than the Messiah craze
to the Indians uneasiness. Since
August the Indians at Rosebud have
been restless, claiming that the agent
was not giving them square deal on
supplies. Some families living north
west OF Valentine have moved away.
Alex Mounseau, an Ogallala Indian
and government scout at Fort Robinson,
is in the city, and said today, referring
to the Indian craze: ''Some think it is
so and some do not know what to be-
lieve. The Indians at Pine Ridge are
dancing and meeting and talki ng. Some
OF them are wild about it, but some
don't know what to believe"
BISMARCK, N. d., Nov. 1S.-Late last
night the city was startled by the alarm
of an Indian outbreak. The report
came from Mandan that the Indians at
Standing Rock agency left the agency,
and were advancing on Ft. Lincoln. The
governor was called upon for aid and by
this morning excitement was intense.
The reduction of the forces at Forts Lin
coin and Yates has made the settlers
apprehensive, for there are 5000 Indians