The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-31

Joined Big Foot on Cheyenne river ana ,b,,tv
mat u. broke away from Humps following when
Fort Bennett, making Ia ali nearly ie n syyiors
Beiore leaving their camps on tho Fort
SSneyenne Sary f,scr & they cut up their
south for the Bad Lands, evidently not intcnsi.
ing to return, but 10 60 10 war Trnors wsro
placed between them aud the Bad Lands and they
hJ,et +, sneceedsd IN Joining the hostiles there
All their movements were anticipated, and their
severe loss at the hands Of the Seventh cavairv
may be wholesome lesson TO the other SiSnx
ucnerai schoheid said the fight was q most
unfortunate occurrence, but he did not see how
II could have been avoided. He had sent !
telegram to General Miles, expressing tho opin-
ion that he (Miles) would be master OF tne
situation very soon. He also expressed than~s
TO the officers and men Of the Seventh cavalry
Tor the gallant conduct displayed hy them.
The surgeon-general has received from Medi-
car director Bache, at Pine Ridge, o report of
fight as follows:
captain Wallace, twenty-five men OF the sey-
enth cavalry and one Indian scout were Filled
Lieutenant Darlington. Seventh cavalry; Lieu-
eight men were wounded. Many OF the wounds
are severe. Hospital steward Pollock was Killed.
i.l ! nave also about thirty wounded Indian men,
The commissioner Of Indian affairs, late theu
afternoon, received telegram from Special
Agent Cooper, at Pine Ridge, SAYING that in
yesterdays fight 10 Indians were killed and
thirty wounded and captured. He also states
that Indians attacked wagon train this (Tues-
dayl morning, two mics north of the agency
killing one soldier OF the advance guard
The commissioned of Indian affairs this moru-
ing received the following dispatch from Agcnt
ID. +. Royer, dated Pine Ridge Indian agency.
December %: =
Two Strikes and party campcd on White Clay
creek just below Red Clouds house and opened
nre on the agency from the hilltop opposite tho
boarding school, wounding two soldiers. The
police returned the fire, Killing two OF Two
strikes Indians and wounding two others I've
westerly. direction from the agency, and are
supposed to be making their way back 10 the
BAD Lands. Thus FAR the Pine Ridge Indians
Big Foot, slew Bear, Kicking Bear and Two
strike,s bands have been and arc active In the
disturbances.
Secretary Proctor conferred with the presideno
this morning regarding Indian matters. Iii the
absence OF full details regarding yesterdays en-
gagement tho secretary declined TO talk. Ho
Said however, that inasmnch as General Miles
had been given ample discretionary power -
act in an emergency, Il was necessary to send
him any further directions He decided that
no action was necessary today ut this end Of tho
line.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. so.-A letter has been =.
ceived in this city from Sarah winnemucca,
princess OF the pirates in Nevada, IN which she
says:
A report has come TO my brother and mo from
the Fort Hall reservation oi an outbreak Of the
indians east. Two Indians who have come f0
our house say that the Fort Hall reservation In
dians have promised to fight with thu Sioux,
and In fact some have alreaay gone. They SAY
they have sent to the Columbia river Indians, "a
the umatillas and the Yakimas. Ny brother
and l have looked for this trouble for two
or three years, knowing the cunning
OF the bad Indians, and we told
our people so long ago. Because of our warning
and not believing what they say OF the crazy
preachers we have made our own people 10 hate
us. The Pyramid Lake reservation Indians have
been the cause of most Of 1t. BY preaching 20
all the Indians that came to see about the Men-
siah and telling them he was God himself
and telling that he was going to ex~
terminate the white people and that the Indians
were Gods children, and he was going to make
them all young again and that the dead were
coming back TO earth" they raised great az
ali the Indian tribes from the Pyramid Lake
reservation and Walker river, 90 that the
Indians from east and north came to see the
Piute father, as they call him. Every summer
for two years they have come TO hear these lies.
They told them all about this wonderful man oz
theirs, and IL Is well said that this crazy Mee-
siah, Quoitz .Ow, has mado all the troubIe-
not to belie
it was not
that IL any trl
nonsense, all the blallc W0oIo lull ull xIII IIlI
The two indians that told us about the hootilco
have gone down to the Pyramid Lake rcservsr