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Standing Rock Indian Agency, and she and Sitting Bull and other leading lights of the Sioux, are nursing the craze incident to the expected ln- dian millennium, the annihilation of the whites and the supremacy of the Indians, which is expected to occur not later than next spring, The Agents report Is silent as to whether or not Mrs. Weldon is to be spared by tho impending crisis, but it is fair to pre- sume that she as well us all the mem bers of the Indian Defense Association, will successfully pass the impending ordeal, become Sioux, wear breech- c.outs, fructify for n thousand years under the special guidance of the h. dians' Messiah 'On the ninth instant, upon invitation from Sitting Bull, an Indian named Kicking Bear, belonging to the Cheyenne River Agency, and the chief medicine man of the Ghost Dance among the Sioux, arrived at Sitting Bulls camp on Grand river to inaugurate Ghost Dance and to in- itiate members. X detachment of Indian policemen was sent to arrest and es- cort him from the reservation, but they returned without executing the order, both of the officers being in dazed condition and fearing the powers of Kicking Bear medicine. Sitting Bull was very insolent to the officers. He has since kept mp the Ghost Dance
 The agent has now sent for him to talk to him personally and hopes to check matters.
 In June 1881, Nock-a-del.klenny, 8 medicine man, of the Arizona Camp Apache Agency, proposed in consider ation of gifts of horses, blankets, and other compensations, that he would bring to life certain chiefs who had died few months previous. The in- cantation of medicine man is regard cd by Indians as of supernatural power, and, therefore, confident and anxious to see their late relatives and friends again in the flesh, and hear their sono- rous war whoop resounding among the hills, were most lavish of their gifts, The time specified for the resurrection was when the corn was in tassel, Thousands of the deluded reds were present; the dead warriors not appear ing according to contract and an ex- planation being called for, Nock-a-del- kleRny was equal to the emergency. He stated that the spirits had appeared to him the previous night and an- nounced that they could not appear in the flesh until the whites were under the ground, which would be when the corn was ripe, and in the meantime the medicine man diverted the minds of the anxious ones by frequent repetitions of the wierd ghost dance, until the latter part of August, when, fearing all out break, it was determined by the author ities to arrest the medicine man--no easy job, as was feared by the number of the detail, under the personal com maud of Colonel Carr, which consisted of 6 officers, 70 soldiers and 26 Indian scouts. Nock-a-del-klenny was arrest ed at his camp on Cibicu creek, thirty miles from Fort Apache. He expressed no desire or intention of attempting an escape, but as the troops were making camp for the night, their scouts and other Indians opened fire on them A sharp fight ensued, the medicine man was wounded and for protection en- deayored to secrete himself among a pile of pack-saddles and was there killed by order of Col Carr. The command suffered a loss of II killed and three wounded.
 History Is supposed 10 be correct narration of events, but is as often wrong in detail as right. Hiram Price, then Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in his report to $. J. Kirkwood Secreta- ry of the Interior, said the White Mountain Indians were not long in dis covering the folly of their action, and came into the agency and sub-agency in small parties, where they were re- quired to surrender to the military officers, internationally except that they asked and were promised a fair trial for their individual crimes. The senior editor of the BELT has personal knowledge of that surrender, and was present at the first and second inter- view of the five chiefs of the offending bands with Agent J, c. Tiffany in re- gard to a surrender, and was present when they were counted by Dr. Pang- burn and Sam Bowman and received by Lieut.. Abbott, who put the tally-list in his pocket, and when asked if be was not going to place guard over them, he replied, ''it is not necessary, and as result of his action, of the sixty or more Indians surrendered not single one was to be seen the next morning, but were re-arrested through the in- strumentality of Agent Tiffany. The