Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-20
Tales From the West of Panic Caused
by the Indians.
THE SIOUX READY FOR WAR.
Even the Redskins on the Yanktor
Reservation Wrought Up.
EFFORTS OF BUFFALO BILLS MEN.
THE GREAT INDIAN SCARE,
The Whole Country Wrought Up Many
Refugees.

~".Ay ''AouSns " P-sAohJ
Refugees.
MISNEAroLrs, Nov. 2O-A Mandan special to
the Tribune says: An unconfrmed report was
received last night that Sitting Bull is in irons.
At the house of Railroad Commissioner Hallon,
twelve miles west Of Mandan. sixty refugees
are staying for safety. Pickets are out at night
and rules Of military garrison are observed
tuesday night Picket Hoff shot at Picket Mas
singham, thinking he was an Indian, the bullet
grazing Massingham's head. A company OF
troops from Fort Totten arrived last night
People keep coming in from the country.
Houses large enough to comfortably accom-
modste one family have five to ten families.
Two hundred Aricarees were sent over to the
east slde OF the river yesterday to go to Fort
Berthold. The authorities are fearful that they
would be mistaken for Sioux by settlers If they
went upon the west side of the Missouri. A
correspondent talked with an Aricsree yester-
day concerning the feeling among the Sioux
on the reservation. whom the Aricarees have
been visiting. He said:
SIOUX N GOOD SHAPE.
"The Sioux are in a good shape for fight.
They have plenty Of guns and ammunition and
also have the jerked beef got off the prairies
after the late prairie FIRE, when several hun
dred cattle were burned to death. Aricarees
are friendly with the whites, and We don't
want to fight ourselves. but we would like
would mean larger ratons for all the Indians
in the Dakotas. / don't know whether the
Sioux set the recent fires that destroyed SO
much property. but believe they did The
Sioux say they have the white mans meat to
eat while the fighting white man. The Sioux
expect the Messiah every day. There are $50
young bucks missing from the reservation.
Scouts and Indian police don't know where
they are. We are friends of the whites and not
OF the Sioux. but the Sioux gave US forty ponies
rI.s- E-a1 -
AT this juncture an old Indian thought his
boy had talked enough and pulled HIM away.
The boy was educated at BerIhold, but like
most educated Indians is lapslng into savagery.
Everybody is praying for blizzard.
THE YANKToSs ALSO cRAzEp.
A Chamberlain, s. d., special says Debose. q
Yankton reservation Indian, was in the city
yesterday on his way to the lower Brule agency.
party Of ten or twenty teams loaded with his
people accompanied him. These Indians are
well learned aud highly advanced and it has
been thought that they would not be led away
BY the Messiah craze that is now causing so
much excitement among the Indians west of
the river. But talk with them brings forth
the fact that they also believe in the coming of
the Indian Messiah, who will wipe the whites
from the face OF the earth. They are gradually
being worked into state of extreme excite
meut by the new craze. Emissares of the
Messiah are now working among the Sioux and
lower Brules notwithstanding the vigilance Of
the agency authorities. An effort will be made
to capture the disturbers.
THE STAMPEDE TO PIERRE.
Pierre, S. D., special says: Quite a num-
Der of ranchmen, half-breeds and squaw men
from the country west are in the city. brought
here, it is alleged, by the serious condition now
existing among the Sioux Indians. Some of
these men have lived among the Indians all
fhalr lfuaa hnf hau not ,a;a I'D
deem il unsafe to remain longer at the mercy
OF thered skins. Troops at Fort Sully and
Fort Bennett are in readiness to march against
the Indians upon a moments notice.
REFUGEES FROM PINE RIDGE.
A Valentine, Neb., dispatch says: Trains
coming here from Nashville are filed with
refugees from the Pine Ridge country. Agent
Roger of the Pine Ridge reservation has
brought his family to Nashville and they are
now stopping at the Commercial House. Roger
himself was forced to abandon his post owing
to he threats of the Sioux. A courier who ar
rived at Nashville today tells a story of battle
between two factions of the Sioux. in which
sixty men were killed and wounded This
story was passed along the Elkhorn valley and
is probably responsible for the wild scramble
Of the settlers to reach places Of safety.
Attorney General holland OF South Dakota,
who reached Valentine last night on the train
bearing two car loads Of Sioux, SAID that he
learned at Long Pine that there had been a
fight at Pine Ridge in which many warriors
were killed
WHAT INDIAN AGENT ROVER CHARGES.
OMAHA. NEs., Nov. 2O.-A special dispatch
from Rushville says that as soon as troops ar
rived there yesterday couriers rushed with the
news to Pine Ridge agency. Word was re-
ceived from this agency last night that the bad
Indians under Red Cloud and Little Wound de-
fIara that fhayy nj he hntt1
today. Agent Roger was interviewed. He said
his Indian police were powerless. One of
them-Thunder Bear-arrested bad Indian
last Saturday, but was overpowered by others
and the prisoner was released. Several other
prisoners were released and the rebels threat
ened to burn the agency buildings. Roger
has been sending reports recently to the War
Department and the Indians were not aware of
the coming Of the troops until yesterday. He
relates that on Monday he was approached from
threatened to kill him. Royer was unarmed
and at the Indians mercy. The latter for some
reason desisted. Roger tried to get him ar
rested, but could not
THE INDIANS At PINE RIDGE
are about equally divided among good and bad
Red Cloud and Little Wound have been To-
mentins trouble for several weeks, while
American Horse and Young Man-Afraid-of-H His
Horse have tried to pacify the warriors. Last
week big meeting was held about thirty miles
from Pine Ridge, at which a reputed apostle Of
the Messiah was present He told the Indians
to return to the agency and await the coming
OF the Messiah, who IS to arrive today in the
form Of a buffalo. He will give the signal for
the opening Of the conflict which is to ami
hilate the white race.
This fact causes great fear in the minds of
old Indian fighters. Unless there is an abso-
lutte failure to get word from the Messiah on
the day OF the arrival Of the troops a conflict
Is certain Major Buffers column went into
camp last night ten miles from Pine Ridge.
Inc offlcers are prepared for what seems now
TO be certain combat Many Of the friendly
Indians have left the agency and are now en-
camped at Nashville. They have signifed
their intention of aiding the whites. There is
much uneaslness among the settlers in north
western Nebraska and south western Dakota
but the arrival Of the troops has averted q
furious stampede.
AT STANDING ROCK AGENCY.
CHICAGO, Nov. 20.-A special from Standing
Rock agency, n. D., says: THE news that
troops have been ordered to the reservation
has spread rapidly among the savages, and the
general effect has been bad. Several hundred
Of the braves have disappeared, with what OBJ
1ect and In what direction cannot at this hour
be learned. There Is evident fright in some
quarters, and II Is the general impression that
the bucks are running sway from what they
regard as an impending calamity. Ii may be
however, that they are bent upon pillage and
murder, or have galloped across the country
to Incite the Northern Cheyenues, the most
excitable band of Indians in the west to take
arms against the whites. The aged warriors
and women are frightened over the outlook.
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