Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-12-06
STARVATION THE CAUSE OF THE
TROUBLE.
Parnen will Not Allow the Motion
for His Removal 10
De Put.
ANNOUNCED FAILURE OF A
LARGE coTTon FIRM.
Gladstone Positively Refuses &
Negotiate While ParneIl
Holds His Position.
b. Telegraph to the sEws.l
COXFERRiSG WITH INDIANS.


Agency.
PINE RIDGE AGENCY. Dec. Gas
peiilous n mission as anybody has
undertaken for masy q day in the
interest Of averting great bloodshed,
was completed yesterday, when the
good Father Jrte, a Catholic priest,
whom General Brooke had requested
TO go out and talk with the RAM
PANTY hostile Indians, returned to
the agency. He was the only white
man who might think OF making
trip and living to get back.
The reverend father was accompan-
led by Jack Red Cloud, who went
by reason Of being the widely re-
spected son Of the famous chief.
Ten miles from the hostile camp,
they were halle! by the pickets ant
conducted to camp under cover OF
winchesters. a conference fol-
lowed, st which there were
present Two Strike, Turn
ing Bear, Short Bull, High
Hawk, Crow Dog, Kicking Bear,
Eagle Pipe, Big Turkey and High
Pipe. Father Jute opened the
council by asking the chiefs to state
their grievance. The replies were
substantially as follows: We object
10 the recent census returns made
by Lee. His enumerator would not
give food sufficient for us TO live on.
Lee puts US down many less for
each tepee than the tepee contains.
IL we shall starve, we will have one
big eat before starving time comes;
after that we shall
FIGHT OUR LAST FIGHT
and white man shall see more blood,
more dead than ever before. Then
we will go 10 the last hunting
ground, ha.py. II the white man
did not mean to cheat US out OF food,
The great Father never would have
sent soldiers. There is no need Of
soldiers if the great Father intended
TO be fair with us. The great Father
has done another wrong. He has
put n new boundary line, between
Rosebud aud Pine Ridge agency,
that makes many Of US leave our
homes and give them to others. The
great Father broke the old treaty
when he did this. We can no
longer believe the great Father. He
says 10 Us: "Children, you shall
never be moved again unless you
want to move" and then he goes
right ahead and moves US. We have
done with promises, and now We
make n promise that
WE WILL FIGHT
and the great Father viii find that
we must not break cur promise. We
will now be very plain with you,
Christian Father, and tell you an
other thing, something Of which
you may have already thought. IL
Is this, that we are not coming in
now aud will not lay down our
rifles, because We are afraid Of the
consequences. We have done
wrong; We know IL; if we
should stop now, we would
be punished. The great father will
send many Of US 10 his big iron
house to stay many moons, we
would die.
Father. Julie urged them to lie
peaceful, and explained that the
soldiers would not harm the Indians
but protect the agency; that raiions
should lie increased and IL they
came tn General Brooke, he would
telegraph 10 Washington and get
permission for them TO stsy on this
agency as they desired. SO Tar IS
depIcdailous are concerned, the
father told them they had better
stop committing them and they
would he more easily forgiven.
Finally he urged the chiefs, all to
come back with him. To this some
OF The older ones mIde n favorable
reply, but the young ones who were
heavily in the majority said, ''no, :"
but the old men, finally agreed that
THEY WOULD COME IN
to Father Jute's house, four miles
Woodward of the agency, this morn
ing, and there meet General Brooke
and tell him in person just what
they told Father Jute.
This brought ON a renewal of the
bitter opposition from the majority.
Finally, the young chiefs cooled OF
and Two Strike, addressing Father
Jute, said: "Hold your hands up
to the Great Spirit and tell US rs
though you were about to start on
q Journey to the last hunting
grounds Ct the redmep, whether
what you say to Us from General
Brooke be true, and that We will not
he harmed, IL we come in, simply
to talk 10 General Brooke."
Father Ju.e says, he complied
with the request. All the chiefs then
extended hands toward heaven and
with great sclen,niiy promised they
would come.