, 1890-12-07
4 PERILOUs MISSION.
Father Jute Undertakes to
Pacify the Hostiles.
Conducted to the Camp Under
Cover of Winchesters.
Chiefs Also Denounce Lee, the
Census Enumeration
And Claim They Do Not Re
ceive Sufficient Rations.

The Mission of Father JuIe.
PINE RIDGE AGENCY, S. ID Dec. c.
As %pcrilous a mis- sion as a man of God
has undertaken for many a day in the in
terests of avoiding great bloodshed was
completed yesterday. when good Father
Jute, a CATHOLIC priest whom Gen. Brooke
requested to go out and talk with the
rampantly hostile Indians, returned to the
agency. He was the only white man
who might even think Of ever making the
trip aud living to get back. The rever-
end father was accompanied by Jack Red
Cloud, who went by reason Of being the
widely respected son of the famous chief.
Ten miles from the hostile camp they
we're halted by pickets and conducted to
the camp under cover of Winchesters. A
conference followed at which were pres
ent Two Strike, Turning Bear, Short
Bull. High Hawk, Crow Dog. Kicking
Bear, Eagle Pipe, Big Turkey and High
Pipe.
Father Jute opened the council by ask
ing the chief to state their grievance.
His replies we're substantially as follows:
1--WE object to the recent census returns
made by Lee, as his enumeration would
not give food sufficient for us to live on.
Lee puts us down many less for each
tepec that the tepee contains. We shall
starye. but we will have one big cat be-
fore the starving time comes. After that
we will all fight our last fight and the
white man shall see more blood thar ever
before. Then we will go TO the last hunt
ing ground happy. 1t the white man did
not mean to cheat us out of the food the
great father never would have sent the
soldiers. There would be no need of sol
diers if the great father intended to be
fair with us. The great father has done
another wrong. He put a new boundary
line between Rosebud and Pine Ridge
agency that makes many of us leave our
homes aud 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 TO us, Children,
YOU shall meyer be moved again I'M
less you want to move. and then
be goes right away and moves Us. We
70 with promises. and now we make a
p~omise that we will fight, and the great
llher will find that we will not break our
Nfomiaes. We will now be very plain
sitii you. Christian father. aud ~tell,you an-
other thing. something OF which you may
have already thought, it is this, we are
not coming IN now, and we will not lay
down our rifles, because we arc afraid Of
the consequences We have done wrong,
We know it. If we stop now we will be
punishedr The great father will send
many of Us to his org IRON house to stay
many moons. There we would die"
Father Juie urged them TO be peaceab!e
and explained that the soldiers were not
there to harm the Indians, but to pro-
tect the agency. that the ~rations had been
increased. and If they came in Gen.
Brooke would telegraph to Washington
and get permission for them to stay at
this agency. a. they desired. So far as
Expectations were concerned the father
told them they had better stop committing
them and they would be more easily for
given. Finally he urged the chiefs all
tocome hack with hun. To this
Some Of the older ones made favorable
answer, but the young ones. who were
heavily in the majority, said no. But The
old men finally agreed that they would
come into Father Jnte's house, four miles
northwest OF the agency, tins morning
AMI there meet Gen. Brooke and tell him
in person just what they tol | Father Jute.
This brought on a renewal of bitter oppo-
siion from the majority. Finally the
young chiefs cooled off, and Two Strike,
addressing Father .Jnte. said: Hold up
your hands TO the Great Spirit and tell
Us, as though yuu were about to start on
a%journey II the last hunting grounds of
the red man, whether what You say to
Us from Gen Brooke be true, and that
We will not be harmed if we come in
simply to talk 10 Gen Brooke. Father
Jqte says he compiled with this Request.
All the chiefs her extended their hands
Inward heaven and with great solemnity
and promised that they would come.
ST. PAUL. Dec. Ga special from
Pine Ridge agency says that several OF
the hostile chiefs, accompanied by a num-