The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-14
FLEEING FROM DANGER.
Settlers Still Pouring Into Miles
City From the Cheyenne
Reservation.
An Outbreak Imminent, the Bucks
Being In State Of
Frenzy.
Nature and Character Of the Cheyenne-
Circumstances Of Their Location
ON for the Agency.

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Circumstances Of Their Location
ON for tho Agency.
Mr1ns Crrr, June 1s-lspecial. ]-Fou,
more families have arrived from the
menaced settlements in the Cheyenne
'country. and a man, Just in, who struck the
road from the agency about forty miles south
of here, reports passing three more families
on their way, and number more following.
There has been no news direct from the
scene for two days and what has happened
no enc knows. Col. Curtis and your cor
respondent, with Stock Inspector Smith as
guide, leave in the morning for the agency,
los miles south. Curtis mission is to try
and have Major Carroll, at the agency,
| throw part of his force on the Tongue river
where the bucks under Two Moons are in
force, dlsarm them and return them to the
reserve. At the same time investigation
will be made as to the cause Ut Indian dis
content and what remedies are needed.
The petition to Secretary Proctor which,
after detailing all the trouble with the
| Cheyennes, asks for their removal to the
| reservation and then to disarm them, was
prepared to-day, signed by all the settlers
now in town, and the leading people of this
city and forwarded to Col. Swaine for his
endorsement.
As the trouble is examined into more
closely, tho more serious does it become
and the more need is there for
prompt and effective action. Two
weeks or more ago Deputy Sheriff johnson
was out on the Rosebud summoning jurors
Three Cheyennes stopped him and warned
him to return. He pushed them aside and
kept on, the Indians following. In few
minutes he rode to the top Of hill and
looking down saw party of Cheyennes en-
gagged in war dance. He returned just a
week ago. Geo. Way, settler, was
stopped on the road by Cheyennes and or
dered back, he obeying the order. Wolf
Voice, the Cheyenne government scout, a
friendly young Indian, a week ago warned
travellers to keep off the Rosebud, as Two
Moons and his braves had blood in their
eyes. Two Moons is believed to be the
leader of the angry bucks. He is a noble
specimen Of the red man, weighing nearly
200 pounds, standing over six feet, and
brave as lion. It ia believed that the
story OF the new Christ coming, al we'll a.
his peoples bad trcatnlent by the guvsrn-
ment. has had much 10 do with the present
trouble. At first he secuted the idea Of an
Indian Christ coming, but he visited this
city little while ago, acknowledged that
he believed the story and said he looked in
the fall to see the world turn upside down,
with the reds on top.
visited the Jail to-day and saw the Ave
ho
guson. Like all Cheyennes they are
big, powerful fellows straight
as an arrow and cleanly. Little
Eyes, who is believed to be not guilty, is a |
bright, shrewd-looking fellow, with clean
cut features, his whole appearance indicat-
ing courage and intelligence. Bull Sheep is |
over six feet tall. White Buffalo is said to
be only fourteen, but he is big fellow.
Three of them, Little Eyes, Bull Sheep and
Scalp Cane, enlisted as scouts after the
murder and we're arrested while working at
Keogh. White Buffalo and Black Medicine
were captured at the agency. There is a feel
ing among the people that the Indians will
never be executed, even if they are found
guilty Of murder.
In 1873 two Cheyennes were convicted in |
this county of murder and the gallows was
ready for them. The night before the
day set one of them took string and stran-
gled himself. As soon as he had finished
the other Indian took the string off the
dead mans neck and did the same for him
self. The courage of the Cheyennes and
the chastity of their women is admitted
and admired by every one in this section.
A man who has known them intimately
since 1866 and who has trailed
extensively among different In
dian tribes says they are the most |
courageous reds in the country and had |
they been properly treated, would have been
all right. Such thing as immortality
among them is almost unknown. No in
ducement is sufficient to corrupt the women. |
despite their present poverty. Originally
in this country they were taken to the In
dian territory. Not satisfied, they fought
their way back, crossing two trunk lines
and killing numerous settlers on their way.
Finally they surrendered to General Miles
and he put them on their present reserya-
ton. This reserve is the only one of it's
kind in the United States. It has never
been surveyed, its boundaries are purely
imaginary, and is not IT, property OF the
Indians by treaty. When Miles put them
there number of settlers were living there.
In 1884 President Arthur issued an execu-
tive order, giving the Indians this land. but
excepting the land of settlers
already located there. Thus there is reser-
vatlon twenty-eight miles long and twenty
i've miles wide in which settlers were first
located and the residue given to fighting
Indians, and these Indians kept on starya-
lion rations. But, except to go to the
agency for supplies, the Cheyennes do not
live on the reservation, roaming over the
country for distance fifty miles north
md east. It is on this eastern
side that the settlers are menaced and
where there is no protection, because all
she troops are either at the agency or sta
Toned between Miles City and the agency.
While the settlers like Agent Upshaw.
IT'LL it is no secret that he has been terror
zed by the indiana for several years, and
he latter hate him. Upshaw, when the
Indians would complain of short rations.
would promise more next time, but no in
'rease ever came. Thus the Indiana. fooled !
md cheated week after week by the man
hey looked to for assistance, being high !