Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-18
MILES IN THE FIELD.
Good Indians Will Soon Be
Plenty.
General Miles Arrives at the
Seat of War.
No Truth in the RumOred Battle
Near Rapid City. ~
Only a Few Skirmishes Occurred-Chief
Two Strikes Band Has Returned
to Pine Ridge.
Associated Press Dispatches.

RAPID Cry, Dak., Dec. 17.-General
Miles arrived here today, and is in COM
munication with General Carr. He
knows nothing of the reported engage
ment at Daly's ranch, with a loss OF life,
and it is undoubtedly untrue. General
Carr is encamped at the junction of the
Rapid and Cheyenne rivers, forty miles
east, with 400 men. Thieving bands Of
Indians about there have been stealing
cattle, and there has been some skirm-
ishing with the Indians, in which one
buck is known to have been killed. The
troops will soon cross the Cheyenne
river and proceed toward Pine Ridge,
when trouble may ensue.
ONLY TWO LIGHT sKIRMIsnEs,
ST.. PAUL, Dec. 17.-General Ruger to
night received kilograms from Fort
Yates and Rapid City, on the Indian
troubles. The former said all is quite
today at Standing Rock. In all about
100 OF Sitting Bulls friends are still out.
The other was to the effect that one In
dian who had been caught stealing on
Coles ranch, southeast of Rapid City,
had been shot. There was firing heard
forty-five miles from Rapid City, on
Phinney's ranch, Indians and ranch
men exchanging shots. No one was
hurt. These two little brushes, reported
from Rapid City, are probably ali there
was to last nights last report that many
were killed.
NO NEWS OF A FIGHT.
CHICAGO, Dec. 17.-No news has thus
far been received at army headquarters
in this city in regard to the reported
fight between United States soldiers and
Indians near Rapid City, S. d., yester-
day.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.--No information
has been received at the war department
in regard to the reported fight. in which
two officers and fifty men are said to
have been killed. The report is dis
credited.
AT DALY's RANCH.
DENVER, Dec. IA special to the
News, by courier, from Daly's ranch,
S. D., says: ''Things have about reach
ed crisis here. Indians are seen in
all directions, and we are prepared for
an engagement at any moment. Pickets
have been thrown out, and they report
seeing number of Indians. Scouts re-
ported that we would be attacked this
morning, and the signal would be the
setting of fire to the grass. The grass
has been set on fire, and number of
ranches are seen burning. They may
not attack our camp till night or
tomorrow morning. A rancher
reports several white men
killed on the Cheyenne river.
The Seventh cavalry men will be sent
against the Indians, and an attack will be
made upon them as soon as possible, as
a decisive move is imperative. Asquaw
man reports 100 hostiles moving toward
our camp. We are 125 strong, but have
a good position, and can reach them
with Hotchkiss guns. We are informed
that we will have reinforcements this
evening of four more troops, which
will make the company 250 strong, and
it is understood General Carr will leave
Rapid City for here today with four
more troops"
GENERAL MILES's REPORT.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-General Scho-
field this morning received telegram
from General Miles, dated Long Pine,
Neb., December 10th, as follows:
General Brooke reports Two Strike
and about 800 Indians, now camped at
Pine Ridge agency, and these with the
other Indians at Pine Ridge and Rose
bud, are all that can be drawn out of the
disaffected camp. The others are def.
ant and hostile, and determined to
go to war. and Brooke has
no hope that any other effort at
pacification would be successful. He
estimates the number of men in the
L. %la T L.
General Ruger's estimate represents 200
on the Cheyenne river, and 800 on
Standing Rock reservation, who would
have been liable to leave before the
death of Sitting Bull, making in all 75O
men. Every possible means has been
exhausted to retain and restrain the
friendly Indians on the reservation. The
$4,000 Sioux who have been restrained,
and who have professed loyalty, should
have positive assurance, with the least
possible delay, that the government will
perform and fulfill its treaty obliga-
tions."
UNCLE SAM HEAP BIG LIAR.
DURANGO, COL, Dec. 17.-No further
news was received today of hostile dem
onstrations by the southern Utes. The
party of railroad surveyors ordered off
the reservation Sunday, by the Indians,
is still in Durango. Annuity goods were
issued today at Ignacio. 1t is not known
what effect it will have on the Indians.
The main trouble is. the Utes say, that
the government is cheap big liar,"
meaning that the government has failed
to ratify the agreement made two years
ago for their removal to Utah. They
are very restive in waiting for the gov
eminent to act, and this is supposed to
be one OF the causes of their present
ugliness.
GLAD BULL is DEAD.
PIERRE, S. D., Dec. 17.-White Buf-
falo, a man who lives on Bad River, who
came in today, says the Bad River In
dians are glad Sitting Bull is dead. He
says messenger from Sitting Bulls
band will doubtless visit the Bad Lands
hostiles today, and that when they hear
of the chiefs death they will kill every
white man they see. The government,
he declares, must disarm the hosties at
once, or serious trouble will ensue.