The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-11-19
ON THE MOVE.
The Indian Situation Demands.
Presence Of Troops.
GHOST DANCERS READY ron WAR
Settlers in North Dakota Flee, Terror
Stricken, to the Towns.
General Miles Admits That the situation
II 9erious--Tha Red Man Hava Eaay
DANCERS READY ron WAR


OMAHA, Nov. 18.-According to orders is
sued this morning, Companies A, B, @ and
G of the Second United States infantry, at
Fort Omaha, left for Pine Ridge agency
this afternoon with q full complement of
mules and wagons. The other four COM
panies we're notified to be ready to move
on short notice. The troops at Fort Nc
Kinney were also ordered out. and left this
morning for Douglas, Wyo. The troops at
Forts Niobrara and Robinson. which are
not far from the scene Of the difhculty, will
march tomorrow.
ST.. PAUL, Nov. 18-General Ruger, COM
manding the department of Dakota. has
returned from visit TO several Western
posts. His aide. Lieutenant Woodruff, re-
ferring to the Mandan scare, said:
The Indians ybcated nearest to Mandan are
thirty-nve mica away, on the Cannonball river.
They are thrifty, industrious, peaceable people.
who have taken up claims. bu It huts and
houses, own cattle, ponies aud WAGONS. and are
In good circumstances They have NO faith in
the aboriginal tHpersitions, and dislike this new
Messiah erase. the people have land. homes.
stock. cattle, wagons and crops. and are not
anxious to 20 to wsr, and yet these are the ones
10 watch whom the people of Mandan have sent
scouts. The baud which may give trouble 10
that headed BY Chief Hump, aud situated
SOUTHWEST OF Standing Rock. Hump 10 very
wily, and II the promised Messiah does
not arrive in the spring he viii
their influence 10 keep him back, and that the
best way TO aid him viii be to kill some pals-
faces h0wever, in any emergency. the troops
will be fully equal to the occasion. Il must be
taken into account that some Of the agents are
new men. unused to the ways of the Indian.
It is stated that two reliable Brule Indi-
ans now in the city had stated to army
officers that there was no Messiah craze
among the Indians just north of the Ne
braska line. Private advices from Valsn-
tine give different origin than that Of the
Messiah craze to the Indian uneasiness.
Since August the Indians on the Rosebud
have been restless, claiming the agent was
not giving them square deal In supplies.
Some families living northwest Of Valen-
tine have moved away. Nonwseau.
an Ogalialla Indian and government
scout from Fort Robinson, il in the city,
and said today, referring to the Indian
craze: ''Eome think it is 80. and some
don't know wnat to believe. The Indians
at Pine Ridge are dancing and meeting
and talking. Some of them are wild about
., ous some aon Know wnss 70 O0iieve.
Teiegrams from valentine and Crawford,
Neb.. and Cheyenne, Wyo.. say that
troops have been ordered from the forts 70
proceed q Pine Ridge agsncy = keep the
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