Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-07
Perilous Journey of Father Jute in the
Interest of Peace.

THE INDIANS.
Perilous Journey of Father Jute in the |
Interest of Peace.
PINE RIDGE AGENCY Is D. December 9th. !
AS perilous mission as man of God |
has undertaken for many o day, in tie in |
terests OF avertiug great bloodshed was
yesterday, when good Father |
Jute, the Catholic priest whom General |
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 and living to get back. The reverend
father was accompanied ny 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 halted by pickets and conducted to
the camp under the cover of Winchesters.
A conference followed. There 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 asking
the chiefs to state their grievance.
The replies were substantially as follows:
I'VE Object to the recent census returns
made by Lee. His enumeration would not
give food sufficient for US TO live on. Lee
puts Us down many less for each tepee than
the tepee contains. We shall starve. We
will have one big eat before starving time
comes. After that, we shall fight our last
fight, and the white man shall see more
blood and more dead than ever before.
Then we will go TO the last hunting, ground
happy. If the white man did not mean to
cheat US out of food the Great Father never
would have sent soldiers. THERE'S no need
of soldiers if the Great Father intended to
be fair with US.
The Great Father has done another
wrong. He put new boundary line be-
tween the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Agen-
cies that makes many of US leave our
homes and give them to others. The
Great Father broke an old treaty when he
did this. We can no longer believe the
Great Father. He says to us: Children,
you snail never be moved again unless you
want to be moved. and then he goes right
away and moves US. We are done with
promises, and now we make promise that
we will fight, and the Great Father will
find that we must not break our promise.
we will now be very plain with you
Christian Father, and tell you another
| thing, something of which you NAV have
already thought. 1t is this We are not
coming in now, and will not lay down our
| rifles, because we are afraid of the conse-
quences. We have done wrong, and we
know it: II We stop now we will be pun
| lshed. The Great Father will send many
of US to his big iron house to stay many
moons. We would die"
Father Jute urged them to be peaceable,
and explained that the soldiers were not
present to harm the Indians, but to protect
the agency; that the rations had been in.
creased, and if they came in, General
Brooke would telegraph to Washington and
get permission for them to stay on this
| agency. as they desired. So far as the dep
relations 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 10 come
back with him.
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 thew
would come in to Father Jute's house.
four miles northwest of the agency, this
morning and there NEE: General Brooke
and tell him in person Just what they had
told Father Jute. This brought on a re-
newsl OF bitter opposition from the major
ity.
Finally the young chiefs cooled off and
Two Strike, addressing Father Jute, said:
Hold your hands up to the Great Spirit
and tell US, as though you were about to
start on the journey to the last hunting
grounds OF the red man, whether what
you say to US from General Brooke be true,
and that we will not be harmed if we come
in simply to see General Brooke?"
Father Jute says he complied with the
request. All the chiefs then extended
their hands toward heaven and with great
solemnity promised they would come.
THE osAGEs QUIET.
WASHINGTON, December CHA dispatch
was received to-day which states that the
Usage Indians in Indian Territory, who
have been indulging in the ghost dances,
have stopped dancing and quiet reigns
among them.
TIE CREES.
OTTAWA, December 6th.-The Cree In
dams are becoming disaffected and are
showing strong disposition TO join the
Sioux on the American side in the Messiah
craze. 1t is stated that some of the Crees
have already crossed into United States
territory.
DISARMAMENT OF INDIANS.
WASHINGTON, December Chin re-
Spouse to the Senate resolution asking for
information respecting the disarmament of
Indians in the Northwest, the Secretary of
War to-day transmitted to Congress let
ter from Major. General Schofield and
mass of official correspondence.
General Schofeld, in his letter, says:
There can be no practical disarmament
of the Indians except by making them
actually prisoners of war, and holding
them under such restraint that it will be
impossible for them to secure arms or am
munition. This would seem to require
change in the general policy followed in
the treatment of warlike tribes of Indians,
as it would continue military control over
those who may have been subdued until
such control becomes manifestedly no
longer necessary, and this it is suggested,
may possibly be done by joint action be.
tween the War and Interior Departments,
in such manner as not to interfere with
the measures of the Interior Department
deemed best for the civilization and mate
rial welfare of Indians
CONSULTATION WITH GENERAL BROOKE.
ST. PAUL, December CHA special from
the Pine Ridge Agency says that several of
the hostile chiefs, accompanied by num-
Der of armed warriors, came into the
agency this morning and held conference
with General Brooke. He told them to
come back TO the agency, and cease HOSTILE
ties, and they would get all the provisions
they wanted. They went back to camp to
report to their followers, making no prom