The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-11-17
THE INDIAN CRAZE.
Squaw Who Claims to Be the
Virgin Mary.
MuTTERlNos or AN UPRISING.
The Red Man Have Custsr's Old Riflss
and Buying New Onss-Army Oncsrs
scon at the settlers' Fear.

MINNEAPOLIS. Nov 16-The 1yIbunes
Mandan, N. D.. special says: Settlers liv-
ing on the border of the Sioux reservation
bring stories of the arming Of Indians,
which Is borne out by Joseph Buckley,
who speaks their language. Buckley came
in today and says every Indian on the
reservation will shortly 60 on the warpath,
and they have got possession of Custer's
rifles, which the United States army never
found. Local hardware men have in
the last few days sold their
entire stocks Of ammunition to
the Indians. The Indians say that If
they are unsuccessful in the raid they will
get double rations, and they have nothing
to lose. Citizens here, and settlers who
are unprotected believe that General
Ruger and the Indian authorities are har-
boring feeling OF false security.
The mayor of Mandan has called meet
ing, and the war department. will be asked
to furnish citizens with guns, IL not with
soldiers. Many settlers between Mandan
and the reservation are abandoning their
protection afforded them BY the govern
ment-
The most conservative look gloomy at
the outlook. The Indians appear to be be-
coming moro and more crszed over the
Messiah story. Serious trouble is antici-
pated at the agency over the coming
ghost dance. The agent has sndesvored to
induce them to forego, but they are defiant,
and refuse to obey his orders. A woman
was brought before the agent at Standing
Rock few days ago. who the Indians said
was the mother OF the Messiah. The
agent interrogated her, but got no satisfac-
ton as to the identity of who is to be the
Messiah, she contenting herself with sto-
ries about the millennium to come, and
bow the white people would be wiped out
entirely. Several of the leading Sioux
chiefs seem to be as firm believers in the
story as the young bucks.
STANDING Rock AGENCY, N. OAK. Nov.
16-[Special. THE news that General
Miles is liable to move troops against the
Sioux Is creating great deal Of excite
ment among the red men. but their belief
in the coming of the Messiah Is in no way
lessened thereby. The Indians have evil
IDENTIFY In many instances gone stark mad.
The most exciting among the many trials
which have occurred here in the last fort
night was that of the alleged Virgin Mary.
She is the wife of Yksoga and member Of
Wateksi's band of Sioux, although it is said
she is not native, but came from band
of Indians across the Manitoba line.
John Grass and two other Indians COM
posed the court. Replying to their inter-
Iogation she said:
am the mother Of Christ, who IL now upon
this earth making preparations for rebuilding
II The earth 10 70 belong solely 70 his chosen
people. and this continent IL to be extended
much farther west taking In part OF the great
sunset water. The eastern part Of the continent
will BE- abandoned. bet In the western part
great herds Of buffalo will wander q In the
days Of long ago. and simultaneously with the
disappearance ef the whites from the earth viii
come the resurrection of all the Indians who
now sleep, and forever more they viii wander
over the earth. with no one 70 question their
right
attention Of Major McLaugh him, the agent.
she said:
Then there viii be no reservation. no message
from the great father to say to the Indians:
"Come back here: stay on your reservation"
Questions calculated to locate the where
abOuts of the Messiah, whose mother she
claims to be. were warily answered, and
she refused to tell anything about the orgies
of the ghost dance beyond the fact that she
had been proclaimed by the members of
the order to be the Virgin Mary. She was
sent to the guard house.
Sitting Bull is not fond of coming around
the agency, and since he was recently sent
home by General Miles, who found him
among the Cheyennes paving up trouble,
the old fellow has not been seen around
the agency, bat sticks close to his place on
Grand river.
Chief Gall, to whom is due most of the
credit for the Custer butchery. treats the
coming of the Messiah seriously.
People who have settled on the Missouri
since the Indian troubles of 1876 do not fear
any trouble. but those who lived in that
country during the times when the soldiers
and the Sioux lived in the saddle, times
when life was cheap, do not consider the
possibility Of another outbreak to be q tri-
fling matter, and would feel much safer If
all was serene here. Their feeling of I'M
easiness is not red uced by the report from
the Cheyenne agency to the effect that the
Indians there, having received considera-
BILE money from the sale of beef, are invest
ing it in Winchester rides and ammunition.
These have been scattered widely over the
reservation, and it looks as if they were
only waiting for the signal for an uprising.
Agent Palmer has recommended that
troops be sent there at once, and that the
Indians be disarmed.