The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-18
A FEW COLD FACTS.

of enterprise, to get adequate or accu-
rate news Of the disturbance among the
Cheyenne Indians, but that is no reason
why it should give utterance to malic-
ious falsehoods about the course of THE
INDEPENDENT in this matter, in feeble
echo of the Journals equally unenter-
prising neighbor, the Herald. Re-
ferring to exaggerated reports Of
the Indian troubles which have in
some cases been sent to eastern news
papers, the Journal says:
The INDEPENDENT of this city has given
these wild reports the appearance of relia-
bility by originating them and stating in
each Issue that q bloody war is imminent.
1t is the only paper in Montana which has
given space to these injurious and sensa-
| tional fictions. In this way The lNDEPRND-
ENr misleads the public and testiies that
the falsehoods published by eastern papers
are true.
Now "mark how plain talo shall put
you down." Where did those stories OF
war come from? We turn to the files Of
Mr., Harrison's organ and find under
date Of June 10 this "special dispatch"
from Miles City:
came in from the upper Tongue river with
| ton families to-day at o'clock and reports
everything in shape for a war at the agency.
friendly old buck came to Lem Hollis
ranch and told him to remove his squaw,
as there was going to DO trouble with the
from Fort Keogh goes to the agency in the
morning. The stockmen are buying am
munition. The city ia greatly excited over
the reports. Indians are seen daily going
towards the reservation with strings of
horses. The murder of Robert Ferguson is
the occasion of the present trouble.
On the following day the Journal
printed another Especial dispatch" as
follows:
MILES CRY, June 11.-Another company
Of infantry went to Sweeney creek to-day
to be in readiness in case of the expected
outbreak of Cheyenne Indians. Cons dera-
fact that bands of Cheyennes with strings
of horses are hourly seen moving in the di-
rection of the creek. Arms and ammuni-
ton have been ordered from Helena and
are expected to arrive here tomorrow.
But there is plenty more Of the same
sort Under date of June - Especial
dispatch to the Journal reads RS fol-
lows:
WASHINGTON. June 12.-Representative
Garter to-day received dispatch from
Miles City detailing the FESTIVE and insolent
manner of the Cheyennes, and telling him
of the fact that a messenger had been sent
to Rosebud and Standing Rock agencies
with view to soliciting the cooperation of
the Indians there for an outbreak, and stat
ing that unless something was done to
thwart the Intentions OF the Indians there
would be general massacre of white set
tiers.
With this document Mr.. Carter went to
Secretary of the Interior Noble, and told
him that there must be further reinforce
ments of troops in the Cheyenne settlement
of Montana. Secretary Noble said he was
about to ask congress for an appropriation
of 5000 to remove the Cheyennes to the
that he would open negotiations for at least
temporary peace, to which Mr.. Carter re-
piled that unless the Cheyennes were stayed
in their blood-thirsty work, the cowboys
would take them in hand, and there would
be no Indians with whom to negotiate.
port the troops in their endeavors to quiet
the Cheyennes.
Right on the heels of this is another
dispatch in the same paper:
BILLINGS, June 12.-It is reported that a
man named Mayer was killed by Indians at
Tongue river. Indians arc killing cattle by
the hundred. Reports from the Rosebud
country say that three ranches we're burned
aud other houses shot into. posse of cow
| boys left Rosebud last evening to drive the
Indians back on the reservation, regardless
of the military.
The following day the following
Especial dispatch appeared in the Jour
nal:
WAsHlNGToN, June Ex-senator Paddock
Yesterday received letter from the Hon.
q p. Rustin. of Omaha. saying that the
Cheyenne Indians in Montana were slaugh-
tering his cattle; that they were on the war
9th, and asking that the matter be
! Drought to the attention of the troops, in
the most available way. This morning
Senator Paddock in the senate stated that
he had called upon the secretary of the in
serior, who informed him that the secretary
of war had given directions for the employ
ment of the entire force of troops available
in that section, etc.
Representative Carter to-day received
another dispatch from Miles CITY in rela-
ton to the Cheyenne outbreak and he at
once called upon Secretary Noble for an
order to roundup the savages. An order
was issued directing the arrest of Indians
, passing between agencies without permits
sion. The Cheyennes are to be disarmed
and troops will be directed to take them in
charge for that purpose.
Even down to yesterday morning this
sort of alarming. vague and disturbing
news appears. This is the latest Especial
dispatch to the Journal:
GI.ENDIyE, June 16.-Capt. Sproule's troop
) of the Eighth cavalry, en- route from Fort
: Buford to Fort Keogh. were here yesterday
They were ordered to Fort keogh for field
service in consequence of the Indian trou
, bles on Tongue river, although Capt
Sproule appears to be waiting orders here
It may be that the military anticipate tina,
the Indians will break loose from the reser
walton and head for the British possessions
, Should such be the case, their probabl,
: crossing would be somewhere between Glen
t dive and Ferry Point, and this troop of cav
. airy would be used to head them off
t Convicted out of it's own columns
4 Here are wars and rumors of wars
J. threats of uprising and massacre, move
ments of troops, panic of settlers, theft
of cattle, talk Of guns and powder
]. printed day after day in the columns 0
!? a newspaper that has neither the brain
t nor the enterprise to slft these stories t.
: the bottom and tell the world what il
! actually going on.
II The difference between two newspa
o pers was never more forcibly ILLUSTRATED
/ than in the treatment of this matter b,
Q The INDEPENDENT and the Journal, re
: spectively, the former sending mem