New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-23
CIRCULAR TO INDIAN AGENTS
EVERYTHING QUIET AT CROW CREEK AND
LOWER BRULE AGENCY.

LOWER BRULE AGENCf.
washington. Nov. 22.-Actng Indian Commissioner
Belt has sent circular in part as iono"s " OIL
indian agents except to the agents OF the tribes III
Tho Dakotas: You are instructed to keep this once
fnlly posted by letter-or by telegraph IL ''o
omercencjes should require it-0f the c0ndltloh anu
temper of the Indians under your charge, showing
whether any excitement or spirit OF dlsopedehce 10
orders or the regulations of this Department which may
exist among them is growing; whether an outbreak
s threatened thereby, and what measures Should In
vour opinion be adopted TO preserve peace or en-
force obedience the order OF this Bureau by the
Indians
Acting Commissioner Belt has received the following
telegram from Agent Dixon, at the Crow Creek ana
Iower Brle Indian Agency: Indians at Crow Creek
and Lower Brule arc under good control Have had
three leaders from other reservations under arrest at
CROW Creek and have discharged them under promise
OF good behavior. Indian police are sufficient protec-
ton under present indications issue passes and
accept none There no Indians away from this
reservation so far police can ascertain
DISPATCHES were received at the War Department
This morning from General Miles, to the effect that
Tho scnaration of the friendly and the turbulent
indians Is proceeding rapidly at Pine Ridge. General
proo,s who is watching matters closely there. ante
mates no immediate trouble and thinks thit tls sepu
hu,ent Us Indians from overt acts Telegrans have
also been received conirmatory OF tne reports o
the Messiah craze is rapidly extending IN the Nort
and across the Canadian line, under the operation Oh
Sitting BULBS emissares.
GENERAL MILES DESCRIBES "BANNOCK JIM
Chicago, Nov. 2o-General Miles says OF BannocK
Jims who pcrsonates the supposed Messiah he
was one of the BannOcks captured III 1870 'h,ih
IL WAS II IL is the one think it Is, he is bright
sbarp fellow The first In this thihs WIS b
marty of BannOcks coming the side OF te mou''
ains bringing intelligence Of this new religion 10 some
Of the Indians this side. They were invited u 10
pver Eand investigate 1t. Delegations went over
to the Shoshones and Arapahoes. These Bahhoeks
are in the western part OF wyoming ana
they came over to the shoshoncs ana gave INC
information. Then some OF the shoshones went WISH,
inc the Cheyennes and thence to the Sioux
party of them started year ago this month IRON tho
Rosebud and from some OF the Sioux camps. They
visited the shoshones and Arapahoes, then they trav
eed on the Union Pacific Railroad long distance
and went to Fort Hall then they went down to
PYRAMID Lake. and that is the place they held their
conclaye az which there were representatives OF SIX
teen different tribes. Arapahoes, Utes f1utes' sho'i-
ones Bannocks and Others. They then returned ana
the sioux were much taken with the new craze, but
they thought the medicine was not strong enough;
90 they added to II the hostile part That Is, they
all believed that this was the Messiah
,hat he was going to give the lands to those whites
and Indians who believed In THIS doetrlnc, eut ne
not 20 he d. sturbei but TO bde their lime But tlat
did not suit the sioux, who thouIht thy osno 20 no
yerS taxing with the sioux. Those In turn interested
others of different bands OF the SIOUX VINO IN turn
went away down @ n,S ats tss among those Wild tribes
,nc % astern mart OF the Indian Territory, and In
all the different sioux camps In pasot ana mo p por,oh
~ ponar Creek Agency and they have sent messengers
ap as north Of the british line to the Indian eamps
Esr talk ." TIE india" "'uss10" sec PACE L.