Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-27
THE INDIANS.
Two Attempts Made by Hostiles to Break
the Scouts Camp.

WASHINGTON, December 26th.-General
Scho6eld this morning received the follow
ing telegram from General Miles, dated
Rapid City, 8. D., December 25th: II have
not heard from Colonel Carr tor thirty-six
hours. He started to intercept Big Foot,
and it is hoped he will succeed in return.
ing Big Foot to the Cheyenne Agency.
General Brooks reports messenger from
Little Wound, Big Road and Fast Thunder,
the leaders of the Indians who went to the
Bad Lands. The messenger says about
haif the Indians there are coming in and
he thinks the rest will follow. Should not
this be interrupted by some unforeseen
event it will be most desirable
TWO ATTACKS BY INDIANS.
CAMP NEAR BATTLE CREEK Is. d., De-
cember 26th.-The weather is cold and the
rivers are frozen solid. A company of
Cheyenne scouts are encamped at the
mouth of Battle creek. Two attempts
have been made by the hostiles, who num-
Der about eighty, to break their camp. The
first attack was made by only few of the
Indians, who were quickly repulsed with q
loss of two killed and several wounded,
and it is thought one was fatally hurt.
The second attack was made after dark
by the whole band, led by Kicking Bear.
Volley after volley was fired on both sides,
and desultory fire was kept up for an
hour or more. 1t is not known how many
hostiles were killed, but, Judging from the
reports of scouts. there mus. have been
several killed. Troops sent to the scene
report everything quiet and no hostiles in
sight.
HosTrLEs UEMANAGEABLE.
CHICAGO, December 26th.-The Inter
Gee ms Pine Ridge special says five of the
+ itndlies who went out to negotiate with
the hostiles returned to-day, end report
Others are coming. The hostiles, they say,
are wholly unmanageable, and will not
listen TO reason. 1t is now thought the
Seventh Cavalry will take the field against
the hostIles. Some of the returning dancers
are trying to sneak away from the agency.
INDIAN DECEIT.
WASHINGTON, December 26th.-General
Schofield has received a telegram from
General Miles. dated Rapid City, Deem
Der "a, 1888, as follows: Colonel Sumner
reported his command at Big Foot's camp
on the Cheyenne river, and that Big Foot
assured him he would do what be said and
bring all his people TO Summers camp, but
that the Indian deceived him and eluded
his command, going south in light order"
HosTILEs MOVING TOWARD THE AGENCY.
RAPID CRY u.s. d., December 26th.-
General Miles, who has been waiting sew
eral days to hear the result of the friendly
mission of the Pine Ridge Indians to the
hostile camp in the Bad Lands, to. day re.
ceiYed word from General Brooke that the
couriers in from his enissaries reported
hostiles ready and about to come in. Sew.
eral small parties are already moving into
the agency, and the balky Indians are ex-
pected there within q day or two.
Word w9S also rpcpived that Rio Foof
and his band, who have been missing since
their escape from Colonel Sumner, have
been found in Porcupine creek, moving
toward Pine Ridge. No details were given,
but Big Foot has certainly evaded for sew.
eral days all force in search of him.
GHOST DANCES CEASE.
GUTHRIE 20. T), December 26th.-W.
P. Thompson, legal agent of the Iowas, re-
turned oday and reported that the ghost
dances were abandoned on solicitation of
To Hee, the blind Cheyenne chief and
White CLOUD. All the Indians returned
peacefully to the reservations,
WAR PRACTICALLY ENDED.
PINE RIDGE AGENCY, December Goth
Two battalions Of the Seventh Cavalry,
with two Hotchkiss guns and pack train,
have left for Wounded Knee, about thirty
miles away. The Indian council in the
Bad Lands has decided in favor of the hos
tiles returning to the agency. The authori-
ties feel that the Indian war is practically
over. There is still danger of trouble in
case an attempt is made to disarm the hos
tiIas TTplass This ia done all the Indians