River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-15
THINKS DANGER IS PAST.

General Miles So Confident That Peace
VIII Soon BE Established That He Dis
misses the Nebraska State Troops from
Further Service I'm the Field-Hestiles
Camped Close to Pine Ridge Agency.
PINE RIDGE AGENCY, 5. d., Jan. 10
The Indians have camped within one
mile of the agency. A band of 800 of
them have placed their tents Just under
cover of the Hotchkiss gun in the camp
of b and III Companies to the north.
Their lodges are in ravine extending
to the east. There are fully 1000 of
them, and, with the exception of the
bucks who are raiding, they are said to
be bent on surrender.
General Miles has written letter to
Brigadier-Gen w. +. Cody buffalo
BID, as also to Brigadier-G eneral
Colby, both of the Nebraska National
Guards, stating that all the hostiles are
within a mile and half of the agency
and nothing but an accident can pre-
vent the re-establishment of peace.
He states also that he feels the State
troops may now be withdrawn with
safety and thanks them for the conf
dence they have afforded the people in
their frontier homes.
Little Wound is trying to get into the
agency, but scouts say that he can not
get away. They report that the rest
less band is doing its best to corral Lit
tie Wound. They fear that he
with his following viii favor disarma-
ment. This they won't have. What
Miles viii do no one can tell, but those
in the agency hope that he viii crush the
Indians in case they refuse to give up
their guns.
The young bucks have broken away
from the control of their chiefs. They
have fired every hay-stack that came
within their reach. Bent on preventing
the others from coming in the bucks
have shot the ponies of their peacefully
inclined brothers. The bucks, beside
killing the ponies, shot every dog with
in reach of Winchester; after that the
raiders fred shots that just glanced the
ears of the Ogallala chiefs. They struck
out after the trouble and are bent on
killing what whites they can.
General Miles has just issued an order
that viii prevent Buffalo Bill and DIR.
McGillicuddy from holding a confer
ence with the reds at point that the
hostiles had determined upon. The
reason advanced for the order is that it
is unsafe for white man to show his
face among the incoming bucks,
who may kill the very men
whom they are said to regard as
friends. General Brooke has sent a
message the purport of which is that he
is close ON the heels of the reds. He
,,,o., 10 ol,la 20 x.a+oh tba oarnn oIocaI,,
enough to keep the greater number
from hiding their rifles. The squaws
and papooses are said to be suffering so
with the cold that many of them have
died.
The hostiles have promised to send
a delegation of chiefs to talk to Gen.
eral Miles. The result of this con-
ference can not be OWNED. 1t has been
said that some of them will insist upon
going to Washington to lay their griev-
ances before the Great Father, and the
opinion prevails that the suggestion
will be respected, notwithstanding that
General Miles has the settlement of the
case in his own hands. Every thing
seems favorable to peaceful close of
the war unless the factions among the
hostiles should recommence their tribal
quarrels.
Private II enry b. Stone, Troop Il,
who was shot and stabbed on Wounded
Knee, died Monday afternoon. He was
born in Monterey, Mich, and enlisted
at Lansing in the same State.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator Casey
received dispatch Monday saying that
the Indians of North Dakota were com
hitting depredations. The Senator
brought the matter before the War De-
partment where it was arranged to
place a Ga "lg gun and thousand
stands of arms at the disposal of the
DalxotanS