Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-04
Rumors Of a Skirmish on
White River.
Old Red Cloud Tries to Slip Away
From the Hostiles.
Guard-A Remarkable Peace
Proposition.
A.aoclated Pres. pispa.tches.

Ger arms. Inc WllQosC cxclCement eX-
lists. A company OF state troops is
expected tonight.
FIGHT ON WHITE RIVER.
DENVER, Jan. "A special from
Cheyenne to the Rocky Mountain News
says dispatch from White. River tells
of fight between X troop, Sixth cav
airy, and party of Indians. Four In
dians were killed with no loss to the
troops.
TROOPS DRIVEN BACK.
LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 3.-The Journals
special from Pine Ridge, dated the I'd,
gives more definite rumors relating to
the reported engagement between Gen
eral Carr's command and the Indians in
the Bad Lands. These would indicate
that the troops were driven back and a
number killed, but the news cannot be
considered authentic. Scouts who have
returned from other hostile camps,
however, bring anything but reassuring
reports. The Indians will not listen to
peace propositions. Small detachments
of troops have been sent to the scene of
Mondays battle, on Wounded Knee,
where many bodies of the Indians
slain still remain. These will either be
buried on the ground or brought to the
agency.
PEACE PROPOSITION.
Tonight's specials to the Journal from
Pine Ridge confirm the report OF an
engagement between General Carr's
command and Indians on White river.
1t is believed no one was killed, though
several Indians were wounded. An In
dian courier brings a message from the
hostile camp. the substance of which is
q demand that all the soldiers withdraw
from the locality, and further, that they
will treat with no one for peace but the
vice-president of the United States or
the commissioner OF Indian affairs. This
message came direct from the hitherto
supposed friendly chief, Red Cloud.
Rowing bands continue to scour the
country III ire vici~isy of Pine R;dgo-
Many persons are coming in to tell Of
narrow escapes. The Indian training
school at Pine Ridge was burned last.
No loss OF life resulted.
OLD RED CLOUD A PRISONER.
OMAHA, Jan. 3.-The Bees Pine Ridge
special says: Twenty-one OF the
wounded soldiers will be taken to Fort
Riley, Kansas, tomorrow night, by q
special train. There have been no new
developments today regarding the hos
tiles, except that old Red Cloud tried to
slip away from them and return to the
agency. When the fact was discovered
by the hostiles, they shot all his ponies,
placed a guard over the old chief and
moved several miles further from here.
This last move places their main camp
but few miles from the Bad Lands but
the warriors, according to the reports of
scouts, keep circling within ten or q
dozen miles from here all the time. 1t
is considered among the possibilities
that the party that went out today to
bury the dead Indians at Wounded
Knee, will encounter trouble with hos
tile scouts before they get their big job
completed.
INDIAN DEPREDATIONs.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-The commis-
sioner of Indian affairs today received
from Indian Agent Royer the following
telegram, dated Pine Ridge agency,
s. D., January Cd:
"Number and day school build
ings and the Episcopal church located
at White Clay creek, some distance from
the agency, have been burned by the
hostile Indians. Isaac Miller, white
man and former employe of the beef
herd, was killed by the hostile Indians
Yesterday, ten miles north of the
agency. About 5000 women and chill
dren are camped near the mouth of
Grass creek, fifteen miles northeast OF
the agency, and refuse to come into the
agency as requested by the military.
The hostiles are committing all kinds OF
depredations, and are living off our
agency beef herd. Little Wound, Big
Road, Red Cloud and their people are
among them, and it is reported they
want to come into the agency, but Two
Strike, Short Bull, Kicking Bear and
their people object, and say they will
kill the first one who starts to the
agency. Report has it that Red Cloud
is desirous Of coming to his home."
GENERAL 5urEs's REPORT.
General Schofield this morning re
ceived the following telegram from
General Miles, dated Pine Ridge, Janu-
ary I'd: "There is a report from the
Indian camp that Red Cloud and Little
Wound have determined to come in with
their following. Their lives have been
threatened by the hostiles who are de-
termined to 60 on with the war. There
is also report from the same source of
an engagement between the Indians and
cavalry, in which quite a number of
soldiers were killed and some Indians.
If this is correct, it probably happened
on the line OF the White river. General
Brooke now has command of that line,
and will give the necessary directions.
GENERAL sCHoFIELD's HOPE.
General Schofeld said to reporter.
after this telegram was given out: II
still hope that we shall yet be able to
get the Indians into camp without
fight. The forces now in the field under