The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-10

| has taken due precautions
Colonel shafter issued an. order to the
officers in command of several detach-
ments to take every precaution TO repei
night attack. In the event of such q sur
prise several troops and companies are to
repair Immediately to designated posi-
ton. which they are 70 hold to the last
While the post could be satisfactorily de
Tended during the day by breastworks,
Hotchkiss and Calling guns and four pieces
of artillery, il could not be so well pro-
tected in the event of q surprise at night.
This order doubtless has been suggested
for the purpose of allaying the fear OF
night attack which exists among the
whites.
Late this afternoon the Seventh cavalry
was moved from the bottom in which it
had been stationed TO a hill Immediately
east. which commands a view of the
agency. From this position they could
move easily and respond % call from any
part Of the agency at any time, day or
night.
Shortly after the change three fires were
noticed from the school-house- 1t is
thought the houses of the Mexican, Young
Man Afraid-of- His-Horse and Standing
Soldier were fired by the settlers He-Dog
and Jack Cloud and about 100 others have
returned to the camp. Still more have
promised, but tailed 20 keep their word.
General Miles says:
aAt last accounts the Indians were fighting
among themselves. Their camp was parde-
ncnium There wss no head 10 the hostiles-
The desperadces were destroying their own
people"
Ii those Indians who belong to this
agency come IN, Others, the general thinks,
viii endeavor to get back 10 their own
reservations. The hostile element. he says,
is composed of Ogallaias from Standing
Rock, Cheyenne river and Rosebud reserv-
atoms. Troops on the ether side are fire.
euently skirniishing with them, and will
follow them if they come. should such
be the case, the general thinks the mill
tary problem will he solved. Control of
the Indian in peace, he holds, viii still be
matter Of serious consideration, because
he will have to be so cared for as not TO be
terror to the people of the states, and not
/ be able 10 90 to war in the spring, even if
he should desire 10.
General Miles today received note in
Indian couched in terms Of sweetness and
innocence. 1t came from Sitting Bear and
Short Bull. They had stopped their ghost
babe them. They would come n and be
good Indians. 1t is unnecessary 10 say
that the word of these willy chiefs was not
respected from the first- They have been
credited before with asserting they would
never come in, even if only fifty remained
ont The letter was intended for a pur-
pose, and General Miles seems to under
stand what that purpose was.
Al
| Ninth cavaly arrived, escorting twenty
four Indians, who had succeeded In break
ing away from the hostiles. Young Man
Afraid-of- His-Horse reported to General
Miles this afternoon He had visited
the ogalialas and they would start for the
agency this afternoon, camping tonight
near the schoolhouse at Wounded Knee.
WASHINGTON CrrY, Jan. 9.-No kilograms
! from General Miles were received at the
war department this morning, and the
! prevalent opinion was that the situation
was unchanged nj Pine Ridge. The opinion
| Is spreading that the crisis of the cam
| paign 50 often predicted and so long de
| ferred is nearly at hand. Secretary Proc
tor is constantly in receipt of acquisitions
from various sources, mostly from the
governors of the states adjoining the scene
| of the trouble, asking for arms with which
TO supply the troops raised for defense.
These requests have not been complied
| with.
The annual conference of the board OF
Indian commissioners of the United States
| with representatives. of the various relig-
ious bodies interested in the welfare of the
Indians, was held IN this city yesterday.
| At the first session addresses were made
by Senator Dawes, Representative Clutch
con and others. Dawes expressed himself
as strongly opposed To the proposed trans
| fer OF the Indian bureau 70 the war de-
! partment- Professor &C. Painter, of the
| Indian Rights Association, spoke of the
reservation system as an internal sys-
teIn," and Honorable Hiram Price, ex-
commissioner of Indian affairs, followed in
an address in which he said the sale OF
firearms to Indians on every one of the
reservations should he prohibited; that
agents should be paid more and the In
| dian commissioner should have more
\ power.
| ST. LOUIS, Jan. "a special from Guth-
RE, O. T., says: Much excitement prevails
here regarding the present Indian out.
break. Grave apprehensions are felt, and
trouble is expected as soon as the disarm-
ing Of the Indians is begun. Reports re.
| garding the seriousness of the situation
have been withheld by correspondents, but
| il is no longer secret that trouble is i'm
minent, and the facts must be promul.
gated The settlers along the reservation
borders are, of course, more alarmed
Their position is most critical. Kingnsher
is m furore. George B. LANG,
at that place, came 10 this city
sought the Office of United States
Marshal Grimes, and stated that militis
| company had been hurriedly organized
there, and also company of minute men,
The Indian scare in the territory is nc
longer a fake, and within a weeks time a,
the longest Kingfsher and other border
towns viii be under constant pieke,
guard" said Laing 10 Marshal Grimes.
LANG stated that the CHEYENNE and
Arapahoe Indians had come into King.
fisher and purchased every cartridge that
could be had. The aspect is serious
Judge Sea, Of the supreme bench, said
today that the inland towns should a;
once organize into companies to aid. ii
necessary, the settlers along the border.
SIR KNIGHTS UNDER THE KNIFE
Skin Will BE Taken From $50 Masons 10
Patch Up and Save a Brother.
/ CHICAGO, Jan Especial a rseT,aisa-