Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-01-14
TWO STRIKE WANTED A pow-wow.
Chiefs Tal to Newspaper Man Who
Goes to Visit Them.

Chiefs Tali to Newspaper Man Who
Goes to Visit Them.
correspondent paid visit yesterday
TO the host lie village, and talked with
some of the chiefs. Two Strike, who
stampeded from the agency after the bat
tie of Woun led Knee, has established bis
headquarters in George Kauloff's ranch.
He has proulished not TO destroy the pict-
ures and the organ which are in the build
ing. Two Strike said he wanted pow WOW.
He claimed that he had not taken I'D arms
against the government and that
he was draw into the stampede through
fear that the soldiers were 10 slaughter all
the Sioux Little Wound, who has been
trying to slip away from the hostile camp
ever since Lh,ut. Casey was assassinated,
said that his heart was good. Then strok-
ing his long iron-gray hair, he inquired
about the disposition Gen. Miles was
likely to make OF the outfit. Crow Dog
was surly. The murderer OF old Spotted
Tail was in n mood to talk
Twelve Hundred Fighting Men.
From careful survey OF the village IL
Is calculated that there are between 900
and / 20 figh ting men in the camp The
old men and children number about
three thousand. The village Is pitched in
such posit on that IL can be reached by
Gen. Brookes Hotchkiss guns in the rear
and the machine guns and three-inch
rifles from the breastworks west of the
school house and Capt Dougherty's
redoubts. II Is evident that the hostiles
have cached their rifles, for in riding the
length of the village not a weapon was
seen. It is also plain that the savages are
terribly frightened. Buckskin Jack, who
al, al ~
thrust their painted fuces through the
flaps of their tepees, said it would not
take much to stampede the whole outfit,
as it was common talk In the camp that
the soldiers we're going to kill them 10 a
man
The Inoisn Side of the Case.
A man who thinks he knows the secret
of the trouble, says: During all this talk
of war and pea &c 1t may be of interest to
show the Indian side of the question. The
redskins have been fighting because they
have been half starved and compelled to
suffer the rigoIs or this climate in cotton
sheets, the issue OF overalls,
sbawls, boots and shoes having been
postponed from time to time until now
it is not likely that they will get them be-
fore spring. The beef when received here
in October weighed or was paid for at a
fSCciNiuE NSieitS VI pOuuuS UeHu
About a0S head of these beeves were gath
cred up few days ago, and were weighed
yesterday By board of army officers.
Heavy Shrinkage I'm Weight.
''The scales showed that the steers
weighed but go pounds head Admit
ting that 10 October they actually
weighed l, 1872 pounds each, there is now
shrinkage of 2Se pounds head in three
months of a comparatively mild fall and
winter An ], l;2-pound beef should net 90
per cent, or i65 pounds. This shrink
ago is on the net weight, as
hides. loofs, horns and bones do
not shrink. These US beeves, therefore,
net but S34 pou nds, and as the Indians
have not been is sued full beef on even the
1,lS2pound basis, they have practically re-
ceived but little over quarter rations of
meat, and thirty people are supposed TO
live on one beef for fourteen days"