Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-22
A foul BLOT.
The UncGlled For Murder Of Few
Tails By COWBOYS.
TIE INDIANS GREATLY ANGERED.
The Efforts TO Avoid Further ElOOdShed in
Dakota Almost DcstrOyed-A Gang OF
Eighty Cowboys accused or
the Crime.

PINE RIDGE AGENCY, =. D., Jan. 21.-
meeting of the commanders Of the sew
eral army camps around the agency
with General Brooke was held yester-
day after which officers repaired again
to their respective commands. The
meeting was held to decide upon GER
tain tactical movements and at the same
time the situation was considered and
he condition of each command dis
cusSed.
The uneasiness of the Indians yester-
day had by the evening to n GER
tain extent died away. During the
afternoon Chief Two Strike, ac-
companied by about thirty Indians,
turned over to Agent Pierce twenty
guns of various pattcrns-among them
several Henry rifles which are prac-
tically useless.
As a consequence of some excitement
General Miles ordered forage for twen-
ty DAYS longer The order was issued
to Department Quartermaster Hum
phrey and was Immediately complied
with. General Miles now proposes to
remain here until the Indians have all
recovered from the shock which they
say the killing of Few Tails gave them.
The address issued to the soldiers by
General Miles has been very warmly
received and both men and officers now
seem more than ever willing to undergo
the privations of a winter campaign if
such should be required.
Lieutenant Getty, commanding the
Cheyenne scouts. lately under the COM
mand of the lamented Lieutenant
Casey. has been ordered to remain here
until after the close of hostilities. He
will then return to Fort Keogh, where
he will assume the duties of Quarter
master of the Twenty-frst infantry.
He has recommended both Captain
Lockwood and Lieutenant Hodges to
succeed him as commander of the now
famous scouts.
4 number of complaints daily reach
camp criticising General Miles because
he does not move upon and annihilate
the Indians. The answer made to these
from headquarters is that the force in
the field is composed of soldiers and not
butchers, that even the commander is
under orders and that his orders are
that the war must be brought to a close
without blOodshed.
Yesterday afternoon one of the Indian
police at the agency found four dead
Indians in a creek near Wounded Knee.
One of them was boy, two were girls
and the fourth an old squaw.
Few Tails, who was killed by whites
last week, was a relative of Young
Mana fraid-of-H is-Horses, the only
hereditary chief in the Sioux Nation,
and the most powerful leader among
his people. His wounded squaw arrived
here Sunday and almost instantly there
was connection in the hostile camp.
The scouts reported the situation to
General Miles, who at once sent runners
after Young-Man. When the chief
appeared at headquarters and
learned of the ingratitude of the
whites for the heroic work he had been
doing in their behalf he refused to be
pacifed, and it took all the diplomacy
at the command of General Miles to
finally win back the good will Of the
chief.
Few Tails was not only relative OF
-Man-Afra Horses, but
brother of Big Road, one of the mOstpOw
erful sub-chiefs at Pine Ridge. Big Road
said that eightycowboysh had slaughtered
the little band as they were returning
unarmed from an eagle hunt, bearing
General Miles pass permitting them to
be off the reservation, and that the
squaw of Few Tails was the only sur
rfrnr.