The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-15
|FHE RED MEN GIVE UP
|rlsy will Probably Surrender
Their Rifles Today.
pLIcIT FAITH IN MILES.
k.r That Chief Joseph, at Nespelim
FERRY. Will Join the Canadian
Indians in a War.

Indians in a War.
y p,xsv RrpoE AGENCY, Jan. 4.-At mid
.ht syervtbing is quiet in the hostile
- although the scouts say that some
B. III Young bucks are INDUCING in the
koet dance.
!. MS morning Little Wound, Little
3 u.rk Creek Dog and Old Calico came
/! - the hostiles and had talk with Gen.
4, Miles. This afternoon a second dele
s+sn az chiefs arrived, Kicking Bear.
y 80 High Hawk and Eagle Pipe They
g s long talk with General Miles, the
b. 80 subjects being considered as in the
y ming conference. 1t was agreed that
{ hostiles would leave their present
{ np and pitch their tepees on the west
81 a, n White Clay creek, Immediately op-
d. '..;,e and less than half mile from the
y rev buildings. 1t was also decided
"a the Indians would surrender their
& rs 10 their respective chiefs, to be turned
g 10 Agent Pierce. He would receipt
Them. Mace the name of each owner
- his gun, sell them and return the
n .nrxeds 10 the Indians. 1t was also de-
al IA that the chiefs would attempt to con-
i i 81 their young men, and, failing in this,
s.. kmn themselves arrest those who re-
:. = ,sei to act as good Indians and turn
" Mem over to the agent.
4Geaeral Miles was pleased with the
M iendly disposition manifested by the
2heis, and proposed to allow them several
ays Il, which to redeem their promises.
an earnest of his good will, he sent to
i, camp several thousand pounds of
In and several hundred pounds Of coffee
sugar The general also talked over
contracts, and guaranteed that in fu-
NJ those contracts would be complied
I'm to the letter. The chiefs showed
kasure at the kindly treatment of the
neral, and left for camp in good humor.
Il Short Bull, of all the leading hostiles,
d missed from both delegations of chiefs
hy They explained his absence, say
] fibat so many wild young men wanted
l accompany him to the agency that he
n rmed II wiser to stay in camp.
he Associated Press correspondent had
alk with Eagle Pipe, in which number
"A hcts were ascertained regarding the big
u with General Miles. Among the points
uthe novel one that the Indians de-
ended the abolition of Rosebud agency,
establishment of one more general, and
selection of Pine Ridge as such. The
eon they advanced was that the In
ns were continually going from one
kncy to another, contrasting the methods
each and longing for the comforts of
x Ridge as compared with the many
Bdyantages they claim to have expert
pd at Rosebud. This proposition Eagle
h, who is one of the most influential
HSbud, or Brule chiefs, said General
ss promised to consider. He also said
general had demanded the surrender
the young men who killed Lieutenant
sy, and they promised to accede to the
band He also said they would make
ry effort TO control the men who had
recently INDUCING in the ghost
- bee There were only few of them,
LII They generally discontinued it when
nssed them to do So He said at Rose
they did not get enough food TO keep
Em alive.
anticipation of the camping of the
iles on the west side of the agency the
stworks in that vicinity were strength
today
fFv YORK, Jan. 1.-THE Freemon's
EHat today received q letter from Father
s at Pine Ridge, saying he is consid-
ay better, and asking that the press
aadlet the reports that the army was
same for the tragedy at the Wounded
e. Those reports, he says. do grave
Il ashce to our soldiers. and are instigated
nose adverse TO an honorable settle
taIoi the present trouble and hostile To
desire OF every true friend of the In
D mat they be permanently transferred
- tne Indian bureau to the war depart
y 1t Is only by such transfer that the
Aas can expect just treatment. He
AIne trouble at the Wounded Knee
nased through interested whites, who
gone ABOUT and industriously misrep-
aaed the army and its intentions. The
ahs were led TO believe that the true
o. the soldiers was their extermina-
Saseos, Jan. A.-It is announced that
sa British army officers, number of
are SAID to be personal friends of
VAC Dill, have started from England
s'ae Ridge agency. with the intention
srng their services in lighting hostile
asaA, Jan. H.-0n the assurance of
Miles that no more danger to
: anticipated, four companies OF
Elinta stationed on the frontier were
4ea nome today. There are still thir-
"npanles in the held, but they will
ae'ed home at the end of this week
l = more trouble occurs