Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-03
IA LII i L lO1Ns
AGAINST THE AGENTS
Gen. Miles Tries to Solve the Indian
Problem,
ANOTHER CONFERENCE IN BUUIOGNE
A Steamer Wrecked in the British
Channel.
FOREIGN TOPICS UPPERMOST.
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INOrHER CONFERENCE IN BOULOGNE
FOREIGN TOPICS UPPERMosT
INDIAN AGENTS OPPOSED.

Gen. Miles Wants several Removed and Cap
tains Put in Their Places.
PINE RipsE, Jan. 3.-Gen Miles has recon-
Capt Dougherty of the first infantry be placed
in charge. Gen. Miles has also asked the Presi-
dent to remove the agents at Cheyenne Stand
ing Rock and Rosebud agencies. Capt. E. H.
Ewens of the fifth, Capt. J. NJ. Lee of the line
and Capt. Pierce of the first are recommended
for the places, respectively. Gen. Miles thinks
this will restore peace and harmony. The In
dams are slowly starving to death, but an army
officer could soon supply the food Twenty
horses we're stolen from Summers command
Last night by hostiles.
THE ALLEGED sKIRMIsH ON THURSDAY.
OMAHA, NEB., Jan. 3.-The Bee has the fol-
lowing from its staff correspondent:
Pine Ridge, vim Rushville. the arrival
of the scout who brought the report that the
hostiles had just brought fourteen cavalry
horses with brides, saddles, &c, into their
camp, another scout brought a second report to
the effect that skirmish had occurred. Scout
No. said that he learned that Cheyenne hos
tiles made rush upon squad Of Carr's Sioux
scouts on Grass creek Thursday night and had
killed several of them.
Grass creek is q small and nearly dry stream
beginning eight or ten miles north Of here and
runs about ten miles north and empties into
AhNCA, obcue ct6hscth VI tWcAty HINGE
north Of Wounded Knee post office, the site of
last Mondays battle and in the near vicinity Of
which Carr ia reported as now encamped.
When the scout asked whether any soldiers
were engaged in the skirnish he was told there
were, but that they took very little part in it.
brought in by government employees sta
walton, have come in to the eff
feet that the country seems to be
alive with squads ofhostile scouts. As yet the
authorities have been unable to get at the re-
port regarding the cavalry horses in the hostile
camp, though this report regarding an attack
by Cheyenne hostiles seems to indicate that
soldiers'were killed in the skirmish on Grass
creek on Thursday.
GEN. MILES INNOVATION.
Instead Of concentrating the troops in hud-
died condition in the center of the camp, as
Gen. Brooke had them, Gen. Miles has thrown
them out into permanent picket lines upon top
of the ridge that encircies the agency valley
for for - them, the one for use in
case Of attack and the latter to
shelter them while off duty. In other words.
instead of the agency building surrounding the
soldiers the soldiers are to surround the
agency. Indeed, during the brief time since
Gen. Miles arrival here the entire face Of at
fairs has undergone q radical change.
Two of the wounded hosties taken prisoners
after the Wounded Knee battle died last night.
They had been four months among the Indians.
The Indians passed comfortable day.
The close range at which most
of the wounds were received re-
suited in unusual liberation. daily bulle-
tin will be issued by those in charge Of the
no spital which will be much appreciated by
those having friends among the wounded, since it
will enable their correspondents to gain infor-
nation which up to the present time has been
impossible.
A correspondent called on Father aft last
evening and found him sitting up L.. chair
and able to converse quite freely, although not
to any great length. He now seems to be out
Of danger, very much to the surprise of even
his physicians He is in the Catholic school
house here at the agency and is receiving atten-
ton.
The body Of Miller, one Of the government
herders here, who has been missing for some
three days past, has been found several miles
west of the agency riddled with bullets.
NO CHANGE IN THE SITUATION.
CHICAGO, Jan. 3.-Adjutant General Corbin
has received q message from Gen. Miles, writ
zen last night. in which he states that there is
no change in the Indian situation.