The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-14
The Death of Lieutenant Uasey.

CAMP AT ADAToN, Neb., Jan. 9. 1891
TFrom our Special Correspondent in the
Field l-Of the matters l shall now write
the wire has told you, but, granting that
L VIII give such details as are obtainable
from scouts and messengers who are roam
ing over the country. Lieutenant Casev.
Twenty second infantry, met a sad death
on the north side of the hostile camp on
the 9TH instant. Your correspondent has
just heard the circumstances. Lieutenant
Caseg was chief Of scouts operating on the
north side of the White river. It seems
there was half-breed named Reshaw
whose family was corralled Dy the hostiles.
when their big band left Pine Ridge agency
Immediately after the Wounded Knee fight
and this man, who had access to their
camp, was endeavoring to get his family
out Reshaw is half-breed Ogalla,la
Sioux. Lieutenant Casey and one scout
(Reshaw) went up trail On Whit. river.
north OF the hostile camp, when the officer
renamed at point outside, but in full
view OF the camp, while Reshaw went in
among the Indians
The presence OF Reshaw occasioned no
unusual activity among the Indians. but
they muttered against the officer and
openly avowed their intention to do ava V
with him. Reshaw went to Lieutenant
Casey twice warning him to flee from
there, but of no avail. The lieutenant
laughed at the scouts warning, saving
that he was not afraid and had been in
many like predicaments and had always
escaped unframed. The third time Reshsw
mounted his pony, galloped to Lieutenant
Casey and warned him for the last time
this admonition was unheeded like the
rest and when the officer and scout were
riding away and just as they rounded a
hill at the edge of ravine, an Indian
stepped out from cover and fired the shot
which
KILLED LIEUTENANT CASEY.
Reshaw earned the body to the troops.
James Robe, a storekeeper at Ada
ton, (the town consists OF one lone
store, a building about 1Sx3O feet
one story in height, situated in
bleak, barren, desolate region.
has contract to furnish two hundred
(2U0) horses for mounting the First in
fantry (the regiment which came from
California;. He is to receive 40 cents per
diem rental for each horse furnished. and
Is collecting quite band of long haired
ponies. The ponies can live on the tufted
grass OF the country and are equal to the
hardships incident to winter campaign in
this region.
Doctor Boyer, the Indian agent at Pine
Ridge, was relieved on January S. The
supposition is his administration was not a
clean one. | cannot learn who his success
sor is, but the new agent is an army-officer.
Long before we went into the field. your
correspondent argued through the columns
of The HERALD that one of the most prob
able solutions of the Indian enigma was to
put the agency administration into the
hands of the military. BY this move Cen
eral Miles has made master-stroke in the
direction of an early adjustment of the
troubles now existing.
The fact of
THE INDIAN CRY FOR FOOD
is most significant; yet their marauding
and numbering is without excuse, and al
sensible men (the Indian chiefs being men
OF more than ordinary intelligence) they
now realize that they have assumed an atti-
tuoe very hostile and must pay the penalty.
The Indians are now determined to fight
and If they show such desperation as at
Wounded Knee, it is not unlikely that more
troops Will be needed. No doubt General
Miles is man averse to any such confer
ence as that OF the Modoc war, when Can
tain Jack, under guise of friendship in
weighed General Candy to a peace meeting
only to kill all of those connected with IT,
A remembrance of this and fully under
standing the Indian as man of trescherv
our general will not favor such. but will
insist on surrender and disarmament or
fight
On the afternoon of the 9TH instant. Jacl,
Red Cloud, He Dog, Light Hawk and Biz
Road, all hostile sub-chiefs. came into the
agency. They came in without molestation
and took IN the situation with the accus
toned Indian shrewdness.
One Of their number, Jack Red Cloud
q SON old Red Cloud, was the recipient of
quite
AN OVATION FROM THE wEITEs
at the agency. Replying to query, Jack
said that the hosGles were Quarrelling
among themselves. He did not state their
feelings toward peace adjustment vet
declared his fathers (Old Red Cloud de-
sire to come in. Old Red Cloud is held as a
prisoner by the hostiles. and whilst many
argue the old mans friendship for the
whites, it is not unlikely that this old war
rior looks with much favor on the outbreak