Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1891-01-04
Hostile Indians Threaten to Kill Those
Who Would Return.
WARRANT IN GREAT DEMAND.
A Maine Convict Who Lives Like a
Prince-RaiIroad Conference
Bank Failures.
rsc1AL DisPATcHEs TO THE RrooHD-us1os
INDIAN SITUATION.
Hostiles Threaten to XIII Those Who

held this morning received the following
telegram from General Miles, dated Pine
Ridge, January ID: There is e report
from the Indian camp that Red Cloud and
Lutte Woun9 are determined to come in
with their following. Their lives have
been threatened by the hostiles, who de-
termined to 20 TO var. There is also re-
port from the same source of an engage
ment between the Indians and the cavalry,
IN which quite number of soldiers were
killed and some Indians. If this is correct
II Is probably on the line of White river.
General Brooke now has command of
that line, and will give the necessary direc-
TONS"
General Schofeld said to reporter after
the telegram was given out that nothing
additional had been received up to the
present time: II still have hope that we
shall yet be able to get the Indians into
camp without fight. The forces now in
the field under the command of General
Miles contain about S, 800 officers and
men,
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs to-
day received from Indian Agent Roger the
following telegram, dated Pine Ridge
Agency, S. D., January 2: "a number
of school buildings and the Episcopal
Church, located at Clay Creek, short
distance from the agency. were burned by
hostile Indians. Isaac Miller, a white
man and former employe of the beef
herd was killed by hostile Indians yester-
day, ten miles north of the agency. About
5000 men, women and children are
camped near the mouth of Grass Creek,
fifteen miles north of the agency. They
are committing all kinds of depredations
and are living off of our agency beef herd. |
Little Wound, Big Road, Red Cloud and
their people are among them, and it is re-
ported that they want to come into the
agency, but Two Strike Short Bull. Kicking
Bear and their people object and say they
will kill the first one who starts to the
agency. Report has it that Red Cloud is
DESTROYS of coming to his home"
MORE DEFINITE RUMoRs.
LINCOLN (Neb), January Sd. = The
Journals special from Pine Ridge, dated
the I'd, gives more definite rumors relative
to the reported engagement. between Gen.
eral Cars command and the Indians in
the Bad Lands. These would indicate the
troops were driven back and a number
killed, but the news cannot be considered
authentic.
The scouts who have returned from the
other hostile. camps, however, bring any
thing but reassuring reports. The Indians
will not listen to peace propositions.
Small detachments of troops have been
sent to the scene of Mondays battle, on
Wounded Knee, where many bodies of the
Indians slain still remain. These will be
either buried on the ground or brought to
the agency.
MILES FIGHTING FORCE.
WASHINGTON, January 3d-The forces
now in the field under command of Gen.
eral Miles are composed of the following
regiments; First. Sixth, Seventh (eight
companies) and Ninth Cavalry; one COM
pany of the First Artillery Company E.,
one company of the Fourth Artillery
Company F., and the First, Second, Third,
Seventh, Eighth, Twelfth, Sixteenth,
Seventeenth. Twentieth, Twenty first,
Twenty-second and Twenty-fifth Infantry,
making in all 151 companies.
This should mean an actual fighting
force of at least 10000 officers and men,
: but 1t is probable that the ranks are far
from full, and that the force does not ex-
coed 5000 men at the most.
BUYING WAR PAINT BY WHOLESALE.
ST. PAUL, January 3d.-A Pioneer Press
special from Pierre, s. D.. says: 1t is re-
liably reported that hostile Indians have
sent out runners to all the Indian camps
notifying them of the battle and calling
upon them for aid. One of the runners
has made his appearance among the In
dams up at Red river, and has been using
every means to incite them into joining in
the conflict.
The army officials have been notified.
An Indian trader at Fort Pierre says he
has sold more red paint to Indians within
the last few days than for years.
STILL MORE TROOPS.
MINNEAPOLIS. January 3d.-A special to
the Tribune from Mason City, Iowa. says:
The Sixth Regiment of the Iowa National
Guard has been ordered to be in readiness
to march to the frontier for service against
the Indians.
SOONER BE KILLED IN WAR.
MINNEAPOLIS, January 3d-A special to
the Tribune from Mandan, y. D., saws:
Company B, Twenty-second Infantry, has
been ordered to Fort Yates from Cannon
Ball. 1t is reported that the friendly bucks
at Standing Rock have gone out to Join the
hostiles. They told Agent Mclaughlin
that they would sooner be killed in war
than slaughtered in peace.
RED CLOUD WOULD DESERT.
OMAHA, January 3d.-An Omaha Bee
Pine Ridge special tonight says: Twenty
one of the wounded soldiers will be taken
to Fort Riley, Kan, tomorrow night by
special train. There has been no new de-
velopments to-day regarding the hostiles,
except that Old Red Cloud tried to slip
away from them and return to the agency.
When the fact was discovered by the hos
tiles they shot all his ponies, placed
guard over the old chief and moved several
miles further from here. This last move
places their main camp but few miles
from the Bad Lands. But the warriors
according to the reports of the scouts, keep
circling within ten or dozen miles of
here all the time.
1t is considered among the possibilities
that the party that went out to-day to bury
the dead Indians at Wounded Knee will
encounter trouble with hostile scouts be.
fore they get their big job completed.
THE NEWS CONFIRMED.
LINCOLN, (Neb.) January 3d.-To.night's
specials to the Journal from Pine Ridge
confirm the report of the engagement be-
tween General Cars command and the
Indians on White river. 1t is believed
no one was killed, though several Indians
were wounded.
An Indian courier brings a message from
the hostile camp, the substance of which is
demand that all soldiers be withdrawn
from the locality, and further, that they
will treat with no one for peace but the
Vice-President of the United States or the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs. This
message came direct from the hitherto sup.
posed friendly chief Red Cloud.
Rowing bands continue to scour the
country in the vicinity of Pine Ridge.
MANY persons coming in tell OF narrow
escapes. The Indian training school at
Pine Ridge was burned last night, with no
loss of life resulting.
ANOTHER BATTLE.
OMAHA, January 3d.-A Bee special from
Gordon, Neb., says
A battle is now raging about ten miles
northeast of this place.
The booming OF cannon can be dis
tinctly heard.
Everybody is under arms. The widest
excitement exists. A company of State
troops is expected tonight.
THAT AGREEMENT.
The Railroad Presidents are not as yet
all Agreed.
CHICAGO, January 3d-All leading lines
entering Chicago from the west Will be rep
resented at the New York conference next
Thursday. excepting. Chicago and Alton,
Chicago, st. Paul and Kansas City. Even
these roads can be relied upon to subscribe