Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-15
STILL THIRsTING FOR GORE.
Indians Have Not Abandoned Their
Plans of Massacre

Wants Advnnceinent--Death of Lieu.
tenant Casey.
PINE RIDGE AGENCY, s. D., Jan. 4
(via Nashville, Neb.)-The strenuous
efforts of the officials at Washington Ia
terminate the Indian trouble without
further bloodshed is Of such character
that Gem Miles feels hampered.
While he wants peace if it can be had
without loss Of life, he does not favor
the idea of letting several thousand
hostiles roam about the country, robbing
settlers of their cattle and keeping the
people for miles around this section in a
state Of terror Very few Of the officers
believe that the trouble will be brought
to an end without a fight. Gen. Miles
is determined to have the Indians in
here soon, peaccably if he can, forcibly
if he must.
The commands of General Brooke
and General Carr are closing in on the
camp of the hostiles. The work of
terrifying this camp continues, and If
attacked now we could hold it against
any number of Indians. The earth
works on the hills, north, east and west
of here, are almost complete. Huge
piles of wood have been thrown up
around the headquarts and hospital
tents. The Hotchkiss and Calling guns
are also in position.
THE HosTILEs DIVIDED.
Captain Taylor, chief of the Indian
scouts, received letter to-day from two
of his men in the hostile camp They
say that the determination OF the hos
tiles to kill Red Cloud is still strong,
and n force is obliged to watch him to
prevent it. The scouts add that while
some are opposed to fighting, many are
crazy on the subject and swear they will
never come in alive. This confirms the
belief that great body of the Indians
mean serious trouble.
Two companies of the First Infantry
who were left at Oelrich's when the
regiment was on its way here arrived
to-day, making about 600 soldiers and
200 Indians, scouts and police to guard
this place.
Late word received from the hostile
camp is to the effect that the massacre
planned some days ago has not been
given up by the great body of the In
dams in the hands of Kicking Bear and
Two Strike. If Red Clouds men get
away from them the hosties will be
ready to go to any extremity.
OBJECT TO MILITARY CONTROL.
American Horse, chief of the friendly
Sioux and the cleverest Indian of them
all, called at the agency yesterday with
about 40 of his sub-chiefs. He sent for
Special Agent Cooper to confer with
him. / was the only other white man
present. American Horse said his peo-
pie wanted protest sent to the Great
Father against the military taking CON
troll of the Indians He said they had
been under the military once and he
believed the result was unfayorable.
"We will not be satisfied, Y he said, eff
the soldiers take control They do not
teach us how to farm or become better
men, but rule us SO strictly that we 60
backwards instead of forward"
asked American Horse if he opposed
the military because their rules were too
strict
"They are too strict in one way" he
answered, "and not strict enough in
another. Instead of advancing us in the |
ways we should go, the soldiers do
nothing for Us and we soon forget what
we have learned"
The old chief grew eloquent in his
effort to make PLAN his reasons for op- |
posing the plan to turn the Indians over
to the war department, Special Agent
Cooper asked him if anybody fixed up |
II job to have the council take such a |
step. He answered stoutly in the mega
tive, and said the matter was discussed |
by his people the night before, and the
delegation was sent to the agent to in
form him of their desire.
An order received last night from
Assistant Adiutant- General Corbin, by |
authority of the President, that Captain |
+. L. Ewers of the Fifth Infantry, take
charge of all surrendered Indians,
furnish camp for them and draw sup
plies from Roger, is supposed to be the
first move in the direction of military
control.
The beef issue, with all its harbarous
ferocity, was the chief event of the
morning. There We're many ghost
dancers in the crowd, and they will
probably return to their friends in the
hostile camp and laugh at the easy
manner in which they fool the govern
ment agents. The steers were turned
out of the corral four at time, and i'm
mediately set upon by the mounted
bucks and shot down. Sometimes il
required dozen balls to finish one of
them.
AMERICAN HORSES WARMING.
Before the beef issue American Horse
addressed the Indians who he knew had
come from the hostile camp. He said:
young men, | know you are deter
mined to fight. ask you to be careful
and not do as you did at Wounded
Knee There the women and children
were killed because you were too anxious
and not cautious"
A grunt was all they gave in reply.
tThnZ tni1rib1n t,I,ti1atin,,@
Ghetto OF the Seventh Cavalry has
aroused intense feeling among his COM
rades.
THE HERO OF WOUNDED KNEE.
The particular hero of the fight of
Wounded Knee is Corporal Paul H.
Weinert Of Light Battery E, First
Artillery, modest little fellow of 81
years. Early in the engagement, after
Lieut., Darlington was wounded, Weinert
look charge of the Ilotchkiss gun, and,
although he was the object Of every In
dian sharpshootcr's, aim, he fired shell
after shell into them, pushing his gun
along right into the big rayine where
they had taken refuge, and finally dis
lodged them, after the soldiers had lost
half dozen men and then failed in the
attempt. A petition will be sent to Con-
gress by the officers of the Seventh, ask
ing that he be given gold medal.
ANOTHER HORRIBLE MuTTLATIoN.
This afternoon party of friendly In
dians brought in the body of Isaac Mil
Ter, small cattle raiser living north of
here. II was frightful spectacle; both
eyes were cut ont, the face burned, two
holes were in the forehead, two arrows
stuck in the breast, the skull was