The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-23
ON THE RETURN TRIP.
The Sixteenth Infantry Will
Reach Home To-day.
THE CRUEL WAR is OVER"
Site of Old Camp Sheridan-Settlers Going
to Their Homes-Indian Bones For
Clarifying Sugar.

CAMP AT ADAToN, Neb., Jan. 18th, 1891
From our Special Correspondent in the
Field. -"This cruel war is over and the
bloody work Is done,n are the first two lines
OF the song | hear some of the boys singing
and as 1 write the joyous soldiers voices
reach me as they praise General Miles fol-
SO successfully conducting this campaign
The way the Indian surrenders his gun is
amusing The willy red must imagine his
white foe stupid indeed. For instance, Bis
Road brought Miles just nine guns, of diff
1erent makes, as every frearm his band
had. The old Indian says that hereafter
the Sioux will be good Indians. Ihave seer
many Indians and whilst attending col
lege in northern Minnesota in 1863, had g
full blood Chippewa Indian for classmate
and the 'good Indian I have not seen as
yet Everything points to peace, but bad
move on the part of either side may pre-
cipitate 6ght
THE SETTLERS ARE GOING TO THEIR HOMES,
but feel uneasy as the Indians have arms.
a lew days ago the Chadron people held a
mass meeting and declared that to bring
about peace, disarmament in toto must
take place. From the Chadron Democrat OF
the 10th instant clip the following:
At meeting of citizens of Chadron at the
rink. Wednesday afternoon, to consider the In
dian situation at Pine Ridge agency. Judge E.
. Kicker was elected chairman and A Z. Shell
con, secretary. In view OF the reports in, the
daily papers that it was not the intention of the
government to disarm the Indians at Pine
Ridge, the following resolutions were adopted
whereas. II is feared by our people that the
government Will permit the Indians on the
Sioux reservation to become dispersed without
frst being disarmed therefore be it
Resolved That we, the citizens of Dawes
county, Nebraska, bordering on the Sioux res
ervatlon. do solemnly protest against such
termination of this serious affair and we do
hereby respectfully renew our demand that the
government shall at this opportune time secure
10 our citizens that safety in life and property
which only the complete diSarming of the Iudi-
ans can obtain.
Resolved, that copies of these resolutions be
sent 20 General Miles, the secretary of war
senators Henderson and Paddock and Repre-
sentative Dorsey.
On the same date-January 15-in reply
70 telesram sent him concerning a visit to
Washington of some of the Sioux chiefs,
General Miles replied: This Indian war
now consider at an end in most satisfac-
tory manner. More complete submission
to military power never has been made by
any Indians. The report that any have es-
capped is simply not true.'
BY comparison OF these resolutions and
the latter Is the more correct.
GENERAL MILES Is AT THE AGENCY.
he knows every move, he is on the spot and
his knowledge of the work upon which he
is now putting the finishing touches is by
Tar more reliable than the four mule wagon
loads OF rumors which are hourly carted
into Chadron, and which do doubt caused
this meeting of citizens These people
should place confidence in the regular
military enough to believe the utterances
OF General Miles. If Chadrou is fearful of
the Indians, q requisition on one of their
governors will bring them as many compa-
MES Of militia as they may want. When
the military finish their work at Pine
Ridge agency, no one need apprehend fur
ther trouble. The man who wound up the
Nee Perces and Geronimo campaigns. win
make good his promise to put the agency
Sioux IN trim for peace for years to come.
On yesterday visited
THE SITE OF OLD CAMP SHERIDAN.
This site is located on gently slopine
plateau on the banks of Big Beaver creek
and about three and one-half miles from
Adaton. The post was established in the
early days of the Black Hills excitement
and was abandoned in the summer of 1881.
In Its palmy days three and sometimes four
companies made it their home. but o-day
having been military post. The site now
belongs TO F'renchman named Swalley.
VINO Tor the past two seasons has ATTEMPTED
to ralsea corn crop on the old parade ground.
but owing to the dry seasons failed even to
raise corn equivalent to the seed planted.
ABOUT TWO miles from here stand two high
mounds, fashioned by the great architect of
the universe after the old time towers of
feudal days. Between these sbuttes.n ss
they arc called in this section runs q road
SAID TO have been Travelled for the first time
by the military when on their wav to To-
cate Camp Sheridan. These freaks of ma
ture bear the name of ''Sheridan's Gate. ,,
IL was quite tedious job to climb to the
hlgneSt point Of one of the Duties.
but the effort was well repaid by the
sights around me. l could see the Black
Hills In the distance. look down on the
many ranches in Beaver valley and felt
myself happy in being able to admire ma
ture on such beautiful day. Such glori
GUS weather! Warm, pleasant days-it
seems that the old settled east is catching
the wlntry blasts whilst we in the north.
west enjoy springlike weather. | had an
OBJECT IN visiting these places, and that OBJ
lect was to pass sentence on the re-estab
hshment of Camp Sheridan. The Dawes
county Journal, a sprightly weekly edited
by h. 4. Egan, at Chadron, devotes some
space in the issue Of the 10th instant Tn the
necessity Of building post near here and
speaks very commercially of the old Camp
Sheridan site. The argument used is that
troops must be kept at and near the agency
for some time as yet and in view of this
site being equi-distant from Chadron
Rushville, Hay Springs and the agency
ABOUT Twelve miles from each, the Journal
ADVISES Its immediate re-estabiishment and
investment with at least two regimants of
regular troops.
THE SITE is GOOD ONE,
but it is too near to Fort Robinson. / think
TO meet with the war department approval
Wood and water are convenient and the To-
cation a good one for the receipt of ALI
kinds OF necessary supplies. 1t is no doubt
the intention of the military to locate fem
porary camps in this region; but it is hard
10 conjecture that any permanent ones.
other than those now in existence will he
sustained. 1t is well known that two de-
partments are engaged in the settlement of
Los troubles. The interior department is
DIS great parent, but on this occasion that
oranch OF the government found itself
worthless and useless TO heal the wound or
cover the breach which was made. when
the poor lone beef was killed which precin- |
itated the whole affair. Secretary Monte
nc DOUBT, congratulates himself on the fact |
that his department had not urged or
brought on the trouble; he would throw if
all On the war departments shoulders. II
began with Roger a timid man, untitled for
such a position, wherein he was supposed
TO act both for the government and Indian
hoyer was SO lily capacitated to act as
agent for these Ogallalas, that he was most
unceremoniously bounced.
THE FACTS ARE
That the war was commenced by the in
5erior department and like all parallel casea
nad to be wound up by the war department
The proper department of the government