St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-14
REDS ARE RELUCTANT
From Their Camp the Hostiles
Look Down Upon Pine
Ridge Agency,
But Fail to Keep Their Word
and Come in for Nego-
tiation.
Col. Corbin Says a Fight Be-
comes More Remote With
Each Hour.
BruleS Claim Their Winches-
fapc Apo Thnip DopconaI
BruleS Claim Their Winches-
teps Are Their Personal
Property.

PINE RIDGE, s. D., Jan. 13.-The sit
uation remains practically unchanged
here this evening. The hosties are still
in camp about mile and half north.
The chiefs that were to arrive here to-
day for the purpose of holding council
failed to come. There is a general feel
ing among the officers and soldiers to-
night that peaceable settlement is not
far distant. However, such feeling has
received disappointments before. Buffalo
Bill leaves tomorrow to join Brooke's
command six miles from the agency.
Gen. Miles states that the Indians are
still timid and apprehensive of punish
ment, and proposes to allow a couple of
days to elapse before attempting to
bring the negotiations to a close. Thus
far the disposition he has shown to
treat the Indians kindly has made
for him many warm friends
among them. This fact, coupled
with the pains which Capt. Pierce. the
new agent, is taking to show the In
dlans that everything they are entitled
to under the treaty will be issued to
them, will surely have beneficial
effect. A member OF G troop,
Second infantry, who came in to-day
with the detachment of the Seventh
infantry under Maj. Egbert, reports
that
Six Hundred Indians
broke away last night from the hostile
camp. and had been followed by Col.
Sanford and Col. Henry. At head
quarters no report was received con-
firming the matter. Col. COrbin says the
report was occasioned by the fact that
the commands mentioned had left In
the direction of Wounded Knee
on scout. There is now
under discussion the advisability
of enllsting scouts for service in the
reservation. The agency is now guard
ed by force of ninety-nine Indians,
sixty OF whom were enlisted for two
months at the time the trouble broke
out. For the thirty-nine regular police
men an offer has been made giving
scouting service or remaining
in the police force. In the former their
pay will be S13 per month with an al
lowance of 40 cents per day for their
horses. This amounts to about $25 per
month. This party of scouts will be
distinct from the scouts now under the
command of Lieut.. Taylor, Of the Ninth
cavalry, and who have enlisted since
the opening of this campaign. Mr..
Taylor will endeavor to take his COM
mand with him to Fort Robinson at the
close of the difficulty, and endeavOr to
render them beau ideal troop Of what
has been termed
Irregular Cavalry.
1t was thought that the Indian police
would oppose the plan of transfer to the
scouting service. because the term of
enlistment in the latter army is only six
months. They feared that at the end
of the first enlistment they would be
discharged from the service, and
thus left without an occupation. Hav-
given permanent employment, they
have, to man, decided to become
scouts. Big FOot's wife, one of the
women injured OH Wounded Knee, died
last night in the hostile camp. The
hostile Indians still remain in the camp
they went into yesterday, about
two miles from the agency.
They have made no attempt to
come nearer with the exception of
those who desired to visit some of the
friendlies, and who were compelled to
take a circuituOuS route around the
agency to reach them. They were gen
orally met about half mile beyond the
breastworks by pickets, by whom
they were compelled to sur
render their arms until after
their return from their visit.
The number of these visitors this MORN
ing was greater than it was yesterday.
Young g-Man-Afrad-of -of-His-H0rse came
in from the camp this morning to ar
range for meeting OF
The Hostile Chiefs
with Gen. Miles. The commands re-
ferred to in the dispatches of yester-
day are about two miles to the rear of
the hostiles. They will advance no
nearer until there shall have been a
conference between the chiefs and Gen.
Miles. Capt. Pierce, the new agent,
has plan of enlisting four COM
panies of Indians to do duty OH
the reservation instead of white
soldiers after this trouble shall have
blown over. 1t is also felt that the In
dians will be expected to give up all
their arms and take receipt for them
from the agent; and that they Will be
guaranteed protection by the enlisted
force of their own people. Gen. Miles,
it is said, is in favor of this plan.
Agent Pierce is making an inyestiga-
ton of the amount of rations issued,
and, it is rumored, has made someinter
esting discoveries. To-day he sent out
Col. Kent and Capt. Baldwin, under es-
cor of K troop, of the Seventh cavalry,
LieAt. Squires, into the corral to weigh
the cattle received there last October.
The cattle then had an av-
erage weight of 1,132 pounds.
To-Day the average weight was
butt IA little over 900 pounds.
This shows a shrinkage of over 200
pounds.per head, for which the govern
ment paid, and of which the Indians
will be deprived. This afternoon Com
panies 3, Capt. Green; d, Capt.
O'Brien, and II, Capt, Howe, of the
Seventeen infantry, under command of
Mai. Egbert, and with thirty army and
freighters' wagons. arrived for supplies.
They passed within balf mile Of
The Hostile Camp.
The Indians came to about $50 yards
from the road and carefully serutiniZed
the command as it passed. The train
and escort will return to the mission to-
morrow and Tejoin Col. Offiey. Later
in the day Col Corbin, Gen. Miles ad-
iutant, said that the possibility of
tight was becoming more remote every
hour, and he expected the difficulties 10
be settled within day.
'sThe chiefs have not come in,n he said
.sbut Young Man Afraid-of- His -Horsesis GO
ing to see them, and l think he viii bring
them in. They have done everything the
general has told them to do, and IL they in
tended to fight l do not think they would
have gone into camp where they have, for
they are surrounded, and they knew 1t