St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-31
Uncle Sans Soldiers to Reach
the Sisseton Country in a
= Few Days.
Very Little Danger. However,
That There Will Be Any
Blood Shed.
Indications That There Will
Be More People Than
Quarter Sections.
Sensational Suit for Alien
alton Of Affe ctionS at
LIE Sueur,
Special to the Globe.

Browns VALLEY, Minn.,-The very
near approach of the final opening to
white settlement Of the 100000 acres of
surplus lands of the Slsseton and Wah-
peton Indian reservation is creating
daily increasing excitement. Arrange
ments have been fully completed where
by the five companies of regular army
soldiers will arrive at Browns Vulley
onor before April 4. On arriving i'll
Browns Valley the troops will march
to point seven miles west of this city
Oh the reservation, and 60 into camp.
The point for camping, which was Sc
lected by Indian Agent Mccormick, is
in big bend of the Minnesota river.and
is very pretty spot. Here Uncle Sans
men will find awaiting them an album
dance of water and native timber for
fuel. While this will be the principal
headquarters for the soldiers, they will
I. be detailed by squads, and. as occasion
demands. sent out to points along the
border to assist the native Indian police
in keeping back unruly persons who
seem determined to get upon the
lands at all hazards before the day set
that when it became generally known
that government troops were TO be sent
to- the reserve the fact would have
Quieting effect upon intending settlers.
but instead the more daring and de-
terinined ones appear anxious to I'M
prove the time before the arrival OF
troops, and today have gone out in
every direction on the reserve to pick
out suitable claims. No arrests by In
dian police have as yet been reported,
and it Is safe to say that there will be
none. as the
Redskins Seem Tirnid
about exercising the authority vested
in them, seeming inclined to await the
arrival of soldiers to assist them. 1t is
estimated Oh good authority that no less
than 200 white men are now secreted on
theSfeservation within radius of thirty
miles OF this: city, They are hiding in
Inlliah houses, and canipingin tents in
deep raYfnes. Agent McCussiek@iS ac-
duainted with this facts and. says, upon
the arrival of troops the entire reserva-
ton will be secured and these
venturesome fellows put to route. On
the whole, the opening of the Sisseton
reservation promises to outd0the mad
and exciting scenes enacted at the time
i
respondent bases his opinion on the fact
that the lands of the Sisseton reserya-
ton are among the most desirable in
the Northwest. This fact rs aeknowl
edged by everybody who has visited it.
And the lands have been extensively
advertised throughout the entire coun-
try. and even in various parts of the old
world. Not only the railroads tributary
to thesreserve, but four locating firms IN
Brewn's Valley have been at work for
more than six months past informing
the outside world of the grand oppor-
tunitieS here offered to secure free
home, and the amount of correspondence
now carried OIL by these firms is simply
enormous, the Sisseton Land company
alone receiving on an average l50 to 200
letters of inquiry per day. The city
council at this place recently placed an
advertisement III $50 newspapers, in
Guiding many influential farm journals
in the Eastern, Central and North
western states, and the returns are.
now coming In SO rapidly that two
clerks are kept constantly at work an
swering inquiries. The three-column
article, descriptive of the reservation
that appeared in the GLOBE short time
ago, brought hundreds of Inquiries. In
fact, it is safe to estimate that there will
be at least four men for every quarter
section of land to be opened, and some
of our locating firms openly state that
there will be fully ten men for each
claim, This means excitement, and lots
Of 1t. The reservation proper contains
in round numbers 1,000.000 acres. Of
this 100000 acres has been selected by
and allotted to the resident Indians,
every man, woman and child receiving
patent for 100 acres, leaving for set
tlement by whites 100000 acres, or $3.50
claims of 100 acres each. The land Is
subject TO settlement and entry under
the
New Homestead Law
approved by congress March 8, 1891.
This requires that claimant must re-
side continuously upon the land for
period of fourteen months before max
ing proof, but if he does not desire to
make proof at the end of fourteen
months he may continue his residence
for period of five years, in the mean
time paying no taxes, and at the expira-
tinn OF the five years prove UP as be-
fore. Persons. who take land on this
reservation will be required 10 pay for
the same, al the time of making proof,
$3.50 per acre. This was the price paid
the indians by the government at the
time of tie purchase, but bill has
been recently introduced in congress to
make the price S1.25 per acre to white
settlers, Snd has good prospects for
passing. II should be remembered that
the native Indians who inhabit this
reservation are thrifty. law-abldiug
and fairly intelligent class Of people
who have long been staunch friends of
the palefaces, having taken an
active part in assisting the
whites to put down the great
Indian massacre in 1862. The
Sissetons are "true blue" as the saying
goes, and are proud to know that they
are now recognized by their white
neighbors as citizens of the United
States in every sense of the word. They
have been self-supporting for years, the
government appropriations fort tribe
being confined wholly to The support of
the schools. There are schools and
churches on the reservation equal to
those of their white neighbOrS-eleven
fchnrch edifces being located thereon.
Many of the preachers and some Of the
7 teachers in the schools are natives, and
many of the Sissetons are teachers on
other reservations. These Indians have
done much farming i'll the part, but are
preparing to engage i'll the business on
a more extensive scale in the future.
From the money received from the sale
of their surplus lands they have bought
good American horses, erected comfort
able houses and barns, and this spring
are selecting new and complete line
of the latest improved farm machinery.
In short, the Slssetons are a wide
awake and thrifty class, and the whites