The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-08
PINE RIDGE MURDERS
An Indian Prisoner COnfeSses
the Bloody Deed.
RACE HATRED THE CAUSE.
Stenger Was Not KilIed-The Dead Mon
Were His Employes-Rounding
Up CARA Bandits.

WHATCoM, Feb. 7.-TSpecial. The re-
port that Humphrey and Stenger, the
South Dakota cattiemen, were killed by
Indians of Two Sticks band last week, is
unfounded. Stenger is a brother of Johu
and Lewis Stenger, of this place, and has
been i'll the cattle business in Dakota
about ten years. A telegram was received
from HIM today stating that neither he
nor his partner was in the fight, but that
four of their men were killed.
PINE RIDGE AGENCY. S. D., Feb. -
Bear-That-Runs-ih-the Woods, a police
man, brought in this morning one of Two
Sticks sons, who is one of the murderers.
He confessed as follows: Two Sticks, his
father, and others,agreed to 60 to the beef
camp and kill the cowboys. They shipped
into the dug-out while the men slept and
each selected victim and, at a signal
cough, they killed them. The cook was
not killed at first and attempted to crawl
under box. but was shot in the head and
killed. The cowboys were Bennett and
Royce. aged - and IS years, and Bacon
and Kelly. The bodies were brought
here by old man Bacon. The dying In
dian says the men were killed because they
were white.
1t has been definitely settled that only
two OF the men murdered by the Indians
belonged to the HUMPHREYS camp, they
being Rodney Royce, OF Wisconsin,, and
Emanuel Barrett, of Breckenridge The
other two are named Bacon and William
Kelly, boys, who are strangers at the
camp. 1t was a deliberate murder. An
Indian policeman reports that he talked
with the murderers. They told him the
murder had been planned. Each was to
select his man after they had gone to bed,
and to make sure that each killed his man.
they should empty their revolvers into the
victims.
ST. PAUL, Feb. 7-Adjt. Hutchinson, of
the Ninth United States cavalry. stationed
at Fort Robinson, near the scene of the
Pine Ridge Indian troubles, was in the
city this morning. He says: II do not
attach the least significance to the trouble,
and cannot help laughing at the exagger-
ated accounts printed about it. There is
nothing at all serious in the situation, and
there is no danger of an outbreak"
WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. IA telegram
has been received from Inspector Cisney,
at Pine Ridge, in which he states that two
of the Indians concerned in the killing of
cowboys are still at large, and asks author
ity to increase the Indian police force IN
til they are captured. An increase has
been ordered until March 1.
ST. PAUL Mimi, Feb. "a special to
the Pioneer Press from Sioux City. Ia,
says: A government official from the
Pine Ridge country who is IN the city
today says that matters on the
reservation are IN much worse
condition than indicated by the
dispatches relative TO recent troubles. He
says all the dispatches have to be inspected
and edited by Agent Brown before they
are sent out. This was done with
dispatches about the murder OF the
four cowboys. Their murder was the
result of ghost dancing in which many
Indians were engaged. When the weather
moderates he says there will almost GER
tainly be an outbreak. Settlers are petit
tioning to have troops put on the reserva-
ton.
OMAHA, Neb., Feb. "a special from
Hsrmosa, s. D., to the Bee says: Edward