The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-05
The Murderers Pursued to the Bad
Lands by Soldiers and Five Slain.
Two Strike and One of His Bad Boys Still at
Large-Fears of Further Trouble Secuted
by Army Officers at Headquarters.
COWBOYS AND INDIANS KILLED.

COWBOYS AND INDIANS KILLED.
Four OF the Former and Five Of the Latter
Slain In the Sioux Reservation.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
RINE RIDGE AGENCY. S. D.. Feb. 1.-Two
Strike. with his band. has gone to the hills
and refuses to come in."
This was the massage received by Agent
Brown yesterday. and at once there was
excitement at this agency. Two Strike is
the worst of the most unruly Indians of
the Sioux nation, and has given more
trouble tnan any other Indian. He was
the leader of the Disconnected portion of
the Brule Sioux. and ever since the
trouble that ended in the Mission fight
and Wounded Knee creek battle has
been fomenting discomfort among the In.
dians. For some time it has been noticed
that Indians were leaving the agency, os-
tensibly going on hunting expeditions to
the west, and now it has been learned that
these hunters all went heavily armed and
took their families with them. A winter
camp has been made in the heart of the
Bad Lands on Big Butte, known as Hole.
in-the- w oods, or Hidden Butte. This is
one of the most inaccessible places in the
Bad Lands, and in the winter can defy the
troops.
Captain Brown had issued orders for the
arrest of Two Strike. and the latter had
fled to his Bad Lands rsstness Hence the
message given at the beginning of this dis
patch. On Thursday q number of cowboys
belonging at the beef camp of Isaac
Humphreys. a government contractor. To-
Gated on White river. at the mouth of
White Clay creek about twenty-five miles
northwest of Pine Ridge agency. returned
from town in q drunken condition. and
brought q good supply of whisky
with them. During the evening
they became quarrelsome. and mis-
treated and injured Two Strike,
driving him from their camp. and firing
their revolvers at him. Two Strike re-
turned later il the evening. reinforced by
his sons and number of other relatives
and friends. and commenced deadly fire
on the cowboy camp, killing three and
mortally wOunding fourth man. who has
since died. The names of the three men
are ell that can be learned at this time
They are Charley Swartz, Bacon and Un-
derwood. Bacon's soD-ln-law as the fourth
man. Their bodies will be brought to the
agency tomorrow.
FIVE REDSKINS KILLED.
AS soon as the news reached Captain
Brown he sent detachment of twenty In
dian police TO bring In tho murderers. The
report of First Sergeant Rush. who was in
command tells the story. He arrived at
the agency at 3 p. NJ. to-day, and reports as
follows. THE Indians were camped down
near No Water camp. close to the hill. The
police were out on the Hat where the Omaha
House is. When the police came upon them
the Indians fired once at US. and all of us
then commenced to fire upon them.
the hill and we killed him there.
There was another man raised his head
close by the house and We finished him.
Sergeant Sitting Bear killed one. policeman
Red Owl killed one and Sergeant Blunt
Horn killed one. took five of Young-man-
afrald's men-yOung fellOws-aDd they
helped us q great deal. No Water came up
to the police and told US that we had seti
tied them; that We had killed five and that
they had ell they wanted, and that the best
way now was to drop Ii.
After making their report the police were
highly commended by Cape In Brown and
his boys got away. 1t is thought Two
Strike Is seriously wounded. Captain
Brown has another squad of police out
after these two, with instructions to bring
them TO the agency. Captain Brown s
highly praised on all sides for his prompt
action.
Ii has been learned that three cattle
ranches lying west of Cheyenne reserve
were raided, and many head of cattle
driven Oft and one cowboy killed. The
courier says that the report that Two
Strike killed the cowboy himself is q mis-
take, for the deed was done by an Indian
who had been sent to the herd to stampede
1t. With the cattle driven off and the
a. hpr ha
Indians will be- able to stay in
the canyons Of the Bad Lands
until they are driven ont by heavy body
of troops. The passes in the heart of the
Bad Lands are of such q nature that the
few Indians can successfully withstand tho
attack of ten times their number of SOL
diers AS soon as the information was re-
ceived by Captain Brown he called out the
Indian police. and gave Instruction. that
all roads leading to the Hidden butte should
be carefully watched, and all Indians
who were caught on the trail COM
PEELED to return to the reserva.
tiops. A strong body of police was
| sent forward to examine the Bad Lands TO
see if any Indications of a camp could be
found. Captain Brown has te;egraphed
| the situation to General Miles. and asked
| for troops to be sent Immediately to pre-
vent the recurrence of the Wounded Knee
affair."
The present trouble comes from griev-
ances OF long standing. and really goes
back to the trouble in 1890 for its beginning.
| At that time when the band of Big Foot
was wiped out by the soldiers after the In
| Gians had been dissrmed. the Indians were
very sullen and refused to be as friendly
| as before. The remainder of the tribe felt
that their friends ond relatives had been
| cruelty murdered by the soldiers to re-
| venge the death of Custer and his men, and
| this spirit of revenge burns stronger in the
breast of an Indian than in that of white
man; henced the feeling ranked. and was
| famed to O flame by the action of the
| government in the matter of supplies.