The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-02-11
A TRAGEDY AT PINE RIDGE.
AN INDIAN WAR is NARROWLY
AVERTED.
Young Man-Afraid- Of His Horses
Prevents an Outbreak-Differ-
ent Stories Relating to the
Recent Murder Of Four
Cowboys.
BlOOdthirSty Reds,

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Cbadron, Neb., Feb. 6. Two Strikes
oand killed five men on the reservation
Saturday night, and now defy arrest by
the Indian police. The killing took place
at Humphreys ranch, near the mouth Of
White Clay Creek.
Rushville, Neb., Feb. 6.-Another chap
ter in the shooting tragedy in the Sioux
reservation was enacted Friday evening
near the spot where the four white men
were killed. AS soon as the news of the
tragedy was brought to Pine Ridge Capt.
Brown. the agent, dispatched twelve
incurred police, under command of Po-
lice Sergeant Joe Bush, to the scene of
the shooting, with instructions to arrest
n bring in the perpetrators of the
bloody work. When the squad arrived at
their destination Two Strikes and his
crowd opened fire on them and a skir-
mish took place, resulting in the death of
two of Two Strikes party and the
wounding of one of Two Strikes sons.
Another buck was killed and Two
Strikes and one of his men wounded,
Two Strikes himself being shot in the
leg and abdomen. Two Strikes son,
TOO, was wounded slightly in the ankle.
IN dead Indians were left where they
Tell and the wounded ones were brought
to the agency.
another account of the affair is that
when the police squad reached the camp
they opened fire on the party they were
sent to arrest without warning and with
out making their mission known and shot
them down in cold blood; but this YER
sion OF the affair is not s~ubstantiated,
and is not believed to be correct. More
definite details concerning the ---..4ng of
the foul white men reached here this
evening, although the names of all the
men cannot be definitely learned yet,
but it is known that Clark Bacon and
his son-ln-law were not among the mum
Der. Bacon is a resident of White Clay
precinct, Sheridan county, Neb. The mo-
tive for the murder cannot be definitely
learned. One account is that the In
dians were playing cards with the white
men in the dug-out in which they were
camped, and got into a dispute, and that
after leaving them t;;:ey returned and
opened the door of the dug-out and shot
them while they were asleep. Another
account is that these Indians had been
in one of their sweathouses going through
JILL VI hC4 uNdS -" w
came imbued with the idea that it was
incumbent upon them to kill these men,
and they carried it into effect.
A courier just in from the camp re-
ports Two Strikes and his som re-
turned W. or three hours after killing the
cObOys, took their clothing into camp and
stole what food was in sight. 1t was
q difficult matter to obtain reliable par
ticulars. Last night it was rumored that
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towards the agency and were going to fire
the government buildings, but this cannot
be confirmed. A blizzard is now raging,
which is usually more cooling to an In
dams ardor than anything else. Agent
Brown does not fear serious trouble.
formation goes to show that the murders
of yesterday were the work of a band OF
Indian cattle thieves, and not the out.
come OF any rebellion or discomfort among
the redskins. Messages by telephone
from Fort Meade state that the cops OF
Indian scouts did not leave White River
and that no troops will be sent to the
Charles Ford, a cowboy employed upon
one of the White River cattle ranches
brought the news of the murder to Buf
falo Gap. He found the cattlemen muir
dered and horribly mutilated. Ford was
unarmed and did not dare to remain il
the vicinity. but at once mounted anl
rode to Buffalo Gap.
The murdered men were well known II
this region Their anmes were e. N. Cal
kins. foreman of the Humphrey camp
Reminery Royce, cook, and two men
named Hathaway and Bennett. 1t is
now supposed the Indians killed Calkins
and his associates in revenge for their re.
porting to Agent Brown the theft of a
steer from their herd early in the week
Sergeant Joe Bush and his men found the
Indians who killed the cowboys on White
river in the vicinity of the beef camp, and
as they would not surrender all 'tool
good aims"