St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-09
FEARS INDIAN WAR.
DR.. Eastman, of Pine Ridge,
Looks for a General
Uprising.
The Sioux Are Unconq uered
and Resent Their Treat
ment.
Trouble Over the DisburSe-
ment OF the Wounded
Knee Money.
His Version Of the Difficulty
Leading to His Retire.
ment.


'Trouble with the Sioux is by no
means over with, that's my opinion"
said Charles A. Eastman, the prominent
Indian doctor who until few days ago
was United States agency physician at
Pine Ridge, s. D.
DR.. Eastman. together with his white
wife, who was known as the child poet
ess of the Berkshire hills, MasSachu
sets, with their little girl baby, arrived
yesterday and registered at the Mer-
chants. He was diSinclined to talk at
first, but a GLOBE reporters question
as to the probability of further trouble
at the Pine Ridge agency reused him to
an animated and forceful delivery of
we'll chosen English. He said:
II fear that the movements of certain
chiefs mean mischief. A serious con-
fict would wipe out many of the Ogal-
lalla Sioux. and women and children
would be murdered. | would be the
last man to desire such conflict. 1t
would imperil my relatives as well as
others. Those people were never con-
Quered. The cold-blooded butcher at
Wounded Knee
Didn't Conquer Them.
Their luminosity has neither been
stamped out nor cOnciliated. They are
cunning and do not divulge their in
tentiOns, but from certain signs that
aroused my apprehenslonS months ago,
| saw fit to tell the CHIEFS over and over
that further lighting would lead to
the destruction of the OgallalaS
and might lead to all the Sioux losing
their reservation. l have strongly OPP
posed such a conflict, aud shall continue
10 oppose it. But what is indicated
when such chiefs as No Water and Red
Cloud 20 to Wyoming? They went to
Casper last season, and at the same time
American Horse was away on long
trip, while Two Strikes went northwest
to the Crow agency Fort Custer, MoUt.),
and TO the Northern Cheyennes, OIL
Tongue river, Montana. Indians claim
that the Sioux can clean out all the set
tiers in their country. have told them
that such thing could only happen at
fearful cost to themselves. Every pre-
caution should be taken on both sides
to avoid an uprising. The Omaha
dance houses have increased in number
from eight to fourteen i'll about year.
They are built of lumber now Qogs
were used formerly and are circular in
form. each about sixty feet III diane
ter"
''Of what nature is the ON aha dance,
DOCTOR" asksd the reporter.
The Omaha Dance.
"1t'S in the lile of war dance. The
braves dance to the point Of intense eX-
element ana recount their deeds Of
| valOr. They also air real and supposed
| grievances and push their plans for re :
venge. A popular sentiment with some
| OF them is that they may better die
| bravery in retaliation than sub
nit to the scheming and cheat
lug of the whites. They
refer principally to the white
soldiers. The Brules and Cheyenne
river Sioux rcnegadeS from the lower
Rosebud agency come over and join in
| the excitement, and help along the dis
turbing influences. A large portion of
the Brules sympathiSe with the discon-
tented Sioux. | told Dr.. McGilicuddy
of the signs Of discomfort long time
before the recent killing at White Clay
creek. He detailed the situation to an
| Omaha. Neb., paper. The White Clay
creek affair was c0ld-blOoded murder.
1t was reported at Pine Ridge about
noon the next day, but no one
was sent to assist the wounded
white man until the day following
Then a dozen police were sent out in
| two wagons. Nine or ten men were
sent a little later to reinforce them. The
murderers were i'll camp near NOWater'S
| people, about fifteen miles from the
| scene of the murder. Half of the police
claim that the first shot was fired from
! their ranks. other policemen claim that
the first shot came from the Indian muir
| I hot nc, Nxun oI-c
and his son were shot and White Face
Horse, wearing bis ghost shirt, came on
| jumping and
Received a Bad Wound.
The Indians had yelled. Hurry up
with the police meaning-in Sioux
vernacular-'k kill Them The police re-
treated to ravine and fired over the
hlll-tops, which served for entrench-
ments. The first report was that four
Indians had been killed in this engage
ment later it was three, and, finally,
Two Strikes son proved to have been
killed outright, but two or three others
were fatally injured. TIE wagons re-
turned without having reached the
scene of the White Clay creek mas
sacre, because it couldn't get farther
| than No Waters camp. At least two
| of the culprltS were still at large
when we came away last Monday. Fast
| Horse, one of the friendly Indians who
stood by the whites in the Wounded
Knee fight, told NE weeks ago that he
didn't know what to expect, that half of
the friendlieS had avoWed that they
would never stand against their relatives
again in behalf of the whites, for they
felt that the government had not treated
them fairly, and in some cases the
hostieS had received more consideration
thai the friendlies from the govern
ment officials. Some of the Indians
state that Agent Brown, at Pine Ridge,
is unable to hold their confidence or to
control them He has been called the
Little Fox which is not desirable
name, considered from the Indian
standpoint.
Leading Indians Claim
that he helped furnish boards and nails
for dance house construction, but white
men at the agency take exception more
to immoralitieS in which a party now at
Denver. Col, figures somewhat. 1t is
very evident that the agencies at Rose
bud and Standing Rock are in much bet
ter favor with the people than the mill
tary regime at Pine Ridge"
Now. doctor, how did the question
come up that caused you to resign from
Pine Ridge?'' 1T was merely this. "
said DR.. Eastman, sin distributing the
100000 awarded to the friendly Sioux
by the government for their assistance
in the Wounded Knee campaign, the
paymaster, Maj. J. A. Cooper, and the
witnesses, Maj. Cooper's brother-in-law,
Mr.. Black. and Mai. Browns brother
in-law, Mr.. Hyde, received the claim.
ants at the end Of narrow partition,
through which they came in single file.
The claims of Post Trader James A.
Findlay were deducted from each &C