Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-30
IN AN UGLY MOOD.
Information Reaches st. Paul That
The Mile Laos Indians Are Much
Incensed
At What They Consider a Bad Breach
of Faith on the Part of the
Government,
If There Is Not Relief Granted Soon
They May Cause Serious Trouble.
The Cause.
u, March 26.-The Pioneer

ST. PAUL, March 2B.-The Pioneer
Press says:
According to information just re-
ceived there is q possibility Of an out
break among the Indians on the Mile
Laos reservation. The Indians are
Chippewas, and up to this time have al
ways been very peaceable, but they are
now in q very savage mood and it may
be that they will take things into their
own hands, as they have threatened to
do, and cause serious trouble. There
are no Indian police on the reservation
and nc troops nearer than Fort SHELL
ing.
The cause of the trouble is of minor
Importance, but the real trouble dates
back some three or four years. During
the Indian outbreak of 1867 these In
dams were among the few red men who
proved faithful to the settlers, and this
was remembered by the government.
Cause OF the Trouble.
In 1889 q treaty was made with all
the tChippewas in the state, securing to
the government the right to all the
lands which the Chippewas up to that
time had held. The lands of the other
Chippewas was secured Internationally,
but to these Indians who had offered
their services to the United States in
1862 the right Of occupancy Of their
former lands was granted on condition
of continued good behavior. and the ap-
parent failure of the United States to
keep this clause of the treaty is at the
bottom Of the threatened outbreak.
After the passing Of this act in 1889
the Indians were told that they could
take allotments of lands separately and
in severalty on the Mile Laos reserva-
ton, and that they might do
this Secretary of the Interior
Noble withdrew the land from entry
for settlement. Afterwards, however,
when many of the Indians had taken
land and built houses, Secretary Noble
reversed his decision and the land was
thrown open to white settlement, and a
large number of whites rushed in and
secured possession OF the large quanti-
ties of land which had been settled by
the Indians. The Indians at this
Were Greatly Enroged
that the faith with them should be
broken in such q manner, but friends
advised them to keep quiet and seek re-
dress by %peaceable means.
They all moved to a 160-acre tract
and there waited for something to be
done for them. Waiting, however, did
not seem to do them any good and they
became more dissatisfied than ever.
Since last December they have been
ugly and settlers have had a hard time
to get along with them.
A short time ago they decided to go to
some sugar bushes formerly owned by
them, but now on settlers land, and es-
tablish q sugar camp, and this they did
with the result that they were driven
off the land. their troughs and some of
their utensils destroyed and some of
their number arrested. This destruc-
ton of their property and arrest of one
of them had, up to the time word was
received from the reservation, almost
brought IN IN outbreak.
Word of the trouble was first brought
to Minneapolis by United States Deputy
Marshal H. S. Tellman of Mora, Kama
bee county, and later a letter was re-
ceived by Deputy Marshal Gus II.
Beaulieu confirming the news as it had
been brought by Deputy Tellman. The
letter to MI. Beaulieu was from one of
the chief men of the Chippewas, and
plainly stated that unless something
was done soon the Indians would take
fhinOa in their own hands
The Indians Well Armed.
The facts in the story as given above
were told by Deputy Beaulieu. who is
in Minneapolis in attendance on the dis
trict court. The case of the Indians
has never been brought before any
court, and Deputy Beaulieu will at
once take steps to place it in the hands
of lawyers. Should the Indians hold
back. from going on the rumored out
break they will probably send a COM
mission of their number to Washington
to lay their case before the secretary Of
the interior. The Chippewas at Mile
Laos are about 900 in number, and
should they go on the warpath would
probably have 9 fighting force of from
$50 to 200 braves, all we'll armed.
About 100 miles from Mile Laos reser-
walton is the Leech lake reservation,
and these Indians have always been
more or less troublesome. There are no
Indian police on the reservation, and
the only forces available would be the
troops at Fort Smelling and the state
militia.
Forms Paper Trust.
Boston, March 26.-It is stated on
the authority Of a prominent Boston
paper manufacturer that a movement ia
on foot to form a combination Of the
paper manufacturers Of the country
with 9 view to raising and controlling