Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-05-10
TROUBLE with REDS.
Developments in the Trouble Be.
tween the United States Mar
shals and Half Breeds.
sIt Arises Out Of an Old and Unset
tied Claim Against Uncle
Sam.
Northern Pacific Preparing to Re.
wise It's Salary List-Items Of
Local News.
Trouble With Indians.

Trouble With Indians.
The trouble among the Turtle Noun
tain Indians does not subside, and Mar
shall Cronan has gone to ST. John with a
posse of deputies composed OF Daggett,
Loomis, Leech, Regain, and Wood of
Fargo, Mcbride of Bismarck, Armstrong
of Buffalo, Hannah of Grafton, Hennes-
sey Of Grand Forks, Hurst Of Devils
Lake, McCune of Cando, and SCHNEIDER
of Rolla. Indian Agent Hall from Fort
Totten also accompanied the party.
The Turtle Mountain Reds are IN charge
of Hall, with Captain Brenner as sub.
agent at Belcourt.
SO far ali reports assure that the Tur-
tie Mountain Indians show no sign of
joining the breeds in their uprising, and
will not assist in making any. trouble for
the white settlers or marshals.
Little Shell and his blanket Indians
are not as demonstrative as yesterday,
and now say that though the govern
ment does wrong / Withholding pay
ments for their lands, they will not join
the breeds in fighting the posse.
The marshals will 60 no further than
to Rolla, which is twenty miles south of
st. John, and will push on to the point
where the breeds are congregating. In
formation concerning the acts of the
breeds can be gathered easily at Rolla,
and from that the best method Of pro
cedure for the work can be decided.
The breeds are encamped to the number
of 275 at the place Of Joseph Langan,
three miles west of st. John. Langan is
the breed whom Deputy SCHNEIDER at
tempted to arrest two weeks ago and
whom the breeds and Indians defended
SO stubbornly. He has an immense
amount of influence over the breeds, all
of whom say they will fight before they
will allow him TO be taken.
The status Of the Turtle Mountain
Indians and half breeds has for a long
time been an unsettled problem. Two
townships Of land were set aside for
them some eleven years ago, but never
decided to them by treaty. They have
also at times received some assistance
from the government in a financial
way, and it is claimed that not only the
Indians and half-breeds of the reserva-
ton have shared the bounty of Uncle
Sam, but the Canadian half breeds liv-
ing just across the boundary line have
profted thereby also. When these two
townships were set aside for the In
dams, there were only 100 altogether,
but the last census of the dusky skins
gave their numbers at 1000. There
has always been more or less trouble
between the whites in that vicinity and
the Indians and h%alf-breeds. Several
attempts have been made unsuccess-
fully to have them removed to some
other reservation. The Indians have
claimed that all the Turtle Mountain
land, to the extent of 100000 acres,
belongs to them, and that the govern
ment has lever paid them anything
for their land. A commission was APP
pointed by congress ONE years ago to
investigate the matter, and after visiting
the reservation and Interviewing the
head men of the band sent in a report
recommending that the Indians be paid
a round million dollars for their claim.
Congress evidently did not have a very
high regard for it's committee, and has
never taken the trouble to take any ac-
ton whatever with the report. The
present trouble arises over the arrest of
a half-breed for stealing timber on gov
eminent land. The Indians, however,
claim that the land is their own and
that they have a legal right to cut
all the timber they want to. The pres
emit trouble may result in the Indians
being removed to some other reserva.
ton, where there is plenty Of room for
them, and where the half-breeds who be-
long over the line, in Manitoba, cannot
share in Uncle Sans bounty with so
little trouble as at present.
Several kilograms have been received
and sent at the governors office, regard
ing the trouble but there have been no
orders issued to the state militia, or any
OF the companies, in the matter.
Fixing up Salaries.
Within q very short time the Northern
Pacific management is expected to an
nounce a general equalization of salaries
which will apply to all Of the several
thousand employees Of the road. The
causes leading up to this action have
been at work for some time and date
back to the flush period late il the 8O's
During those times the road was push,
ing ahead fast with little competitor in
transcontinental business and the whole
Northwest was enjoying a veritable
boom. Men put on by the road at that
time were paid relatively high wages
Then there came a slight falling off and
the opening Of the Great northern and
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