St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-05-03
ADVANCE ON REDS.
Marshal Cronan and Posse
Depart for Scene OF
Trouble.
SETTLERS ARE IN PERIL.
HostiIes Practically in Pos
session Of the Village OF
St. John.
SETTLERS ARE IN PERIL.
SHOULD THE MARSHAL FAIL
It. Is Expected Troops Will Ee
Called Out From Fort
Buford.

WASHINGTON, May 2.-Gec1.
Schofield does not apprehend any
serious trouble with the Indians AT
Turtle Mountain, N. D., but, as
matter of precaution, he has ordered
the troops ait Fort Buford, the nsar-
est military post, ITO be in readiness
to proceed to Turtle Mountain ait the
first sign of danger to the residents.
CuURCH'S FERRY, N. D.. May
2.-United States Marshal Cronan
left here for SIT. Johns this afternoon
with Deputies Daggett, Loomls,
Leech. Regain and Wood, of Fargo;
Mcbride, of Bismarck; Armstrong,
of Buffalo; Hannah, of Grafton; Hen
nessey, of Grand Forks; Hurst, OF
DEVILS Lake; McCune, of Cando, AMI
SCHNEIDER, of Rolla. Indian Agent
Hall, from Toi1ten, accompanied the
party. InGians on the Turtle Noun
tain reservation are in his charge,
though Capt. Brenner is subagent.
The posse will go no farther than
RolIa tonight, which lis twenty miles
south of st. Johns From informa-
tion gathered there the bsst method
of procedure tomorrow can be de-
cEded. The breeds are encamped at
Joseph Langan's, I5hree miles west
of ST Johns. Dangan is the breed
VINO was arrested by Deputy Schind-
Ter two weeks ago and was rescusd.
He ,ras the reputation of being a
fair citizen and has much influence
over THE breeds, who say they will
fight before they will let him be
taken.
The deputies are each armed with
a Winchester and revolvers, are all
picked men and will give good ac-
count of themselves if necessary.
Agent Hall thinks he can keep the
Turtle Mountain reservation Indians
with the Canadian Indians and half
breeds.
Unless great caution is exercised
by the posse it is feared that their
visit may result disastrously to white
settlers before tine requiS1tion for
troops is granted, as the Indians have
threatened to
WIPE THE WHITES
from the face of the earth if any of
their number are arrested, and they
are we'll enough armed to do it if
aroused to action before the troops
arrive.
Many of the late settlers at SIT.
johns and Rolla have left their hous-
es for fear of the violence of the
Indians. Other settlers do not ex-
pect to be moleslted, but are anxious
to have the matter settled, as their
title to their homes is continually
brought into question by the reiter-
ated claims of the Indians.
So far all reports agree that the
Indians have shown no Signs of join
ing the half-breeds in making trou-
BILE, though Little Shell is one of
their chiefs. They say the govern
ment HAS not treated them righJt in
Withholding payment for their lands
but that they will not join the breeds
in fighting.
There is some likelihood of a clash
between the marshal and the Indian
agent, who says that he does not pro-
pose to see them imposed on in any
manner
REDS IN ST. JOHNS.
Parties. passing through here from
st. Johns stated that the Indians are
practically. in possession of that vii
lage, the whites being without means
OF defending themselves from depre-
datlons-z Under the leadership of
Chief Little Shell, the redskins, 25d
strong, 5}are 1encamped a short dis
-tance~wes of the village, where they
subs1st by making foraging raids
upon the settlers. They have already
killed all the cattle belonging to three
settlers for the beef, and have seized
all the ammunition from the hard
ware store at st. Johns. They are
showing no. signs of active hostilities
against the persons of the whites, but
| pay for none of the property they an
| propriate. Crowds of Indians and
half-breeds continuously throng the
railway station, anxiously awaitil,sA
| dispatches concerning the forwarding
of troops to the scene of the trouble.
1t is believed here by those best ac-
quainted with the situation that the
Indians will make a logged resistance
if troops are sent out to make arrests,
and that by retreating into the timber
in the Turtle mountain country, they
will be able to cause such annoyance
to the federal authorities that the
government will be induced to take
action toward satisfying their
PENDING LAND CLAIM.
The claim affects the original title
of the government to land extending
from the Cheyenne tract north to the
Canadian boundary, and from a line
thirty miles west of the Red river
west to the Grow creek reservation.
the entire tract having been pur-
| chased, it is said, from the Sioux
prior to its opening for settlement in
1881. These Indians claim that the
| Sioux had no right to the tract, and no
power to make conveyance thereof,
| basing their claim on an allotment
agreed to at a treaty held at Wash
| ington in 1S49, at-which all the North
west tribes of Indians were represent
ed. The Turtle mountain braves,
nearly all of whom are of the Chip
pewa nation, now demand 25 cents
per acre for this tract, which would
amount to more than $2,25O,O 600. They
also demand that their reservation,