The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-06-05
IT IS NOT YET SAFE
Sheriff John Glib Says Conditions
Are Still Unsettled.
THE TEST IS YET TO CONE
authorities Are Determined to
Have the Three Other Indians
implicated In tire Hoover
Murder.

Special Dispatch TO the Standard.
Miles city. June AFTER reading the
bragadoclo reports OF Captain Stouch
regarding his advice in regard TO the
capture of the Cheyenne Indians and
the credit he Is taking on himself as
to the capture Of the murderers. with
which he had nothing whatever TO do.
or who never had the stamina or even
common sense To command IL. IL is dis
gusting 10 have few army off,
GERS to stand by each other and to
praise each Others work. or course
citizens who have their all invested in
property and stock on the range and
their beloved families unnecessarily
excited and alarmed by Indians. who
are protected by the United States SOL
diers and those who are getting their
graft i'm on the department at the ex-
pense of settlers, are the ones who pay
the taxes and support those who are
making an easy living without effort.
The Idea Of the sheriff or civil au-
thorities creating disturbance or agi-
tating the Indians is absurd and any
one who knows the officers implicated
will know they are men of undoubted
integrity and well able. alone and sin
gle ha nded, To arrest 10 such men as
Captain Stouch, whose principal repu-
tation Is that he IL an old man about
To be retired and a good entertainer.
The sheriff has made the following
announcement In answer to Captain
Reeds letter To settlers ON account of
numerous questions from those who
have moved into town;
Miles city. Mont. June 4. 1897.
Notwithstanding the voluminous
manifesto OF Captain Reed, published
in yesterdays paper ! regard the con-
dition on the Upper Tongue river and
otter creek as still too much unsettled
for the safe return of the wives and
children Of settlers. There were still 700
Indians out on the head of Tie creek .
when I left the agency, and at that
time they were certainly as free from
military dominion as the people of Miles
city are. True. the captain told us
that courlers had been sent out to-
bring the absent Indians into the
agency. but from personal knowledge
gained while there l am satisfied that
they will come In only IL they choose To
| do 40.
The Cheyenne Indian is a peculiar
fellow and has been permitted to have
his own sweet way, allowed tn kill and
eat whenever fancy might dictate, the
choicest steer or the fattest calf. well
knowing that there was no danger to
him In doing so. and coming or going
with or without passes any and every
where. such are the conditions at the
agency and Captain Stouch knows and
admits that with his usual detail or
soldiers the vast herd interests sur
rounding the agency are at any and all
times at the Indians mercy.
This IL, In brief. my statement OF
| facts and later when | have more time
! shall open up the rottenness and more
fully expose the farce that is being en-
acted daily at Lame Deer. The Indian
believes that "A life for a life should al
ways suffice. The Chcyennes have Civ
| en- up one man. There are three more
believed to be implicated In Hoover's
death. In demanding these and enforc-
ing the demand now lies the great and
| only danger of an uprising. our men
will be in tomorrow or Sunday morn
| ing. when more definite and reliable
| news may he had. and I therefore sug-
gest that the families now in Miles re-
main quietly here until that time.
| Yours truly, JOHN GIBB.
sheriff"
Sheriff Glib submits the following
| letter Just received by him which Is
| corroborative of the above and which is
self-explanatory:
| "Beebe. Mont. June 9. 1897.
"Mr. John Glib, Sherin-Dear Sir: I
| have Just returned from Powder river
and was told at the Johnson and Kirk
| wood ranches that there were some In
dams on Cache creek about seven miles
| from the mouth. heading east. They
| held up Sam Stevens for some provis-
| ions. which he gave them. Yours truly,
| JOHN BETZ."
The sheriff expects his deputies to ar
| rive with their prisoners tomorrow. as
the agent agreed to turn them over to-
day.