The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-14
FAKE CHEYENNE OUTRAGE.
JyYEsTIaA ALTON OF THE DEMAND
FoR AGENT BT0UCH'S REMOTAL.

uA,teru 20 q Cheyeuno Head Chief Here Say
That the "Attack on the wniteraea" Was
= Efrtien - Capt. Read 1nteFviews the wal
t~crscs-AnsEed Motives or the rsanchmen.
Letters which arrived In this city yesterday
from the Tongue Agency OF tho northern Chey-
enne Indians, near Miles City. Mon,. mako
It appear that tho scare which was raised In
that noighborhood a month or two ago regarding
an Indian uprising and a subsequent demand
for tho removal of Capt. Stouch, the agent, bad
their origin In the desire Of certain Of the white
people In that noighborhood TO stir up trouble
and have the Indians driven out of thor lands.
The original troubles there Of this year, which
grew out OF the killing Of q sheep herder by
some Of the Indians, wero described In THE sun
of July Is. At that time the Sheriff had ridden
into tho agency with a posse Of twenty men bo-
hind him and demanded that he be allowed to
seize the accused Indians himself.
Capt. Stouch had refused to allow this, and
there was much bad blood between him and the
ranchmon as q result.
On July II a demand was made by County At
torney Porter upon the Hon. T. II. Carter in
Washington that he should urge Secretary Bliss
to remove Agent Stoucb, and this was based
upon an alleged attack made by Indians upon
tho house of Deputy Sheriff Winters. one of the
men who had been with the Sheriff when he
demanded tho Indian murdorers.
According to the story told them. the Indians
had attacked winters's house, fired into 1t, and
forced Mrs. Winters, her children, and a hired
man who was there to fee for their lives out Of
tho back door and into the dark.
Capt. Read Of the United States Army was
letters Just received 1t appears that what really
happened was this; On July 70, while Winters's
hiTsa man on n wss ySorkkinF Ih. : i n,ld. t vol Indians 4, la . nn sp;
across their bodies. They rode up to the wire
fence. sat there a few, minutes, and then dis
fiNh fhnir hnrSaa not HNttr h
fence and walked down the course OF a stream
of water. The hired man got into q panic. He
Indians were abop. ~ attack them. Mrs. Winters
gathered her three children together. and then.
h tex,ns tS Si party thf f re9roa asd to am a stone fort IN Which, tsS
had been provided for such emergencies. The
fort is about thirty yards from the house. 1t
for a lookout. il is entered by a snbterranean
through. The hired man went to the root
$50 'e yards away. .As still i"d neaS the stre sS%.
They remained there re-, for a short time
at all. Mr.. Winters was not at home at the
time. He told Capt: Read that at this season Of
the Indians are very fond, and the superstition
is that these men were looking for turtles
fore MF he H had hsa i@ii tSrse sc or f oa9t shots 3 tsT f? "adIs just Dst
below his place on the reservation. He went
found a number OF Indians sitting quietly about.
He concluded that they had been shooting at
sage hens.
The Indians were but just outside tho reserva-
ton on the day Mrs. Winters was scared.
Tho letters came to II friend of the Cheyennes
in this city. a white man who holds tho title of
Head Chief" In one OF their tribes.
This is the kind OF matter out of which GER
tain designing persons would make Indian out
RACES" he said yesterday, and get Uncle
Sam to send troops TO GUST tho Indians from
their reservations whenever the interests OF the
whites require that the lands act aDart for the
red man should be seized either for grazing or
Agriculture"