The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-06-06
NO DOE FOR STOUCH
The Agent Won't Recogniz, Warrants
Bearing Such Name.
STANLEY Is IN CUSTODY
Hoover's Murderer at Miles City
Sheriff GLIB Writes a Letter to
the STANDARD" Treating of
the Cheyenne Troubles.

touy bdNiu otdnlty, Wnost lnuldn
name is Little whlrlwind. who was ar
rested at Lame Deer and turned over
TO him at Rosebud by Captain Robert
j. Reed. jr. The reason that he did not
return with the balance of the murder
ers was that Captain Stouch would not
recognize John Doe warrants. though
the civil officials were aware of whom
they wanted To arrest by name. How
ever. 1t Is difficult to recognize most
Indians by name, as they have several
assumed names. Captain Stouch told
the deputy sheriffs repeatedly that he
had called on the interior department
requesting more troops to be stationed
at the agency, as he had no control
over the Indians. When he told one OF
his Indian police to do anything and he
did 1t, II was all right; but II he did not
he had no power or authority to make
him do so. Captain Stouch acknowl-
edged building the four dance houses,
and the employees acknowledged con-
tributing To buy four drums OF help
the Indians make medicine. The error
of the agent in the above action is now
recognized, and the dance houses will
be torn down and dancing prohibited.
Those who contributed to purchase the
drums. which cost 800. are thoroughly
sorry. Though many did so they did
not approve the action of the agent.
Too much praise cannot be given to
Captain Robert Reed and his colored
soldiers, who were not only willing but
anxious to help the officers, but were
restrained by orders from the agent
Sheriff Glib gives the following letter
to the representative of the Standard,
requesting its publication:
Miles City. June 4, 1S9I,-Dear Sir;
Much is being written at present on the
Cheyenne Indian trouble In Custer
county, Montana, and many state
ments made that neither do justice to
the settler nor the Indian. and We must
go back a decade In order to clear up
much that now troubles the readers as
to the respective merits In the contro-
versy. The Cheyenne Indian reservation
Is located In the Indian Territory. and
part of the band. becoming dissatis-
fled, left their reservation in 1876 and.
hurrying their way northward. were
finally captured by General Miles in
1877. Another strong band left the ter
ritory in 1873. succeeded In crossing
Kansas and Nebraska. leaving a trail
OF desolatlon. burned and ruined
homes, butchered men. women and
children and all the horrors incident to
Indian depreciation usually committed
by the wild savage when chance gives
him the opportunity To display his bru-
tai instinct, and vet this famous raid
was made under the modern conditions
OF electricity and steam. various col
umns OF troops having tried to inter-
cept or capture them in vain. They
finally. however. surrendered In the
winter Of 1850. on the Little Missouri in
Custer county. exactly where the
Tongue river agency stands, Lame
Deer, the principal chief In the band.
meeting his death there. In 1851 and
1882 the pioneers were already press
ing up the Tongue river. the divide be-
tween the Tongue and Rosebud rivers
being closely covered with an upland
/ growth Of pines A large company call
ed The Diamond r. was extensively
engaged during said time In getting
out tie and bridge timbers for the
Northern Pacific. while a sawmill at
Miles City furnished the early settlers
with a rough grade Of much-needed
lumber. Many OF the employees while
performing their labors. had noticed
that succulent grass grew along the
mountain streams. that there was a
plentitude of timber for building
homes and for the thousands OF uses
that the blessedness of a convenient
timber belt brings TO the early settlers.
These were all early noted. and many
cattle outfits and ranchmen passed 50
miles from the Tongue River valley to
settle this favored section of Custer
county. while the small ranchmen were
busy augmenting their small bands OF
cattle and horses by cow-punchng and
any other honorable occupations offered
and the larger outfits We're congratulate
ing themselves on their fortunate selec-
tion of home and range. Then came
ft,.4l ll ltuh M .r.l.. of uas
ting aside the lands not then lawfully
occupied within the prescribed limits,
later followed by another order with
drawing the bottom lands on Tongue
river and certain tributaries from set
tlement, thus planting the most turbu-
lent tribe of Indians ON the American
continent to-day In the midst of this
peaceful and pastoral people.
Beyond the reservation ON Tongue
/ river and Otter creek. one of It's tributa :
ries. on Hanging Woman creek and on
the Rosebud beyond the reservation
communities have sprung up, adding
wealth and intelligence TO Custer
county. For a time the ranchmen's
stock seemed comparatively safe from
Indian depredations, but in time the
Indian discovered how easy IL was 10
supply himself with range beef and as
his knowledge Of the difficulty of ap-
| prehension dawned upon him he be-
came a royal epicure in his selections
from the whites herds until. in late
years, a couple Of the fellows while out
hunting will kill beef at evening, take
supper and breakfast therefrom, leav-
ing the rest OF the animal to rot Some
| Of them, a trifie more fastidious, have
been known In kill two nice fat steers
and use only the tongues. Other ranch
ers. as Mr.. Indian grew more familiar
and intolerant. have seen their cattle
shot down in their fields and on the
highway without any means OF redress
| while two men. Ferguson and Boyle.
both estimable young fellows, forfeited
their lives while stumbling onto the In
dians while slaughtering cattle. the
murderers of Ferguson escaping
through perjured testimony. Two DAYS
later as a result. young Boyle was
brutally shot down. For this crime the
two young murderers were permitted "a
put on war paint and. charging down
hill furiously at .ive companies. were
shot to death. Memorial stones have
been set up where the Indians fell.
THE last and most brutal murder OF
the trio occurred May 5. the victim be-
ing a peaceful. undersized boy. The
admission of the Indians show that
they went pleasantly up to him. asking
for his tobacco pouch; that after ae-
cepting II and rolling their cigarettes
they handed him back the sack, when