The record-union., 1898-10-12
Looks Much Brighter, According to
Inspector Iinker's Report.
Hostile Indians Are Now Willing to Hold a
Council With Authorities,
Troops Held in Readiness to De-
part for the Scene Of the
Trouble in Case the Negotia-
tions Fail to Bring About Peace
With the Redskins.

With the Redskins.
| WASHINGTON, Oct 1.-THE Inter-
ior Department received the following
telegram late this evening:
| Walker Mimi, Oct 11th.
''To the Secretary of the Interior:
Runners from the hostile camp came
to the agency last night and reported
/ that the hostiles are willing to council
at Sugar Point. A delegation under
direction Of Father Aloysius started for
that point tonight The situation
seems to look brighter.
TINKER, Inspector
INDIANS ARE STRONGLY IN
TRENCHED.
| MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 1.-THE Jour
nal' staff correspondent at Cass Lake,
Mimi, wires: Indian runners from the
south passed here in the night going
north, and from them information of
more serious nature than anything
+ heard heretofore was obtained. The
hoStiles at Bear Island have already
learned that General Bacon intends to
attack them within forty-eight hours,
and are busily' preparing to resist The
Indians are we'll posted on everything
that goes on at Walker and at the
agency. They are strongly intrenched.
and have sent out insulting messages
to theiw whites. Their runners are busily
urging reinforcements from other
branches of the tribe. These have pass
ed down the waterways to Leech Lake
in the past three days as many In
dians as there have soldiers come in
on the railroad.
number of Indians passed up Cass
Lake this morning. and seventy others
are now camped eight miles northwest
from here, women and children going
steadily northward
Twenty canoes of bucks. four in each
went up the Mississippi River into
Leech Lake last night. 1t is estimated
by thel woodsmen here that at least
o0O reds who will join the hostiles on
the slightest encouragement are within
striking distance of Leech Lake dam.
Chief Chippewa Pine Estimator Seelic
came in from Brainerd last night. He
brings the most alarming reports YET.
He said:
Bacon will make another attemDt
in the next day or so. Heis determined
to get the Indians or their bodies. If
he does neither the reds will make a
break for the Big Fork country He
cannot follow them, and they will have
time to do awful damage to the set
tiers, struggling villages and railroad
property as they flee. I consider the
situation extremely critical, both here
and along the road. Some Of my esti-
mators are starting back to work to-
day, but only where the troops can pro-
tect them
CALL FOR MORE TROOPS.
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 11.-General
Bacon this morning wired to Colone,
Sturgis, Assistant Adjutant General in
charge of the Department of the Da-
kotas, to send all the remaining able.
bodied soldiers of the Third left at
Fort Smelling. There are only about
twenty-five available men. and these
Will be sent to Walker tomorrow
morning.
The Journals" staff correspondent
at Walker, Mimi. wires: Indian Conn
missioner Jones was welcomed bv the
chiefs, who seemed glad he had come
He was Informed that runners from the
Bear Island camp brought word that
the braves would receive anyone for a
conference except soldiers and Mar
fight. They wanted to go to Sugar
Point, where the battle was fought for
conference on the pretext that steam
ers could not land them at their camp.
The messengers counted thirty bucks
in the camp and they claimed they had
lost nine killed and two squaws wound
ed in the battle
SOLDIERS UNDER WAITING OR
DERS.
CHICAGO, Oct. 11-Orders have been
received at division headquarters from
General Bacon in command of the De-
partments of the Lakes and the Dako-
tas to have the Fourth Infantry at
Fort Sheridan and the Seventeenth In
fantry at Columbus Barracks. Ohio.
held in readiness for immediate SER
vice at the scene of the Indian trouble
in Minnesota.
The united strength of the two COM
mands is about 1,100 In the opinion
Of Colonel Barr, Acting Commander of
the Department of the Lakes. If they
are ordered to the frontier. it will be
because a large body of soldiers is
needed to round up thu belrfgerent In
dams scattered through the Leech Lake
territory with as little blood as possible.
REDS BADLY TREATED.
ST. PAUL, Oct. ia Walker. Mimi.
special to the Dispatch" SAYS: Indian
Commissioner Jones, who arrived last
night, spent the night in investigating
the causes of the Indian trouble. so far
as ii could be learned in Walker. and
in seeking to learn what settlement of
the difficulty would be satisfactory to
the whites of this vicinity. The plan
has been for the Indians to submit to
arrest, be given a light punishment and
then returning them to their homes
after promising to be good.
The surrender of the twenty Indians
for whom warrants are out will not re-
move the cause of the present trouble
or restore friendly feelings among the
Indians who sympathize with the Pill
layers. Citizens here generally assert
that the reds have been badly treated
by the whites and the battle that re-
suited so disastrously was the culmi-
nation of years of dissatisfaction. They
therefore fear future trouble unless
there is thorough settlement now.
The Murder of Saxton.
CLEVELAND, Oct 11-A special
from Canton says: 1t is reported the