The record-union., 1898-10-08


across the border. He does not think
another shot will be fired.
A Journal Walker (Minn) special
says: Watchers around the town last
night report this morning that signal
lights were flashing back and forth on
the opposite shore of the lake last
night, and are fearful that large bodies
of Indians from other reservations
reached the Pillager camp during the
night. The situation to-day is one of
nervous anticipation, with uncertainty
everywhere. The tug Flora left at Z
O'Clock this morning to bling out Gen
eral Bacon and his men, and pending
their return there will probably be
nothing done. Indications are that
both sides will rest to-day, with fair
prospects of resumption of hostilities
tomorrow, unless the Indians surren-
der I'M the meantime or make overtures
for peace.
I. A. Cummings wires General Clough
from Cass Lake as follows: I'VE have
provided ourselves fairly we'll with
guns, and have the assurance of men
who are familiar with the Cass Lake
Indians that the Indians are more
scared, for fear of troops, than the
whites. We have sent men out among
the Indians to-day, and will wire you
If we require any more protection"
Another message from three citizens
says protection is unnecessary.
A Journal Walker special says: A
conference between Indian Agent Suth-
erland and Chippewa chiefs now at the
agency is going on, and matters are
again assuming a more threatening
aspect. Mrs. Colby, who is employed
at the agency school as an instructor,
was this morning ordered to leave the
agency by Indians, and has just ar
rived here. She fears serious trouble
within the next few hours, and says
that the pretext of the bucks who are
constantly arriving at the agency from
all directions that they have come in
to sign rolls is offered for the occasion
Indian Agent Sutherland, before
starting, gave it as his opinion that
the conference would not amount to
anything, but felt it his duty to go,
inasmuch as the bucks had requested
it.
A rumor is current here that the two
troops of cavalry from Fort Yates and
Fort Keogh, which passed through
Minneapolis on Tuesday on the way
to Huntsville, Ala, have been ordered
to come to Walker as fast as they can
be got here
The inhabitants here, with few ex
ceptions, have no hope that the end is
near. 1t is generally held that the
beginning has not yet been made.
DISPATCHES RECEIVED AT WAR
DEPARTMENT.
WASHINGTON, Oct THE follow
ing dispatches bearing on the Indian
trouble have been received at the War
Department:
tSt. Paul, Oct 7-Adjutant General,
Washington: Official dispatches fom
Walker announce six bodies and eleven
wounded will arrive in, ST. Paul to-
night. No names. Have made ar
rangements for immediate transfer to
Fort Smelling and proper care and at
tention there. STURGUS,
Assistant Adjutant''
"Brainard (Minn), Oct. 1.-Adjutant
General, Washington: Whilst protect
ing United States Marshal in camp at
Leech Lake, opposite Bear Island, with
a detachment of eighty men, Third In
fantry. was attacked by a large force
Indians fighting from heavy timber
and underbrush. Indians driven back.
Our loss was, killed: Captain Wilkin-
son, Sergeant Butler, Privates Ohm
stead and ZeibaI. Wounded: Sergeant
Myers, Privates DAILY, Boucher, Brown,
Wyckers, Turner Zeigler and Fran
cony and Deputy Marshal Sheehan
Communication is most difficult by
small steamboats,. BACON.
"Brigadier General -
''Brainerd (Minn.), Oct. 7.-Adjutant
General, Washington: One soldier killed
yesterday and one Indian police killed;
one wounded. Number of Indians
killed impossible to estimate. They
have now scattered in their canoes
during the night to various islands in
this section. Have accomplished all
that can be done here at this late
season, and Will return with my COM
mand tomorrow. Communication with
this point rare and difficult.
BACON, Brigadier General"
1t is stated at the War Department
that the last dispatch probably means
that General Bacon will return with
his command to Fort Smelling unless
the force is actually needed for the pro-
lection Of the people in the vicinity
THE FIGHT VERY HOT FOR HALF
AN HOUR.
ST. PAUL. Oct. IA Walker CMinn.)
special to the Dispatch" says: The
steamers Chief and Zella left here at
, o'clock this morning to bring General
Bacon and his men away from the
mainland at the farther side of the
1ol-
the edges of which were piles of hay
for breastworks. a detachment of reg
ulars was sent with each boat by Colo
mel Harbach. The Captains of the
boats told Marshal O'Connor that they
would not go without soldiers to pro-
tect them They said the Indians would
try to prevent them going to General
Bacon, and they were sure the boats
would be fired upon at the narrow pas
sages in the lake, as they We're yester-
day when they went out to bring back
the dead and wounded.
Major p H. Sutherland, Indian Agent
a White Earth, and DR.. E. S. Hart.
the sub-agent at Leech Lake Agency,
were here last night to urge Colonel
Harbach to send 100 men to the agency
at once to reinforce Lieutenant Hum
phrey and his squad of twenty regulars
there. Colonel Harbach replied that he
had received a letter from Lieutenant
Humphrey late in the afternoon stating
that he had no apprehension of trouble
there, and that Flat Mouth, chief of
the Chippewas. said he deprecated the
fight at Bear Island Point and that his
tribe would give no trouble He would
therefore, not send any soldiers to the
agency.
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