Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-08
INDIANS ARE WHIPPED
So Wires Bacon, Who is Now
at Walker.
WHITEFLAGS ALONG THE LAKE
They Indicate a General Surrender on
The Part Of the Redskins.
FEARS OF FURTHER TROUBLE.
A Conference Going on Between
Agent Sutherland and Chippewa
Chicfs-Bucks on shores of Bull
Club Lake "Dnncing.n
FEARS OF FURTHER TROUBLE
A Conference Going on Between

| WASHINGTON. October IA dispatch
| from General Bacon. received by the Ad-
jutant-General, dated Walker. October
9Th, via Brainerd, october 7th. says that
| the Indians have scattered in their ca
noes to various islands in that section.
He adds: Have accomplished all that
can be done here at this late season, and
will return with my command to-mor-
! row."
| SIX DEAD; ELEVEN WOUNDED.
| WASHINGTON, october THE follow
ing dispatches bearing on the Indian trou-
bles have been received at the War De-
partment:
"St Paul. Mimi, October 7.-Adjutant-
| General Washington: Official dispatch
| from Walker announces six bodies
| and eleven wounded will arrive in st.
Paul tonight. No names. Have made
arrangements for immediate transfer to
| Fort Smelling, and proper care and at
| tetntion there.
| (Signed "STURGIS,
| Assistant Adjutant- General, in absence
| of Department Commander"
| "Branerd, Mimi, October 7.-Adjutant-
| General Washington: Walker, Mimi, Oc-
tober 5.-WhiIst protecting United States
| Marshal at this camp, on Leech Lake,
opposite Bear Island, with a detachment
| Of eighty men, Third Infantry, was at
| tackled by a large force of Chippewa In
| dians at noon to-day, Indians fighting
| from heavy timber and underbrush In
| dians driven back. Our loss was: Killed
| Captain Wilkinson, Sergeant Butler, and
| Prlyates Olmstead and Siebel. Wounded
| Sergeant Ayres, Privates Daley, Boucher,
| Brown, Wicker Jenson, Turner, Seigler.
and Francony, and Deputy-Marshal Shee-
han. Communication is most difficult by
small steamboats,.
| (SigneO BACON,
| "Brigader-General."
| INDIANS HAVE SCATTERED.
| "Brainerd Mimi, October 7.-Adjutant-
| General Washington, ID. c.: Walker,
| Mimi, October 6.-One soldier killed to-
| day. and one Indian policeman killed: one
i
possible TO estimate. They have now scat
| tered in their canoes during the night to
| the various islands i'm this section. Have
| accomplished all that can be done here
| at this late season. and will return with
my command tomorrow. Communication
| with this point rare and difficult
| CsigneO BACON,
| "BriPader-General"
1t is stated at the War Department that
| the last dispatch probably means that
General Bacon will return with his COM
| mand to Fort Smelling. unless his force II
| actually needed for the protection Of the
| people in the vicinity.
WHITE FLAGS ALONG LAKE.
| WALKER, MINI, October 7.-General
| Bacon and all his men arrived here at
| 1885, having 10 difficulty about the land
! ing of boats. They report that at several
points along the lake there were seen
white flags, indicating a general sur
| render.
| CHIPPEWAS DANCING"
| MINNEAPOLIS. MINI, October IA
| special to the Journal from Deer River,
| Mimi, says that 400 Indians of various
| Chippewa bands are camped on Ball-Club
| Lake and dancing. While there is not
| much fear of trouble. there are some
| young, nOl-Htdutu puchS dnlouB lutill,
| and Duluth was called on tor arms. Forty
eight rifles and $500 rounds of ammuni-
| ton were sent. The braves are coming
| into town to-day. but they refuse 10 talk.
| MATTERS AGAIN THREATENING
| MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, October IA
! Journal Walker Minn) special says:
| A conference between Indian-Agent
| Sutherland and Chippewa chiefs now at
4 Il nj org
| again assuming a 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 arrived 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 manufactured for
| the occasion.
BUG-AH-MAH-GO-SH KILLED?
| ST. PAUL, MINI, October IA Walk
| er (Minn) special to the Dispatch says:
General Bacon thinks one of the In
| dians killed by sharpshooter was Chief
| Bu-Go-Nay- -Ka-Shig. He says they are
| completely whipped Indians.
The name of this Indian is apparently
intended for Bug-Ah- -Mah-Go-Shig who
was the cause OF the whole trouble, Otner
| Indians having taken him by force from
| deputy marshals who were taking him to
| Duluth as a witness in an Illegal liquor
! selling case.
ADVISING REASSURING.
WASHINGTON. October 7.-Reports re-
celyed by the officials OF the War and In
terror departments from the Indian out
break are Of a reassuring character to-
night. and they now feel that the up
RISING may be regarded over.
A reassuring dispatch was received to-
night by commissioner Jones.
! from Gus. II. Beaulieu. a well-known
Chippewa Indian who stated that rot
more than twenty-five or thirty Indians
were engaged in the outbreak.