Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-11

70 pursue tnose VINO are the cause OF
the present trouble. 1t is mistake
to Say or think that the trouble Is over
or the end in sight. G. ii. Beaulieu,
who has all along taken the Indian
side of the controversy, admits that
the Indians are far from pacified.
Boh-Gan-Ah-M ah-Ge-Shig, chief of the
Bear islanders, told him that he feared
the withdrawal of Gen. Bacon from
the scene of the fighting would make
it impossible to control his young
men, who were responsible for the
trouble. The Indians think they can
drive the troops away from the woods
and prevent them from pursuing the
Indians into the forests. The chief OF
the Bear islanders says he fears his
young men will go about in bands OF
two or three and do a great deal OF
mischief to settlers, even if they do
not get a sufficient force of Indians
together to attack the soldiers.
citizens Plead for Protection.
ST. Paul, Mimi, Oct. 10. - A Walker
(Nfinn.) special to the Dispatch says:
Nauk-Wauk and Bap-Bway-We-Dung
the two Indians captured at Sugar
Point on Wednesday, We're taken to De-
troit under charge of Deputy united
States Marshals Morrison and Iallman,
to appear before the United States
court commissioner.
The marshals were instructed, in
case of an attempt to rescue the prison.
ers anywhere along the line of the
Brainerd & Northern railway to shoot
them.
The citizens had meeting at night
and requested the county commission
ers to appeal to Gen. Bacon for military
protection by stationing company OF
regulars here for some time.
The commissioners will wait on the
general before he leaves for the agency.
Lothrop, station nine miles below
here. is all worked up and very appre-
hensive of an attack upon the town.
1t is very close to the agency. Sheriff
Hardy went there with rifles and am
munition to supply the citizens.
Late at night, Indian Agent Suther'
land received telegram from Whlte
Earth agency stating the Indians hae
held council and will not go on the wal
path.
The troops will embark for the
agency at ten o'clock
Will Cause Lots of Trouble.
Information given out by one OF th'
| indians at the council was that j
Young bucks composed the force whlci
engaged Gen. Bacon's command nea,
Bear island. Gay-She-Gwon-Ay-4o sh
or as the English version would be
| Strong-Voice- of-the-Wind, was TIT
leader and directed the plan of bat
] tie. The band, excepting the killed
! are now on Bear island and refuse t
come out or take part IN the council
1t is likely that such renegades q
they can induce to join them will max
things lively for several months, con
filming themselves to depredations O
small settlements. The report tina
Bog-a-Mah-Ga-Shik was killed by on
of the sharpshooters is denied, tn
chief refusing to take part in the al
} tack.
Thirty-fiye Indians put in an appear
!, ance at the town of Lothrop, nine mile
, south of here. The women and Gil
liens were gathered in a building, an
the citizens are guarding the town.
j. H. Beebe, squawman, Will
n walking along the Brainerd & Nortl
e ern track from Walker to Lothro
9 was shot at near Lothrop. The shot
Beebe claimed, were fired by India1
who were in ambush along the traci
A Pioneer Press extra says 1t Is r.
: ported that the four Indians who1
! Marshal O'Connor wants have su!
3 rendered.