The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-06
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/ Nettokoven was sent with the Flora.
| She will return at once with ratlons ana
ammunition.
"Iieutenant Humphrey was white with
rage when the news reached him. Ills
men have already started for the front.
| The fire of the Krag-J Jorgensens, twenty
! miles distant, is distinctly audible from
| this point. They have been banging
away all the afternoon. A man just in
| tells me that we have lost four killed
and nine wounded, up to date. There
| was a mistake made to begin with IN
| sending so few men. Had two COM
panies been sent there would have been
| no fight. These red blackguards respect
numbers Racons men have their blood
up. The fighting Third has seen its
dead. Bear island as well as it's dam
gerous vicinity will be gutted A fatal
mistake was made in failing to send
Gatling and Hotchkiss. They could
have been used with magnificent effect
today, especially the Gatling. The In
dams had fired twenty-five shots before
the troops returned their fire. | believe
that General Bacon will entrench him.
self tonight and await reinforcements.
The wounded city marshal of Walker
was brought home under Red Cross
flag aboard the Flora. He will recover,
but his life is not worth Il pinch of snuff
now, so long as there are any Bear Is
land Indians remaining in this coun-
try. They win certainly murder him.
Marshal O'Connor and Deputy Marshal
Sheehan behaved with the utmost BRAY
cry The latter, an old man of sixty,
but the hero of Fort Ridgeley, stood
yelling at the men to keep their heads
down, while he himself was standing
bareheaded and erect.
"The young Lieutenant, Morrison, is
a plucky one. He had never been under
fire before but there he stood as steady
as rock and cool as an iceberg. The
Hh behaved spendidly. O'Connorl
was put ashore in a hostile country and
he ran four miles over thistles and
through brush TO reach the Leech Lake
Agency.
All families are being removed from
the agency at this time | am going
back to the Point Immediately. The
army department in st. Paul should be
notified. General Bacon is beyond tele-
graph communication and no boats can
reach him for three hours.
"4:10 D. m.-The fighting seems to
have ceased. Leave at once"
THE CAUSE OF THE OUTBREAKS.
The PiIlager and other neighboung
Indians Of the White Ea "h Reaerya-
tions ala.Ll Hey have many reasons for
their present. outbreak, although the Il
rect sroul'e with the Pillagers coates
over attempts to bring in some Of the |
Indians to the United States Court ut
Duluth in connection with liquor selling |
cases. Their grievances go back through |
many years. and there have been legisa- |
tive and other attempts to settle them. |
one of the latest being the Nelson law
regarding the sale of the timber on the |
Indian lands. However, the Indians
claimed that the method of disposing of
this was both cumbersome and expen-
sive and that they were the sufferers
III regard TO serving as witnesses in il
legal liquor selling cases they claimed
that the deputy marshals left them to
find their own way home from Duluth
without having paid them the proper
mileage. This is denied by the deputy
marshaIs.
The leader in the trouble with
the Pillagers is an old warrior. Bog
All Nah Ge Shig, not chief, who re-
Gently returned from court and was soon
afterward sought again by the deputies.
He alleged i'll treatment I'M being turned
adrift penniless Al Duluth and aroused
the other Indians to protest against the
way he claimed to have been treated
The United States marshal insists that
the old mans story is unfounded, but the
reds had been stirred to such a pitch that
trouble apparently became unavoidable,
in view of the deeply seated feeling of
general i'll treatment in regard to their
timber lands and their lands and rights
in general.
REINFORCEMENTS ON THE WAY.
Minneapolis, Mimi, October "a
special to the Tribune from Walker,
Mimi, says in regard to its staff corr
respondent at the scene Of the Indian
trouble:
Have not heard of yodr man Beaten
since the fight began at II this morn
ing The last / heard of him he was
among the Indians with Brill and WIS
running and the Indian firing at him.
l fear for his safety as well as for Gene
raj Bacon and his men. The situation
is very grave. There has been special
train ordered here from Brainerd by the
county commissioners with arms and
ammunition. We have just received IN
formation from Washington that more
troops are on their way here.
Everyone is very much excited, yet
the situation is such as to warrant it. F"
Another special to the Tribune from
Walker, Mimi, later says:
Have heard nothing further from Mr..
Beaton. We are expecting the special
from Brainerd every minute. Have jusl
been advised that they will soon reach us
with thirty armed men and fifty extra
rifles and ammunition.
FIGHTING STILL IN PROGRESS.
Minneapolis, Mimi, October ga tele-
gram received at midnight from Walker,
Mimi, says a fierce fight between the
Indians and the troops is still in pro-
gress. Marshal O'Connor reports several
fatalities among the soldiers, but does
not give the number.
A special train is coming from Brain
erd with hundred armed citizens.
GENERAL UPRISING IMMINENT.
Washington, Oct 5-Secretary Bliss
received telegram tonight from Indian
Inspector Tinker announcing a fight with