The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-10-11

w ALkER, Mimi, Oct. Ga hard
fight with .he Indians occurred We'd
nesday and the reports from the scene
of the battle on the other side OF Leech
lake are somewhat conflicting, al
though all reports agree that the re-
suit has been considerable shedding
of blood and some loss of life on both
sides.
The Pillager and other neigh boring
Indians of the White Earth reserva-
ton claim to have many reasons for
their present outbreak, although the
direct BILE with the Pillagers comes
over attempts to bring in some of the
Duluth in connection with liquor sell
ing cases.
Their grievances go back through
many years and there have been legis-
lative and other attempts to settle
them, one of the latest being the Mel
son law regarding the sale of timber on
the Indian lands. However the Indians
claimed that the method of dispos-
ing Of this was both cumbersome and
expensive and that they were the
sufferers In regard to serving as
as witnesses in illegal liquor selling
cases. they claimed that the deputy
marshals left them to find their own
way home from Duluth without hav-
ing paid them the proper mileage.
This is denied by the deputies.
The leader in the trouble with
the Pillagers is an old warrior
Bog-Ah- Mah-Ge-Shig, not chief, who
recently returned from court and was
soon afterwards sought again by the
deputies. He alleged ill-treatment in
being turned adrift penniless in
IDuluth 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 up to
such pitch that trouble apparently
became unavoidable, in view of the
deeply seated feeling of general ill
treatment in regard to their timber
lands and their lands and rights in
general.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Oct. S.-A Walker,
Mimi, special to the Dispatch says:
Gen. Bacon thinks one of the In
dians killed by a sharpshooter was
Chief Bu-Go-NayKa-Shig. He says
they are completely whipped Indians.
WALKER, Mimi, Oct Sd. G. Beat
on, one of the three newspaper men
marched with Gen. Bacon's troops on
Sugar Point, wires the Minneapolis
Tribune a long account of the battle.
After describing the landing he says:
AS there was no indication of trou-
bic Brill, Knappen and myself made
up our minds to 60 back to Walker on
the boat to be sent by Gen. Bacon for
the tents and rations for another day.
We were down at the landing waiting
for the row boats to take us to the
steamer when shot was heard. Inn
mediately we ran back to the rest on
the hill, when a volley came from the
woods to the front of U.S.
The soldiers were just about to be
dismissed and for a moment l was at a
loss to understand the significance of
the firing. A second later another
volley came and the bullets whistled
past my head. Run to cover" some
one cried, and as the soldiers grabbed
their guns aud ran to the left, l hur-
ried down to the beach where l was
soon safely housed behind big boulders
and brush. AS l ran down, however,
more bullets chased me, and it was a
wonder that myself and those with me
were not killed.
STEADY, men, steady" was the first
sound of voice heard, and as / raised
my head 1 could see Gen. Bacon run
ming along with his troops.
'Get up in the firing line, was the
next order given, and the men of
the fighting Third were seen to
run through the grass and woods in
the direction from which the shots had
been fred.
Another peep above the stone be-
hind which 1 lay and peep at a
great chance of death, and saw Ma.
Wilkinson and Lieut. Ross calling to
their men to advance. All the time
the shots were fast and furious, and
the bullets flew few inches above our
heads as we lay on the beach.
The men continued to advance. The
three officers were everywhere. Maj.
Wilkinson IN charge of the left flank,
Gen. Bacon in charge of the center
and Lieut.. Ross in charge IF the right
flank. The soldiers were running
along. It appeared to me. on their
hands and knees, dropping every mo-
ment to fire volley into the ranks OF
! the enemy. The officers, however