The record-union., 1898-10-07


can't get u.s.
Try again. he said, laughing as
| ball touched his hat and knocked il
| off. The men cheered him right IN the
| thick of it. and l know he was pleased
FIGHTING STILL PROGRESSING
| ST. PAUL (Minn), Oct. GA Dis
patch" special from Walker, Mimi.
says:
A boat from the scene of action has
| just arrived Fighting is still pro-
crossing. Major Wilkinson, one Ser
| geant and three privates were killed
and eight wounded Kay Bay Gway
Itch, chief of Indian police, was killed
| 1t was impossible to bring the wound
ed to town, for the Indians kept up a
! constant fire on the boat. A specia
train with 200 additional soldiers viii
arrive here at 2 p. m. and they vii
be transferred to the scene of action az
| soon as possible. Not more than -four
Indians have been killed, and only two
| wounded. Captain Sheehan, head
| Deputy United States Marshal, arrived
on the boat with a flesh wound in the
abdomen and one in the right arm. He
says the Pillagers do not number more
than 100, but they fight as only demon
| lcal SavageS can. Unless overpoWered
! by superior numbers, not one Of them
will quit fighting while he has any
breath in his carcass. They are hold
| ing out now with the hope that the
| CasS Lake Indians will soon come &c
their assistance. If they should ar
| rive before our troops are reinforced
the soldiers will have a desperate time
| OF 1t. After the reinforcementS get
| here it will take two hours to embark
| them, and two hours more for them &c
get to Sugar Point, therefore the best
| that can be expected is that they will
not be able to be of much assistance,
except as to the force of numbers, I'm
| til daylight Friday. The newspaper
correspondents are all right.
| MORE TROOPS ORDERED TO THE
| SCENE.
| WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. = Secretary
| Bliss telephoned the War Department
| that he had just received a dispatch
| from Agent Tinker, in which he stated
al boat had just arrived from the scene
of battle, and reports that Major Will
kinson, a Sergeant and four privates
We're killed; also that a Deputy Mar
| shall was wounded and an Indian po-
| liceman killed; that the 200 troops on
the way to the battlefield are not
enough. The War Department has or
dered additional troops to start i'm
| mediately.
Major j. c. Wilkinson and Mr. Shee-
han, who are among the killed, are
we'll known among the Northwestern
in To llyi
son was a volunteer in the Civil War,
serving throughout that conflict, and
received on it's close a commission in
the regular army. He had participated
in several Indian campaigns since the
rebellion. His regiment was stationed
at Fort Smelling for twelve years, and
was dispatched to Santiago at the
opening of the war, but he was left at
the fort ON recruiting service. He was
over 60 years, old, and his family are
at Redlands, Cal, where he has for two
years been starting an orange grove,
with a view to spending his closing
years there.
T. j. Sheehan was a Captain in the
Fifth Minnesota during the Civil War,
and participated in the Sioux Indian
massacre in 1862, when he was placed
in command at Fort Ridgely, on the
frontier. There, with a total force OF
but 175 men, he withstood for two days
the attacks and siege of over 1000
Indians, finally repulsing them and
saving the lives of his command. For
twenty years after the close of the
rebellion he was Sheriff of F'reeborn
County, Minnesota, and lately had been
United States Deputy Marshal He
was about 65 years old and married.
ORIGINyrOF' THE TROUBLE.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.-Commis-
sioner OF Indian Affairs Jones to-day
received the following dispatch from
Indian Agent J. H. Sutherland, dated
at Walker, Mimi, last night:
1.-THE trouble at Leech Lake origin
ated in consequence of an arrest made
by a Deputy United States Marshal of
an Indian on a warrant. The Indians
overpowered the Marshal and rescued
the prisoner. Troops were sent here
to assist the Marshal in arresting the
rescuers. I have been here a week
doing my best to get the Indians to
give themselves up and save trouble,
but they would not. To-day the troops
and Indians had several battles. The
United States Marshal has called for
more troops
FIGHTING STILL GOING ON.
LOTHROP (Minn), Oct 6-This aft
eroon at 3:30 o'clock it was learned
that General Bacon and his small band
of seventy or seventy-two men were
still fighting on Bear Island but it
cannot be learned what the outcome of
their fighting has been up to this hour,
5 o'clock
At attempt was made to land on the
island this afternoon and rescue the
wounded soldiers and get the bodies of
the unfortunate blue coats who were
killed. This attempt was partly sue
cessful, so far that four bodies were
recovered and nine soldiers who We're
wounded were rescued, but the citizens
were driven to the boat and the boat
driven from the shore by the Indians.
A special train with 215 of the Third
Infantry from Fort Smelling, under
command of Lieutenant Colonel Har-
bach of the Department of Dakota, ar
rived at Walker at 3 o'clock this after
noon.
Another special train will leave
Brainerd tonight with 200 or $50 more
soldiers. Inspector Tinker expresses
the opinion that with 500 soldiers the
Indians will be subdued, but thinks
there will be bloodshed, and may be lots
of it,
1t is said the Indians from the Mile
Lacs reservation have started, 800
strong, to join the Leech Lake Indians.
and if this is the case, it Will require
500 additional troops to Quell the dis