The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-14
BIG P0W-W0W HELD
WITH AGENCY INDIANS
POINT UPON WHICH PEACE REAL
LY TURNS NOT MENTIONED
BY BRAVES
ADDRESSES DELIVERED
BY PILLAGER CHIEFS

Indians Complain Bitterly of the
Way They Have Been Treated.
and State Their Grievances In a
Pointed Way - Correspondents
Invited to Be Present and Hear
the TaIk-Meeting Today.
stan Special to The st. Paul Globe.
WALKER, MINI, Oct. 13.-The issus
OF war or peace is still open. A
conference was held today at which
the Bear island hostiles and the agency
Indians were represented, and the situa.
tlon was talked over after the Indian
fashion. Tomorrow there will be q
hnal and probably decisive council.
When Gen. Bacon and Marshal O'Con-
| nor will meet the PiIlager chiefs. II
Is expected this council will determine
whether more troops will be needed to
| capture the men wanted by Marshal
| OConnor or not. At the council this
AFTERNOON I was told that three and
! possibly more Of the twenty-one men
whom the marshal has not been able to
reach would give themselves up tomor-
| row. Not much attention Is paid to
this by Mr.. O'Connor, as he has be=n
| given the surrender romance daily for
the past week.
commissioner JOnss favors giving the
Indians all the time they want to coun-
ell and this evening announced that II
the Indians wanted more time he would
| grant it.
Bug = Ah Nah Ge shig Is op-
posed to any of his band surrendering
or laying down their arms, and II
IS not now a sure thing that the SOL
diers will not have to go after him and
a part Of his gang.
The question printing" men, as the
Indians call the correspondents. were
not obliged to secure permission from
| Commissioner Jones to attend the coun-
| Gil today, which was held in the woods
! back Of Leech lake. An even dozen
We're specially invited to be present and
| all accepted.
DRAMATIC SCENE.
The scene was unique. dramatic and
| thrilling. Each Of the chiefs and braves
who spoke prefaced his talk with MY
| friends, I now wish to say a few
words" and wound up with the decla-
ration: This is all have to say"
In the large room over 100 Indians
| gathered. Some wore store clothes.
others were garbed in costumes which
put the descriptions Of dime novels in
the shade One brave had on a light
summer suit. heavy overcoat, topped
off with a blanket, and wore straw
hat of the vintage of 81 in the bard
| of which vara
some pipes and a few of the younger
ones cigarettes. Those who talked
were brief and the listeners. when
pleased, gave display to Their feeling by
saying HE, hey" Only once was there
any laughter and that was when one
Of the hostile Indians told what poor
shots the soldiers were THIS ststeme1t
| brought out hearty laughter from the
| other Indians.
! Two men from the hostile camp were
|, present and made talks Nothing was
said about the surrender OF the men
wanted by the marshal. and this will
probably be considered at the council
tomorrow. The Bear island twain an
nounced that they had laid down their
arms ard they were congratulated by
| those present for this action.
Much satisfaction was exhibited at
| the statement that Comm sioner Jones
would settle all troubles and had tele-
! graphed Washington to hurry up the
payment of the annuity claimed TO be
overdue nearly a year. Representa-
| tives from the tribes at Cass lake,
! White Earth, Pine Point and Leech
lake agency talked and all promised
| to be good Indians.
| The features of the pow WOW were
| the speeches made by Kay-Gwa Che
Way -Bin-Ing, Flat Mouth, Mah-Che-
| Gaw-Low. May -Gway- -We-Nind and
Oh-Gwin-Ah- -Na-Gah-Dow the last
two being from the hostile camp and
the latter one OF the men wanted by
the marshal.
TALES OF TROUBLE.
Stepping up to the interpreter, Kay
Gway -Che-Way- -Bing-Ing asked that
the correspondents do the Indians a
favor.
'T am going to tell." he said, 1.-The
cause of our present trouble It is be-
cause of the action of half breed dep
uty United States marshals, who have
been making indiscriminate arrests
upon this reservation. They are dis
turbing me, and with my body they
tried to make money. 1t seems as
though it was my money they were
after, because all OF the arrests do not
amount to anything.
II want also to refer to the cutting
of timber We do not like to have them
destroy our pine. am going to tell of
those who are following us up in this
manner 1 shall name one haf-breed
who visits here frequently. The white
people call him Ed reference Is made
to Ed Warren, deputy United States
marshaD. He is the man who has
cleaned out the White Earth reserva-
tion of it's timber. Now he has come
upon this reservation to do the same
sthing with our timber. He is RESPONSE
BILE to a great extent for the present
troubles.
Even I was lumberman last winter.
They sent a paper by men whom 1 do
not know, and 1 did not know that I
had made a contract with any one. 1t
was William Bonga who did this, and,
when a settlement was called for, he
sold himself when he found there was