Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-12
THE INDIAN TROUBLE.
HOsTILEs SAY THEY ARE WILLING
TO COUNCIL.
THE SITUATION SEEMS BRIGHTER.
So Reports Inspector Tinker to the
Interior OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Re-
ports Say Reds Are still WAIVER
ing Between Peace and War.

MINNEAPOLIS, october 11.-General
Bacon to-day wired Colonel Sturgis, as
sistant acknowledgement in charge of the
Department of Dakota, to send all the
remaining able-boded soldiers Of the
Third Regiment left at Fort Smelling.
There are only about $50 available men,
and these will be sent TO Walker to-mor-
row morning.
A Journal staff correspondent at Walk
er, Mimi, wires:
Commissioner Jones was welcomed by
the Chiefs who seemed glad he had come.
He was informed that rumors from the
Bear Island camp brought word that the
braves would receive any one for con-
ference, except soldiers and marshals.
II soldiers came they would fight. They
wanted to go to Sugar Point. where the
battle was fought, for conference on
the pretext that steamers could not land
at their camp. The messengers counted
thirty bucks in the camp. and the lat
ter claimed that they had lost but one
killed and two squaws wounded In the
battle. They were all behind one tree,
and one bullet went through the tree,
hitting all three"
REDS WATERING.
The Journals correspondent at
Cass Lake wires: Indian run
ners from the south have pass
ed here, going north. and from
them information OF more serious ma
ture than anything heard here heretofore
has been obtained. The hostiles at Bear
Island have heard that General Bacon
| intends TO attack them within forty-eight
hours. and are busily engaged preparing
TO resist. The Indians are well posted
| on everything that goes on at Walker and
! at the agency. They are strongly en-
| trenched, and have sent out insulting
messages to the whites. The runners are
! busily bringing In renforcements from
other branches Of the tribe. and the red
men are wavering between peace and war
| There have passed down the waterways
| to Loeb Lake i'm the past three days as
many Indians as there have soldiers come
on our railroad. 1t IS estimated by th'
woodsmen here that at least 500 reds wh'
| will ioin the hostiles on the slightest en-
| couragement, are now within strlKlns
| distance of Loeb Lake dam.
THINKS SITUATION CRITICAL
"Chief Chippewa Pine Estimator Seelye
who has come in from Brainerd' Drlhg'
| alarming reports He said
bacon will make another attack II
a day or two. He is determined TO ge
| the Indians or ..--.r bodies. II ne doe
| neither. the reds will make break nortl
| for the Big Fork country. He cannot fol
low them. and they will have time TO az
awful damage to the settlers, stragglini
villages. and railroad property, as the!
fee I consider the situation extremel!
critical both here and along the road
particular at points where the land ant
water routes cross. Some or my estima
tors are starting back to work to-day, Blu
only where the troops can protect them
HOSTILES WILL COUNCIL.
WASHINGTON, October 1.-THE Int
rior Department received the following
telegram late this afternoon:
walker, Mimi, october Ito the Sec
rotary of the Interior: Runners from IN
hostjles came here TO the agency las
night and report that the hostiles ar
willing to council at Sugar Point A dele
CATION, under the direction OF Fathe
| Aloysius, starts for that point by steame
this afternoon. Situation looks brightei
(Signed) TINKER, Inspector"
TROOPS HELD IN READINESS.
CHICAGO, October 1l.-Orders hav
, been received at division headquarters
here from General Bacon. in comman
, of the Department OF the Lakes and IN
Dakotas, to have the Fourth Infantry a
Fort Sheridan and the Seventeenth Ir
| fantry at Columbus Barracks, o.. hel
I'm readiness for immediate service at tn
, scene of the Indian trouble in Minnesot;