The Portland daily press., 1898-10-08

HUI GulIlh huOUjlOE bAou WAL w AAAS~As
NOT SO FAVORABLE.
If soldiers Should Leave There Would Be
General Massacre.
St. Paul, Mimi. October IA Walker,
Mimi, special to the Dispatch says:
The steamers Chief and leila left here
at three O'Clock this morning to bring
General Bacon and men away from the
mainland at the farther side of the lake.
The boats took barges around the edges
of which were piles of hay for lbrsatworks.
A detachment Of regulars was sent with
each boat by Col. Harbach.
Major P. II. Sutherland, Indian agent
at White Earth and DR.. Hart the SUBJ
agent at Leech lake agency, were here
last night to urge Col. Har bach to send
one hundred men to the agency at once,
to reinforce Lieut.. Humphrey and his
SQUAD of twenty regulars there. Col.
Barbach replied that he had received a
letter from Lieut. Humphrey late in the
afternoon stating that he had no appre-
hension of trouble there and that "Flat
mouth chief of the ChippBfwas, safd be
deprecated the fight st Bear island point
and that his tribe would give no trouble.
He would therefore not send any soldiers
to the agency.
Col. Sheehan said today: There will
be big conference of Iradians today.
There will be also twenty four Bear
islanders at this conference land they will
1rqe the Leech Lake Indians to take the
opportunity to revenge themselves for the
killing of members Of their tribe the day
before yesterday. There will be twenty
~ NJ It'd at a.,
They came in last night. The Winne-
bageshish lake Indians will also be repre-
sented, About four hundred braves will
be represented at the conference. The
situation looks far worse This morning
than it has at any time before. II the
troops were to leave here before the
trouble is fully settled, not white
family would remain in al this country.
Indians by the dozens and the core are
gathering about the lake ahd they are in
Godfrey Zigler. one of the wounded
priyaues in the hospital says the fight was
very hot for thirty miau.tes. One Indian
at the right of the lines seemed to hit a
soldier every time he shot, and when he
fred another Indian at tthe right let out
a whoop, Ziglsr says this indian had q
tine gun 1t was he who shot Sergeant
Butler through the head, making three
holes in his hat. The hat lis preserved by
zigler, who is wounded I'M the right arm.
He is quoted as saying: "You ought to
have seen the reporters leg it when the
fight began. But they were mighty kind
to the wounded afterwards.
He says there were mot over fifty
Indians engaged in the fight, and in this
he is supported by the statements Of
several others. Two or three Indians
seemed to do all the damage.
COMPLETELY WHIPPED INDIANS.
Chief Who Caused Trouble One of the
Slain.
ST. Paul, Mimi, Octobe IA Walker,
Mimi, special to the Dispatch, says:
"Gen. Bacon thinks, one of the Indi-
ans killed by a sharpshooter was Chief
Bu.Go.Nay .Ka-Shing. He says they are
completely whipped Indians. -.
"The name Of this Indian is apparent
~ intended for Bug All Man GO. Shig,
who was the cause Of the whole trouble,
other Indians having taken him by force
from the deputy marshal when taking
him to Duluth as witness in an illegal
'quor selling CASE"
THE KILLED AND WOUNDED,
,icago October 1.-The Tribune s1staff
espondent aG WalKssr, MIMI, en- route
the scene ct the battle between Co.
ID infantry, under command of Gen.
and 6h0 P1lIAQipr Indians nr. Rna