The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-11-06
SOUTH DAKOTA REDS
ON THE WARPATH
Deputy Sheriff Faulkenberg Is
Killed and Sheriff Miller
Seriously Wounded.
c Q FIGHT
Indians Said to Resent Restrictions as
TO Hunting Grounds Offenders
Believed to Belong to Rosebud
and Pine Ridge.

Douglas, Wyo., Nov. A battle has
occurred between Deputy. Sheriff
cooks posse and the band of Indians
VINO shot and seriously wounded Sheriff
Miller n killed Deputy Sheriff Faux
enberg in a fight Saturday night on
lightning creek in Converse county.
NO details OF the second battle have
peen received, but it is rumored that
killed. VIZ
United States authorities are maxi
ing efforts to apprehend the Indians.
VINO are said to be from Rosebud and
Plne Ridge agencies in South Dakota.
Sheriff Reported Killed.
Omaha, Neb, Nov. "A special to
the World-Herald from Cheyenne,
Wyo', dated November l, says:
A fierce battle is reported to have
peen fought Yesterday afternoon on
Little Lightning creek near Its juno
ton with the Cheyenne river, forty
I'VE miles north of Lusk, in eastern
wyoming, between Sheriff Miller Of
weston county and posse of six men
ana a band of Grow Indians under
Charlie Carries Elk. Sheriff w. II.
Miller Is reported killed and three Of
his deputies were wounded. Three of
the Indians We're killed and several
wounded.
The officers that escaped the bullets
OF the Indians made their way to Lusk
and gave the alarm, while the Indians
made haste toward the Bad Lands OF
South Dakota, carrying their dead and
wounded with them. Posses were to-
day started out from Lusk and New
Castle, the county seat of Weston
Weston county, and an effort will be
made to head off the murderous reds
before they reach the Bad Lands, for
once in that favored section they will
be difficult to capture and can easily
make their way back to the Pr Ridge
agency, where officers would experience
much trouble in identifying the guilty
ones.
A serious outbreak among the Sioux
is threatened because of the restric-
tons placed upon their hunting prvi-.
leges and it is feared that if the au-
thorities capture the band of Indians
that killed Sheriff Miller and attempt
to prosecute them there will be a gem
eral uprising.
Request for Troops.
No troops have been ordered out OF
instructions to get ready to AXE the
field, for the reports of the battle on
Likhtning creek give only the most
mcager details and he authorities are
waiting for further information and a
confirmation Of the first reports.
Governor chatterton this eve
ming received kilograms from the
north asking that troops be called into
the field to head off the Indians. If the
trouble is as serious as reported he will
order a company from either New
Castle, Douglas or Buffalo. The trouble
had it's inception in the ruthless slaugh-'
ter Of wild game by the Indians
Ranchmen also reported tina the reds
had been killing cattle. Sheriff Miller
left New Castle nine days ago and ar
rested a portion of the band and they
We're taken to New Castle. the sheriff
and six men continuing on after the
others, who tried to escape. The In
dams were overtaken on Little Light
ming creek.
For many years the Crows, Arapa-
hoes, Sioux n S~hcshOnes have jour-
neyed back and forth in the fall Of the
year between the Sioux reservation at
Pine Ridge and the Wind River reser-
walton i'll Central Wyoming and the
Grow reservation in southern Montana.
They always left a trail of
Of antelope, deer and other wild game
and the authorities have made repeat
ed efforts to put a stop to the slaughter.
This year the Indians have been more
bold than m1no and have openely
defied the officers.
The latest report to the governor says
Sheriff Miller was wounded, but that
one of his deputies vas killed.