The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1903-11-05
SOUTH REDS 1
on The Il WARlIPAIn|||
Deputy Sheriff FAuikenberg u
Killed and Sheriff Miller
Seriously Wounded.
Q FIGHT
Indians Said 10 Resent Restrictions as
to Hunting Grounds Offenders
Believed to- Belong 70 Rosebud
and Pine Ridge.

Douglas, Wyo, Nov. "a battle has
occurred between Deputy Sheriff,
Cooks posse n the bard Of Indians
who shot and seriously wounded Sheriff
Miller and killed Deputy Sheriff Faux
enberg in a fight Saturday night on
lightning creek in Converse county.
No details of the second battle have
been received, but 1t is rurnored that.
several members of the posse were
killed.
United States authorities are max
ing efforts to apprehend the Indians.
who are saids!to be from Rosebud and
Pine Ridge agencies in South Dakota.
Sheriff Reported Killed.
Omaha, Neb., Nov. "A special to
the World-Kerald from Cheyenne,
Wyo., dated November i, says:
A fierce battle is reported to have
been fought yesterday afternoon, on
sLttt1f Lightning creek ear its juno
ton with the Cheyenne river, forty
Wyoming, between Sheriff Miller of
Weston county and posse of six men
and a band of Crow Indians under
Charlie Carries Elk. Sheriff w. III.
Miller is reported killed and three OF.
his deputies were wounded. Three Of
the Indians were killed and several
wounded.
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of the Indians made their way to Lusks
n gave the alarm, while the Indians
made haste toward the Bad Lands sc
South Dakota, carrying their dead and
wounded with them. Posses We're to-
day started out from Lusk and New
Castle the county seat OF Weston
Weston county, and an effort Will be
made to eaG4sefeS the murderous reds
before they reach the Bad Lands, for
once In h a favored section they will
be difficult to capture and can easily
make their way pack to the Pine 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-
lions placed upon their hunting privi-
leges and it is feared hat If the au-
thorities capture the band of Indians
that killed Sheriff Miller and attempt
to prosecute them there will be a gen
.eral uprising.
Request for Troops.
No troops have been ordered out Oh
instructions to get ready to AXE the
field, for%the reports Of the battle on,
mcager details and the authorities are
waiting for further information and a.
confirmation Of the first reports.
Governor Chatterton his 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 out a company from either New
Castle, Douglas or Buffalo. The trouble
had its inception in the ruthless slaugh-.
ter OF wild game by the Indians
Ranchmen also reported that the reds
had been killing cattle. Sheriff Miller
left New Castle nine days ago and ar
rested a portion of the band and they
were taken to New Castle. the sheriff
and six men continuing on after the
others, who tried to escape. The In
dians We're overtaken on Little Light.
ming creek.
For many years the Crows, Arapa-
hoes, Sioux and S~hoshones have jour
neyed back and forth in the fall of the
year between the Sioux reservation a..
Pine Ridge and the Wind River reser-
walton in Central Wyoming and the
Grow reservation in southern Montana.
They always left a trail of %carcasses
of antelope, deer and other wild gam
and he 6 tics have made repeat
ed efforts to put a stop to the slaughter.
This year the Indians have been more
bold than commo and have openely
detied the officers.
The latest report to the governor says
Sheriff Miller was wounded, but that
n of his deputies was killed.