The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-08-03
FEAR REDS MAY RISE.
Settlers on the Rosebud Agency Pro.
fess to Fear Attack From the Drunk
an Indians

Indian reservation which indicate that
the Indians are in a temper. with their
anger growing, and that an outbreak
among them and serious attack upon
the white settlers may not be unex-
pected at any moment. The Indians
have been angry ever since their lands
lands were taken away from them,
and now that their money is running
low, and now. too. that they are al
lowed to buy whisky until their thirst
for blood knows no limit, they are be-
coming more and more unmanageable
1t is feared that trouble may start in
a drunken brawl and end in an at
tempt to sweep clean their former
possessions.
The squaws are drinking fully as
| much as the men, and attacks made
, by them upon white travellers are not
infrequent.
1--WE are fearful of the results OF the
right Of the Indian to buy liquor, ad-
mitted Graydon B. Jackson, a land
holder. and son of ex-Gov. Jackson OF
Iowa. 81 should not be surprised TO
see the Indians get drunk, hold a
council. and, stirred by the fact that
their lands are taken from them, start
in to wipe the whites off the reserva-
ton"
AS matter of fact, the Indians new
er have felt quite right over the Rose
| bud land drawing, anyway, and their
| anger is increasing instead OF dimin-
ishing. Last night six Indians, armed
with a big gun, quarreled with a bar
| tender in Smith Bros saloon at Dali
| las over the land proposition. The bar
tender beat one of them almost TO
| death with bottles, while the proprie-
tor, with two big Colts revolvers point
| ed at the braves. held them motionless
| during the fight. If one of you moves
| I'll kill YOU he declared. The in
| jured man did not regain conscious
ness for several hours, and twenty
seven stitches were necessary TO sew
his scalp together.
Many of the Indians remember the
battle Of Wounded Knee, and they are
talking of it more and more. One
! young buck is a son of Flying Eagle,
one of the four Indians who perpe-
| trated the Wiseman massacre, where
the village of st. Helena is now To-
| Gated.
4
At that time the settlers in this
! country along the Missouri river in
| Northern Nebraska, became alarmed
at the reports Of an approaching In
dian outbreak Two thousand home
steaders left their claims and gath
cred at Ponca, Neb.. for protection.
| A few young and strong horsemen
started out. we'll armed to ride the
trail from Ponca TO Niobrara in search
Of the red men, and ready to fight to
| the death.
No Indians were found But the
victims of the red men, dead and
wounded and brutally assaulted, were
left as marks of the red mans visit.
The story of the murder Of the five
children of Henson Wiseman is a ter
rible one even at this late date.
| Henson Wiseman had lived with his
wife and five children on claim near
| Niobrara. He enlisted in a Nebraska
militia company TO fight Indians, leav-
| ing his family. His wife one day
went to town. When she returned she
found the five children-three sons,
aged II, and 3, and TWO daughters,
| aged Is and l3--all dead or fatally
wounded. and the daughters mutilated
and shamefully outraged.
Four Indians Of the Sioux tribe had
crossed the river in canoe, angered
! at the attacks against their race and
eager for revenge. The elder Wise
man girl was churning milk when they
came and asked for a drink. This they
were given. Then they knocked the
girl down with their fists. The sister
ran TO assist and was felled. A BROTH
er the eldest, came into the door with
gun and opened fire. but he died
| fighting. His shotgun was bent double
with the blows he had given the red
skins. One girl lived five days. Her
|
passed out above the hips cartridge
had been exploded in her mouth, the
back of her head crushed and her
| person assaulted. The FIVE children
were buried together.
Wiseman, hearing the news, rode
home. He vowed that he would kill
every Indian who crossed his path
and he has kept his word. He and
his wife still live near Niobrara. The
four Indians escaped across the river
and are thought to have come to the
Rosebud. One son is known 10 be
here. The name of Wiseman has been
a terror TO the Sioux during all of
these forty-three years. Wiseman is
now eighty years old.
| General Store Burns.