Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1890 — KILLED SITTING BULL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KILLED SITTING BULL.

SHO.T IN A FIGHT WITH THE INDIAN POLICE. An Attempt to Arrest the Wily Sioux Chief Leads to a Fisht la Which Eight of the Hoetiles and Five of the Agency Police Are Killed—The Ghost Dancers Routed* [Standing Rock Agency, N. D., dispatch.] Sitting Bull, the Sioux chief, was shot and killed at his camp, forty miles northwest of here, early this morning by the Indian police while resisting arrest. Seven other Indians, including Sitting Bull’s son, Crow Foot, Black Bear, and Catch Bird, were slain. Five of the Indian police wore killed. Four or five days ago it was decided by the War Department that Sitting Bull should be arrested. Last Saturday Indian Agent McLaughlin sent tfie chief tn order to come into the agency. He

refused, and last night the Indian police were sent out to his camp and instructed to bring him in. The plan was for the police to proceed toißull’s camp on Grand River, followed closely by a troop of cavalry under Capt. Fouchet and a detachment of infantry in the rear of the cavalry. Bull had been told of the coming of the Indian police, and he and his immediate followers were fully armed with Winchesters, scalping-knives, revolvers, and clubs, The Indian police did not get an opportunity to demand the old medicine man’s surrender, but firing began from the Indian tepees immediately upon the appearance of the officfers, and three of the latter were killed outright, and two wounded so seriously that they died before they could be moved, and three others slightly. The ■police then opened fire upon the savages, at'-the. same time dispatching couriers to the rear to bring up the cavalry under Oapt. Fouchet. Sitting Bull started to 'run up the river, and was captured, but his followers made a desperate effort to rescue him, and he was shot twice, once iii the left shoulder and again in the regon of the heart. The body of Sitting Ji (ill was secured by the cavalry, and is b ing brought to Fort Yates. A party ,o t reds, estimated at 100, escaped up the Grand River. ’ v yapt. Fouchet arrived just in time, and with his troops and Hotchkiss and Gatling guns, drove the Indians away, and selured the body of Sitting Bull. The remainder of Sitting Bull’s band art now in retreat up the Grand River, bqr it yet known definitely along wmchrork their trail will lie. Information of the most reliable nature has been received that a band of eight wagons was encamped on the Little Missouri opposite Pretty Buttes. It is therefore probable that the fugitives will make tills camp their objective point. They will not be able without great exertion to reach the forks of the Grand River to-day. It is estimated that 150 warriors are in the band, and this number is likely to be increased by other bands. Lieut. Case}" with a troop of Cheyenne scouts and Capt. Adams’ troop of the First Cavalry is headed for the north end of the Powder River range opposite the mouth of the Box Elder Creek. Capt. Fountain’s troops of the Eighth Cavalry, with pack transportation, which will leave here in the morning for White Buttes, will probably intercept the band before it reaches the Little Missouri.

If not Lieut. Casey and Capt. Adams will do so. Settlers who are aware of the movements of the troops are little alarmed, as the weather is such that intelligence of disturbances and of movements travels rapidly, and it is well known that the troops are so distributed as to have the situation in hand. A general outbreak on the Sioux Reservation is not feared, and those disaffected bands which now arc giving trouble will soon be placed where they will cease to be a cause of alarm for the settlers. The Sioux Reservation is surrounded by troops, thoroughly equipped for a winter campaign in the most difficult country. All are in communication with each other and department headquarters. No outbreak can become general in the face of the precautions already taken, and the wild rumors, which have caused the population of entire valleys to fly for their lives, are malicious and groundless. The arch villain is dead, and his followers will soon lose the enthusiasm necessary to follow his teachings. Troops arc hot on their trail, and before another sun has set Sitting Bull’s celebrated chorus of dancers will be good Indians or prisoners.

SITTING BULL.