Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1889 — THE WILY RED MAN [ARTICLE]

THE WILY RED MAN

Sitting Bull is Recovering and Has Sime, thin; toSay, A dispatch from Bismarck, Dak., say?: Couriers who arrived. Sunday, from Standing Rock report Sitting Lull, the notorious Sioux Chief, as alive and slowly growing stronger. In an interview with regard to the proposed opening of the reservation for settlement, ne said he had never signed a treaty and never would. He is as bitteriy opposed to tbe opening of the reservation now as he was a year ago. When told of the number of Indians at the lower agencies who were signing he would not believe it. He said he had Indians at the Lower Conference who reported to him, and he knew that no such number as reported had signed. He is cunning and suspicious and thinks the Commissioners are giving out the reports to influence the Indians at the Upper Agency. There is every reason to believe that the Commissioners wiU succeed in opening the reservation but they must do it without the aid or consent of Sitting Ball and his friends. When a iked if he thought he would die, Sitting Bull said at first he felt that he must go as the trouble was with his heart, which felt as if be had been shot. He now has some hope of recovery. The Indians at Standing Rock have chosen the orators to represent them at tbe coming conference, but Sitting Bull is none of the chosen. Those elected are Gall, John Grass, Mad Biar, Big Head and Eagle That Scares.