Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1889 — THE INDIANS ARE ANGRY. [ARTICLE]

THE INDIANS ARE ANGRY.

Whisky Inspires Them to Hatred of the Incoming Whites. A dispatch from Three River Falls, Minn., Saturday, says: The announcement that the Red Lake reservation would soon be opened for settlement has caused large numbers of people from Wisconsin, Dakota and adjoining Minnesota counties to squat upon valuable land on the reservation. The Indians have become incensed at the squatters and have been drinking heavily for several days. Thursday night they held a war dance and threatened to make a night raid upon the camp unless the whites left the reservation. Three River Falls is seventy miles from a railroad station, and its 250 inhabitants have become Ao alarmed at the outlook that they have asked that a company of troops be sent there to guard the town and remove the “too previous settlers.” The reservation can not be legally entered for homestead or pre-emption in many months. ■ -