Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1890 — INDIANSI INDIANSI [ARTICLE]

INDIANSI INDIANSI

Threatened Out break—Great Excitemant—Preparations of tbo War Department Telegrams poured into army heatfquap - ters at Omaha and into the newspaper offices to-day about the Indians’ erase. At the army offices these were made light of, at least in conversation with the civilian reporter, and it was stoutly asserted that the Indians were only oat on a hunt. Further, it was stated that two reliable Brule Indians now in the city had stated to the army officers that there was no Messiah craze among the Indians just north of the Nebraska line. Private advices from Valentine give a different origin than the Messiah craze to the Indian uneasiness. Since August the Indians of Rosebud have been restless, claiming that the agent was not giving them a square deal on supplies. A few days ago the families living ten miles northwest of Valentine moved away simultaneously Their neighbors sought to convince them that there was no danger, but they had heard the complaints about the agent, and were bound to go, and they went. Orders were issued, at 9 o’clock Tuesday morning, to companies A, B, C and D, of the Second United States Infantry, at Fort Omaha, to prepare for marching at once, while the other four companies were notified to be ready to move on short notice. The first-named companies left for Pice Ridge agency at 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, with a full complement of mules and wagons, and will be provided with rations for fifteen days. The marching column will be in command of Major Butler. Troops at Fort McKinney will also be ordered out, and leave in the morning for Douglas, Wyo., with Col, Guy V. Henry in command. The march is about one hundred and twenty-five miles.

Gen. Miles, in speaking of the move' ments of large bodies of troops and their concentration at points adjacent to the Pino Ridge agency, said that the troops were sent to the Sioux reservation to pro. venta possible outbreak. He thinks the messiah racket isn’t exciting the savages half as much as the crop failure and short rations, the latter always driving an Indian into frenzy. Gen. Miles concedes that the situation is more serious than Is apparentt, though he thinks the reports are exaggerated. : Every house in Mandan, N. D., is full tq overflowing with refugees from country districts. The most intense excitement prevails in the country. Settlers are propared to believe anything about the Indians because of their queer actions lately. Several families came in Tuesday on foot a distance of twenty miles and over, too poor to own wagons. In town somewhat less tension exists, owing to the receipt of 800 guns from the State government and the fact that a company of soldiers Will arrive from Fort To. ten. There are 200 Indians in the town armed, but citizens are armed, too, and patrols will bo out and people will sleep with their clothes on. The date will bo fixed by a committee of citizeps and Indian agent 3 will be notified that after that date any Indian found in bhecouuty without a pass from the agent wFll bo killed on sight. The population is thoroughly aroused, and, although conservative men are doing their best toquiet the angry populace, there is every reason to believe that unless the government takes immediate steps to increase the force of soldiers at Mandan and at Fort Lincoln every fndian coming into the country will be killed. * .

Another dispatch says nearly a hundred settlers came in on a train from West End county, going to Bismarck for safety. At QjenCllen, forty miles west, citizens turned out en masse, and threw up cirou l lar breastworks by moonlight large enough to get into for protection. A supply of rifles were seut to each settlement in the county. Telegrams were coming in constantly for supplies of ammunition. A telegram received by a correspondent Tuesday night from New Salem states" that 150 Indians are camped south of that point, and the people are clamoring for guns and powder. A number of deter mined men, bent on driving out of tho town the Indians camped there, deferred action till morning, on the Indians promising to be peaceable. But tbo first thing ia the morning s they would be moved off promptly. While the correspondent was writing this band of red-skins was having a grass dance, making night hideous. Their shrieks could be heard for miles. While the exeitment in town was subsiding because of the presenco of plenty of guns, agitation in the country was worse than ever. This was causod largely by the insolent and menacing attitude of roving UcLaughlin wires there is no cause for alarm, but everybody believes this a buncombe.

Patents were Tuesday issued to Indiana inventors as follows: S. B. Caster, Noblesville, apparatus for utilizing nstnral gas for raising water; N. M. Cbero, Southport, plant setting machine; J. F. Benn, Indian, apolis, apparatus for blowing sand from railway track rails; E. Diets,lndianapolis box-trimming machine; 8. Gregg, Crawfordsville, wire for wire poet and wire fences; W. C. H- Evansville, curtain fixture; L. P. • Hartford City, paper trimming km.. ... H. Johnson and T. L. Kruse, Indianapolis, dry closet; J. J. Moore end J. T. McKinney, Thorn torn, beating stove; O. W. Rife, Richmond, gang plow; B. P. and 8. C. Wolfe, Frarnont, fenoe. • Complete unofficial returns from the election in Kansas show the election of the Republican ticket, with the exception ot tho Attorney-General, by majorities ranging from 8,000 to 8,000. Attorney- General Kellogg, although be ran 11,000 ahead of his ticket, was defeated for re-election by I ves, the Farmers’ Alliance candidate, by a plurality oi 42,000. Frances E. Warren, of Cheyenne, Gov. ecu or of Wyoming, was elected to the United States Senate on the sixth ballot in the Legislature. His colleague will he ex Dt logate James M. Carey, also of Cheyeuue. _