Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1890 — INDIANS TAKE THE FIELD. [ARTICLE]

INDIANS TAKE THE FIELD.

At Last a Hostile Move Among the Sav» ages. A special from Fort Sully, S. Dak., on the 26th. says: “It is evident from the de* velopments of the last twenty-four hours that hostile Indians from the Grand River, Cheyenne, Rose Bud and Pine Ridge agencies are massing at some point for a stand against the troops under General Brooke. From squaw men just in from Zlebech county it is learned that bands of red men in war paint have been passing through that country for several days southward. They were well armed with Winchester rifles, hsd plenty of amunition and were well equipped with ponies They were uniformly insolentand reticent. The place of meeting agreed upon is reported to be a heavily wooded point on the White River, ten miles above the mouth of the south fork of the White. This point is a day’s hard ride from the Pint. Ridge Agency and nearly as far from Rosebud. Tbe squaw men have been threatened with death by the bost’iles, and are running away from the Indian camp and giving up the secrets of the Sioux. They have been excluded from all ghost dance* and are subjects of special hatred