Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1890 — SKIRMISH WITH INDIANS. [ARTICLE]

SKIRMISH WITH INDIANS.

Alleged Encounter Between Soldiers Bed-Skin* in South Dakota, , 1 It is reported at Rapid City, S. D., that a large party of Indians attacked eighteen men four miles below French Creek this afternoon, and in a skirmish which followed several on both sides were wounded and a number of Indians are said to have been killed. A squaw-man named Rider also brought in a report that a fight had taken place between troops and Indians four miles north of Pine Ridge agency and that a number were killed on both sides Little importance is attached to this last report. Nearly six hundred lodges, or three thousand Sioux, including the bands of Two Striks and Short Bull, are marching in from the Bad Lands to Pine Ridge agency, in obedience to Gen. Brook’s order, and wUI report to him soon unless stampeded by fresh rumors. They have been slowto start because they were told that they were to be punished for raiding squaw-men's ranches. A dispatch from Fort Keogh, Mont., says: Two bands of disaffected Pine Ridge Indian'i under Short Bull and Kicking Bear are supposed to be united ana moving northward with the intention of seeking a reservation in Northern Dakota, or of crossing the northern boundary and advancing into Canada. Fifty lodg es and a band of stolen ponies are with them. Troop H, Eighth Cavalry, Captain Foon. tain and Lieutenant Sydenham, with a detachment of the Twenty-second Infantry, will leave early in the morning for Dicks inson on the line of the Northern Pacific, to head them off, and by scouting east, west and south from that point capture the band and deliver them as prisoners to the commanding officer at Fort Ahrahaio Lincoln. Lieutenant Casey, with his Cheyenne Scouts and Captain Adams's troop of First Cavalry, will pursue another course, and it successful in capturing ■the Indians will deliver them ; at Fori Keogh. The cavalry have with them ten pack mules per troop, and one Hotchkiss cannon. All effort will be made to prevent the band from Joining their frienda at Pdplar Ron agency.