Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1892 — M‘GILLICUDDY'S FEARS. [ARTICLE]

M‘GILLICUDDY'S FEARS.

Thinks the Tine Rldfs Indians Are Prfparlng for an Outbreak Sut Spring. Dr. V. T. MrGillcuddy, Of Rapid Cily, S. D., well known as one of the best posted men lu the country on Indian matter, Is In Omaha, ifcvTug just come from the Vine Ridge ageucv. Talking to a report* er, ho said: “Ido not want to cause an alarm, but the situation at Pine Ridge is not all satisfactory Just V present,, and there is no Immediate prospect of U Improving. The Indians are sallen, and In many ways show a reseutlul foeltng, and unless something is none to counteract this there Is danger of trouble uextspriug The Messiah spirit ia not dead, and the wh'tes must bet depend on the statement that the Indians an no longer considering the promise made by Sitting and other medicine men, who led the trouble two years ago. While there Is no open dancing, there ia a Quiet discussion of the eobjeet, and the announcement that .the Messiah would come after two springs, which wonld bring the time In theapring of I*l, la being carefully kept In their mind by the Indians. The Goyerpment recently paid the Indians at Pine Ridge 183,000, and this U toed as an argument that the Great Father fears his red som, else why 'should he seek to Hi y viW' $ . •. "f 1 . * f| ‘M... 1

' *mm " already deeply aUrrad state »f affairs at Ptne Ridge. The nsost significant thing Is the fact that there have been communications between the various tribes of * secret and apparently important aatnr* daring the summer. Them is a line of communication well established and constantly used between the Indian Territory and British America, and the Indians all along the Hue understand each other.