the Baptist and through the Son as of God, it was cynically rejected. of

well as the deep
the face, impressed

The unity of faith was destroyed habits of intense thoughtfulness. be brought back; that they should

and the nation was torn asunder by contending parties.

drawn for centuries, and when it tive intelligence and sagacity are midst and talked to them, appearing
again was offered through John expressed in every
to be able to talk all the languages and
feature,
to make himself understood by all
lines the tribes present. He told the people
by that things were going to be changed;
that the game and the buffalo would
He would be regarded anywhere again have their own country, and
among observant people, judging that the world should be turned up-
side down and all the whites spilled
from his portrait, as a most unusual out. He closed his speech by saying
that in the night he should go up to
heaven to see God. Next morning
about nine or ten o'clock the people
again gathered about the circle, and
presently the Messiah walked in
among them. He told them that he
had just returned from heaven, where
he had seen God.

• Does the world today present any
other picture? It seems not. The man, with many superior points of
voice of revelation had not been character. Unprejudiced persous
heard for centuries until Joseph, who are willing to put themselves
the Prophet, came with a message in his place, can come to no other
from heaven. But while the great conclusion, on the basis of his
majority of men grope in the dark-career and the traits exhibited by
ness and, now as then, are engaged him in the event which terminated
in internal strifes, he, the herald to his life. This likeness in the
prepare the way for Christ, was American bears no resemblance to
cruelly murdered for being faithful the miserable carricatures which
in the deliverance of the message. are printed in the daily journals.
Looking at the present condition of White Eagle, one of the leaders
the world, the impression becomes in the religious dances of the
strong that a mighty deliverer is Indians, has a characterless counten-
needed, who can give new life to so-ance. The whole face, including the
ciety, regenerating it in all its in- partly open mouth, disclosing the
stitutions. This deliverer will come, teeth, bespeaks the fanatic.
when the Lord appears again in We here quote from the article in
power and glory.
the American, which is headed
"The Red Christ:"

THE INDIAN MESSIAH MOVEMENT

Among the Indians present at this council was Porcupine, a Northern Cheyenne, who has since been one of the foremost prophets of this new Messiah His story is as follows:

was told there. I never knew this be

"What I am going to say is the truth. The two men sitting near me were with me, and will bear witness that I speak the truth. I and my people have been living in ignorance until I went and found out the truth. All the whites and Indians are brothers, I fore. The fish-eaters near Pyramid Lake told me that Christ had apThey said peared on earth again. Christ knew he was coming; that eleven of his children were also coming from a far land. It appeared that Christ had sent for me to go there, "Just when and where the present and that was why, unconsciously, I craze arose is uncertain. The evidence took my journey. It had been foreorTHE Illustrated American contains has resulted more from a process of there that my Great Father was there at present obtainable indicates that it dained. They told me when I got a good deal of interesting informa- evolution than from the preaching of also, but I did not know who he was. tion regarding the religious move-any one man. The first Indian who The people assembled, called a cɔunpreached the coming of the Red cil, and the chiefs' sons went to see ment among the Indians, culled Christ in a inanner that at-the Great Father, who sent word to us and condensed from a large number tracted attention was Short Bull, or of sources. Its article is illustrated Sitting Bull, an Arapahoe who must not be confounded with Sitting Bull. by a number of portraits of notable the Sioux chief who took part in the chiefs, the engravings being extra Custer massacre,and who was also one of the most prominent leaders in the good. One of the likenesses is that present agitation. This Sitting Bull, of High Bear, one of the principal or Short Bull, arrived at the Shoshone chiefs of the Ogallallas, whose name Agency, at Fort Washakis, in Wyoming, about a year ago, and announced has recently figured in the dis- that he had seen Christ. The Messiah, he was with them. They all patches. He is large featured, the said, told of his previous life upon the formed in this ring and around it; earth, nineteen hundred years ago, they put up sheets all around the nose being specially ponderous, and of how the white pe ple had re- circle, as they had no tents. Just while the eyes are full and expres-fused to accept him, and showed the after dark some of the Indians told me sive. The mouth is the only feature scars on his hands and feet where he that Christ (Father) was arrived. I had been nailed to the cross. He fore- looked around to find him, and finally which indicates a disagreeable trait, told the removal of the white men, saw him sitting on one side of the showing hauteur, and impatience and promised that the buffalo and ring. He was dressed in a white with anything that would collide other game should return in their forThe next morning he told mer abundance. Then the Messiah us he was going away that day, with bis will. gave the Indian buffalo meat to eat, but would be back the next morning and Sitting Bull fell asleep. When he and talk to us. I heard that Christ awoke he found he had been trans-had been crucified and I looked to see, ported a long distance in his sleep.

One of the most striking portraits is that of Kicking Horse, the Indian

who asserts that he was carried in the spirit to heaven. He also has a large, rather handsome face, with mild intelligent eyes, and specially pleasant appearance.

Johnson Sides, the Indian who is credited with innocently being the cause of the present agitation, is represented in his portrait as a man of gentle disposition, his face being devoid of the rugged aspect common to his race. He is known as the "Peacemaker."

to remain fourteen days in that camp, and that then he would come and see us. At the end of two days, on the third morning, hundreds of people gathere at this place. They cleared a place near the agency in the form ofa circus-ring, and we all went there. Just before sundown I saw a great many people (mostly Indians) coming dressed in white men's clothes. The Christ

coat.

and I saw a scar on his wrist and one on his face, and he seemed to be the man; I could not see his feet. He would talk to us all day. That evening we all assembled again to see him depart.

The following morning the Christ was back with us and wanted to talk He said: 'I am the man who

"Indians do not communicate with one another by letters, but send their By word of messages by runners. mouth Sitting Bull's story was made known to many tribes, and a year ago a sort of council was held at a place to be on the shore supposed Walker's Lake, in Western Nevada. with us. of At this council the Messiah showed made everything you see around you. himself. Representatives of sixteen I am not lying to you, my children. tribes are said to have been present, I made this earth and everything on Near the camp the sagebrush and it. I have been to heaven and seen rose bushes had been cut off close to your dead friends, and have seen my own father and mother.' He spoke to the ground over a circle perhaps one hundred feet in diameter. Here is one us about fighting, and said that it was account of the appearance of the bad and that we must keep from it; Christ: the earth was to be all good hereafter. The countenance of Sitting Bull "The next day, as the sun was get-that we must be friends with one anting low, the people all assembled other. He said if any man disobeyed is a study. It is more like the face about this circle, and presently a man what he ordered his tribe would be of a white man than of an Indian in was seen walking into it. The people wiped from the face of the earth. Ever stood about until he had reached the since the Christ I speak of talked to its general contour, with the excep- middle of the circle, and then they me I have thought what he said was tion of the high cheek bones. Na-went in to meet him. He stood in the good. I have seen nothing bad in it.

WHAT WAR HAS COST.

L. D. S. SEMINARY.

When I got back I knew my people were bad, and had heard nothing of all this, so I got them together and told them of it, and warned them to WAR sometimes becomes a "nection with the Latter-day Saints? The closing exercises in conneclisten to it for their own good, I told essary evil." There would be no Seminary of the Fourteenth Ward them just what I have told you here need of it if everybody had a desire were held Dec. 19. The Seminary today" Porcupine's tale met with belief to do justly, deal fairly and regard continues to be well patronized, and wherever he told it, and other mission-common rights. But selfishness is ability in the training of the stuthe instructors have shown marked aries labored incessantly with equal success. It will be observed that Por- the ruling motive among nations as dents. cupine's account of the red Christ's among individuals, and this swamps message makes it one of peace. The Sioux changed its tenor to hostility higher motives and leads to the toward the whites. They were much worst of crimes. War is an expentaken with the idea of the Messiah, sive indulgence and few have any but they thought they ought to de something to help remove the whites. idea of its cost in lives and money. The next development of the belief The following gives some light on was furnished by Kicking Horse, this matter as to the past thirty years, and is taken from the San Francisco Chronicle:

whose visit to heaven has been com

pared with that of Tecumseh's brother, the Prophet. Kicking Horse is a Sioux. To him are accredited the features of the craze involved in the belief of the resurrection of all dead Indians, and of the overwhelming of the whites. His story is that he was taken to heaven through a hole in the clouds, and talked with the Great Spirit, who told him that his children, the Indians, had suffered long enough, and the time had come when they should occupy the earth again. They must not kill or molest the whites, the Great Spirit said, for he himself would wipe them off the face of the earth by sending a wave of mud, twenty feet or more in depth, over the country. All dead Indians would be restored to life and there would be buffaloes and horses in plenty. Kicking Horse further declared that while he was talking with the Great Spirit, the devil appeared, in shape very tall. with immense kneejoints, a monstrous mouth, and long

teeth."

of 1859,

$300,000,000;

Yesterday's proceedings commenced at 10 o'clock, and an excellent programme had been arranged. Several members of the board occupied the stand and during the morning addressed those present. The ladies' and gentlemen's de sented by Miss Amy Ball and Mr. partments were respectively repreJohn Taylor. Remarks on the theological organization were offered by Miss Mamie Taylor.

A calisthenic drill was excel

conducted

the

lently rendered by the preparatory
department,
by
teacher, Miss Ruth A. Reese. The
primary department also gave evi-
dence of careful training in the ren-
dition of an appropriate calisthenic
song. The instructors reported
their various departments and spoke
in the highest terms of the general
conduct of the students.

Following is the Principal's rereport for the term ending Decem

ber 19th:

54 45

67

The following statistics represent the class exercises of the Primary Department under the instructions of Miss Alice Reynolds:

"According to the estimates of French and German statisticians there have perished in the wars of the last thirty years 2,500,000 men, while there has been expended to carry them on no less than the inconceivable sum of $13,000,000,000. Of this amount France has paid nearly $3,500,000,000 as the cost of war with Prussia, while her loss in men is placed at 155,000. Of these 80,000 were killed on the field of battle, 36,000 died of sickness, accidents, or suicide, and 20,000 in German prisons, while there died from other causes A pleasing incident occurred just enough to bring the number up to the prior to dismissal. Each teacher given aggregate. The sick and was presented with a handsome wounded amounted to 477,421, the present by the pupils of the respeclives of many thousands of whom tive departments, who desired in were doubtless shortened by their ill- this manner to show their apprecianess or injuries. According to Dr. tion of the teachers' earnest labors Roth, a German authority, the Ger- and their affectionate regard. mans lost during the war 60,000 men killed or rendered invalid and $600,000,000, in money, this being the exFollowing is the account given in losses over the $1,250,000,000 paid by cess of expenditure or of material The attendance during the past the American of the experience France by way of indemnity. Dr. En-fourteen weeks shows a total regiswhich Sitting Bull, or Short Bull, gel, another German statistician, gives ter of one hundred and seventy-five claims to have passed through: the following as the approximate cost students, who have been distributed of the principal wars of the last thirty in the following departments: While hunting alone near the Sho-years: Crimean war, $2,000,000,000; Primary Department, shone Mountains he became lost, and Italian war Preparatory, Intermediate, for a long time wandered about aim- Prusso-Danish war of 1864, $35,000,lessly. Finally a strange feeling came | 000; war of the rebellion (North), over him, and he involuntarily began $5,100,000,000, (South), $2,300, 00,000; to follow a certain star, which moved Prusso-Austrian war of 1866, $330,000,before him and led him many miles 000; Russo-Turkish war, $125,000,000; out int the mountains. Just at day- South Africa wars, $8,770,000; African $13,250,000; break the star became stationary over war, Servo-Bulgarian, All these wars a beautiful mountain valley, and he $176,000, 00. sank to rest on a couch of moss. murderous in the extreme. While he rested, a s'range vision Crimean war, in which few battles appeared before him. He saw a great were fought, cost 750,000 lives, only spirit dance, and the participants were 50,000 less than were killed or dead Arapahoe warriors, led by the died of their wounds North and dead chiefs of the past. Suddenly he South, during the war of the rebellion. was awakened by a voice, and saw be- The figures, it must be remembered. fore him a strange being, dressed in a are German, and might not agree preblanket of pure white. The strange cisely with the American estimates. being said that he was the same Christ The Mexican and Chinese expeditions who was upon the earth nineteen hun-cost $200,000,000 and 65,000 lives. dred years ago to save the white men, There were 250,000 killed and mortally and that he would soon return to save wounded during the Russo-Turkish war, and 45,000 each in the Italian war of 1859 and the war between Prussia and Austria. In the other wars the loss of life was relatively less, which did not make either the men or money easier to part with in the more limited areas where they occurred. And this is but a part of the accounting, since it does not include the millions expended during the last twenty years in maintaining the vast armaments of the European powers, the losses caused by the stoppage of commerce and manufactures, and the continual derangement of industries by the abstraction from useful employment of so many millions of persons, held for a period of military service extending from three to five years.

the red men. The whites, who had so long persecuted and robbed the Indians would be driven out of the land across the sea, never to return again. All day the Messiah conversed with Sitting Bull, revealing to him many things, also showing him the scars of nails in his hands and feet and the wound in his side. When night came on the Messiah disappeared."

EL PASO, Tex., Dec. 23.-Angel Sergas and Nocola Ingo, two prominent, wealthy lawyers of Juarez, were arrested today at that city, charged with complicity in the Bolton escape.

were
The

Students
Primary Theology 47
Langu ige,
Primary Arithmetic, A 9

Weekly Recitations

5

47

66
46

66
46

B 23

5

Students also attended from the Eleventh, Eighth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Tenth Wards, Smithfield, Bear Lake, West Bountiful and Sugar House Ward.

The theological meetings and devotional exercises have been faithfully supported by the students and especially by the members of the choir, to whom we extend our most sincere thanks and appreciation.

of God's blessings and that His
Holy Spirit has been our guide." It
is with considerable gratitude that
we recognize the labors and hearty
support of our worthy Board and
their ready compliance to the re-
quests of the teachers for the com-
fort and welfare of the students,
also thank parents who have patron
ized our school and all who have ex-
tended a helping hand. Notwith-
standing the infancy of our school
and its limited curriculum, we feel
safe in saying that it offers excel-
lent opportunities and privileges
and exceptional promise to those
who need a special training to fit
them to prosecute advanced work in
higher institutions. We invite
zealous and unremitting labor and
by God's blessing believe that the
Fourteenth Ward Latter-day Saints'
Seminary will prove a benefactor to
the youth of Zion.

JAMES R. RAWLINS,

Principal.

It is to be regretted that so few parents were present. On such occasions the school house should be crowded, as it encourages teachers and students, and promotes the gen. eral welfare of these excellent institutions. PHOENIX.

A MILD CLIMATE.

It seems strange to us in Southern Arizona to read of snows and severe cold in the north, for here snow is unknown, save that once or We also take pleasure in conferr- twice during the winter the peaks ing great credit upon the organist, of the Santa Catalina Mountains inspectors, and monitors of the re-(eighteen or twenty miles north), or spective departments and organizations. The term slips distributed at the close of the exercises will represent the efficiency of each student in the different specifications which have been determined after a thorough examination at the close of the first term. Parents are respectfully asked to examine them and report anything not satisfactory. Particular attention is drawn to the percentage in punctuality and the number of days pupils have been

absent.

ance.

This low altitude renders Salt River Valley well adapted to the growth of oranges and lemons, of which about 40,000 were planted during this season, and are doing finely. For grapes and figs it is much better than California, owing to the absence of fogs, which are quite a detriment in that State in the raisin-drying season.

un

In the Salt River Valley, at Mesa two crops of cereals and vegetables, and six or seven of alfalfa (lucern) are assured every season, and people suffer no more from summer heat here than in Utah, except that the warm period is so much longer, lasting from June to September, inclusive. But sunstrokes are known. For such as have no homes already and are desirous of settling down, the Salt River Valley presents uncommon inducements. Twenty or thirty acres are as good there as eighty or a hundred in the north, and poor people can much more easily make a start for here. The winter does not eat up the summer's labors and profits.

J. H. MARTINEAU. TUSCON, Arizona, Dec. 15, 1890.

THE INDIAN MOVEMENT.

ST. PAUL, Dec. 15.-A report received here late this afternoon that Sitting Bull had been killed, is apparently confirmed by advices received by General Miles at the military headquarters at this city. He received two dispatches this evening, the first from Pierre, S.D., stating that Sitting Bull and his son the Santa Ritas, sixty miles south, were killed, but giving no further show a glittering crest for a few particulars. The other dispatch was days at a time. The Tucson rose from Standing Rock Agency, 8. D., bushes and other tender plants in and stated that the Indian police the gardens are green all winter. started out this morning to arrest Walking about town today I saw Sitting Bull, having understood that gardens blooming with flowers-he proposed starting for the Bad some roses among them, and Lands at once. The police were trees still green. Mulberries followed by a troop of cavalry unand umbrella trees have cast their der Captain Fouchet and infantry leaves; but figs, peach and cotton-under Colonel Drum. When the wood trees are still green, the latter police reached Sitting Bull's camp keeping in leaf all winter. The on Grand River, about forty miles vegetable gardens are luxuriant, with never ceasing growths of all kinds, principally beets, radishes, turnips, lettuce and peas.

The irregular attendance and lack of punctuallity has been a great detriment to students and teachers, and we urge that this subject re- Tucson is the second oldest town ceive due consideration and cogniz.in America, having been known as Special instructions have a town since 1540. The Spaniards been given to the ladies' and gentle- in that year established a garrison men's bi-weekly alternating with there. It was then an old Indian testimony meetings. These have town; but Tucson does not seem to been directed and adapted particu- thrive very well, and seems to lack larly to the welfare and guidance of the vital energy needful for its the students through life. prosperity. About three-fourths of the population are Mexicans, whose unthinking habits and lack of energy are proverbial-always putting off until tomorrow — manana— everything that can be postponed.

Regular fast meetings have been held monthly, instead of theology lessons, and we can conscientiously report good results. Faculty meetings have been held weekly for the purpose of reporting and consider- With Latter-day Saints as citizens, ing points of interest to the school. and with this delightful and preThe past fourteen weeks have been eminently healthful climate, Southan enjoyable time to the teachers, ern Utah might become a terres due to the alacrity of students trial paradise. Especially is this to make the class rooms a sec- true of the Salt River Valley, at ond home, the careful considera- Mesa, Tempe, Lehi, Nephi and tion they have had for the feelings other villages of the Saints, whose of the teachers and their fellow altitude is much less than that of schoolmates and the congeniality of Tucson, which is 2400 feet above sea We fully endorse the relevel, while Mesa and neighboring mark "that we have been recipients plains are only about 1000 feet.

spirit.

from Standing Rock, they found arrangements were being made for departure. The cavalry had not yet reached the camp when the police arrested Bull and started back with him. His followers quickly rallied to the rescue and tried to retake him. In the melee the wily old chief is said to have been killed, and also five of the Indian police.

One of the police rode back to the cavalry and infantry, telling them to hurry up to the support of the police and then hurried on to the agency with the

NEWS OF THE BATTLE.

Nothing later than this is received but the death of Sitting Bull and at least five of those who captured him seems undou tedly true.

A dispatch received late tonight by the Pioneer Press about today's fight says: When the Indian police_reached the camp they found the Indians ready to march. Their ponies were painted and many savages had stripped for war. The police made a dash into the camp and

seized Sitting Bull. They were on their way back to Standing Rock when a son of the famous chief urged his comrades to recapture the old man. The women and children were left in the bushes, and then, with yells, the hostiles charged upon the police, firing as they came. A hand-to-hand struggle ensued, during which Sitting Bull, who was not shackled, gave his orders in a loud voice.

For several minutes the firing was heavy and deadly. In the furious fusilade Sitting Bull fell out of his saddle, pierced by a bullet, but it is not known whether it was fired by the charging party or by one of the police. The son of Sitting Bull was slain almost at the first volley of the police. The hos tiles fired with great accuracy, and slowly drove the police from the field. If the cavalry had not come at this time it is probable that the force would have been annihilated. The soldiers were quick to enter into action. A skirmish line was thrown out and then, kneeling and firing as they advanced, the troops, with the machine guns playing over their heads, poured a wither ing fire into the savages. Sitting Bull's body, which had been abandoned by the police, was secured, as well as that of his son, and taken to Standing Rock. After the fight was over the followers of the dead chief struck out for the Bad Lands.

CHICAGO, Dec. 15.-At 9 o'clock tonight Assistant Adjutant-General Corbin of General Miles' staff re

ment at Dakota, in one of which he
says he hoped to get in all the In-
aians who turned back from the Bad
Lands. Two Strike's party is trying
to induce them to come along with
them. He says the Indians are mov-
ing slowly on account of their poor
stock. The other telegram includes
a dispatch received yesterday from
the commanding officer at Oelrichs,
Dakota, saying interpreters just in
from White river report fifty lodges
in the Bad Lands trying to work
their way to the Cheyenne river
Agency. General Ruger adds that
necessary steps will be taken to in-
tercept them if possible.

The Associated Press report was
communicated to General Schofield
and Secretary of War Proctor, and
was the first information they had
about the battle in which Sitting
Bull was killed. General Schofield
was disinclined to discuss the mat-
ter. He indulged in the hope ex-
pressed by others, that it would has
ten a settlement of the trouble. He
thought it would make a more
definite line between the friendly
Indians and those inclined to be
hostile. Secretary Proctor said he
did not think the killing would
prove of any bad effect on friendly
Indians. They had not been kindly
disposed toward Sitting Bull and
had no love for him.

CHICAGO, Dec. 15.-Gen. Brooke, in charge of the troops at Pine Ridge, telegraphed the situation to Assistant Adjutant-General Corbin at army headquarters tonight, as follows:

"All the Indians who can be

It is expected before another sun has set that Sitting Bull's celebrated chorus of dancers will be good Indians or prisoners.

CHICAGO, Dec. 15.-The story of the last visit paid by a white man to Sitting Bull's camp prior to the tragic events of today is told in a report received this afternoon by Assistant Adjutant General Gorbin. The narrative throws a flood of light on the old chief's wily character and strongly depicts the cir cumstances existing in the isolated camp. The document is addressed to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morgan, by United States Indian Agent McLaughlin, of Standing Rock agency, and is in part as follows:

Learning that a ghost dance was in progress in Sitting Bull's camp and that a large number of Indians of the Grand river settlement were participating, McLaughlin concluded to take them by surprise. Sunday morning he left for that settlement, accompanied by Louis Prineau, and got there unexpectedly and found the ghost dance at its hight. A majority of the boys and girls participating were, until a few weeks ago, pupils of the Indian schools at the Grand river settlements

McLaughlin did not attempt to stop the dance but remained over night and next day had a long talk with Sitting Bull and a number of his followers. He spoke very plainly to them, pointing out what had been done by the Government for the Sioux people and how this brought in are now here or near, leav-faction, by their present conduct, ing about 200 bucks in the Bad Lands, were who refuse to listen to any one or any ABUSING THE CONFIDENCE thing. Against these I will send a sufficient force to capture or fight them. All has been done that can be done. The Indians now out have a great many stolen horses and cattle with them. I hope to be able to end this

matter now."

The following official telegram was also received:

that had been reposed in them by the Government in its magnanimity in granting them full annesty for all past offenses when from destitution, and imminent starvation, they were compelled to surrender as prisoners of war, and dwelt at length upon what has been done by the Government for their own industrial advancement and

ceived an official dispatch from St. Paul saying that Sitting Bull, five of Sitting Bull's men and seven of the Indian police were killed in a fight today following an attempt by the police to arrest Sitting Bull. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Indian Commissioner Morgan this evening received from Indian Agent McLaughlin the following dispatch: "The Indian police arrested Sitting Bull at his camp, fifty miles northwest of the agency, this morning at daylight. His followers attempted to rescue him and a fight com- To Colonel Corbin, Assistant Adjutant-assured them of what this absurd menced. Four policemen General, Chicago: killed and three wounded. Eight Sitting Bull was arrested this morn-izing dances and disregard of deIndians were killed, including Sit-ing at daylight by the Indian police. partment orders were not soon disfight ensued. Sitting Bull, his son, Friends attempted his rescue and a Blackbird, Catch Bear and four others were killed, also seven Indian police. Captain Fechet arrived just in time with his two troops, Hotchkiss and Gatling guns, and secured the body of Sitting Bull.

were

ST. PAUL, Dec. 13.

craze would lead to if these demoral

continued.

ting Bull and his son, Crowfoot, and seven others were wounded. The Sitting Bull, while very obstinate police were surrounded for some and at first inclined to assume the time, but maintained their ground role of "Big Chief," finally admituntil reinforced by United States ted the truth of McLaughlin's reatroops, who now have possession of soning. He had a proposition to Sitting Bull's camp, with all the make, which, if the Indian agent women, children and property. COMMANDING GENERAL MILES. would agree to, and would carry out Sitting Bull's followers, probably ST. PAUL, Dec. 15.-A dispatch would allay all further excitement one hundred men, deserted their to the Pioneer Press from Dickinson, among the Sioux over the ghost families and fled west up the Grand N. D., about today's fight, says it is dance. Sitting Bull stated his propRiver. The police behaved uobly, estimated there are 150 warriors in osition, which was that McLaughlin and great credit is due them. Par- the band which fled up Grand should accompany him on a journey ticulars by mail.” River after the killing of Sitting to trace from this agency to each of Commissioner Morgan showed Bull. Several troops of cavalry are the other tribes of Indians through this telegram to the President late after them in different dire tions, which the story of the Indien Mesthis evening. The President said and it is expected they will be siah has been brought, and when he he had regarded Sitting Bull as a quickly healed off. A general out- reached the last tribe, or where it great disturbing element in the break on the Sioux reservation is originated, if they could not produce tribes, and now that he was out of not feared, and these disaffected the man who started the story and the way, hoped a settlement of the bands which are now giving trou- did not find the new Messiah as dedifficulties could be made without ble will soon be placed where they scribed upon earth, together with further bloodshed. will cease to be cause for alarm for the dead Indians returning to reinGeneral Schofield this afternoon the settlers. The Sioux reservation habitate this country, he would received two telegrams from General is surrounded by troops thoroughly return convinced that they (the InRuger, commanding the Depart-equipped for a winter campaign.dians) had been imposed upon,

deliberation.

McLaughlin found that the active members of the dance were not more than half the number of the earlier dancers, and believes the craze is losing ground among the Indians; while there are many who are half believers here, he is fully satisfied that he can keep the dance confined to the Grand River district. From close observation he is convinced that the dance can be broken up, and after due reflection would respectfully suggest, in case this visit to Sitting Bull fails to bring him in, as invited to do, that all Indians living on Grand River be notified that those wishing to be

known as

victims to the vengeance of Sitting
Bull's followers. Sitting Bull's son
who was killed was only twelve
years old.

An enterprising Bismarck mer-
chant this morning offered $1000 for
Sitting Bull's hide.

being a leader in battle, and never has been. He was addressed as chief, but the wily, ambitious old rascal, with more of the politician in him than ordinarily credited to on the the savage, by working superstitions and fears of the InST PAUL, Dec. 16.-Today's ad- dians, gained whatever prestige he vices from Standing Rock are to the had, and just how those who sureffect that the arrest of Sitting Bull vive him will take his death cannot was decided upon by Agent Mc- be estimated. The other leaders, Laughlin when he heard on Sunday who hated him, will surely not seek that the wily old chief and his fol- to avenge his death. Still, he had lowers were about to set out for the gained a considerable following Bad Lands. Once there it would among the ghost dancers, and these be a long time and there would be may attempt something in revenge. much hard fighting, before any of The people around Bismarck and the hostiles could be taken or starved in the neighborhood of Standing out. Therefore, orders were given Rock Agency are greatly wrought to the police, and they set out Sun-up over the killing and express fears day night, the troops following. By for the outcome. They think the early morning the police had followers that Bull had at the time reached the camp, with the cavalry of his death will attack the scattered three miles in the rear, and the in- settlers along the frontier and kill fantry much farther away. On reach- whom they can. ing camp the police found the camp- The scene at the agency today ers almost ready to move. Sitting was indescribable. The death of Bull was seized and placed under the Indian medicine men, the arrest, but not bound, and the police flower of the tribe, will be mourned quickly started for the agency. But by the squaws for weeks and the old the followers of the old man soon warriors will join in mourning for got over their surprise, and a sharp the present. fire was at once opened on the police. The police responded in kind and them Sitting Bull and his son, several fell from their horses, among Blackbird. The old medicine man had tried to direct matters for a time by loudly-shouted orders, but his fall

UPSET THE HOSTILES.

They at once rallied, however, and surrounded the police, who fought bravely and well, but would not the cavalry, who had been sent soon have been overpowered had for, arrived on the scene. The police were at that time almost out of ammunition and fighting hand to hand, but the sight of the soldiers and the roar of the machine guns alarmed the hostiles, and they fled lowed for but a short distance, and up Grand River. The cavalry folthen returned to camp and took pos

It will be a grand funeral these The death policemen will have. song will continue for weeks.

ceived from Standing Rock Agency The Fioneer-Press has just reby courier to Bismarck the first authentic accounts of yesterday's

battle that have been received. The soldiers have been already given. facts of the trip of the police and The police were in camp over night near Sitting Bull's camp, and in the morning, under command of Bull Head, lieutenant, and Shave Head, first sergeant, went in and made the arrest. Sitting Bull expressed a said he wanted to get ready for the willingness to go with them, but trip.

OPPOSED TO THE GHOST DOCTRINE and friendly to the Government desiring the support provided in the treaty must report to the agency and be required to camp near the agency for a few weeks, and those practising their medicine practices in violation of Department orders to remain on Grand river, from whom subsistence will be held. Something looking toward breaking up this craze must be done, and now that cold weather is approaching, is the proper time. Such a step as here suggested would leave Sitting Bull with but few session of the bodies of Sitting Bull the old chief was getting ready two

followers, as all, or nearly all, would report for enrollment and thus he

would be forced in himself. CHICAGO, Dec. 18.-Up to noon

and his son.

three wounded, and it is thought
Four policemen were killed and

his tent, after he had ordered his horse to be gotten ready. While

Two leaders went with him into

blankets, opened fire on the police. bucks wrapped in blankets entered the tepe and, throwing off their that altogether eight of the hostiles today no further news was received year-old son of Sitting Bull, and asutside, which seems to have been were killed. Crowfoot, the twelve- Sitting Bull's wife set up a howl number of others were wounded. the signal for an assault. In the fight which followed, Red Sitting Bull's followers, when Tomahawk killed Sitting Bull. they fled up Grand river, left be- Many of Sitting Bull's followers bind them were killed and Bullhead and Shave Head desperately wounded and will undoubtedly die.

at the army headquarters regarding the situation in the Northwest. Speaking of the death of Sitting Bull Adjutant-General Corbin said to an Associated Press reporter that it was most probably the beginning of the end of the trouble. He said that as Sitting Bull was dead, the Indians, who had great faith in him as a medicine man, would come in to settle the difficulty with the agency within the next two or three days, when they hear of his death. If they do not General Brooke has things in shape to make short work of them. They are penned up in the Bad Lands where nobody lives and where they cau do no damage. Dec. 16. The

MINNEAPOLIS,

all their tents and

families, which will be turned over
to the agency. After going a short
distance up the river, the fleeing
The police were now surrounded,
redskins scattered and went off in but the military arrived, and after
all directions through the country
toward the Bad Lands. Some of an hour and a half of hot skirmish-
them may try to reach the Indiansing, the Indians took to flight and
of Two Strike's band, further south, disappeared in the timber. Four
while others will seek to escape to police were killed and two mortally
the north. However, there is little
chance for them in any direction.
The soldiers are located all around
the Bad Lands and the Indians
will have little chance to get at the
few ranchers that are located in
that district. Even if they attempt
to go on small raids, the soldiers are
placed so as to head them off.

Journal's, Bismarck, N. D., special
say-The country round about is
terribly wrought up over the killing
Sitting Bull. Instead of creating
a easy feeling, it has aroused much THE EFFECT OF THE DEATH
rehension. It is feared that of Sitting Bull is problematical.
many families of settlers will fall He was not a chief in the sense of

wounded. Seven hostiles were killed at least.

DENVER, Col., Dec. 16.-A News courier from a camp near Daly's ranch has the following from Rapid rived in great haste to our comCity, Dak.: A rancher has just armanding officer and reports that a command of cavalry were attacked and two officers and fifty men were killed, but the Indians were repulsed with heavy losses. The number of Indians killed is not