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p9THE JIG IS NOW l’P.SITTING BULL, TBS MOVING SPIRIT IN GBOST DANCBS,. j His WiHttd His List Birbinia Quadnll*—He isKilled id id AtKmpt of the Indian Police to .Vrrtsl Him—H s Son Also Falls i Victim.If I —-. ISt. 1*ai t., I ieeemlier 15.—1Tit© lie* . of the killing «»f Sitting Bull has been ,, confirmed by advice** received l»y t»cn.. Miles at the military headquarters iu this city, lie received two dispatcher* j this evening from Pierre, S. I)., staling j . that Sitting Bull and his son had been | J | killed, but giving no further partial-; lar*». The other dispatch was from . Standing Rock Agency, and stated that ! the Indian police started out this morn- ; I ing to arrest Sitting Bull, having under- J ,'l*M»d that he proposed starting for tin* j j Bad Lands at once. The police were followed by a tr.wip of cavalry, under Captain Fouehet. and infantry, »m-' ider I’ol. Drum. When the police i» reached Sitting Bllir* lt;amp on;* the Brand river, about forty miles from r Standing Bock, they found arrange-s | ments being made for departure. The* [ cavalry had not yet reached the camp | -! wheu the police arrested Bull and start- ;* I ed back with him. Hi* followers quick-j* ly rallied t » hi- rescue and tried to re-* ■ take him. In the wele.* that ensued thewily old t hief is said to have beeu kill-f! ed and live of the best Indian police •* were also killed. One of the pollcu t imped on one of Sitting Bulls horses ‘ and rode back to the cavalry and li»-* fantry. telling them to hurry up to the support of the police, and then rode on. to the agency with new*, of tin* battle.* j Nothing later than thishas yet been re* I reived.
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Wheeling Register
Wheeling, West Virginia, US
Tue, Dec 16, 1890
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