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Kr|Hrl« «•! Indian UeccUed i»«Army Ue»*l*|Ui»rt®r».Cm* \oo. L^uiuImM' **••--A ,r* . *-lved at Army U*-a»I«|uartor^ yesterday, from Battle Creek, S. D , stated that a letter had Just been received by a courier from i'upt. \V«*lIs. at the mo !i. Kivu.-h Cr*--k. stating that a light had occurred there Peceruber I U'-.tt-n jo *rout ami a roaming baud of mlt;*u\. Fiv.* Indians were killed. but t li«* loss of ili« whites wasnot known.A dispatch from lien. Brooke said that reports received by him on the night f tin 11th showed a decidedly hostile in* u*nl on the p.trx of the Indians in the Bad Lands. Ho feared that theeoFishm l»ctwlt;-on some citizens and thf Indians had lurnod the scale.Information from Fort IS* nn*-tt goes t.* simw that th*' Indians at Clu*rry i reek Agency an* greatly excited. and that under th*' leadership of Big Foot they ar*- keeping op th*- ghost dam**. Tin.* Indian w*dt**m*oit i* Increased hy th* r-| »ri that batuN *»f Sioux from from K*sebud and Pino Kidgc an* mu. -ing in th*- direction of Cherry t rook.IVd f »rhin said last night that it was not known whether **r not th*- light referred t«» l*y Ccu. Brook wastheone that ♦v eurrc*! at French Crook. If not, continued the Colonel. then* have been two rows, and of the one n*f«rr**«l to by i. -n. Brooke w.- know nothing as vet. I: i- t*. In- feared, now that there ha been blomisloii, that there will h«* mor«* trouble, for if an Indian knows that -on»e of ids trib*- nave been hurl h»* will forego hi peaceful intentions. Two Strike was oil his wav into Pine KiUg*\ and It i' f'-ar. d that he will turn back when he hears lt;*f tin* French * reek ailasr. In ail probability Kicking Hear Bid short Bull are tin- instigator-* f vjii-h trouble alt; lias occurred.’*
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Wheeling Register
Wheeling, West Virginia, US
Tue, Dec 16, 1890
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