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J. Hi. Woodbury, Tribal Chief of Chip pewas, in Sioux City Today, Dis cusses Killing in Wyoming. New Castle, Wyo., Nov. 3.—Sheriff W. H. Miller of Weston county, and one of his posse named Fosenburg are dead as a result of a fight with twelve wagon loads of Sioux Indians, Saturday, three miles below Leaver dam, on Lightning creek, Converse county. The Indians were from Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations in South Dakota, and were violating the game laws of the state. The sherif’s posse rounded up the redskins Saturday and demanded their surrender. The Sioux, who were from Pine Ridge agency, opened fire and a sharp fight ensued, in which Fossenburg was in stantly killed and Sheriff Miller mor tally wounded, dying half an hour later. His body was taken to New Cas tle by the remainder of the posse. Members of the posse report that at least six Indians were killed and sev eral wounded, among the latter being Chief Eagle Feather, who is being brought here a prisoner. A new and larger posse started after the Indians, who are in the country surrounding the scene of the first fight, and another battle was expected if the Indians again refused to surrender. Joseph H. Woodbury, whose Indian name is Hole-in-the-Day, tribal chief of the Chippewa Indians, who is an employe at the Pine Ridge Indian res ervation agency, cannot understand how the Wyoming killing by Indians came about. Mr. Woodbury is in Sioux City today. He said: “The Indians who were guilty of the murders must have been Ogailalla Sioux, for they came from Pine Ridge. I presume the fight came about as the result of whisky given the Indians while on a vacation. They probably killed game and so got into trouble with the game wardens. When the officers tried to control them, they were excited by liquor and did some shoot ing. The Ogailalla Sioux, while by na ture warlike, are now the most docile of any in the country, the finest In dians, I would say.”
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Mitchell Daily Republican
Mitchell, South Dakota, US
Wed, Nov 04, 1903
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