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Driven From Home

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
April
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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FAKMERS EVJCTED. Pierre, D. T., April 36.- Correspondents ,and others who returned yesterday morn'ing from the Winnebago aad Crow creek 'reservations in compauy with Sheriff Harris say that the greatest excitemeat prevails among tho reds and whites ia that country. Indian warriors covered with war paint, armed with Winchesters, and mounted on gooi horses wera encountered on theroad folio wing up the United State troops. The news that, the sollicr9 are on the scène to drive out tho settlers irom the reservations is known in every Indian tepee, and the chant of squaws and braves is heard all night long. Last night company E campcd on the Chain-Burch creek, twelve milos irom the edga of the .Big Bend, and proeeeded j'estcrday morning to carry out instructions. They were re-anforoel by a mob of lndiaus, who aro coming from all parts of tha reservation. Over 3J0 actual farmers still resido on these lands. a number of whom have plowed over acres each and put in seed. The number of settlers that came under tho provisions of the Cleveland ousüng proclanwstion was over 800. Half -breed Gilliam, a scout, fears trouble with the Sioux, and reports them quietly leaving the Big Sioux reservation. The Big Beud settlers have resolved to raake no resistence to the soldiers, but to return as soon as the soldiers are gone. A dispatch from Agent Auderson repons that the settlers are moving away quietly. Much fear is feit that the Indiana, who ave bold and rockless, may destroy the settlers' property.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register