The sheriff was extremely angry with the agent, and hot words followed.  The Indians, getting an idea of what was happening, thought the agent was protecting them against the law, and rode round the sheriff in a circle and defied him.

After they had been riding a few minutes, they made a much wider circle, so that they were out of his reach, and one of the number called out that he had shot the herder, and defied the sheriff to capture him.

This Indian was a young man named Badger, who had been sent to Carlisle and educated, and from whom good things had been expected—­but, like many of the Indians who are sent away to be educated, he had fallen back into his old habits on his return to the reservation, and in blanket and war-paint was as much a savage as if he had never been taught the blessings of civilization.

The sheriff made fresh demands for the guilty men, and finally Badger was arrested.  In the mean while it was found that several other Cheyennes had taken part in the murder, and the sheriff demanded that they also should be handed over to justice.

This the Indians would not agree to.  They said that one white man had been killed, and one Indian had been given up for him.  They could not be made to see that all the guilty men should be punished.  They thought it unreasonable to ask for four or five Indians in exchange for but one white man.

When the sheriff insisted they got very ugly, and finally two hundred of them left the reservation and went on the war-path.

It has been reported that the Cheyennes sent messages to the Sioux, asking them to join the war party, but the Sioux declined.

Some trouble is feared, but nothing of a very serious nature.

The settlers will not return to their homes till White Bull is caught, and though the commanders at the forts are trying to assure them that there is no danger, they prefer to keep their women and children in safety until White Bull has been captured and the band dispersed.

Round-ups are suspended, sheep-shearing has ceased, and everybody is armed for war.

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Word has just reached us that the American sailors who were imprisoned for nearly two years in Siberia were safely landed in San Francisco on the 4th of June.

After the Russians had succeeded in deceiving the American naval officers, as we told you on page 361 of THE GREAT ROUND WORLD, the sailors gave themselves up for lost.

Their friends in California, however, appealed to our Minister in Russia, and on the 20th of last March an order for their release was sent to the prison.

The sailors lost no time in leaving Siberia, and making their way home to their own country.

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Southern California has just been celebrating its annual flower festival.  These occasions are so interesting that you would probably like to hear about them.