White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-06-11
tFrOm the Kansas City Enterprise, May ~
LATEST FROM THE MOUNTAINS,


LATEST FROM THE MOUNTAINS.
Arrival Of Tim. GoodsR. The Mountain
ser. at Kansas City-Narder By the
Bl0ekfset Endions-A Great Fight and
Great VietOry By the Snokes-Tht Che
yennes Preparing for Var NTH the
Troqps-7aIk Nth Long Chin-Feel-
in9s Of the Siouz.
Tim. Goedeil, the celebrated mountaneer and
guide, arrived in this city on Monday last He
spent the winter on Green river, west Of the
Rocky Mountains. The winter was one of the
most severe ever known. The Utah Indians on
Bitter Greek Inst almost their entire stock Of
horses. From Mr.. Goodell we learn the follow
ing particulars:
At the crossing of the North Platte he met
an Indian trader named Saunders, who had just
returned from an expedition in search of a Grow
village. His party consisted, at setting out, Of
three white men and four Crow Indians. They
we're attacked en- Powder river by party of
thirty Blaekfeet, who killed one of the white
men, named Scott, a Canadian trader, and two
Of the Crows Saunders was wounded in the
shoulder.
About three days after the above occurrence
band Of Snake Indians came across party Of
Blackfeet, numbering twenty eight warriors,
near FremOnt's Peak, and after hard hattie,
killed twenty-seven, leaving but one to tell the
story to his tribe. This is the most successful
battle ever fought in the mountains. The Snakes
Loaf not single brave. The wild rejoieings
were going on in the tribe-feasting, dancing,
and an descriptions of savage orgies being car
ried on day and night. They were so elated that
they sent portion OF their scalps by French
trader to the Sioux, having as they said more
than they warted.
Goodell met Long Chin, the Sioux chief, who
headed the murder of the mail party two We Irs
ago, and was prisoner for some time at Fort
Lealenworth, at the trading house of Major
Dripps, at Ash Hollow, and had long talk.
Long Chin told him that the Cheyennes had
sent word to the Sioux that if they would meet
them at the Forks of the Platte, and take their
old men, women and children to the lodges Of
the Sioux, north Of the Platte, they would give
them sixty or seventy horses and mules, and
then the yOung men Of the Sioux to join them in
their excursions against the emigrant trains on
the plains.
But Long Chin said he had been down among
the whites, on their big boats, and seen so many
men, that he knew it was no use to fight, and
that the Sioux would have nothing to do with
the matter.
On his way in Mr.. Goodell saw few lodges
Of Cheyennes They told him that they had
killed more Indians than the whites had killed
of them, and if the government wanted to make
peace they were willing; but if more fight was
wanted, they were ready. He also learned at
Ash Hollow, through a Cheyenne squaw, the
wife of a white man called Sailor Jack, that she
had just returned from visit to the village
that the Cheyennes were mostly collected on
the Republican Fork of the Kansas, and that
they were expecting visit from the United
States troops the coming summer They did
not expect or intend to fight the troops great
deal, but were going to put the women and chill
dren out of the way, and then scatter in small
bands from the Platte to the Arkansas, and they
say that they can, in that way, "kilI all they
want, and get plenty Of white women for pris-
onsrs'" This is their exact language.