New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-25
INKPADUTAH AND HIS BAND.

Correspondence Of The 81. Paul Times
PAJUrAzEE, June |, 1888.
AS some excitement has been caused by recent
anne uIcemeDt that lDkpadutsh Ia horse 50 called
was captured Lear ST. Peter. some of your readers
may feel DESTROYS Of knowing what has become of tbs
old man who acquired such celebrity about year ago.
in Consequence Of the murders committed by his sons
and their coDfederatss. Not long SITTER the rescue OF
Miss Gardner the old left the party las think
has been announced in your psper, snd with tso or
tbrse OF his children, and their families, crossed t1e
Missouri aud were Hospitality received by band OF
Teors. The remainder OF the party were overtakep
by the annuity Indians sent IN pursuit OF them by
Msjor Cullen, and though fewer OF them los;
their lives than a. first reported, suffered
severely, as some Of them we're severely wounded,
and in their fight they abandoned their
tents with large amount Of goods, oil that remained
Of the plumber Trey had taken from those they mar
dered; all Of which fell into the hands oil ana was
brought away by their pursuers More AFRAID OF their
own people than of white men, destitute Of tents, and
almost naked they passed the Winter very miseraby
in the neighborhood OF the Big Sioux River, between
MedaIy ar the mouth and getting what supplies they
could by begging ard trading from the settlers on that
river. 1t pobabls that those whom they visted were
not genersy they he'd TO do with the Spirit Lake
murderers This Spring they started north in search OF
buffalo and not far from Snake River branch OF the
James River, they were met by son Of lOkpaduAh,
from be yond the Missouri WITH iovt alton for them to
go and join the Cheyennes who boast that they we're
the principal actors in cutting OFT the large party OF
CslifC mia emigrants destroyed last Fail. Owing TO
toe Missouri this was attributed to the Ietons, aud
said to have occurred the Missouri nstccd OF TO
the south Of Salt Lake. The mistake will not appear
very strange, if we bear in mind that the man was
entirely igi Grant Of tbs country beyond the Missouri
River ardthat the Cheyennes have been in league wit a
the TesoDs, and till recently seemed al part Of tae
Daeotsh nation. When the mau hsw end heard the
Tetors exutDg in the victory as their own. it is not
strange be shoud have thought the battle-ground was
Iesr whsre they then were.
The Cbeyennes report that they cut of the whole
party, except one man, Interpreter, and that they
pu. him on mule and told him to go back to the
country Of the long knives and bring another large
party, with many cattle horses and wagons; and II
he did so-and when the battle commenced, he would
step asde and call to them-they would again spare
his life.
give you there reports as get them from the D'-
cotahs WI o call on me, and l suppose them TO be
enthusiastically correct. If SO, the whole of the Spirit
Lake murderers who survive are probably now with
the Cbeyennes in Western Kansas or Nebraska, where
it msy be hoped they will ere long, receive from some
division Of the Utah army that punishment whic
crimes deserve. THos. WILLIAMsoS.