The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-18
the INDIAN WAR.

massacres in Montana and New Mexioo-Murders
on me foWder River Routc--lneffcency Of the
Authorities - = w
The Leavenworth Times publishes the follow
ing statement of Charles Miller, late City Mar.
shal, just returned from ethe Powder River
c0untry:-
= Every one who has passed over the Powder
river route is convinced that the Laramie Peace
commissioners aud Colonels Maynadier and
Darlington are to blame for the loss of life pro-
Perty, and suherings of those who have travelled
route would have gone 'by salt Lake had thew
not been assured by the Government officials at
Laramie that the Powder river route was safe
and that Colonel Darlington had force sufficient
TO protect emigrants. The value of that assu-
rance can be testified to by the bones that now
lie bleaching on the road. The indians turned
upon us the very guns powder, ard balls they
received from thesutler at Fort Laramie In eX-
change Tor presents given by the Commissioners.
Darlington can scarcely protect himself much
less the lives OF travellers. Three times in four
hundred miles we had to beat off the Indians.
Near The Yellow Stone we thought we were
out OF danger and the wagons with the lightest
loads struck out ahead. A band OF Arrapahoes
followed soon after, and discovering that the
train had been divided they attacked It, and
killed and scalped three persons.
1he Montana papers say that three hundred
Cheyenne Indians made an attack on the mines
at Green River Diggings, and killed forty of a
party aDont seventy strong. The remainder
have abandoned that country, and scattered to
The settlements; also, that small parties going
down the Missourian "mackinaws," from Fort
Benton, have been murdered by the Indians,
and that the Seneca Falls Company have been
murdered and robbed on their way home in q
small "mackinawn
The Denver Ne,os say that the Tabegaucheutes
have commenced active hostilities against the
Mexican residents at Trinidad, and along the
Purgatore. There is report of a twelve hours
hight The Indians being determined upon q
general massacre, the settlers in the region of
the disturbance are said TO be panic-stricken,
and, leaving their herds scattered and crops un-
gathered, are focking to Puebla aud other
danger of an outbreak by the New Mexican
tribes. 1t may be stopped by the arrival OF
their annuity goods. rer r..-7
BY arrivals direct from the plains learn that
Ward, sutler at Fort Laramie has borro wed
seventy-fve kegs of powder from Colonel May
nader to give to the Sioux and Cheyennes.
Coionel Darlington, at Fort kenney, is openly
charged with the furnishing of powder to the
Cheyennes, and placing troops on picket with
empty muskets and no ammunition, with in
structons to salute Indians. 1t Is said he has
instructed freighters not to fire upon them, but
to allow them to come into their camps. The
Indians ride into camps and massacre all they
can, shooting teamsters and others. The suffers
at Fort Laramie have furnished the Indians with
Hawkins rifles, and traded war implements to
them for their amnesty presents.
Colonel Darlington has an interpreter married
to Cheyenne squaw, who keeps the Indians
fully informed of the movements of troops.
The Indians visit Fort Kearney with stolen
Government horses and mules which CARING
ton allows them to keep, and also sorders out
the band to play for them. l also hear he is
posted as a coward by his troops, and will not
afford protection to trains when needed. Indian
seuaws and traders are at all posts on the route,
obtaining information for Indians. General
Sherman did not visit the Powder river posts.
The treaty was not signed by the chiefs They
left when they ascertained that the Powder
river road would not be abandoned. The
Indians are very hostile, and are warning on all
whites except those IL posts, stealing Govern
ment stock under the guns OF the forts, and
they are supplied with rations by the military
commanders