The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-06-26
THE INDIAN WAR.
Attack on the Employees Of tie
Kansas Pacific Railroad.
TH Il e K MEN KILLED..
e N KILLE D.

ST. LOUIS, June "A.
A dispatch from the present terminus of the
kansas Pacific Railroad says the Indians have
driven the guarding parties of the railroad in
to Fort Harker; also that two railroad men
and two residents We're killed near Bunker
Hill. twenty miles west of Fort Harker on
Saturday, and considerable amount of stock
had been driven off. Efforts were being made
20 procure arms for the railroad employees
many OF whom have already left their work,
and it WAS feared all will leave unless they are
better protected. @-fa g q ~ 80 y
The excursion party from Fort Wallace ar
rived at Fort Salina to-day, all in good health.
Im,Il4 4 q ti4g LAWRENCE, Va, June "a. 81
The grading parties on the Pacific Railroad
within twenty miles of Bunker Hill were At
tackled by the Kiowa Indians on Saturday last
Three men were killed and the remainder driy-
en- Off All work on the road is suspended be-
yond wilson's Greek, and unless prompt meas
ures are taken by the military the progress of
the road will be greatly retarded. As matters
now stand the lives and property Of the people
on the border are totally unprotected
GOV. Crawford is making an effort to obtain
arms and ammunition from the military to
arm railroad employees in the disturbed dis
trict. i'a tesst7fif ti
% ST. LOUIS, June rs.
Omaha dispatches report q general cessation
route. I..,5 - ,4ssl.srsat' --...71--'E =
Gen. Augur has reached Fort Laramie from
Fort Morgan, and reports all WELL &
Capt. Mix's cavalry have been scouting on
the head waters of the Republican river in ali
directions for eight days, going 140 miles south,
and then returned to Fort Sedgwick Saturday
having seen no Indians nor any SIGNS of them.
Gen. Potter had returned from Pole Greek
Crossing, after an absence of four days, with
out seeing any Indians OF q
Col. Greene, with five companies of infantry
and one OF cavalry, left Fort Phil Kearney on
the 4th OF Jnne with supplies for Fort c. F.
smith, nine miles north OF which post eommu-
nication had been cut off all winter The In
dians seem to have left the Platte River Val
ley, some going north and west and others go-
ing south. The latter are undoubtedly those
who made the raid on the Smoky Hill route
and the Kansas Pacific Railway ON Saturday
last. va .s ltfI RI aa. efalsH r
Fresh outrages on the Arkansas, in the vi
entity OF Fort Dodge and along the Santa Fe
route are reported, and it is not impossi-
Bile that the theatre of war will be changed
from the Platte and Smoky Hill route TO the
Arkansas and south of it.
At st. Joseph special despatch says that
Gen. Terry and Gen. Sherman have each
written letters to the Governor of Dacotah
advising the postponement of the contompia-
ted exploring expedition to the Black bills.
They say that the country is still conceded In
dian land, and that any attempt to occupy it
by the whites will be resisted by the Indians,
and that in the present condition of affairs the
government cannot furnish protection to the
expedition. is7'il.-l19s 81 Ha = a.,.Ill WI
The telegraph line between Fort Cooper and
South Pass, for q distance of 175 miles, is now
and has been for twelve weeks in the hands of
the Indians 80 - - ! -