The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-25
PORT HAYS DESTROYED

yesterday, and the soil is equal to any
in the neighborhood of Junction City.
FORT HAYS DESTROYED.
By $3.50 we were at Fort Hays and had
our tents pitched near Big creek, with
in one mile of the Fort.
We have seen the last of Fort Hays,
as the storm of Saturday has complete
ly destroyed it, and General Hancock
! has determined on removing its loca-
ton eight miles west OF this.
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Lett from n wheeling Boy I'm the
Par west---The IndIanH---HOW Ham
cock Flights Them.
We are permitted to extract the fol-
lowing from letter received by gem
tleman in this city:
FORT WALLACE, KANSAS,
June 8 1867.
S.v This is very pretty
place for fort. 1t is on the plains,
and you can see for miles and miles
either East or West, but North and
south there are small hills, or rather
the ground has a slight raise, so that
you cannot see more than two or three
miles. There are small rayines all
along the road from Fort Ellsworth
here. The Smoky Hill river runs
about three rods from the Fort, East
and West, " is very small stream to
be called a river, not near SO large as
the creek that empties into the Ohio
river at Bridgeport, Ohio.
The wood they burn here is cotton
wood, and has TO be hauled from forty
to sixty miles. The stone they use In
building, they find under the ground in
beds-Or rather layers. The first layer
is two and half feet under the ground,
aud is from two to three feet deep, and
they dig that layer up and then dig
down two feet more, and still ind
another bed OF rock not quite as thick !;
and still deeper, until they come to the
fourth layer OF rock. The rock is very
soft when dug out of the ground, but
the longer IL Lays in the sun, the harder
IL gets. They use an axe and jack plane
and saw in cutting the stone for the
buildings.
saw two men yesterday that were
scalped, four miles from here, yester-
day afternoon. One of them had seven
arrows in his body, when found, and
the other had but one. One of the men
had his head cut all TO pieces: the other
only had the top of his head OF. They
had been living here for two years,
and the Indians had warned them sew
eral times to leave the country, or they
would kill them, but they still re-
manned out here, and yesterday the In
dians layed in wait for them in a small
ravine only short distance from their
shanty, and as the two men were on
their way TO the Fort, and coming along
by the ravine they jumped on them.
There were about thirty Indians, and
they came on them from all sides.
One of the men was a married man,
and his wife was in hearing distance,
and when she heard the firing she went
TO the door and saw them kill her hus-
band and the man with him. One of
the men had a 16.shooter and two navy
| Il, n
two revolvers. The fight lasted more
than an hour, SO the lady stated to the
commander of the post. The man that
had his head cut to pieces had his hand
raised up over his head, as is If to try
and ward of the blow. The Indians now
kill every white man they can catch,
except the stage drivers, and they pass
by them and say nothing to them.
When was at Fort Hayes, saw
three Indian scouts that belonged to
Gen. Custar's command. They were
dressed up In their Indian cos
tunes, and had their faces painted, ,
They belonged to the Delaware tribe,
but came in and gave themselves up
| and wanted 10 act as spies, and get one
hundred dollars per month and rations.
Gen. Hancock Is along the line of the
Smoky or Arkansaw, L don't know
which. Hedon't know any more about
fighting Indians than do. The 1st oI
| May he and Hunter got eight hundred
| Indians as prisoners. You might say
J he had them SO that they could not get
I away, and sent after the Indian Chlel
and gave him gold watch and several
other presents and wanted him to sign
| a treaty of peace. The Indian Chief
/ told him he would go back to camp and
come over in the morning and sign the
treaty, as they were tired of fighting.
So back to camp he went and General
Hancock ordered the pickets 10 come1n.
They came in; and in the morning Mr..
| Indians were not in sight, and have not
been IN sight since dark that night.
, Custar had his cavalry drawn up in
| line OF battle while Hancock and the
Chief were talking, and WAS going 70
kill them all right on the spot, but
Hancock said that he was commanding
the forces and he was going TO have the
men obey his orders, and Cnstar as a
matter of course had TO keep still. This
got from an officer at Fort Hays. He
was not talking to me in person, but
heard the conversation. w. HIS.
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AQUBER AFFAIR.-A st. Louis pa
per says: The baby mentioned yester-
day as having been found in a basket
in front of Mr.. Bankers, house, on Gay
street, was the innocent cause of a seri-
Gus wrong being done to a young lady.
said young lady had purchased nice
baslret from Warne & Cheever's, 70 go
10 a pic-nic. and attached a card
with her name on IL to the basket to
prevent losing 1t. Returning from the
picnic in the evening. she went into an
| Ice cream saloon, and sat the basket