The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-08-15

WolI hoWl 80 long as ne makes no deila-
onstration upon the fold of the flock.
The Indian War---They Destroy a Freight
Train-0heyenne City, It's Location &C..
Omaha Her People and Prospects,
Correspondence Kenosha Telegraph
OMAHA, Aug, z, 1867.
Editors Kenosha Telegraph:
The wires of the Pacific r. R. Co., bring US
the startling intelligence this morning, that
rowing band Of Indians made q successful at
tack on a westward bound freight train near
Plum creek station, 23O miles west of this
place-by placing quantity of cross ties on
the track, which threw the locomotive off and
wrecking the whole train of % cars loaded
with government supplies and merchandise
for Julesburgh and Denver.
They then killed and scalped the engineer,
fireman and brakesman-the conductor IA
vored by the darkness, making his escape, and
bringing the shocking news to the station,
from whence it was telegraphed to this city.
After completing the horrid butchery Eye
gentle savages" set fire to the wreck, reducing
the whole mass to heap of ashes.
This developes new phase in this Indian
war, and excites the gravest apprehensions for
the safety of the road, and of the station
houses and other property of the company.
| Up to this time it has been claimed that the
Indians stood in mortal fear of the "hre
horse" and that consequently the trains on
the road would be safe from molestation; but
having been perfectly successful in this, the
first attack, they will be emboldened to make
similar raids, even upon passenger TRAINS
The government troops can afford no protec-
ton except for escort or garrison duty. If
they give chase to the red devils they can't
catch them mounted on their ponies, as they
are the best riders in the world, and so, what
is to be done?
Men of long experience in the mountains
and on the plains, say there is no remedy but
for the government to grant authority for
organizing and arming the mountaineers,
trappers, hunters and miners, in companies of
| so to 100 men,-choosing the officers from
among themselves, and that they will under
take to finish up this war in sixty days. These
men knowing the habits and haunts ofthe In
dams and their modes of fighting, will adopt
their tactics, moving in small bodies, and with
secrecy and caution; will way-lay and surprise
their war parties; will capture and destroy
/ their villages, crops and cattle, and they will
be very soon sueing for peace.
| The r. r. Co., expect to have their road
completed to Cheyenne, the new city that is
| to be) at the foot of the mountains, $50 miles
west of Omaha by the 1st of October. The
trains now run to Julesburgh, about 400 miles
which will be the transfer station for passen-
gers and freight for Denver, in q southwest
course, and distant 100 miles.
| Julesburgh of course makes large preten-
sions, and no doubt will be point of some
| Importance. The first frame house was erect
ed the middle of June, since which time $50
houses have been .built-half of them for
drinking and gambling houses; and the town
| is said to be moral pandemonium. The pop
ulation is composed chiefly of roughs, gam
blers and demi mondes, all going armed to the
teeth. Even the latter carrying fancy derrin-
gers or inch colts revolvers; and it is report
ed that hardly night passes but some one
! falls victim to the rapacity Of the human
vultures that infest the place.
l 1t is stated, however, that the business men
of Julesburgh have just now organized y5gi-
lance committee, a-la-San Francisco and intend
to make short and swift work with the gam
blers and murderers who had well nigh taken
possession of the town.
Cheyenne city, just located by the r. r. Co.,
is situated on Cheyenne river, just below the
confluence of crow river; at the foot of the
"Black Hills, (which form a sort of a natural
base to the first range of the Rocky mountains,
and which it is stated contain fabulous guam
titles of excellent coal,-rich lodes of silver
and copper, fine streams of pure water, and
plenty of good timber. Its site covers an area
of four miles square, and on account of the
great natural advantages of location the R. 4.
Co., will establish here their great central
work shops, foundries, &c. &C., and specula-
tors are rushing out there already, to secure
"choice locations" and ''corner lOtS'' in this
prospective metropolis of Wyoming Territory
! nd I'm will no h on
preaching autumn-to the practical miner, and
| the strong armed emigrant-the door of the
Ell Dorado of North America. The miner will
delve for his precious metals, while the emf
grant farmer will convert the dreary wilder
| ness into beautiful fields and blooming gardens
| Omaha is growing rapidly-a thousand
houses of all kinds go up within her bounda-
ries this season; the mason's troWel and the
carpenters saw and hammer are heard in
every street from ''early morn till dewey even;
the hum ofbusy machinery-the rattle of drays
and the din of trafc greets the ear at every
corner.
Some of her leading men and real estate
owners however are disposed to over shoot the
mark by asking $4,000 for lot actually
worth but $1,000, and by affecting to be the
largest city west of Chicago; when in fact it is
but young city of ten or twelve thousand
people, with encouraging prospects before it;
but Nebraska is not the world, neither is
Omaha its capital-that having been removed
to Lincoln a small interior town, by act of the
last legislature.
1t is rather embarrassing to attempt de-
scription of this city and its people, so many
having written on the subject-expressing
such widely different opinions. The resident
population embraces large class of intelli-
gent and cultivated people, among whom the
intellectual and refined will meet ready SYM
pathy and hearty welcome. / am not well
enough posted to say what advantages the
city affords the student or persons of literary
tastes, but presume they are very fair for so
young a community, as | notice two or three
good book stores, and as many news and pc
riodical shops. Inthe way of amusements
there seems to be ample provision in the the
atrical line.
dramatic troupe from st. Louis said to
embrace more than the ordinary QttGaatuna of
talent, are playing at the Academy of Music
| to full houses, and the varieties theatre -
open every night is said to be success. a
noticeable feature in connection, is that each
! evening before the curtain rises the bands
employed by the two establishments appear
upon the balconies of their respective houses
and discourse sweet music TO the delighted
crowds that congregate in Douglass street
| these pleasant moonlight evenings. This is
the great centre of attraction; here is the
post office, the news rooms, the counting
room of the daily republican newspaper and
some OF the most attractive retail stores in
the city
With large floating population, incident to
a rapidly growing clty,-rowdyism, drunken
ness and vice, inevitably abound; exhibited
perchance in groveling and repulsive formes.
or with brazen front, tlouting in the face of
day, and in the very teeth ofthe conservators
of the law, the trappings and symbols of their
shameless vocation. Must these things be al
ways? Is there no cure for the social eyil?''
| More anon. Q,