The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-23
THE INDIANS.


usItttes.
The ST. louis Bepub ,odn has Information
trcn an officer a. hh med net Fort La ned,
Kausas, VIII ch ex5Jns tho recently reported
Ind aO troubles in that neig hoorLoOd. Tne ne.
pUbhcon sAys:-
our In o1maut states that, on the evening OF
the 10th instant, large nlmb-r of IN ian',
representing nearly all tn tTib, on the PLANS,
from The havsjues OF New NJ xico 10 the Co.
manches OF Texas ant Sioux OF the Nor b, an
ibclUd Dg all the intern edia g tribes, number
iLg In all ir'm IL 900 tO $4,000, hal conveue
al Fort Larned or IN It's viciuitv, Tor The par
pose Of receivn. the usual suppIies Of annuity
go d These supplies consisted OF coffee,
suPar ham bacon, and more especially o. two
huDdleO ana nfty rifles ana nve hlnored
revolVers, and a prOOorioua'e qIanttg Of
smmpnition. On account of the oepredations
committed by the Cheyenne some weeks agO,
While on the warpath agalnst tn" Ka Ns ana
Oeages, the Indian Bureau at WASHINGTON had
telegraph, d u Iis agent to stop all iurher
issues of arms and stInuuIlion TO the Indians.
"ColOnel WyBkDOp. in accordance with these
instructions, ga'heted tne-e lhditns t'gether
and informed hem that no issue woll1 be
made. The Indians termed this a bre tch of
Is, h on the part of he Government, ami -aid
hat the Peace Commissioners Who met at the
Medicine Lt1ge creek last tall had promised
them mon hlS supplies OF arms AMI anmuuI-
ton. The. sad furthermore that these promt-
SIS had not been heot aud he peace tr atty was
accordingly at an end They staLed that they
we've prepared to 90 to war aud Represented
that tney needed the arms AMI ammunition
les With neat. TueS gave Colonel
Wyukcop warning that unless the arms
were lssued they would 6ghJ Tor then. Con-
siderable con notion ensneG. aud the council
broke up in conlus,On. Tuat night the oWa
mdH rs attacked a train belonging to tly H.
l. Of ersoD, OF Kansas CItv, and took from IL a
qrantty OF sugar, cora, b,CoD, COX ng u'en-
sis, and bedding; thev aIsJ /" aC several Of the
teamst'rs aud the waGt n-master, ami mali
ously Cnt up eomC wagon-sbPets This oc-
curred about nve M les no the post. La or
iu 'hr evening they repealed the operation uUon
a Mexican train in tho same vlcInliy, aud fred
upon he NAL carrier, who returned their shots,
but without eject.
"Brevet Brle adler General Alfred Suly, Lieu
tenant Colonel 30 United States In 'antrv co IL
mandDg the d srlCt OF tha Upper Arkansas,
aud whose headqu tr'ers are az Fort Ha ker
Ksnsas-dis ant about one hundred aud nty
miles from the scene OF these ou ragas-was
seIt Tor early that m "rning aud arrived at
about baltpast 10 on the eTenlng OF the llth.
TheIe rs probably officer on the plains Who Is
more feared a q Lated by the lLdlAus thau
General eullv Tor he has met them upon many
ba,lr.belds, and from long experience kuo W.
how o deal most edecLualiy WI h them. HIS
presence was Ike an InC bus upou the Iui ans,
aud he told them m few pointed words that
while he pre- erred peace he was reauy to dgnt
them. He addressed them in the presence of
about Sly hui drPd cavalry men, but the Initaus
we're lDSenoibe to The voice OF reason, alihoug b
they seemed 10 De aSed by The General. They
gradually sneaked a Nay, and our in Ornant
shortly Afterwards lctt.
Colonel WvnkCop is agent for three tribes OF
Indian s-tbe CbeyeHnes, ArapahOos and ApdcheS
and COloDe Lea,eu Sor b is agent tor three
oh'r rr'bes, amongst whom are the KiowaS.
The mcu bp's OF this tribe alloee that Colon al
Leav' nwOTth has been guilty OF dlDiIC'tv, and
have rrfu.ed to rPcoeuze him IN his ofic Al
capacity of agent. For some wee6s past they
dr"w no nnnui Y, and in their conseq Ientlv
impoverished unlitIOu have beeu mucn dis.
posed to commit overt acts. 1t wall ne recol-
locttd that all the deOreda'iohs so far CON
miI'ed have been attr b1ted TO the X Ovas.
Colonel WSDkoop dtpreca es the vac llaJing
course pursued tOS arus the indians, aud saws
that those IN his agencv have never been m ore
Craceaoly inclin, d than az IIeaent. He thlnks
hat, nflueu cod bv tbs va 'Iltating leglslatIoI,
they may AZ auv .timP become drscontrntDd, and
that hosUilIties may be commenced again, the
COTs SEQ ueuces Of whlch ir is im oossI be Co lore
see. Tue COmmanu'ng officers of MI The posts
in the department hsve been ordered to pre-
phre their re pecti7e commands tor action ou
the sho'test possible nO'IC'. The probability Ia
that, If lighting occurs this summer, cavalry,
anG no infantry, will be engaged In It.