Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-23
PROM TIE Fan WEST
Fight with the Navajoe Indians--sIn
derer Arrested Peace commiasfo-

Fight with abe NavaJ0e Indians--sTur-
derer Arrested Peace Commission
ers, etc., etc.
ST.. LOUIS, June 22.-Denver dispatches
say that in a fight at Apache Springs, be-
tween forty soldiers and band of Navsjoe
Indians, SIX of the latter were killed and
one soldier was wounded.
Wm. Barry, the soldier who killed Capt.
Spear, of the English army, on the steamer
Oetayia while ascending the Missouri river
last year, has been brought from Fort Ste
venson TO Junction City, where he viii be
tried for the murder.
Advices from up the Missouri river say
that the Indians were quite troublesome
above Port Buford. Near Fort Benton the
Sioux we're continuing their depredations
| and had driven off much stock. At the
! mouth of the Muscle Shell several wood
choppers had been killed, and number Of
boats fired into. At Camp Coole, midway
| between Forts Benton and Buford, new
mail post, the Indians had driven off all
the stock and killed two soldiers, and the
soldiers had killed about twenty Indians.
A large party Of friendly Indians were
eneamped near Fort Buford, and had seve-
raj children which they captured in Mon
tana, in 1862. Several hundred Santee
Indians came near Fort Berthold last
month to steal horses, but were whipped
snd driven away by the friendly tribes
living near the Fort. Several Santees
were killed on their retreat. The Santees
killed and scalped an Englishman and a
halfbreed. Hundreds of Indians who
participated in the Minnesota massacre
near Fort Berthold, were openly hostile
and defiant 1t is expected these hostile
Indians and half-breeds will have des-
peraie fight during the present season.
The hostile Indians near Fort Rice had
sent word that they would make 40 trea-
ties unless the government stopped steam
boat travel, and take all the soldiers out oil
the country. There were, however, large
numbers Of Indians in the vicinity Of Fort
Rice awaiting the arrival of the peace
commissioners.
At Fort Stevenson no hostile demonstra.
lions had been made, but quite a large
number of unfriendly Indians were camped
in the vicinity. At all points surprise wa;
expressed that government has never taker
pains to show the friendly Indians of tht
Upper Missouri that their friendship j:
appreciated. Some tribes that were never
known to be unfriendly are never noticed
nor is there any pains taken to rewarC
chem, while the hostile Indians are con
stantly receiving presents and being petted
humored and coaxed by agents of the gov
eminent.
A Texian writing to the Republican
urging the construction CT a railroad from
st. Louis to Texas, says between the Nuce
and Rio Grande rivers there are a mil
lion head of horned cattle, and one hun
bred thousand head Of horses aad mules
The trade Of San Antonio with Texa
amounts to $8,O0O,O00 annually. 1t would
take railroad fifty years to carry all tn
cattle in Western Texas TO st. Louis. Cat
tie in that country are being killed 70
their hides alone. He says such a railrosC
would not only make St. Louis the stool
market of America, but would develop tn
finest copper, coal, and silver mines in tn,
| world