New-York tribune., 1868-06-16
KANSAS.
wAn nrrwrrN TILE KAws AND oHEYENNEs.

WAR BETwEEN THE KAws AND CHEYENNEs.
from Our Special Correspondent -
LAWRENCE Kansas June 10. 1868.
One of the most interesting items OF news Is the
ecent raid of the Cheyennes upon the kaws at ther
reserve. near Council Grove. Nine months ago the
Kaws cot into fight with party of Cheyennes at
popt nearly 200 miles west of their reserve in the
. hunting country of the latter. What the cause of
hostilities might be- or whether these gentlemen
reouire any provOcation beyond more proximity,
could not safely say. The Cheyenne party was
small one at that time and as the Kaws were better
armed and supplied with ammunition. tho latter got
the upper hand and took seven scalps They had
great deal of dancing and rejoicing them at the
time. The agent, believe was rather proud of 'hs"
warriors. Had things been managed as they should,
the guilty parties then ought to have received con-
dign punishment, or been turned oyer to the
Cheyennes, and the present commOtiOn would not
have taken place.
The Cheyennes seem to have managed the matter
with some shrewdncss and great deal Of boldness.
The Kaw reserve is 100 miles east of the frontier line
of settlements at least. The wild Indians came
through Southern Kansas by the Walnut and Cotton
wood tributaries of the Arkansas and NeOsha Their
numbers are variously stated at from 100 to 5OO'
They went through the white settlements without
any attempt at concealment. saying that they dld
not intend to modest the whites but were gong TO
fight the Kaws. They boldly went through the
town of Council Grove by daylight, and attempted
to surround the Kaws at the Agency.
One of the shilly-shally fights common to wild In
dans lasted for some time The agent sent to Fort
Riley 40 miles north, for troops, but the officer IN
command was either not in condition to act or ana
not believe it. At all events no troops went ana
perhaps it was just as WELL Long before they could
hand
order the redskins would be over the Arkansas.
So far can learn. there does not appear to have
been anybody hurt. The Kaw and Cheyenne battle
was doubt brilliant affair."" and had the addi-
tiOnal qualification that no lives were lost. AS the
white settlers were rising, the Cheyennes had to
leave. / cannot learn from any authentic source
that they did any mischief whatever to the white
settlers. Various rumors of punder are in circula-
tlon but the evidence is all the other way In the
main, at least they scrupulOus TO maintain a
neutral attitude to the whites, and only robbed one
or two white men who have formerly been connected
with the Kaw Indians.
What will or ought to be done about this cannot
say Nothing clearer than that such military raids
by either Indians ought TO be prevented There could
be no more severe commentary on whole absurd
system of treaties than this. The poor people are
taught to believe that this is their true relation to
us-that they are independent nations and may
wage war on one another. 1t is high time that all
this was ended
THE OSAGE TREATY.
The State or certain parties therein. are inquirng
about the Usage treaty. The Usage treaty is I'M
dOubtedly nefariOus transaction, which the
United States Senate should promptly put its foot
The Indians, when appealed to- all spoke against It,
They protested against the sale of their lands at ALL
and if compelled to sell them. insisted on getting at
least one dollar an acre for them. By this treaty
they are sold in body to representative of some
railroad company for about twenty-five cents per
acre. Not for the settlcrs-Oh no. Not sold at their
wOrth-Oh, no. What is to become of our Govern
ment if such things are to be persistently dOnef Is
the whole of the public domain henceforth to go into
the hands of specuatorsH 1t is high time that this
thing end.
Besides we will have to take care of this tribe yet
and every dollar that their lands fairly worth
ought to be honestly appropriated to such purpose
and not take the money from the Public Treasury.
To give railroad company Indian lands at one
fourth price, because they build railroad through
the lands the Indians have thus sold to them is
impudent fraud. Must Indian business eernally run
into such schemes of plunderf
Kansas is blessed with fine rains. The crops never
looked better large emigration is hocking to the
State. The Pacific Railroad, Z. d., is running its
cars to Monument where the casteated chalk bluffs
rise from her green valleys 3S5 miles from L0aven-
worth.
Recently a remarkable event occurred in Western
Kansas. Two aerotes fell on the 9th, near the Sol
Omon River. The noise and jar felt for 70 miles.
The two meteors were seen, on June afternoon,
many miles distant, like two balls of fire, ere they
struck the earth, and the shock shook il like an
earthquake Were they from Vesuvius or the moon