The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-06-02
Murders by the Indians In Kansas
Women Killed and Children
kidnapped.
ST. LOUIS. June !

ST. LOUIS, June l.
The following dispatch is from an en-
tirelV trustworthy source and may be
relied upon as correct:
LEAVENwoRTII, KANSAS. June l.
About 20 white persons have been
killed by the Indians in Western Kan>
sas, during the past week. The MUIR
ders have been committed by rowing
band of Indians, no large bodies haV-
ing been heard of, and the massacre
has been the result OF guerrilla fight
ing rather than OF general Indian
war. The scene of operations has e1.
tended from the Republican and Sol
omon rivers to the end of the Kansas
Pacific railway settlements Whlch
tered and very much exposed.
General Schofield has only asmall
number of troops at his disposal,
but is making the best he can OF them'
Gov. Harvey has organized two COM
panies of scouts for which Gen. Scho-
field will furnish arms. There are now
in the field four U. S. surveying parties,
all without military protection. Two
ofthese parties are north OF Fort lays,
one between Fort Hays and Larned,
and one sixty miles west of Fort Hays.
This is the most exposed part OF the
State, and fears are felt for the safety
of the surveyors. The Times and Con-
the settlements along the Saline. river
west of the Solomon; one woman was
killed and a boy wounded. Three
children were kidnapped. The soldiers
are in pursuit.
A dispatch from Topeka, Kansas,
says the Sheriff of Saline county reports
thirteen persons, men women and chill
dreu, killed in that county by Indians.
and as many more supposed TO have
been carried off. Tho women who were
carried off, suffer worse than death.
Settlers in Saline county are coming
eastward for protection.
DETROIT, juno
The Steamer Dove sunk in st. Claire
river last night by collid1ng with pro-
peller, May Flower. She was got into
shallow water before sinking. No lives
lost, She will probable be raised.
The ST. Louis Republican has special
from Fort Leavenworth which says
that news from Camp Supply states
t hat ], 300 ArapRhoes had reached that
point on the 18th inst. Little Robe and
Poet of the Cheyennes arrived on the
eve of the 18Th inst. Little Robe pro-
missed that the tribe would follow him
and go on their reservation. While en-
route from Medicine, Bluff to Camp
Sapply quarrel ensned between a
drunken teamster and some of the
Cheyennes, which resulted in the death
of the teamster. This alarmed the
Cheyennes and caused them to
scatter, but 1t is thought they
will regain confidence and return.
Company A and D OF the Seve nth
Cavalry; under command of Col. Weir,
was sent after the Fossil creek dePre-
dators, some of whom are believed to
be white men. Lieut.. Marsh and
scouting party, day ortwo ago. came
up with small war party OF Indians,
supposed to be those committing depr g.
dations on Salina river, near the mouth
of Buffalo creek. He pursued them
fifteen miles, until darkness came on,
and was then compelled to desist. He
reports two boys wounded, one woman
and three children missing, The In
dians that attacked the Senede settle
ment, in addition to those they killed,
captured two women and two children.
orders have been sent to the com.
mander at Fort Riley to send troops to
protect the water stations at Fossil creek
Ellio and Ogallah, on the Kansas Pa.
ciiic railroad. A band OF thirty Indians
were seven miles from Hays City, Sun
day. They are supposed to be the party
that ran the train off the track at Fos-
sill Creek, and killed twelve men.
A dispatch from Omaha says that
the Indians along the Union Pacific
Railroad remain quiet, and at Forts
Laramie and Fetterman strict nom
intercourse with traders is enforced by
the officers, as 1t is the intentian OF the
Government to compel all Indians de-
sirous OF trading to move on their resef-
vations.