Nebraska advertiser., 1869-01-07
Fort BENTON.

left Montana to return to the States,
and had selected the banks Of the Mis-
souri, as the line Of their route, in con-
sequence Of having a large train, full
freighted, besides a large amount of
mineral, were attacked by a band of
Indians, who after a severe fight sue
ceeded in killing all the men and cap
/ turing the entire train.
The fight took place near Fort Peck,
and the noise attracted the attention
of the garrison.
Anticipating some trouble, the COM
mandant of the Fort Immediately or
dered out all the available force who
at last accounts, were in hot pursuit
Of the Indians, with every probability
in favor Of retaking the train and in
hicting considerable punishment on
the Indians.
The names of the men killed were
MeGregor, Thomas, Steve and Saber.
Their bodies were horribly mutilated,
and everything Of value taken of.
A Fort Fred Steele correspondent of
the Cheyenne argus writes under date
Of the Both of December, that he had
just a~scertained from agentleman who
arrived there a few days before from
Medicine Bow station, u. p. r. r.,
As miles east of the Fort, that on the
23d of last month the Indians killed
and scalped six white men near the
above named station. These men
were, at the time they were murdered
employed by the u. p. r. R. Co.
The Denver NeWS says the Indians
are again lowering all around the Col
oradQ frontiers east and north. A
number Of petty depredations are re-
ported, and n or two of considerable
magnitude. A quantity Of stock has
been driven away from the Cache-a-la
Poudre country. A hunting party
that arrived from the buffalo range on
the 18th ult. reports that a band of In
dians passed north near them, driving
over a thousand horses. Some of
WynkOOp's friendly Indians, no
doubt.
BLACK HAWK, Col, Jan. 4, 1869.
There is intense excitement here
over the discovery of a new Lode
Gold ingOts can be seen with the ma
ked eye, scattered through the quartz.
1t prospects richer than any yet dis
covered.
The Herald says there are rumors at
st. Joseph that a very severe battle
has been fought on the Smoky Hill
route, between our troops and the In
dians. The great warri0r-chief, Little
Raven, was captured, and a large
number OF braves and Indians were
killed. The routing of the Indians
was most thorough and complete; and
this battle has undoubtedly quieted
the Indian question, and settled it, to-
gether with the most of the Indians,
for all future time.
General Sherman is in receipt of a
letter from General Sheridan, dated
Fort Cobb, Indian Territory, Deem
Der IS, 1868, in which he reports his
arrival at that post on the day previ-
Gus, with the command of General
Custer, comprising the 9TH cavalry
and ten companies of the 10Th Kansas
lin all about fifteen hundred men.
General Sheridan left Camp Supply
on the 8th, and travelled in a sOufher-
ly direction across the main Canadi-
an, striking the Washita about eight
miles south of General Clusters battle
ground, distant from Fort Cobb one
hundred and thirteen miles. He spent
a day on the battle ground, and found
JAlC 0ONACo VI 0AulUl LlAlUIl anu EAADEEH
soldiers who had been killed; also the
bodies Of Mrs. Binn and child. Mrs.
b. had been shot through the forhead,
and the child was killed by its head
being dashed against a tree.
All the Indians had been encamped
along the Washita for about ten miles
of its length. They had abandoned
their camps and fled in the utmost
dismay, leavingt their cooking utensils,
lodge polls and provisions, when Gen.
Sheridan's force approached. Gener-
al S. followed the trail of the Indians
from General CusteT's battle ground,
down the Washita for a distance of 76
miles, when he came near the camp
Of the KiOwas, who met him with a
letter from General Hazen, declaring
them to be friendly; he required them
to accompany him to Fort Cobb, and
discovered while they were travelling
this place, thatthey were send-
ing their families off to the Wichita
mountains.
~Suspecting that they were attempt
ing to deceive him, he took Lone
Wolf and Satanic and notified them
that he would hold them as hostages;
and ifthe Kiowas, did not all come in
to Fort Cobb hang them.
General Sheridan says: "That now
the Indians begin to realize, for the
first time, that winter willnot compel
us to make a truce with them. These
Indian-the Kiowas-have been en-
gagged in wal all the time, and have
been playing fast and loose. They
have attempted to browbeat General
since he came here to Fl. Cobb,
but I will take the starch out of them
I leave them. The Cheyennes,
ArrapahOes and one band of the Com
anches, with fifty lodges of the KiO-
was, are now at the western base Of
Wichita mountains
After consultation with Gen. Hazen,
Gen. Sheridan proposes, when the XII
Owas come in to punish those who are
known to have been concerned in per-
sonal acts ofmurder. He proposes to |
send Black Kettles sister out to the
Cheyennes and Arrapahoes, and COM
mand them to come in, and submit to
like treatment. Ifthey do not come
in, he proposes to carry the war on
them Immediately in the
neighbOrhOOd of the Wichita noun
tains. He viii then leave with Gen.
HaZen a sufficient force to enable him
to control the Indians who are now at
Fort Cobb, and such others as may
come in there.
During General Sheridan's march
from Camp Supply the snow and
weather was very severe, but the
health of his command was very good.
Only two men of the 9TH Cavalry were
sick, and six of the 10Th Kansas. The
horses suffered more than the men,
but there was abundant supply Of good
grass about Fort Cobb, and a reasOna-
Die amount of corn. The men used
the shelter tents, which, at this season
of the year, are all they need, and they
prefer them to any other.
In a private letter to Gen. Sherman,
dated one day later, General Sheridan
states that the Kiowas are coming in
to Fort Cobb; that the Chayennes have
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