New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-02

fat hastily mounted his and charged 81 altering
% tbe main body under the Chief give way abandoned
The gap and nights ana sought 70 ecV Vuli W. .Io
se[s d Se ownv fSe Indians were now all flight
and going up Che Fetternan Trail to the north Fifteen
Tniles oif was a deep stream tnat reported I'M
fordabie. and Lieut. Hall, hoping to catch them them
on the bank %aas OF Tho indian Soncs rSE faster
than the heavy cavalry horses and before Lieut. han
4 ps the stream and crossed it by swimming.
They closely pushed however, and one lndlan 10
the water whore he left IL to drown while he climbed mp
the steep bank and took TO his heels The saVages were
much demOraSed, and is not likely that they VII
attempt down 10 the railroad again soon The
warriors Reported TO have been commanded by old
for the skful manner in which he handled his small
force in the presence Of body Of savages
him three TO one Friday Is not likely 10 give much more
trouble this year. it will soon be time for the Fan DIS
ui6uon of goods, and he will have to get back nome
and play good Indian "A month two to get his
presents. Beside this he has killed about twenty white
persons, and ought to consider the murder OF Black
nothing the $40 900 worth of stock he has stolen
MOVEMENTS OF THE SIOUX.
Meanwhile the Sioux have not been idle On the LIST OF
July they sent out and stealing parties in all drec
tons most Of them have gone back finding the Dor
der closely guarded that they were unable to get at
the settlements One party came down to the PaWnee
Reservation stole stock from the friendly Paw
cempa Ev ID a. CaVairy RaG been out on three
days scout and just returning at the time OF tne
attack. late in the evening and he had marched
more than 80 miles during the day. put ne at once ga
pursuit. -Four miles out Jhe lhuldIr dpdhuoI,u
all the stolen stock and sought only 10 mar In
their escape but Capt Egan, with two sergeahts over
the pony of another savage. The dsmOunted Indian
eaped upon the horse of his wounded companion. and
t Capt hsan 6SGHF that TT S could
further ANA returned to camp Next n Gay bd c ne
far when they came upon the enemy me sioux gahc
ne td patti, anu a1T to the Sgcncy bringing with
them the dead body of one OF their warriors me
off toward the north and have not been heard IRON
| i'll that quarter since.
LIEUT.. YoUNG's BATTLE.
Another party of Indians, supposed to be Cheyennes
Arrapahoes down from the north, and crossed
| the Union Pacific Railroad Separation Station,
about miles west from Omaha They halted when ~
miles from the road, and cached hid their surplus
meat and baggage. Then, waiting for night, they aI-
proached the road crossed the rails at about mid
showing no moccasn tracks for four miles either side
of the road The ponies had been kept at galloI ana
every person mounted. They crossed the road at
! high embankment plunglng down 20 1eet, when, ny
going 70 yards the I SaS ney ea ga
trail showed the greatest haste ana nat rd no ba6 naG
over the track ieapng p feet where he crossed the
rails The tran was GlseOEered cary Pi HeaS
NH on eYSiped II Finding NAT tIe trail led in
southery direction ne sent Lieut.. Young from Rawlings
with 80 men. When few hours out Lieut. Young found
the trail among fhe hills and followed it vigorously on
the second evening he upon the Indians in camp at
PneGrove Meadows, and Immediately gave them battle
They had evidently been joined by another party as hey
showed 25 warriors in the fight while only 70 Indians
had crossed the railroad.
Lieut. Young drove the Indians mp the side of noun
tain and dsmOuntng his pursued them on foot He
left ten with the horses and by dark had taken four
beuches" of the mountain, the Indians holding the last
"benc and crest Hearing heavy firing III the vaiiey
soldiers and FASTENED down the mountain arriving just
his stock the guard being engaged WIN
scattered the sayagcs, and deeining mprudent 10
make another attack in the darkness =. ne bi-
wounded man, and citizen were sent with all
haste TO Rawlings $50 miles dstanO for REINFORCE
41oro in, & oltp M lpgk
and Capt Deweese at once mounted nineteen all he
had in camp He teleaphed to Fort steele for men
and Lieut. O'Brien with detachment OF sixteen men
started for Rawlings special engine was sent down,
and the commanding officer at steele came up with ten
infantry guard the cavalry camp during the ali
tered and at - O'Clock Lieut. OBren arrived with his
detachment, having saddcd up and marched 6 miles on
a dark night in one hour and forty minutes At o'clock
the column, 65 strong left Rawlings for Lieut. Young
reach Lieut. ffung rn DfCIe G @ REMAIN Tr "Ss
the mountain all night and attack attack Young
march and Joined Young half an hour before The dawn
Conceang his the Captain waited for the light As
with his little party Deweese keeping under cover OF
rayne and in advance the right 80 as 10 take the In
momentarily expected that Young would find the In
'hans, but when he reached tHe crest oil the mGunah
drawn in the night leaving behind robes blanket nocca-
SINS and lot of camp fixtures. Capt Deweese followed
the trail the mountain, where it separated and
scattered IN all directions. He followed It's branches Tor
two days but could find no Indians.
about fifty warriors drawn up on the crest Of hill He
advanced to charge them, when they commenced calling
out Utes Utes, aud shaking their poles ana blankets
in token of friendship. The chief Douglas, advanced
and shock Capt Deweese ny the hahd, VINO asked nun
why he was III war paint, and where he was gong inc
Chief explained that several days before runner had
to his camp ON White River saying that the Chey
/ cnnes coming south to night the Utes He had
at started with come warriors for the mines
on snake River and arriving there had learned from
the miners that the Cheyennes and Arrapahoes were
already south the road whereupon he had painted for
war and sent to find and fight them. Some Of the
soldiers seeing the Utes in war paint, assumed 20
Z that flaHs NUlp sat
had fought at Pine Grove Meadows, and wished to
attack them but Capt Dcweese would not permit il.
To set al rest suspicious, however the Captain took
the Ute with him and set out on Their trail following 1t
all that day, until he was satisfied That II led TO snake
River, and that Douglas had told the truth. Douglas
about CAPT Beck the Indian Agent, and on
being told that he was expected at Rawlings daily,
Douglas requested permission for himself and warriors
to go into Rawlings see the Agent Capt. Deweese,
knowing good for refusing the request, told
Douglas that he coud and the next morning they
set ont the whole column reaching the railroad on the
evening OF the second day; The good people OF Raw
lHgs were much astonished wien they saw the duSky
tan 10 Capt DeWetse coIuinn ana LOT IS tle peliel
prevailed that the Captain had been stupid as to cap
and bring in the Cheyennes and Arrapahoes Like
lightning the news spread tat ne lndla.5 were Otes'
and that the soldiers had found them on the warpath
The telegraph sent the intelligence North that the Utes
were at war ana dispatches 70 hat ehe.t Went 10 ues.
Grant and Sherman, and Gov: McCOOk Of Colorado VINO
at Long Branch. McCoOk FASTENED TO Fort steele,
travelling miles only learn that the Utes
were at with the Cheyennes and Arrapahoes. and
forgot to state the important fact that the was be-
Indians, and not between Indians and white men,
THE REPORTS ABOUT THE UTEs
After their fight from Lieut. Young the Cheyennes and
Arrapahoes went sOuth-easterly direction and en-
tered the Parks Of Colorado where they attacked the
miners and killed number, how many is not yet known,
as the bodies have all been found Six bodies In all
have far been discovered and buried and ten miners
sti missing All of the bodies terribly mutt
lated, and some had been burned Col. Hartwel, who
has returned from the Mott Park Fort Steele says
that he found the body of George Van Dyke and it
the scalp Of another white The hair has since been
the missing miners. On the ground, Van