New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-11
INDIANS.

| Yellowstone Surveying Expedition -
Frightened Back by Tndians-Indinm N
OHtrages in Wyoming TerritOry-Surs
| veying Party on Northern Pacific Rail-
| road Attacled-The Savages Repuised
| -Apaches on the War Path-Attack on
"a Mexican Party-Indians in a Corral
Cattle Carried Off-HostiIe Indians i'm
Utah.
WASHINGTON, September l0.-The War
Department has received a dispatch from
General Sheridan, dated Duluth Minnesota,
eighth instant, saying General Barker, after
reaching the mountains of the Yellowstone
valley, was obliged to come back on account
OF the surveying engineers deciding to go
no further for fear of Indians and therefore
the expedition is a failure.
BRYAN, Wyoming Territory, September
9.-Dispatches received from Camp Ham
baugh last night report the killing of a.
man named Heenan by Indians at Bear
Creek, six miles distant. He had nine bull
lets in his body. -Four mules were carried
off, and the harness cut to pieces. Three
man are missing. party of cavalry
started in pursuit of the Indians this morn
ing at daybreak. This is believed to be
the beginning of serious Indian troubles in
that section.
SALT LAKE CITY, September 10--General
Morrow returned from tie South late last
night The troops remain at the scene OF
the hostile Indian chiefs i'll San Pete county
the Indians positively refused to return to
their reservation. They said they had left
1t because they were starving They thought
they might as web be killed by the soldiers;
that the agents the government sends were
liars and thieves.
General Morrow notified them that they
must return, he promising to give them
food on the way, and full supplies at the
reservation. The chiefs finally consented,
but said they would return to the valley if
they were not fed. General Morrow re-
ports that a reign of terror prevails in San
Pete county. The people were wholly at
the mercy of the savages, and the arrival
of troops was hailed with. tears of joy. If
the Indians are now properly cared for at
the reservation there will be no more
trouble; if not, war must eusue
NEW YORK, September TO- A dis
patch from Jamestown on the North.
ern Pacific railroad, states that the sur
veying party headed by assistant engi-
neer Linsley, and accompanied by Major
Stanley, was attacked several times by In
dians en- route from Powder river, but the
savages were repulsed each time
SAN FRANCISCO, September I0,-The fol-.
lowing dispatch has been received from San
Diego: The Tucson, Arizona, Citizen of Au-
gust 81, has the following; Four Mexicans,
who had been at.work in Lanoitt valley, and
who were on their way to Santa Cruz, where
their families live, were attacked by 81
party of Apaches in ambush, ten miles
above Calabasos, and all were instantly
killed. They were stripped of all their
clothing and left where killed.
The same day Lieutenant Stewart was
murdered, four Mexicans left Camp Crit
tenden for Tucsan. Next morning one of
them returned and reported that while they
were going down the hill to Davis Canon,
about eighteen miles from Camp Crittenden,
they were fired upon by Apaches and his
three companions instantly killed, he say
ing himself only by fight.
The scene of the slaughter is about two
miles beyond the place where Lieutenant
Stewart was killed.
.Later.-William Eustiss, agent for Hoop
er & Company, beef contractors brings in
formation that the Apaches broke into their
corral at the Avarich rancho and got away
with thirty head of cattle and one horse.
The body of Corporal Black has been
found about a mile from where Lieutenant
Stewart was killed. His hands were tied
behind him, and he was lacerated with
spears from head to foot. It is supposed
that he was taken alive and tortured, Gov
ernor Stafford has called out the militia as
the only way to hold the country.
SAN FRANCISCO, September TO- - The
Fifteenth District Court has been en-
gagged in trying to impanel jury in the.
Fair case all day. No jurors have yet been
obtained.