The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-07-26

From the Denver Tribune l9th ]

l. n From the Denver yriDnnet lDpli WIZ
For same time past the Arapahoe
| Indians have been OIL the war-path.
They were especially desirOus of meet
ing their old and inveterate enemies,
the Utes. In the carly part of the
present week II party of the latter col
lided with band Of Arapahoes on the
Big Muddy, and the utes claim the
killing Of five Arapahoes and the tax
| ihg n5 J. scalp, FLUSHED with success
ut this nominal victory, the Utea
started pell-mell for Deliver on the
night of the fight, leaving three rum
ners to warn the settlers Of the com
reached our suburbs yesterday, camp
ing near the Villa Park House.
Tho Arapahuas who escaped this ter
rIb!c massacre q sent runners 10 the
main camp of the tribe, and three war
parties Were Mt once organized for The
pursuit and revenge. One of these
bands, numbering forty-sevcn Of the
hoTpr OF the nibf, aud rs ii,re looking
warriors as ever lifted hair, arrived at
West Bijou yesterday morning, and
last night were cncamped at Box Elder
on the Kansas Pacific. They are aim
ing for Plum Creek, where large par
ty Of Utcs are now in camp, and should
The beiIigegepts come in contact the
fight would probably be q bloody one
for Indians.
The runners who were left behind
by the Utes to warn the settlers OF the
coming of the Arapahoes, caused CON
siderable alarm among the inhabitants
of. the region, as the latter cannot tell
Ute from an Arapahoe. .......
1t is thought that If the Arapahoes
come this way and collide with the
Utes, they will also commit depreda-
tions on the settlers. ,.,..
Mr.. r. Tate arrived here last night
from the scene OF the original fight,
and at once sought Governor Ebert
for the purpose of holding consultation
| with him on ,lie situAtion.. There Is i.
company of United States cavalry
stationed at River Bend, on the Big
Sandy, eighty-one miles from Denver,
on the line Of the Kansas Pacific, and
Mr.. Tate desired Governor Elbert to
order them up this way for the purpose
OF driving the Arapahoes baci, to their
own grounds.
nOld Man Wiggips," o well-known
settler Of Biiou, also came in this
morning to interview Governor Elbert
on the situation.
We are informed by Mr., Tate that
the runners left by the utes to warn
the settlers Of their danger, arc of little
or no account. They dash up to this
house, or camp, or rancho, and, after
Yelling out, ''Heap Arapahoe''-''come
heap''-dash Off again as madly rs
ever. The settlers, unused to this style
OF warming, aud unable to distinguish
between an Arapahoe and u Ute, are
left in utter doubt and perplexity.
From the fact that Arapahoes were
|, seen as late as last night ut a point not
! further from Denver than Box Elder
twenty niles, it is apparent that they
|. mean business. siir I'D.
| Theljtfs have been crowding in and
about Quietly ever Slice their ilgnt at
Big Muddy, and are evidently about as
4 badly scared as the red man allows
/ himself to become. If 1t We're not for
the quasi. protection afforded them by
being allowed to camp about the city
limits and loaf in the city proper, ii is
evident the Arapahoes would make
mince-meat of them in less than no
time. .
The chiefs OF the Utes were IN con-
I siltation part of the morning, as to
4 their programme. for the future, bu;
/ their main reliance is In their pale face
allies. The very name of Arapahoe
/ makes the br;lvest of the Utes shiver,
and knowing, as they do that the for
mer are. almost in striking distance,
they are in decided pickle, even 60
ing SO far as TO postpone their scalp
dance, which had been set for last
night. ,...,.eb
living on the classic shades of The Platte
were aroused from their lethargy,
I about half-past ten o'clock this morn
1 ing, by unearthly shouts, frequent and
I heavy fusilades of guns and pistols,
4 and horrible war whoops. The occa-
sion, of this unusual ldemonstrationw
Z nothing more nor less than q pFincipal
2 entry of the CITES into our city, carry
ing a long pole, from the end of which
swing the ghastly scalp of an Arapa'
hoe.
4 The band Numbered between fifty
Z and sixty, and was in command Oi
Piah. and Johnston, the rival captor'
OF the dead Arapahoe. The warrior,
were bedanbed with the usual amount
OF ochre, arfayed in flimsy scarlet ant
brazen beads. They got up papdemo
q mum generally, and were IN tic very
Il height of reveiry when they wet'
stopped at the Larimer street bridge b,
the sheriff aud two pOlicentn, an
theif further progress stayed tn
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