Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-10-28
TROUBLESOME INDIANS
Interesting 8ffcial Dispatches.

The following interesting official dispatches
have been received at the War department
from our officers in the west and southwest:
INDIAN ACCOUNTS OF THE FIGHrING ON The
YELLOWSTONE.
Col. ID. j. Stanley, commanding the middle
district, department of Dakota, under date of
Fort Sully, october 18th, reports the following
the Indian account OF the fights in the
Yellowstone in August last: After the return OF
the expedition, The Little White swan" a
Minneconjon chief, (friendly,l and who has
lived at the Cheyenne agency for the last SIX
years, called young Antonio Clement to a fes asst.
on our side. The White Swan toll Clement
that four young men VINO participated in the
attack had been to see him, aud said that the
Indians lost four killed and twelve wounded
In the two engagements, also % ponies either
killed or died; since that one of the wounded
had died, and others would probably die. The
leaders in the attacks we've Red Ears son
BTule, ({ed Ears draws rati0ns at Cheyenne
agency and the the "Bull without Hair a
MinnecOnjon. The Indians engaged were Min
neconjons and Sans Ce-ces eight or nine hun
dred strong. A very few Uncpspas, Long Dog,
(UncpapaO went to see Sitting Bull. who re-
fused to join the war party, saying his promise
TO Pere DeSmet vas medicine, and he would
not fight unless attacked. After Col. Clusters
movement had driven them acress the
Yellowstone to the south side, they
found no buffalo, and as the antelope
have nearly all died this summer over an i'm
mense extent of country the hostile camp
was compelled by starvation to 20 to White
Clay (SpOtted TAILS agency for rations where
they now are. Col. Stanley says 81 give the
Indian story for what IL is worth, Nv expe.
rience is that the Sioux generally give pretty
correct account of their losses. They may.
however, conceal them.
YOUNG INDIANS sPoILING FOR Plight.
Col. Stanley, under date of Fort Sully, De-
partment of Dakota, october It'll, reports that
small party of Indians, apparently from the
hostile camp on the Yellowstone, attacked the
herders yesterday and attempted TO run OFF the
herd. There was considerable firing between
the parties, but no one hurt and nothing taken
Genl Stanley endorses the above as follows:
"The Indians attacking the herd may belong TO
the Cheyenne and Grand river agencies. When
came down the IIver some of the young men at
Standing Rock told Clement, my guide, that
in three or four DAYS they were going up TO at
tack Fort Lincoln. He warned them of the con
sequence, telling them that General Custer
would follow them and attack them at their
agency, They said that they did not care. and
that if they were disturbed at their agency they
mould make war everywhere. The old men
were, on the other hand, much alarmed; said
they could not control the young men, and ex-
pressed the wish that the last one of them might
get killed if it could be done without hurting
their women and children. | think the attack
on the herd is a wild out-cropping of the same
bad blood in the young men of these two
agencies.
INDIAN DEPREDATIoNs IN TEXAS.
Lieutenant Colonel Merritt, 9th cavalry, com
handing Fort Concho, Texas, under date of
IepOIts JndL Tue tDe
last ten days reported as having made their
appearance in the counties of Brown, Coleman
and Runnels, and have stolen stock. The com
panies at the mouth of the Concho and Camp
Colorado are very active, and doing what is pos
sible TO protect the settlements and punish the
depredators in the vicinity. Lieutenant Lebro,
of the 10th cavalry, on the 9th instant, while on
his way to Fort Concho from Fort Richardson
with twelve enlisted men and two wagons, dis
covered on the old stage route from Fort Griffin
TO Fort Chadburne, few miles from Moutain
Pass, a herd of horses being driven of by the
Indians. He gave chase and recovered the
horses, sixteen in number, but the Indians
escaped.
SCARE FROM HUNTING PARTIES OF CHEYRNNEs
Gen. Pope reports two hundred Cheyennes
of their reservation on a hunting excursion,
the same band which caused such excitement
around Pueblo, Colorado. Gen. Pope saws
there we're no substantial grounds for such
excitement; that the Indians committed no
depredations further than killing few cattle
to eat. Gen. Pope regrets that Indians should
be allowed TO roam about promiscuously, and
adds ''But where so many bands of them are
permitted by the Interior department to roam
over the whole country between Leavenworth
and the mountains hunting it is hard to pre-
vent other reservation Indians from doing the
anne thing"