The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-04-11
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
The Negotiation with the MOdOo.

The Negotiation with the Modocs
WASHINGTON, April 10.-The ScCretar,
Of the Interior has received letter from
the Modoc Peace Commissioner Meach'
am, in which Mr.. Meacham says tn
principal impedimCnt 10 the peace ncgo'
: tiatiOns Is the fear that the Indians in.
diCtcd by the Jackson county grand jury
will be given up for punishment ThC
Peace Commissioners and military art
yet working together harmOniOusly t
overcome the distrust Of the Modocs, bu
a difficulty is encountered from the inter
vCntiou OF bad white men, who, from
mcrccnary motives, desire the prOlonga
ton of the war. Mr.. MGacham says the
desire Of the government is well under
stood by his colleagues and tho military
and no means will be left untried 10 Sc
cure peace. Secretary Delano hos ad-
vlsed the military not TO give up the in
diCted Indians, but rather TO remove
them II they surrender.
TuEMURDER OF SURVEYORS.
The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs
has received q letter from Superintendent
HOag stating that it had not been discov.
cred who were the perpetrators OF the
murder OF tho four surveyors. he 70.
ports the Cheycnnes and Araphoes dis
turbed In their buffalo range by the
whites south OF the Arkansas river, where
their treaty of 1867 provides they may
hunt as long as they desire. They are
also disturbed and injured by the out
lawcd whisky traders, and were dissatis.
fed with the appearance and stay OF the
surveyors on their reservation, but deny
any knowledge of the recent murders.
Excitement has risen high among them in
consequence Of the murder OF several Of
their number lately, while returning from
Mexico, as previ ously reported, but the
excitement is subsiding, and Hoag says
we shall doubtless control them il the
border citizens can be properly restrained.
Tho Commissioner OF Indian Affairs has
called the attention Of the Secretary Of the
Interior to the recent murder Of survey
ors, and requests the Secretary to obtain
from the President an order for stationing
two companies Of troops In the vicinity OF
the Public Works, west Of Goth Meridian.
The Secretary will make the desired
official request
The President to-day issued al order
changing the boundaries OF the Omaha
and Grand Island Land Districts in Nc
braska, as recommended by the Secretary
OF the Interior, the Commissioner General
Of the Land Office, Senator Hitchcock and
ex-Reprcsentative Tafe. The President
aslo directed On order TO be issued giving
the right Of way to the Flint g. Pere Mar.
quetto Railroad through townships IS
north range to 1G west, in Michigan, for.
merly an Indian reservation.
VIM. L. Scraggs, of Georgia, has been
appointed Minister resident TO the United
States OF Columbia.
LEAvENwoRTH, f., April 1O.-The
Times Arkansas City correspondent men.
tions the return Of the rescue party, sent
out to protect and warn the surveyors on
the Cinnamon River. The party reached
the spot where the four surveyors were
murdered and found the bodies horribly
mutilated. Deming's remains were
brought back to Arkansas City for inter
ment. The remains OF the other victims
were buried where they were slain. The
rescue party encountered several bands oil
Cheyenne who used hostile demOnsra-
tions but did moi venture an attack.