The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-04-17
The Rescss Party Buries The vlctins-
Bodies Horribly Haiilated.
Re urn Of ali the Surveyors to Ar.
kansas City-Nanes Of the
ROstile Chiefs.

ARKANSAS CRY, KS, April z, 1873.
Edasv Tines:
The party of thirty men that left here on
the 18th instant arrived safe to-day, bringing
the body Of E. II. Denning With them. All
are bow safe here. The teamsters. survey
ORE and messengers that were out in that
section have also returned without any
further los Of life. Robert Dorling, one Of
the thirty men and brother Of Capt. Dor
ling, The contractor. says they nw no In
dams until they were some twenty-five miles
from The spot where the Others were muir
dered. when they saw three Indiana. They
came towards them, but were mosioned 10
keep of, and one Of them was sisnaled TO
come forward, and Jake Ke6er, an old
.cout, vent to meet him. The Indian came
forward with weapons all ready for use.
Jake seeing this, took the same precaution.
The Indian said they should not 90 any
Acknowledgements heap mad" Jake
told him they should go and bury the boys
The Indian waited to know If We were
soldiers, and We made him believe some
we're. He was then ordered to 90.
We arrived At the graves the next day,
about eight o'clock, and found the bodies
horribly nutilated, and only one ct to be
moved. We gave the other three-Nr.
Poole, Daniel Short and Charles Davis-a
christian burial, and marked their graves
90 they could be identified in the future BY
their friends We then ssarted for Arkansas
City with Mr.. Domingo remains. The In
dams kept ont Of sight all the time,
vet We had evidence of their pres
ence all around IA. We were we'll
armed and ready at any moment; had over
400 shots without reloading. If IN Indian
had shown himself when We were around
the bodies OF our wounded comrades We
could not have controlled ourselves. On our
return We saw no Indiana. Robert Jones,
Belonging to Turner'S party, vas running q
compass on January Bib or 9th, when Bull
Bear prevented them frog working and
drove Them back to the Medicine. He was
some three miles from the spot when the
BOYS were killed and heard the firing on the
l9tb, but did not know what it Was for. |
Son after Boil Bear came with his band and |
told him he had killed four surveyore and |
would kill him and his party il they did DOT |
70. They paid no atteation to him - they |
olten tried TO brighten them. On the 9th |
We found Denning's body. and on the 18th
Little Robe came to us and ordered u to 60 |
l. L. ~sS
miles south and thress miles west Of the Gin
AKRON. We sent messenger some i've miles
with note to the rest Of Turner's party and
fastened it TO the corner be would close in,
% be would be sure and 80 it - soon q he |
arrived and quit and come to our camp. We
made . breast work on the side Of .
hill the best We could and waited
for our comrades to come in
and they Joined % about noon On the 18th.
The bad been troubled BY the Indians in the
same manner - We bad, shooting at them TO
nee bow Close they could come without hit
ling them, shooting arrows and revolver be-
tween our arms and bodies. Turnefs party
bad not Joined % more than Is minutes BE-
fore Little Rob came to our camp With about
6fty Indians and ordered % to move Of, and
ve thought it best to 20. and not stand on the
order OF our going, but 60 1t one. We
we're escorted to . camping place on the Cim-
iron, and after makingt % cook supper
for ali Of them, they leA, but returned in
he morning and marched % on q lev mile.
nd ordered us TO 70 on or they would kill
n. Hank Medley, Bob Jones and Jack
cume were sitting in camp shat day when an
indian made them draw straWs, and then
COX up hand full of sand and put it 10
lack Cume's hand. Hank Medley drew the
hort straw. They did not know what the In
:ians meant ut the Aime, but have since
earned they were drawing to see which
hould be killed first. Little hob stood BY,
I vas his band.
North A. Haight was stopped on
he 18th Of November. and told
hat they would kin him if
,e did not 70 beck. Big Jake's
and told him By signs and in Mexican.
ARain, on the 9Th Of December, they cooked
heir guns On % and ran their horses over
be chain, and tried to break il and the COM
No. He Vas running township line, and
,as ahead Of the other partiea ! hsd to 90
ack ut that time, and waited until January,
nd Vas stopped again On the 7th of June,
y Bull Beam hand. He said il We did not
o he would shoot % and kill our teams.
topped the Let time on The 18th of March
q the Cmarroa, and bad to come to Big
axes party, and Chief named Asrs Sin
Ii came into our camp this time and annoy
4 o. 80 BY shooting 1t ~ and interfering
18th our work that We had to abandon it
nd come in.
Dick Ketrin Is safe and sends his regards.
J. N. Denning va buried here to-day in the
.gular burying grounds. This affair has
Vt q gloom over the entire community,
nd ell feel that the government ought TO do
,methiDg to punish the Indians for this
lurtler. Let the government send trOaps
own and take few Of the Cheyenne Chiefa
I'd hold them for hostages until they deliver
D the party that killed there men, and try
'em - white man would be tried, and lei
,em answer 10 the law for their crime l.
, Indian i killed, they send soldiera down
arrest and puni.h the whites. II some
ing IL not done, The settlers vii, take thinGs
10 their own hand, and revenge their
rones themselves.
Yours, &c. ]. b. b
FORT LEAVENWORTH.