, 1873-05-10
THE M0D0C WAR,
4 Government Supply Train Surprised
by the Redskins.
Later Advioes State the Indians Have
Deserted the Lava-Beds,
Movements of the Troops---Re-
connoissance Ordered.

I
Modoc5 made sortie to-day On train return-
ing to camp, On what is known as the Island,
whittier the quartermaster and other stores haye
been removed from the former depot 1t the
southeast corner Of Tule Lake, cap-
turing eleven mules and three horses.
They burned " three wagons. Three
Of the escort, private Burgwell, Company B,
Twenty first Infantry; Evans, Company 1
Twenty-first Infantry; and Burns, Troop @.
First Cavalry, we're wounded while repellnR the
| sortie.
MAY 8-8a. m-seyerA large fires are burn
ing. Jacks camp is within plain sight of this
place. This is evidently done by way Of bragga-
doclo, with view of letting us know they are
rejoicing over q temporary victory. ~
Gen. Jan. O. Davis aud the officers who Ac-
oompAnied him here from San Francisco pro-
pose leaving to-day under the escort Of Lieut..
Alller's detachment and Troop F, First Cavalry.
Capt. L. Y. Decker, Of the Engineer Corps,
and the artist who accompanies him, Mr. May
bridge; have, aince their arrival, been actively
engaged in taking views and sketches Of the
topography Of the lava-beds. Mr. Maybridge
has taken IN all fifty remarkable views.
The Modoc squaws who we're taken prisoners
at the first battle in the lava-beds, on April Is,
i6. and II, we're forwarded yesterday, by O. G.
Applegate, to the Yainox reservation.
ds{aeSe9 :; s Rsts1 Fon46
near the stroneioid ara oTderad ~ ra,rt 4o* ~
these headquarters. Capt. Hasbrouck's Light
Battery 3, Fourth Artillery, remain at the depot
fantrv ia to occnnr nna;to,a ;retha 1;o,;t aHo II
tho atronehoid. G1l ffa wonnde5 congaiasxcart "
viii be removed to-day and 'd''ons placed en-
route for Fort klamath, under charge
4sast.nt Snrnaa" Sa1n;, '1ny. u ncung
favorah]r nndsr h;a = ronn3s " pr;v6te e'16 pas s11s
COMPANY G. Twelfth Infantrv dad on the n' ava,,
inr of Tia fth in hosnita1 ir1n1n +ho afrac,a ~
wounds received Oh The 25ih % nit. ~ ''''' -
The fol1owinc m.mor,ndnrn ~, hsa t,,et hoo,,
ceiyed: AA''A'4'' ''@'4>A%'AAA N'1' '1'' Doon 10~
HrAnonAprrna nrp.,r,,v,xr ~ rr,., ~
rn,1n1. ponT1ISn All o5I1, ~ ti,,,ai, ~
nation msy reach the headquarters s'u Of any % un-
the part OF the Indians. nntil fnrthor or3e1s tba
co1rnar5;,e- oH;no-a p. 49,, Oe1:n o'4e1e 1uo
and KlamatR. and Camna Harnev anJ Wsenar'
will Forward renorfs waet11 and 1ffanor ahar15
ant Ad1utant General. If there Be "a anT W. chann"a
in the attitude toWards tha GoveTnment 10 the
Indiana in their vicinity. - 'Ao
(Signed) q. C1AYwooD, 4. L. General.
1ATA-BEps, Nav 8-4:15 u. m'-Tfe dav hefore
Yesterday. two eaunvs who lived an Fa}}rch;ld's
2auche. 0ne-Eyed Dixie aud nd Artena-GboEes IT. IS11u
were sent out hv him th7nnch instr11c.
tious from Gen. Davis. to reconno;tro tha
position held by tie Modocs at tia
limo Of the nttack m Cant Thomas .1
to report on their strenrth, md to ascartnin =
possi6ie whether thew recaiived re;nfoTcomanta @
The suuaws returned Yesterday. having heen ~.
cordinclv eighteen hours without wnfer. Thav
saw no Modocs, their idea being that Can't, JACK
had left for some other po2nt wbere watar
is obtained. On receipt Of this inforn1a-
ton the Warm Spring Indians, under Donald
Mckay, were ordered out with instructions
to push forward to the point above alluded to-
and discover the Modocs. The large fires men
toned in the foregoing we're signals from Can't.
Mckay that the Modoca had vacated their forti-
fcations and had eono to some other point not
delinable Just now. On tho observation OF the |
fire signals orders immediately issued for Has