The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-05-24
THE MODOCS.
Unconditional Surrender Ofthe
Hot Spring Band.
They Come Into Camp and
Give Up their Arms.
SIxty.fiVe Men, Women and Children
Only q Dozen Warriors.
JACK and his Band. StnI at Large

received from Yreka, dated Fairchild's
Ranch, May 90, 4P.M.,-Says while Gen
Davis, Inspector Gen. Hardie, Col. Green
Col. summer, Col. Gillem, Col. H0yt,
Lieut.. Rockwell and Adams ESeert were
enrout TO Van Bremer's, having lett the
Lava Beds about 10 o'clock in the morn
ing, acourier intercepted and delivered
a dispatch TO Gen. Davis. Tho Warm
Spring scouts In the advance were recall.
ed, and tho programme instantly changed,
Gen. Davis determined upon Fairchild'a
Ranch instead Of Van Bremer's as the fu.
ture head quarters, a place about twenty.
three miles northwest Of the Lava Beds.
1asbrOucke left Boyle's camp May Z and
has been scouting ever since. His CON-
mand consisted Of battery B, artillery;
troops, companies B and G 1st cavalry;
Warm Spring Indians, 2l0 men. Jack
son had charge Of companies Is and G,
and harrassed the Indians which were
soon found. His men fought well in ev-
cry instance and paid little heed 10 hun
ger. The Indians were vanquished.
Capt. Hasbrouck specially praises the
gsllantry Of the B troops and portion
of G. In q charge at Dry Lake the men
scaled ridge twenty feet high in the
face Of the MOdocs and drove them away.
Capt. Jackson led the right; Lieut.. Moss
the left; Lieuts. Bouttells and Kyles held
other bold positions. Capt. Hasbrouck
has not lost man since the Dry Lake
engagement.
Artena, Chokus, Long Legs, One Eyed
Dixie and two Modocs, residents of this
rancho, last evening interviewed five
women captured by Capt. Hasbrouck's
command, and from them CLEANED an in
teresting account Of the Modoc's opera
tions during the last few months. They
were Wachamettel, Boston Charloy's two
sisters, the mother OF Black Jim and one
maiden whose relatives have obtained no
notable distinction, They report that
Shack Nasty Frank, Shack Nasty Jack,
Shack Nasty Bill, Steamboat Frank, El.
lens Man, Hooka Jim's father, Boston Nick
and several other Modocs, have been killed
and many wounded. CurleY Headed
Jack carried piece Of lead on his body
several days and when last seen was ap-
parently booked for tho happy hunting
ground. The inability.of Little John to
travel at rapid pace delayed the band
and Hasbrouck encountered and got the
Modocs into this last difficulty. The cause
OF dissatisfaction among the Modocs after
the battle Is interesting Jack consulted
q stolen chronometer. After sundry ges.
lures and exclamations, he promised his
followers that they should shed bullets as
duck dogs do the water, and escape un.
harmed. Tue confidence this statement
inspired was rudely dispelled by Has
brouck's encounter. When several Mo-
docs were killed, and others wounded, in.
dignation reigned supreme in Jacks
household. Tho Cottonwood branch Of
the tribe, from Fairchilds, decided 10
fight no moro. This resolution led to
Jacks clandestine departure. The Cot.
tonwOods, numbering twenty warriors,
and fifty women and children, hurried 10
the Snow Mountains, at the southern end
OF the lava deposit, preparatory to travel.
ing to the YamoS reservation and i'm.
plOring the pardon Of the great father at
Washington. The advent OfHasbrouck's
cavalry upon the Warm Spring Indians
disturbed their peaceful meditations, and
caused them 10 run TO the fight. During
the stampede Mrs. Hendricks, alias Him.
py, threw a babe six months old to- the
ground, in the hope Of escaping, but was
soon after killed by a Warm Spring war.
rior. The babe was brought hither and
turned over 10 local squaw. ArtenR also
learned from the Modoc women that the
CottonwoOds earnestly desired any action
looking 10 peace, and would yield TO the
soldiers II an opportunity was offered.
About this time the gentle Warm Spring
Indians outside OF the interviewing apart
ment commenced singing one Of their ma.
tional melodies and drawing bright knives
across their neat moccasins, which caused
an uneasinGss among the squaHs and ter
minated the consultation.
Captain Hasbrouck said he was willing
10 have the Modocs surrender, and would
offer them every facility for so doing. Ar
tena, Chokus and Dixie, who have hither.
to been Of great service TO the govern
ment, Canght the idea Immediately and
wanted 10 be employed as emlsSaries.
They were provided with horses, proVis-
ions for two days, and sent after the Mo-
docs. Early this morning they started on
their mission. The results thus far
achieved are in q great measure attributed
to the conduct Ol General Davis, who
found the officers and men disheartened at
the terrible reverse, and decentralization
had really commenced.
SECOND DISPATCH.
MAY 81, Ga. M.-Gen. Davis has Just re.
turned from the Klamath reservation, and
says there Is no disposition on the part
OF that locality to join tho Modocs. A
few young men, hOodlum warriors, Of the
reservation might have been induced 10
enlist under Jack had he met with contin.
ued success. His defeat has dampened
their ardor. No trouble Is now anticipat.
ed that tho MOdocs will slip into the
Yamox Agency and inclte the young
bucks to mischief.
THIRD DISPATCH.
FAIRCHILD's RANCH, May 2l-s A. ".
The latest order locates, headquarters at
Van Bremer's, whittier the inianty went
yesterday. Gen. Davis remains here for
the present.
FOURTH RIsPATCH.
FAIRCHILD's RANCH, May 2l.-Artena
Chokas and One,Eyed Dixie returned at
dusk this evening from the direction ot
Doris Ranch.
Blr. Fairchild, the gentleman who has
so cleverly engineered this consultation
business, Judged that the Modocs must be
al least fifteen miles away. Both women
said In substance that they had travelled
a long distance. The women were taken
TO Davis tent, in the presence Of General
Hardie, Col. Gillem and Capt. Hasbrouck
with Fairchild interpreting. True to their
nature, these women talked long while
but said little. Finally Artena said the
Indians were fifteen miles from here, and
numbered fifteen warriors and tity
squaWs and children. The Great Spirit
had caused their hearts to bleed Tor the
white people. They all wanted to return