The New York herald., 1874-08-28
THE RESTLESS SIOUX.
Proposed Removal of Spotted Tan
..7
Further North.
THE HUNTING LIMITATIONS.
Little Wound, with 200 Lodges. Crossing
Forbidden Boundaries.
OMAHA, August "a, 1874

OAAHA, August "a, 1874
Lieutenant ". g. Carpenter. Ninth United States
infantry. en- route to JON the Northern Boundary
Survey, arrived here yesterday from Spotted Tan
Agency. He lett MILESTONE on Tuesday. August
Is, and crossed the country with some haf-breed
scouts. He reports the Indians at Spotted Tail an
quiet and in excellent temper. Spotted Tail had
not agreed to the removal OF his agency further
north. but Lieu enant Carpenter THINKS he WIN
offer no resistance and go willingly when the time
cones. He had promised to give the Commission
ers an answer IN few days rela1ve to the pro-
posed change OF his agency, and 1t was expected
the reply would be favorable. Bishop Hare has
succeeded beyond the expectations OF every one IN
inducing the Indians to comply with the wishes q
the government. IL Ia now considered a.mOst GER
tain there will be no trouble with Spotted Tails
bands OF Sioux unless Little o:nd and his people
should bring about new complications. In tho
council Mr.. Human tod the Indians they must
give up
HUNTING ON THE REPUBLICAN,.
and to this they demurred. Bishop Hare said
they should be compensated for any loss tney
tanned In giving up their hunts on the Republican
River. Spotted Tail replied II would be hard ior
the government TO do TINS, as those hunts yielded
more to his people than all their other game pue
together. They killed little in the upper country.
but when they went south they got plenty. Ho
was sure his warriors had not IN the past nor
would they In the future disturb any white men
ound in the Republican country. 1t was sugges ed
the Sioux could not hunt on the Republican with
out danger of coming In contact with the Pawnees.
TO this no reply was made. The TACT is the Sioux.
want an opportunity to fight the Pawnees. and
every year they go south as much to fight as TO
hunt. The Sioux and Pawnees are lmplacable eae-
miles, and nevec meet but they fight. Long age
the Sioux mace
GREAT CORN FEAST
corn and dogl, and invited the Pawnees, who
attended in great numGcrs While they were or
at the least q large body OF Sioux warriors, wAe
had been detached Tor the purpose, entered tho
Pawnee country, attacked the unprotecte1 vii
lagos and slew hundreds OF Old men, women and
children. The Pawnees never forgot this perfdy.
and for many years have been bitter enemies ef
the Sioux. hating them with malignity so great
that no two indians or the opposite tribes meet
without attempting to kill each other.
Lieutenant Carpenter came over the new roaa
part Of the way IL runs from Sidney, on tho
Union Pacific Railroad, to Red Clouds instead OF
Spotted Tails Agency as first reported in
the HERALD dispatches. The olstance to Red
Cloud Will be 125 miles, instead OF III by the Old
route. The distance from sidney to Spotted Tau
by the new route Will be 1855 miles, as AGAINST ZIG
by the Old road. Lieutenant Carpenter reports
the new route entirely practcaoe for loaded
LITTLE WOUNDS DIsOBEDIENCE.
On his way down Meutenan5 Carpenter passed
Little Wound and his band His village In motion
was over nile and half long, and contained ZOE
lodges. The Indians SAID there we're 400 souls IN
the party. Lieutenant Carpenter talked wi n them
and asked wncre they were going, and they re-
pled to the Kepu3llcan TO hum. one OF the half
breeds explained that the commissioners
! had forbidden the Sioux to hunt on the
/ Republican any more They said they knew
| the wishes of the commissioners out they wero
! gong anyway. They SAID tney expecred to cross
| the Union tactic Railroad SlsLey. General
Dudley. commanding at Sidney, was appriset Of
! the coming OF tins band, ana said lie would stop
them. IL Is understood that General Sheridan
telegrapned here yesterday to General Ord f0rco
Little Wound and his band to go back 70 their
! agency.
| SPOTTED TAILS NEW AGENCY.
| Spotted Tails new agency Will be on White
! River, about twenty miles north OF his present
location. The new site Is said to De very good
one. with plenty Of wood. water and grass. Work
Will be commenced on 1t imme llately and the
Spotted Tail does not like the idea OF giving up
mis- summer hunts on the Republican. lie says IL
is q splendid game country; his people can 20
down there in August, Kill wnat buffalo they want
to eat around their camps until October, and then
make big hunt and get enough meat l0r winter
use. The government, however, IS determined -
Orce the order cOninIng Indians 10 their reser-
vatlOns and however hard 1t may be On Sp0tty, he
Will have to submit.
Lieutenant Ca penter starts north tomorrow
morning to JOIN the Northern Boundary Surveying
Expedition. When last heard from 1t was at
Turtle Bluffs and marching at the rate of twenty
miles per day toward the point where they Left on
the survey last year.