The Portland daily press., 1874-07-10
INDIAN TROUBLES.
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NEW YORK, July "a Washington special
says that General Sherman and the officers on
duty at the War Department. do not share the
belief that there will be any serious work for
the army on he frontier this summer. They
think that Quaker Miles, whose startling DIS
patch respecting the threatened outbreak in the
Indian territory was communicated to the Wa
Department was greatly demoralized when he
wrote the telegram.
The greatest interest now centers in the ex-
petition under General Gustav, to the Black
Hills. Colonel Forsythe, of General Sheridan S
staff, who accompanied tho command, in let
ter to afFiend says that the arrangements are
such that the force Can move with The greatest
rapidity, unencumbered by bulky transporta-
uon, While the commissary STOKES are very Lin
tied and unless game is found in abundance
the sixty days to which the expedition is Inn
tied will exhaust them entirely. Lieut. Colonel
Fred Grant, who also accompanies this eXpe-
dition, will come under fire for the first time, II
the hostile Sioux oppose the movements OF Gus
tars party.
Movements of the Hostile Tribe.
OMAHA, Neb., July 9.-Generas Sheridan
and Ord returned from the west this alter
noon. Telegraphic adyces from Fort Laramie
state that the reports received from Spotted
Tails agency say that seventy-hve lo9ges OF
Ogallas under Black Twin are moving toward
that place, and the Uncapapas and Mlnnecon-
jens are moving across the Yellowstone river;
The Arrapahoes and CheyenneS are composed
at the head waters of the Big Horn river, near
the Big Horn mountains.
The Fourth ofJuIy Fight.
WASHINGTON, July 9.-An official dispatch
from General Sheridan confirms the report of
the killing and wounding on the 4th of July CT
fifty Sioux indians and the capture OF 100
horses, with the loss of two and Lieut.
Young killed and three men wounded. The
Sioux camp was on the north side of the Owl
Mountain range: The attack would have been
more successful if the SloShhoueS with the
party had behaved better
More Trouble.
New YORK, July 9.-Troubles with the In
dams are reported from tn Lower Brule agen
cy in Dakota, where an Indian threatened the
life of the agent aud escaped. On the tribe
being notified to produce the man, some $50
Indians with their chiefs, all well armed aud
mounted, appeared at the agency with the
man, but refused to give him up till the agent
was given up to them. Captain Bush then
trained his howtzer upon them, when, after
short parley, they gave up the offender and dis
persed sullenly. Next day they held a council
WITT Bishop Hare, near the post and Captain
Bush again placed his gun IN position as the In
diaus were saucy. As they were dispensing
from the council demand rs made for the
prisoner given up the day previous, but al
though threats were made, he was retained.
Captain Bush is convinced that nothing but a
show of force prevented conflict
Good indians.
WASHINGTON, July 9 In reporting the muir
der of three men by the Cheyenne Indians,
agent Miles says they had been driven to retail
ate upon the horse thieves from the border and
tie Iodians whom three months ago they
should have protracted. They will now proba-
bly, Join the Sioux and Camaches in raid os
tensibly upou buffalo hunters.