The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-07-15
PIETRo.
The Indians.

, department has received dispatches
r from Lone Tree, Nebraska, confirm
+. ing the press accounts Of a battle
with the Sioux about ninety miles
from Camp Brown, in which fifty
t Indians were killed and wounded.
Lieutenant Young is reported dan
gerously wounded. Captain Joseph
Bush commanding the military sta
ton at the Lower Brule Agency,
Dakota, writes that the Indians there
are in a warlike mood, and that moth
ing but o good show Of the force viii
preyent n serious outbreak. Capt.
Carlisle BOYD, commanding at Chey-
enne Agency, reports that the supply
Of rations for the Indians is about
exhausted, and says that should the
supply Of rations, and especially Of
beef. be stopped for any heightened
pc-iod it viii lead to serious depreda-
lions. if MOTIF actual warfare on the
part Of tie Indians. Col John e.
Smith, of the Fourteenth Infantry,
commanding the Sioux expedition,
under date Camp Robinson, Nebras-
Ike, June ., writes as follows: Indi-
ans arriving from the north yester-
dav, report large war parties, esti-
mated at from four to six hundred
Indians, divided into four parties,
one for this vicinity, one to the old
Red Cloud Agency, with the inten-
ton of crossing the North Platte, one
to Laramie and one to Fetterman.
These two last probably intend to
cross between the two posts; also
one party reported as intending to
20 to SweetwGteF. OF course, this
is an Indian report, and must be con-
sidered accordingly. General Rug
gies, Assistant Adjutant General Of
the Department Of the Platte, in for
warding the dispatch says; The de-
partment commander has been notii-
ed Of the movement Of these Indians,
and steps have been taken to inter-
cept them.
WASHINGTON, July THE CON-
missioner Of Indian affairs received
the following important telegram to-
day bringing news Of a serious out
break among the Indians Of Indian
Territory:
Usage CITY, Kansas, July To
Hon. Z. p. Smith, commissioner; [
have Just arrived from the Cheyenne
and Arrapaho agency on the north
fork Of Canadian river. The hostile
C~heyenneys, C~omanches and Kiowas
made their appearance in this vicini-
ty Of the agency on the 2nd inst, and
on the same day killed and scalped
William Watkins thirty miles north
Of the agency. Five war parties
seemed to be moving in the direction
Of the trail from the agency to Cald-
well, Kansas.
/ at once dispatched a courier to
Fort Sill for troops to protect the
agency, which were temporarily gran
ted. Hostile Indians have been seen
at Kingfsher's rancho, proceeding
north. We took all our men and
stock to Lee and Reynolds rancho,
on Turkey creek, and on the Cd inst,
the Indians attacked this rancho, but
were repulsed, they getting only some
horses.
-Four miles north of Bakers rancho
we found four men, Pat Henney,
George Faud, Thomas Galloway and
one unknown lying in the road
murdered. They had three wagons
loaded with sugar and coffee for
Agent Hawreth, all of which were
destroyed or taken away. All the
men were scalped. Henney had
been tied to his wagon and burned.
We gave them a hasty burial and
proceeded to the next ranch.
Here we found Transfers stages,
cts, concentrated. They reported a
war party Of about one hundred hav-
ing passed north and east that morn
ing. The ranchmen had driven
them of. We took q woman and
child from this place and gave the
men all the ammunition we could
spare. The next ranch we reached
after dark. The Indians had gone
into a camp four miles east on Skele-
ton creek. / advised all ranchmen
and freightmen 20 abandon their
which they did, and By max
ing good use Of the night we reach
ed Caldwell yesterday noon.
We found Sallan's OK train OF Pou
creek, twenty five miles south Of
Caldwell, and fear this train, loaded
with subsistence for these agencies,
viii be CAPTURED, as we saw nine hos
Indians in that vicinity, and the
party had only three guns. Our
chief clerk is in command Of the party
are nov but two ranches oc-
on this road, and We fear
their fate before help can reach
hem.
/ have no doubt the Indians will !
everything until repulsed. /
offered my own life in passing
through their lines to save others,
and now l ask and shall expect to
receive at once two or three compa- ]
lies Of cavalry, one to be stationed /
1t Bakers rancho to protect the gov {
srnment interests on this road, and
me at the agency. L
These troops should be transported
Is quickly as possible TO Wachita by {
rail. No hostile Indians shall be t
Iuartered at the agency, and / must t
ave the troops to back it up. Let f
he hostile element be struck with t
uch power as viii make the work )
.uick and eHectual. l now 90 to o
.eayenworth, awaiting instructions b
nd ready to consult with General "
Signed JOHN D. Auxs,
Indian Agent.
Miles is a Quaker and considered b,
Y the interior department to be a a
Dol and thoroughly reliable agent. at
is request for troops has been en- til
breed and recommended for immeai te
attention by the military author 81
les Of the war department. The OF
ostile Indians referred to are estima- re
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