The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-07-17
NDuAN NEWS.
a special from wiehita to the

a special from Wichita TO the
of 18th inst, says
Adiutant General Morris left this
sity this mOrniBg with a picked |
of twenty men all well |
armed and mounted. He will pro-
coed to Caldwell aud distribute |
arms to the people there, and will |
then, under instruction from Gov.
Osborn, scout the whole south part |
of The state and report in full his
on the situation, so
that the state authorities will be
fully advised as to the actual condi-
ton of affairs in that section. Gen.
Morris has heard of no late outra-
ges or of any Indians north of the
state line, ahd thinks there will be
no further danger, snd that the
people may return 10 their homes
but he will thoroughly investigate,
so I'll t the authorities may contin-
ne 10 take full and prompt meas
ures for the safety of the settlers in
that section.
We CLEAN the following facts
from the Commemorative CORES
pondence:
On the second of July, the set
tiers on the CoWskiu, not fifteen
miles from Wichits, hastily secret
ed, as we'll as their trepidation
would permit. their few movable
effects, hitche1 up their teams and
fell to this town On the third
and fourth the settlers in the west
ern and southwestern part of Sedg-
wick county followed their exam
pie, and camped in the neighbor-
hood of the town. On each of
these days those that came in the
night before, having had time TO
| recover from their fright, returned
to their homes. learn that three
white men, horse thieves and des-
peradoes, one of them known as
Hurricane Bill, who is now in Jail
here, started this alarm among the
| settlers with a view to plumber
when it should take effect in the
abandonment by the settlers oil
their homesteads.
There have been but five murders
by Indians as far as can be learnt
committed in Kansas, and these by
small bands OYertaking solitary and
defenceless white men On the road
There have been 10 attacks ON par.
ties of men travelling inside the
state borders, and not one single
settler, however remote from
neighbors, has been molested. The
| fight between Col. Compton anG
the Indians was in the Indian terri
tory, as was also the murder of the
train men and the burning of Pat
rick Hennessey.
There is no indication that any
Indians contemplate q raid into
Kansas, or that they have in view
any organized attack upon the
whites. The story of Agent Miles
that three thousand young warriors
comprising Cheyennes, Kiowas anG
ArapahOes were on the war-path il
treated by SUCH old Indian traders
as Jas. X. Mead and VIM. Griffen
stein as nonsense. 1t is no
thought that there are more thar
three hundred Indians on the wal
path, divided into small parties
roaming through the northern par
of the territory, and particularly OF
|
ment is worth something in tht
matter think that the Indians, hay
ing already committed sufficien
outrages on the cattle trail Il
awaken the white men and call Oh
the soldiery, will now HE then
away to the Businesses of tn
Udnos EStdc0dOS, or staked plains
and wait for the storm to blow
over.
Considerable apprehension is fel
here for ten herds of cattle of on
thousand each which should b
somewhere between the Red rive
F and Wichita, probably at Rec
Fork, near which point William
Watkins n well known citizen O
. this place was killed by Indians
few days ago. A telegram wa
sent to Gov. Osborn, TO ask for aid
and was forwarded TO Gen. Pope
who will probably order detaeh
, lnent to that vicinity.
We also present a letter from
GENERAL POPE,
{ to the Governor of Kansas, sho W
r ing that the whole frontier of Kan
, sas is lined with troops, CONSTANT
i'll motion, and it seems impOssibI
that the Indians can do any dan
4 age. By application to the neare,
r commanding officer to any poiI
+ threatened, or to any of the moyin
] companies, the threatened localit
can be promptly attended to. Gel
Pope says in relation TO the tradin
: firms at Dodge City, who have
= violation of the law and to the in
calcuiable injury of the peaceful an
I honest farmers aud frontier settler
! of Kansas, established trading posi-
or grog shops in the panhandle G
: Texas, IS miles along the Arkansa,
| to trade with the buffalo hunter
t and ruftians who have invaded tn
, Indian country, and committed VI
, olent and ineXcusable Outrages uu
. on the Indians, he has 10 WOr
: of sympathy or concern, and if b
should send troops to the localit
of these unlawful trading establish
ments it would be to break up, an
, not protect them. He says to til
nnscrupulous and illegal transat
lions of the people, the murder G
innocent people on the frontier ar
largely attributed, and they ougt
to be punished.
Gen. Pope writes to Gen. SheI
man that except to the careles
stragglers outside of the militar
lines, and to few remote settlers
he thinks we are fully able to Civ
) protection from the Indian out
RACES.