Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-08
ESTABLISHED MARCH 80. 1873!
THE WAR TRAIL.
Bloody Times i'm the Indian Ter
ritOry,
1900 Indians slaughtering and
Pillaging.
White Men scaIPed and Burned at the
stake.


stake.
| WASHINGTON, July THE Commits
sioner OF Indian Affairs received the fol-
lowing important telegram TO day, bringing
news of serious outbreak among the
Indians in the Indian Territory:
| Usage, rs, July Ito L. p. Smith,
| Commissioner at Washington: L have Just
arrived from Cheyenne and the Arapahoe
Agency on the north fork of L. dian river
Hostile Cheyennes, Comanches and Kiowas
made their appearance in the vicinity of
| the Agency on the I'd inst,
and on the same day killed and
ScaIPed
William Watkins, thirty miles north Of the
agency. Five war parties seem moving in
the direction of the trail from the agency
| to Caldwell, rs. | at once dispatched a
courier to Fl. Gill for troops 20 protect the
agency, which were temporarily granted.
In the morning We mustered small party
of employees TO escort me to Caldwell.
Hostile Indians had been seen at King
Fishers rancho, proceeding north. We
took all the men and stock TO Lee & Rey-
nolds' rancho, on Turkey creek, and on
the 2d instant the Indians attacked this
rancho but were repulsed, getting only some
horses. -Four miles North of Bakers
rancho We found four men, Pat HeneSy,
Geo. Faud, ThOS. Galloway and one UNI
known lying in the road murdered. They
had three wagons loaded with sugar and cot.
fee, for Agent Haworth, all of viii n was de-
strOyed or taken away. All the men were
Scalped. Henesy had been tied to his
wagon and
Burned.
The fire was still burning. We gave
them hssty burial and proceeded to the
next ranche. Here we found teamsters,
stages, etc. concentrated. They reported
war party of about one hundred having
passed North and East That morning. |
The rancho men had left them |
off. Wetook woman and child from this |
place, and gave the men all the an1muni- |
ton we could spare, Tie next rancho we |
reached after dark. The Indians had gone |
into camp four miles east on Skeleton |
creek. l advised all the ranchemen and |
fneightmen to abandon their places, which |
they did, and by making good use of the |
night we reached Caldwell yesterday. We |
found Lafiin's OK trains at Pond creek, 1
twenty-five miles south Of Caldwell, and |
fear this train loaded with subsistence for
the three agencies will be CAP
tured, as We saw Hostile Indians
in that vicinity, and the party had
only three guns. Ny chief clerk IS in COM
mand of the parry. There are now but two
ranches occupied on this ruad and we fear
their fate before. help can reach them. l
have no doubt
The Indians Will Clean Everything
until repulsed. This is their proclamation.
have offered my own life in passing
through their lines to save Others and now
shall ask and expect 10 receive two or three
companies OF cavalry, one to be sta
toned at Bakers rancho TO protect the
Governments interests on this road aud
one at the agencies. These troops shOdid
be transmitted rs qnietly rs possible by
rail to Wichita. No hostile Indians shall
be quartered at the agency, and l must
have troops 10 back it up. Let the hostile |
element be struck and with such power a.
shall make the work Salick and eiiectuHl. |
now 90 to Leavenwcyt, awaiting instruc-
tons, and ready to 60 with Gen. Pope.
JOIN ID. MILES, Indian Agent.
Mr.. Miles is a quaker, and considered by |
the Interior Department to be a cool and
thoroughly reliable agent. His request for
he troops has been Endorsed and fecom-l
mended for immediate attention blythe
military authorities of the War Depart
ment. The hostile Indians referred to are
TO number two thousand, COM
Drising about one-fourth of the Cheyenne, ,
Aioma and AraphOes tribes. Commits
'ioner Smith last year recommended that
heSe tribes, who had then
been raiding extensively in Texas,
should be brought into thorough subiection
and compelled to give up their rRiding
leaders. This was not done and the trOu-
Die now proceeds from the same turbulent
art of the tribes. Three-fOurths are peace
IDLY located at Font Gill, where Santanta,
Big Tree, and their other prominent chiefs ;
till remain in compliance with their agree ;
nent.