New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-14

The following is the official report Of
Colonel SKATER of his operations in North.
western Texas. Our special correspondent
in San Antonio has already afforded Us
some facts in relation to the same:
LAGUsA SABNA, Texas, October 10, 1875.
To Colonel J. H. TAYLOR:
SIR have the honor to report that de-
stroyed last night camp of sixteen lod ges,
which he'd been abandoned by the ludiaus
the night before in great haste, a. they left
everything standing.
About fifty. sacks of mesquite beans, 5000
or 1000 pounds of dried buffalo meat, about
100 buffalo robes, cooking utensils, etc, and
100 lodge poles were burned.
Upon my arrival at Laguna Quates, on
the evening of the fifteenth instant, found
the large springs were entirely ruined by
the butfaloes tramping them up. go that by
putting all the spades into use digging out
the Syringe, it was two O'Clock in the morn
ing before got the command watered with
one bucketful each: and with delsil of
fifty -four men hard at work, was only able
to water once all the animals wanted by
P. M: Of the sixteenth instant.
As the springs at Lagunas Sabinss were
reported much smaller than those at Quates,
| sent out on the morning of the sixteenth
Lieutenant Bulls, three guides and five
sSNAoAo' WAeh oAuOts W kO W Lay uIlW Sd
binas and see about water, giving him or.
ders to come back at once if Indian signs
were discovered. At about four O'Clock in
the evening Lieutenant Bulls found him.
self within half mile of an Indian village
and saw that he was not discovered, He al
once hid himself in the sunfowers and
waited for one of his guides to come in,
who had left him short time before he saw
the camp. Thinking that the guide would
stay out all night on the prairie and alarm
the camp by coming in the morning, Lieu
tenant Bulls concluded not to return and
notify me, but try and get some of their
horses and run them back to camp. He
fastened his own horses and crept int the
Indian camp and succeeded In getting
twenty-five horses, the most of them good
once, and four or five mules, with which he
started for my camp, distant thirty-three
miles, reaching me about A. M of the
seventeenth. ! at once left with the CON-
mand, reaching the Sabinas with twenty.
five men just after dark to find the camp
abandoned and everything gone. The main
command got in about ii p. NJ. and the
wagons early on the morning Of the eight
eenth.
In looking for the trail yesterday the
camp of sixteen lodges referred to was
found about six miles off, and party sent
out to destroy it. This camp was evidently
left on the evening or night of the seven
teenth, upon the approach Of my party to-
ward the north end OF the Lsguna. The
trails are running south and south west, and
follow this evening in two columns of about
ninety men each, one following the trail
and the other going to the southwest, to
the spring, where l found the Indiana on
my last scout.
They had evidently been here but q few
days, and came in for buffalo meat and
robes. A pair of shoes or CATERS recently
worn by a white or Mexican woman was
found in the camp above referred to, also q
child's calico frock.
w. r. SKATER,
Lieutenant Colonel Twenty fourth In
fantry