The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-07-08

tniS esliHdpe- Inc village
1900 lodges and many willow tepees
had been added within a few days.
Ii is believed by those who fought
that the warriors numbered 1000.
An Associated Press dispatch
from New York, received at this Of
nee last night, says:
Special dispatches to nearly all the
papers here confirm the dreadful de-
feat and massacre of Clusters forces.
1t appears that his command and
Reno's attacked the Indian camp at
different moments, losing the moral
effect Of a simultaneous attack. Reno
lost ninety-fye killed and wounded
and Clusters command was annihila-
ted. The details show hat the COM
maad reached the indian camp on
the Little Horn on June 18th. Mai.
Reno, with three companies, attack
ed on the south and was repulsed,
his loss including Lieuts. Mcintosh
and Hodgson, DR.. De Wolf and fifty
men killed and wounded. Benton's
command made for the bluffs across
the river, and was saved from instant
destruction by the timely arrival of
Gibbons battalion. Custer, with
five companies, attacked the lower
part of the camp. Clusters express
sion was serene. About three thou
sand warriors were engaged. The
Indians suffered heavy loss and aban-
doned an immense store of supplies.
Reno's and Benton's command en-
trenched themselves until the eve
ming of the 18th, the men being
saved by the opportune arrival Of
Terry.
Custer underestimate the enemy's
strength, separated his force, and
was defeated. He probably mis-
judged the time necessary to make
the distance between his own and
Reno's force. The survivors of the
command remained at the village two
f days, burying the dead andicaring
f for the wounded. The troops will 90
, back to the mouth Of the Big Horn
to bring away the wounded and to
refit for future operations.
TIE Omaha Herald on the Indian War
, ' The o valued of our exchanges
and one of the best newspapers pub
llshed west of the Mississippi, is un.
/, fortunately a little ''offn on the Indian
E question. Dr. Miller, its able editor,
is imbued with certain fixed notions
in this all important subject, which a
long residence among the people oil
h west has not sufficed to eradicate.
> DIR. Miller, in the issue of the Herald
, dated on the day he published the
, horrible news from Gen. Terry's com.
l mand, quoted a paragraph from the
LEADER in regard to the cheek ex.
perienced by Gen. Crook recently, and
says:
"Our Cheyenne contemporary be.
gins to see the daylight which the
Herald long since sought to hammer
: into its benighted head. The thriving
city and justly hopeful Territory n
which it is published, but the direc-
ton of whose real interests it has
, failed to comprehend, begins to dis
cover it likewise. In other words.
Indian exterminators are neither as
numerous mol o:sy as they were since
the most able and renowned of Indian
fighters has discovered that the CON
tract to whip, saying nothing of the
more difhcuit contract TO exterminate,
even Il small fraction of the Sioux
nation of Indians is proving a very
dangerous thing to execute"
In the same number the editor saws
in an article, headed IAN Indian
War"
ANY appeal that il would now be
possible for us to make to stop our
Indian wal wouli be even more inef-
fectuai than those which were made
before 1t began. 1t has already cost
Grand Island. Columbus, Omaha and
wyoming, Nebraska and the
many precious. lives, and the price of
countless dollars in the loss of a return
ing prosperity in this part of the west.
Does any sane man doubt it?"
By such argument, certainly, DR..
Miller will not succeed in "hammer-
ing daylight into our benighted
head.v
The present situation OH our frontier
is as we'll known to the editor of the
Herald, as well as to the people of Ne
braska, Montana and Wyoming. The
terrible punishment inflicted upon
Gen. Terry's command. resulting in
the massacre of over four hundred of
u brave soldiers, and twenty of our
best and most valiant army officers.
the very flower of the American SOL
diery, does not induce us to make an
appeal to stop this Indian war. We
speak the sentiments of seventy-fve
thousand.people Of this frontier, amon
whom we have lived for the past sew
en- years, in calling upon our National
Government to reinforce our little mr.
my under Crook and Terry, in the
northern part of this Territory.