The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-10-28
CROOKS COMMAND.
A Scout Around the Black Hills AFTER
"fesky" Indians That Do Torment
the Miner.
Latest Field lntelllgenee-A Thin Stor,
BY q Wiley Sioux The Red Rene.
gados Out Of Ammunition.
Norihwestern indinas Assent to re-
muVhl 80 Enuinn Territory,

| Norihwestcrn Iudinaa Assent t0 re.
moyAi 80 indian Territory,
NANliroN, d, T., October 27.-The
commissioners report their mission
successful All the agencies ON the
| Upper Missouri, have signed the treaty
huwevtEwith, stipulation of removing
them b the Indian Terri o.y erased.
CHlcAGo, O2tooer 20 The lnter-
Orana special Black Hills CORE.
apondent says TIE arrival Of four hum
bred and ntty recruits mounted,
armed aud fully equipped, for the
N,th Cavalry, showed us that some.
thing would soon be done. Aud We
were not disappointed, for to-day or.
d,m are out sending scout Of six
hundred men eastward to the junction
| of the Bollp Fourohe and South Chey-
enne after magaudng indians supposed
to be IN that vicinity, The Fifth Cav
airy has four hundred and twenty
men, thu Second sixty men, and the
| Third one hundred and twenty men,
all under command OF General Merritt,
OF the Filth Cavalry. The officers ao-
campaigning tho expedition are Cap
| tain penle and Lieutenant Hall, Of the
Second Cavalry Captains Morahan
and Nroom aud LieuteDants Smead
aud King, of the Third Cavalry, and
all ot the Fifth Cavalry officers. The
expedition starts tomorrow with ten
days muous The great grassy plains
between the Belle fourche and South
! Cheyenne, Near where they approach
each other, have long been favorite
resort for the Sioux ON account Of it's
excellent grazing, and unless the pres
once Of General Crooks command
in Che Black Hills has driven
them out, the chances are favorable
Tor an encounter In that vicinity.
In a conversation with the Indians
captured at the fight at Slim Buttes on
the 9Th of last month, we found few
mot entirely uuimportAnt facts not yet
generally Known Of the status OF In.
dian allairs from an Indian stand
point. The eldest Of the Indians cap
tured, called Black Bear, says that he
belongs to the Brule Sioux, now at
Standing otk agency, formerly from
' Spotted Tail agency. He left there
With American Horse "a Brule sub.
y chlef. killed in the fghD Inst summer,
=, tu trade ammunition bought at Stand
$ Ing Rock with the hostiles in the field
+ rhey had Just accomplished this, and
= were on the point OF returning, when
g surprised in the village OF Slim Buttes,
g The Indians who lost their villages ia
this fight were Minneoonjous, aud not
0 Bmles, us heretofore reported, the
, mistake being due, probably, to Amer.
! lean Horses Quilt, the onlY capture
Of live mdlGns made being Brule.
, rui9 fact Is, in measure, oonsontory,
: as the Miuneuonjous, are, without doubt
the most perssten.ly hostile OF the
/ Sioux nation, and, for their numbers,
r have d0ue more mischief and
2 especially when this nation was
reckoned as Mt peace, than any other
sub-triba In It, unless ii might be the
cutoff Uncapapas under Sitting Bull
himself. Their principal chic is Clazy
, Horse, and the hand defeated was no
doubt dependency OF his, aud relied
on him in the afternoon to recapture
I their village, but We're sadly disap-
pointed wien they ran against the en-
tire command Of General Crook then
+ brought up. The Chiefs name was
{ Bear Nose, and not Roman Moss, who,
by the way, 10 an important Brult
chief and u Minneconjou. Black Beal
+ gives some statements which appear I
: trille transparent, and one Of which
a in regard 20 their loss, IL extremely so
d He say that since and including TIN
y NINGN Iltlct hNth VI NAhNh 80 va
battle with Custerand Reno, the Rose
bud and Tongue River tights, also Sin
It Buues, and their depredatious and en-
! counters IN the Black Hills, the Sion'
have only lost thirty warriors. Tn
Indians are very short of ammunition
but it is not very hard to replenisl
i them ut the different agencies, II tn
- matter Of price can only be overcome
IL as the Illicit dealers ut these point
81 have so framed "cornef" as to grin
severely on poor "Lo'sh pocket. Thi
.. evidently was an item in u prolonge
~ campaign not counted upon by on
red friends. Other than in this n
y spect, the Sioux are very well, or
=, least sufficiently, provided with ever,
u ching necessary to hold out indei
l. nitely.