The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-09-28

DiiSnS" AouuS anu return OF the eXeCu-
ton unsatisfed
A BISMARCK dispatch of the 18Th says o
complete enrolment of Indians at Standing
Rock showed only $50 lodges-a total OF
1900 Indians. Rations had previously been
issued on a basis of 1000. Indians were
known to have returned from the hostiles,
but SO steshthily that they could, not be
caught, and an attempt to disarm hostiles
had therefore proved abortive.
On the evening of the 14th two masked
men boarded train on the Utah Central
Railroad few miles north of Salt Lake City,
gagged Wells & Fargo's messenger, opened
the safe, took $4,000, and made their es.
cape.
THERE were twenty-seven yellow fever in.
terments at Savannah, Ga, on the 18th, and
twenty-one on the 10th. General distress
prevailed in the city, and many poor fami-
lies were on the verge of starvation. Geuer.
Gus contributions were being received from
the citizens of other Southern cities.
A RECENT Los Angeles (Cal.) telegram
narrates terrible tale of suffering on the
Colorado desert. Henry Smith, from St.
Louis, with one companion and pack team,
left Yuma for Los Angeles, and wandered
four days on the desert without water.
Smith opened the veins of his arm and drank
blood, which clotted in mis- throat. He then
cut his windpipe to remove it, and died a
few hours after. His companion reached
the station in the last stage of exhaustion.
A CHEYENNE dispatch of the 10th says the
Wheeler brothers, who had been working
their famous claim No. 2, below Gayville, on
Deadwood Greek, arrived at Fort Laramie
the night before, with a paid escort of twenty
men. They brought, as the proceeds of
their work for seven months, over 500, OOO-
1900 pounds of dust.
THE recent South Carolina Republican
berlain, the present Lieutenant Governor,
Comptroller-Gencral, Treasurer and Secre-
tary of State. r. B. Elliott, colorcd, was
nominated for Attorney General.
In the Mountain Meadow Massacre trial
at Beaver, Utah, on the 18th, seven witnesses
testified for the prosecution, all of them be-
ing new witnesses except Joel w. White.
Their testimony fixed the murder on Lee
Samuel Knight testified that he was driving
for the train; he heard the first gun fired af.
ter the emigrants had been decoyed out
Saw Lee blow a woman's brains out, beat a
man to death with a gun, and murder sew.
cral others, and at the same time saw the
Indians make a rush on the women and
children, whom they slew. Daniel
McMurdy testified that he drove the
other wagon; after the emigrants had been
decoyed out by flag of truce, and the
whole column commenced moving up the
Meadows, he heard the command to "halt,''
and looking around saw Lee put his gun to
woman's head and fire; she fell; he heard
him beating mans brains out with gun;
Lee then came to the witness wagon and
shot all the wounded men with his pistol
and dragged the bodies to the ground Only
the children in the wagons were saved
Other witnesses corrobora ted this evidence.
A COURIER who left Gen. Crooks COM
mand on the 10th. arrived at Cheyenne on
the 10th, with the intelligence that the Gen.
eral, who was en- route for the Black Hills,
and whose forces were suffering considerable
hardship through wet weather and short
rations, had, on the 18th, sent portion of the
pack train ahead under the escort of Col,
Mills with $50 cavalry. On the evening of
the sth the Colonel discovered Sioux village
OF forty-one lodges, and having band OF
several hundred ponies and American horses.
About two O'Clock on the morning of the 9th
an attack was made upon the village, the
Indians being taken completely by surprise
and driven from their lodges. A large
mo mt tyy s,f
were captured. Among the spoils
were portions of the articles taken
by the Indians in the Custer fight. Word
was sent back to Crook of the discovery and
capture of the village, and he Immediately
came forward with reinforcements, reaching
Mills at eleven o'clock The latter had kept
up good picket night during the forenoon,
the Indians having taken refuge among thu
rocks and in the gullies surrounding the
village. During the fighting the whites lost
three killed-Private William Sell, of Com.
pany A, Third Cavalry; Private Kennedy,
Company c, Fifth Cavalry, and Frank
White, a citizen SCOTLAND fourteen Others
were wounded. In the afternoon reinforce.
ments were received by the Indians from
Crazy Horses band, and a running attack
was made by them, but they were quickly
driven off in every direction. The village
was thoroughly ransacked, and much am
munltlon and several guns were found in the
lodges. Among the Indians killed was the
chief American Horse. Some of the In.
dams were made prisoners, and they stated
that most Of the hostile Indians were going
into the Agencies, with the exception OF
Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, and their i'm.
mediate followers. The captured village
was destroyed.
A TELEGRAM was received in Chicago on
the 18th from Gen. Sheridan, dated Fort
Laramie, Sept II, announcing the reception
by him of dispatch to the effect that Col
Carlin reports that Kill Eagle and Little
Wound with 14O people, all their arms and
ammunition, and about 100 ponies, surren-
dered to him at Standing Rock on the 18th.
Twenty-ni men surrendered, all of whom
were in the fight on the Little Big Horn"
IT is said large number of counterfeit
coin half dollars have been manufactured in
Baltimore and scattered throughout the
country, and the public is cautioned to be
on the lookout for them. They are dated
1858, 1875 and 1876, and are of light weight.
In his account of the recent fight with the
Indians by portion of Crooks command,
the scout Gruard says thirty-fve Indian
lodges were burned, fourteen dead Indians
were found on the field, and four bodies were
known to have been carried off; twenty-one
Indians were captured, of whom eleven, in.
Guiding nine squaws, were subsequently re-
leased.
1NChicago, on the 18th, Spring wheat, No.
2, closed at $104@1.O4I cash. Cash corn
closed at ACC for No. q Cash oats No. 2
sold at 33@S31c; October options
were sold at S3c. Rye No. 2, 6419@64cN.
Cash mess pork closed at 1856
@16.OO. Lard, SO. 15@1O.2O. Good to
choice beeves brought 81. 4O@5. 10; medium
grades, 50. s0@4. 80; butchers stock, 81. 50
$500; stock cattle, ETC., 81. 6O@3 Is.
Hogs brought IS. 9O@6.4O for good to
choice. Sheep sold at So. 5O@4.25 for good
to choice.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
A BELGRADE telegram of the 18th says the
Servian bulletin announced that the fighting