The New York herald., 1876-07-28
THE INDIAN WAR.

POSITION OF THE OPERATING coLUNNs-HARn
FIGHTING ANTICIPATED BY GENERAL CROOK
SIGNIFICANCE or THE RECENT INQUIRY II
THE BRITISH NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. or TH1
HosrIIEs.
WASHINGTON, July q, 1915.
AZ the headauarters Of the General OF the Army is
is believed that the different columns operatlng
against the Indians. composed OF the forces under
Generals Crook Terry and Gibbon, are not no"
more than eighty miles apart, and that they can
readily be brought within supporting distance.
HARD FIGHTING ANTICIPATED.
General Crook feels that he is going to have hard
lighting, but intends to make 1t decisive. Measures
are to be taken at once recruit the cavalry COM
panies up to the full standard OF 100 men EACH
THE BRITISH SIOUX.
The recent inquiry suggested In the British Par.
lament by member to whether some OF the
Sioux are not subjects Of Great Britain arises, 1t is
thought from the fact that it is feared the Sioux
NAV have received accessions to their numbers from
those in the British possessions which will swell tho
hostile force to perhaps 10000 in number.
STRENGTH or THE HosTIIEs.
A we-informed person who has just arrived from
the Red Cloud Agency says that he Is satisfied there
arc at least 1000 warriors in the field under Sitting
Bun. The Sioux II driven to the wall finally by the
United States troops, will go north and
TAKE REFUGE
in the British Possessions, where they are already
well known and received, and will, besides, find
good bnralo country, affording them ample means
OF subsistence and protection. Fears are enter
tanned that General Crook may be overmatched By
the Sioux.
THE WAR LONG IN CONTEMPLATION By TIA
SIOUX x-INTEREsTINo STATEMENT OF AN oLn
su
FRANK.
WASHINGTON, July q, 1876.
The present war has been In contemplation by the
Sioux for a long time. Charles Jones, of this
city, states that in 1872 he was in charge o
the Flathead tribe OF Indians In Montana
In the spring of that year two Of the tribe
having spent the winter in Sitting Bulls camp hunt
ing bufialo, returned to the Flathead Agency and
called upon Mr.. JONES' giving much interesting de-
tail in regard to the
INTENTIONS THE SIOUX.
Among other things they said that runners had
been despatched to all the neighborng tribes invit
ing their attendance at general council for the
purpose of declaring war against the whites. Sit
ting Bull, who then and there directing these
movements, had with him very talented white
man. Mexican, whom the Indians know by the
NAME OF FRANK,
who was a desperate fellow and conversant with
the English, Spanish, French and German Ian.
guages, besides speaking, In addition, all the vari-
GUS dialects Of the Sioux Everything seen and
subsequently related by the two Indians Indicated
war OH an extensive scale. Frank, the white man
alluded TO, had quite lot Of manuscript papers,
taken by Sitting Bull from the whites on various
occasions, and was then acting as kind OF
PRIVATE SECRETARY
to him and had great influence over him In all his
movements and determinations. This man is be-
eved to he OF the white men, II not the princi
pal one, who assisted Sitting Bull in his operations
during the Custer massacre, and is supposed to be
the presiding genius over the movements on the
field.