, 1876-07-17

brought TO drc'Rlyu battle.
on AaFy H. wrt .'g"' IN .pysstnx '1ys - nsff .ts,
that Gen Sherman, fseonn,sndc! l'cEo.
s, Is psa;s' ri if ; sSii aiiy ina!sn s;ali
gress s1eatc % pease sss1s Gans.o Ssy si If
y. q. Taylor, J. H. Henderson, }. D. sa,M!crstt,
Terry, aud Anigur.
trii,os at Lara1uc in September; Of tho Snntfl-
ern ut 1.arned III Octolicr. TlIor were ubigcl
u pr,n,lsc thu Sioux ar1us and ammunition US
preliminary 70 any conference whatever
were more placabe. Tic Co,u1ntAt1on entered
Into trcaty with thctn, Oct. 10, at Medicine
i:Nlgc. 1!.sy then vent u Laramie, but
lea Cloud >, Refused to confer With
to remove the post. from, a,ui abandon
altogether, the Powder River rt,stu II, Montana.
Thu Commission couldn't pr,A,'Ise that, hut,
atter eating goNi deal Ut "crow," Red Cloud
In March, 1858, lcn. Grant ordered lilo Pow
der Ryer ftirts to lie removed to- thu ne VI the
Union Pacific Rnllroad, tllcn beginning It's race
against tinlo acr0as the Laramie l']aIua, and, III
Sorthcrn Wyoming to tho Sioux. After teach
Ing tho sasages to dcfpise our artns by divers
fs't'tlcss ca'nralgns against them, we bought
peace by
lUNGHUlN0 Alb THEY ABkHDs
Hut We flGl no inOrc peace thnil l,cfurc. The
Indians Wtra still. sullgn aral dissatisfied. In
August nnd September lostI!tles broko nut
hotter a.3A ~ morg widespread thur ever. Out.
rages IN Colorasl" n'nl Kansas were "t almost
ayallahle trhops, llad to ,Mtlcstake a new CAM
paign. Then eafnu Col. Forsytl.c's uf1atr ut
Arickary Fork. Hundreds of Bayages surround
81 him, with lis little troop. and Threatened his
titttructlon. licaping up breastwUFks Of saud,
they driertlcd themselves weck, and werc
nltly Relieved With the loss Of half thelr nun-
hcr.
a volunteer regiment Was raised III Kar,sa..
slrn,islles took @ place hcro and tlrse, but Moth
CUSTER srEucE AND DESTROYED
on the 47th November, Black kc.t'o's village on
tho "4s'!it1, and Cul Evans eisthcf on Christ
sinrc tllcy t,ok tho war-path III 1851.
slhco tlsat there lias bccn no tiNllblo Of con-
sequence with the Southern Indians. In The
Intervening years all TINT part of thy Plains has
tlllties there aro probably foruser ended.
Hut III tho North VIC havc been on our knees,
lgurattvcly speaking, to thu s!o,iS, ever since.
Wu could not mak9 2 reconnaissance for the
4s an escort. Yon will find IN Applrtonfs
after Indians on tho Plains # lsG5,
At A COST or sM,ooD,0D,
I'D" L4ak y I'LL Atl LtaS VIM DAtluf W. ORly EuE-
gcct'cd In "plans!ngn y fifteen or twenty Indians.
It was nut greatly different IN 1861, 1896, 1871,
and 1868. During thosc years VIC probably cx--
pended slle oo9 ooo hunting Indians, md n Iast
vapcca our cro.ll& to the Union pnclic Railroad
Company to very mich less than half that
amount, and IL was built md wc llnvc peace.
Tho sanie result would follow the same policy
n t's North It won1i' sycn row, pas the Gov
Pacific l.*ilroad to insurc lta heIng lni,lt.
Tbs completion Ut tho Union Pacific gaye
Montana u, overland route from Utah north
; xH1 whle ~It IN Tug i",, Missouri 'y;r lined
purposes without thu use OF tlIc Powder River
r0nlc. The building Ut the Northern Pacilu 10
the Missouri, and tin thcketing all extension
They llayo beril driven ns m Il, II lust stronr-
hold, With nil their rpsenttneuts, into tho Pow
der River country, which In about to prove
TIiRIn LA3r AUETIN0-o1.UUHp,
hos would always light, but liz terrible 11.1 p,lr-
peso to which they have RECENTLY fought CrtN,k
and Custer shows Tint they have improved The
late years of comparative Icacc toarri, and cquip
themselves bGttur than eyer beforc.
Willis they are Ia this flx, ai!l numerous pul
remain At lrea ~ ii is fof watcr to run % IN h,ji.
They never have hccn at pcacy since lSjs, Tic
first cmtgrants w ColoIaio crossed and rr-
1868, Inclusive Tic iury With which, suddenly,
In 1914, they brake nut II, var, sweeping Tic
rInttc route clear OF rl1iclscs, stnti,sa, stock,
trains, coaches, aud holdInv,t irurly year and
surrounding the settlements III Golnfnlo uui
Ka,lsa4 as With Gordon u tlre, indicates
THE POISON iNsrlLLBD INTO THEM
by the MinMesnts Sioux wlln escaped hanging
for tho terrible outbreak Of 1872. Tint ta Whrfe
tho present wnr begun, II Copcrcss and the
country would know. From TINT day to this II
lima ncYrr cct,acd. Tho Sioux secured tic aba,l-
donsllcnt Of tle Powder Rfycr soal by the trcnty
OF 18lIB, but they hays never themselves pai1
any attention to It whatever. sre the recCnt
letter of tho Secretary Of Wur tn tllu President,
in ropty to an INJURY Of tl,e House. Sitting
Bull n1ld other chIcfs have been on tic wur.
ratl. every Sellr since.
OF co1irsc, SUNG of tho chiefs and some Of
their followers have tried to keGp tu treaty.
have hccll tlesro,1s TO, Ut least. but they liayu
no organization; NJ, head nor talt. Noluly
know Wfi0 IL chief, Of what he Il chief. low fur
lis suwrr extends Or Ia acknowledged; ho1r far
exon his will III good, In trrtl, tIlry nrc chiefly
outlaws OF the most dangerous rl.nrartcr, mi
the nnat iutlc!oua Government Imaginable
could exact 10 less than ours dues under surin
circumstances, namely, tint they should rcnurt
themselves, to Il man. ut tile u,tctrics, aud stuy
there wholly ut our eXDrt,se, or