The New York herald., 1876-09-13
Hostile Bands Well Supplied
with Ammunition.
WILLING TO TREAT And READY TO FIGHT.
Trouble Over the Count Of the
Agency Indians.
AN ALARM AT STANDING ROCK,
Canadian Blackfeet Fearful Of an
IncursiOn Of Sioux.
BISMARCK, d. T., Sept. IL, 1876.

BISMARCK, D. T., Sept IL, 1876.
A Standing Rock letter. dated the 18th, says:-An
Indian arrived last night tho hostile camps with
q message from Of tho hostile chiefs He is
known to have left this agency about three weeks ago
for the hostile camps. whilo ho docs not claim to
havo been with Sitting Bull, he says he with
another much larger camp. where the lodges and In
dans covered oil the prairie
SUPPLIED
He reports these Indians as abundanty supplied
with fresh meat buffalo and antelope being in great
abundance. Thoy arc also reported to have
and ammunition than they know what to do with.
AN OPPORTUNITY OMITTED.
They daily watch tho who arc engaged In bull d.
ing the post on Tongue River, and say at time
they could have destroyed another body Of troops
they did the lamented Custer and his band, but they
thought they were gong homo, and for that reason
did not to disturb hcm. This Is supposed to have
been General Miles his regiment when they started
back for tho Yellowstone.
WILLING TREAT.
They aro anxious to treat for peace and do not
to Tight the soldiers II they lot alone, but II they
are not will fight years II necessary Tho writer
says several Of tho bands
COUNTED.
and rations were accordingly withheld from them
Ono chief who submitted to the count refused to
ccivo his rations and scattered them the ground
It Is claimed that the count. though not completed
which the agent claimed to have been issuing to.
RArioNs ISSUED
Though the now supplies have not arrived full
tions of flour half OF sugar. coffee tobacco
and bacon were issued The correspondent claims tho
Indians received full under this Issue they
had formerly received for double number of lodgeR
Captain Collins has been detailed assist Lieutenant
Roach in tho count OF refractory lodges.
ALARMING REPORT FROM STANDING RocK-CoI-
L1s1oN BETWEEN THE MILITARY AND INDIANS
FEARED.
ST. PAUL. Mimi, Sept IL, 1876.
special despatch from Bismarck TO the Pioneer
Press says that advces just received from Standing
Rock Agency indicate considerable trouble ahead 1t
appears that q chief named John Gross arrested
for carrying
SUPPLIES CAMP,
which created strong feeling between tho Indians
the military who made the arrest The courier who
brought that before he had crossed tho
rivor opposite Standing Rock he heard tho long roll
beat and the buge sound, and soldiers and whito
persons running toward the military headquarters
TWENTY-FIVE BLACK HILL EMIoRANrs SAID TO
HAVE BEEN KILIED-A BAND OF FIFTY COR
RALLIED DY THE RED Misunderstanding
BULLS POSITION.
Fort THOMPSON, D. T.. Sept g. 1876
Advces received from Fort Pierre, and subsequently
confirmed, report that party of hvo killed
by Indians near the wakpa Scn, their way TO tho
Black Hills The massacre took place the head
OF tho sica, and 1t is thought that some
OF tho party must have got away and
penetrated tho foot hills far Crook
City, from which place force OF nfsy miners
to open road TO the Missouri 1t is reported that
these were attacked and surrounded bed corraIcd
on hill for whole day, wncn messenger escaped
and We Mt to the tho hills for renforcementg Twenty
to the assistance Of the bcsicgcd men,
but before being able TO cooperate with them they
attacked and ovcrpowered by tho Indians and
ALL MAssAcRED
This is the last report which has not yet been con-
nrmcd, but It seems probable, tho Indians have
Gently appeared in large numbers from tho hostile
camps in the ncighborhood OF tho Black Hills and
even at the Cheyenne River agency.
The troops having been withdrawn from Fort Pierre
the miners are longer detained ill sufficiently largo
companies formed for protection but proceed to
tho hills In small parties, and thus fall
sAvAGEs.
The fact that large number OF the pcaccabIo Two
Kettle trbc recently crossed to tho rdo OF the
river and encampcd Fort Suly Is regarded rs an
evidence that the hostes present large numbers
on the Fort Pierre route. and that hcrc will be somo
trouble on that line again during the fall.
cusTEE's noEsE AND CAPTURED
General Custcrs Remington rlc and a black horse
he used to ride Lincoln have been captured by somc
Black Killers young killed on tho route
to the Black Hills
SITTING BULL HOLDING RIVER LINE
The Lower Bantis and Jank Lounals of Crow Creek,
although both tocraby well represented in the war; arc
still pcaccably disposed ana pretend to be in oppos.
ton to the In tho north The Indians in this
ncghborhood report that Sitting Bull and his people
are on the Powder River and that hcy can hold their
own on the south OF the Yellowstone TIL winter II
necessary.
FEARS OF SIOUX AGGRESSION NJ THE BLACK
FEET IN cANADA-rHEIR WARRIORS AnMrSG
by AUTHORITY OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT
SITTING BULLS PRESENCE IN THE BRITISH
POSSESSIONS ANTICIPATED.
WASHINGTON Sept. 12, 1876
communication from the officials Of tho Canadian
government forwarded from the British Posscssiona