Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-11
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EASTERN 0ISPATC HE'S.
Ely Overland Telegraph.
ESPECIAL. TO THE DAILY s%ENTINEL.I
ON THE TRAIL.
TERRY AMD GIBB0N HEARD FROM.
A FIGHT WITH SITTING BULL.
The Indians Badly Beaten--Sitting
Bull Wounded.
SEVERE LOSS to the RED SKINS.
LIVING ON DOG MEAT.
Crook and Merritt on the Aggres-
siye-"Each Man Must Do
His Best"
statomaou Corrccted- Etc-
Measurements Corrected, Etc.
by Telegraph to tho Eureka Daily Sentinel.


A Tribune special from the Big Horn
expedition on Goose Creek, via. Fort
F~-tterinan, says: ten. Merritt, with
his force, joined Gen.. Crook yesterday,
and they are now ready for agrees
sive action. This united column has
owe 2,l00 fighting men, and the men
and horses are in the finest possible
trim.
Scouting parties have discovered
large fresh trails of Sioux leading to-
ward the Lower Tongue and Powder
rivers.
1t is believed that the savages are in
need Of victuals, AS picked carcasses of
dogs are found around their camps.
They have fired the prairies to ruin the
pasturage and render cavalry useless.
Gen. Terry has not been heard from
| for a month, He is believed to have
nearly 1000 men,.
Gen. Crook made a speech to his
men yesterday, representing the me-
ceSsity of each man doing his best.
CHICAGO, Aug. 10.
A Times Fort Sully dispatch says:
Indians from the hostile camp have
arrived with reports that Terry's COM
mand had encountered the hostiles
and the latter had been flanked by
Gen. Gibbon and badly beaten. The
Indians acknowledge 100 wounded,
and that Sitting Bull had been shot
through both thighs. They are quiet
on the subject of the number killed.
An Indian can travel by direct route
from Sitting Bull tn the Agency sooner
by several days than a courier could
reach Bismarck from Terry, aud the
report is generally believed here.
ST. PAUL, Mimi. Aug. 10.
General Forsythe, of General Sheri-
dams staff, passed through this city
yesterday, having left Terry's camp a
the mouth of the Rosebud a week ago
army officers while here Gen. ForSythe
corrected several statements
recently telegraphed from Bismarck
and forwarded from this point. 1t was
stated that General Terry had fallen
back so miles, which is merely non
sense and gives a false impression t,
the public. There was no falling bacl
at all. The evening before Forsytht
left General Terry a scout from Gen
Crooks command had reached Terry
Crook was then somewhere near til,
head waters of Rosebud river, or be
tween that and Tongue river; now, a
this time, General Terry was at thu
mouth of Big Horn river, and in order
to make communication bet ween hin
and General Crook, he dropped dow
the river to the mouth of the Rosebud
between which point and Crooks com
mand the distance was no greater thar
from the mouth of the Big Horn, Will,
the country to be travelled was infinite
ly more favorable for the marching o
troops besides. The scout alluded t.
furnished the news that Indian trail.
had been found leading towards tn,
east between General Crook and the
Yellowstone. The junction OF Terry
and Crook at a point further east thar
the Big Horn would likely prevent til,
escape of the Indians to the east and
north OF the present scene of opera
tons. Another miss,ateinant found is
to the effect that the troops under Gen
Terry are disheartened at the prospecI
before them. Colonel Smith. who ac
companied Forsythe, contradicts this
baseless story. On the contrary Terry
and his men are in the best of possible
spirits and are only too anxious t.
meet the horde of savages; aud on
fair and square fight there is no fear as
to the result. The Indians SO far "A.
Cuuiu D6 lcdIIIou, W6Tt SIl SuUpDSt0
TO be massed somewhere between
Rosebud river and the Big Horn. TIL,
impression still prevailed that n o
two alternatives was left, either to scat
ter to the eastward and British Amer,
lea, or to retire southwark to the Bis
Horn mountains, though they were il
front or in close proximity to Crook.
command. 1t is not believed they
would show fpht or allow Crook N,
Terry to get a chance at them in
body.
No Cessation Of HOstilities -t'ress
well OF the Rack Protesting
Against n Disarming of th,
Indians-Che Standing ROcE
Agency.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.
Gen. Sherman says the proposition
from the Agency Indians that a cessa
cation IF hpGlilifioa with Shrine D,,l