The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-06-16
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Order.
Interesting Details Of the March and
Ffghr-Gold Discoveries on
the Route.

interesting Details of the march and
Ffght-Geid Discoveries on
the Route.
Especial Telegram to the LgADER,l
HEADQUARTERS BIG HORN Ext
Petition, IN CAMP MOUTH OF
PRAIRIE Doc CREEK, ON
TONGUE RIVER, WYOMING,
June 10 via Fort Fetterman, Junel5.
Since leaving Fort Fetterman this
command saw no Indians until the
9Th inst. We arrived here and
camped on the 7th, this point being
but a few miles south of the Mon
tana border.
On May Both two companies of
the Sd Cavalry, under Capt. Mem
hold, left the command at Sage Greek
with orders to scout the region for
Indians. This detachment rejoined
us here, having seen no Indians.
The detachment under Capt. Van
Vliet, which was sent out from Fort
Fetterman on May 9th, with orders
to march te Powder River, where it
was expected by Gen. Crook that the
Crow Indians who had promised to
join the expedition would be found,
was met by us at Old Fort Reno, on
June End, and reported that they
had found no Crows at the point
agreed upon, nor had they seen any
Indians.
Gen. Crook is apprehensive that
the three famous scouts, Louis Rich
ard, Frank Gruard and Baptiste,
who were sent by him to the Grow
village to obtain, if possible, a party
of those Indians to act as scouts,
have been murdered or taken pris-
oners by the Sioux, as they have now
been absent nine days and no tidings
have been received from them. Old
Fort Phil Kearney was reached on
the 9Th Of June.
A small band of Indians rode up
within a half mile of this camp on
the 9Th, and after conversing with
some of our half-breeds, from whom
it is supposed they learned what they
most wished to know, rode away.
The next day after reaching this
camp a bearer of dispatches to Gen.
Crook arrived, bringing the cheering
information that over 100 Snake In
dams are riding swiftly toward us
and will reach here very soon. They
will accompany the expedition in its
onward march in the capacity of
guides and scouts. This courier also
states that over 1000 warriors have
recently left Red Cloud en- route to
join Sitting Bull.
A LIVELY FIGHT
occurred last evening between 6 and
7 o'clock. At the time named a
large war party, numbering nearly
200 bhaves, rode to the summit of a
small bluff only a short distance
from this camp and began pouring
volley after volley into our command.
Gen. Crook at once ordered a de-
tachment consisting Of companies M,
l, A and E, of the Sd Cavalry, un-
der Col. A. Mills, the companies be-
ing commanded by Captains An
drews and Sutorious, and Lieuts.
Schwatka, Paul, Foster and Lawson,
to charge the hill on which the In
dams, who were armed with long
range rifles and were splendidly
mounted, had taken up their posi-
ton, and had then been pouring in a
CALLING fire upon us for about twenty
minutes.
By the aid of skirmishers from the
I'd Cavalry, and with the assistance
of a company of the 9th Infantry,
the redskins we're quickly dislodged
from their position.
Our casualties are as follows: Ser
geant Warfield, Co. l, Sd Infantry,
and private Collins, Co. B, I'd Cav
airy, slightly wounded, and a num-
Der Of horses and mules killed. One
Indian brave was sent to the happy
hunting grounds, while several were
severely wounded, but were carried
away.
CAMP ON GOOSE CREEK, june IL.
Early this morning the expedition
moved out of the camp on Tongue,
River, and tonight We have encamp-
ed near Old Fort G. F. Smith, on
Goose Creek. Gen. Crook will es-
tablish a permanent base of supplies
here. We have seen no Indians since
leaving our first camp. No tidings
have yet been received either from
the Crows or Snakes.
GOLD HAS BEEN DISCOVERED
along the route by a number ofminers
who accompanyth the expedition. They
have PANIED out rich colors in the
gulches to the west of our route, off
toward the Big Horn range. They
found it in paying quantities on Clear
Fork and Crazy Woman's Fork, in
the gulches and on the bars. The
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