, 1876-07-17


vallcd, when has since halnpcrcd tho Goycru:
lrc,t IN nil lta dealings Will, the Indiana, and
hate IT, wara against them futile.
| Tpo Indiana regardrIl IL rs tho grosscst had
1nith They at hncc renewed their nttn'ks NJ
| clear nf
EVERYTHING hit poxEa AND ASHES;
hlotkndtal Colorado tar the winter and forced
the tcndIng # tic malls Via tic lhthmus and
California. ExrOncu settlements In Colorado
! ~ ttertlfsh. ...
| ChivIngtnn was rclicrcd by Col. Moonlight.
who put Colorado under martial Inv and CON.
| pelicd tho people To ratse mil cqtip 1jO mount
Cd men 10 opan and guard t!ln routc caat.
Ent!y IN laE. Gen. Corslor wa2 orlarrd over
parttnont af the rlnttc. lfo sent Cs,l. Atoor,-
light L Laramie whore 800 nj tho Indians hal
come N and glyon themselves up: Cotnor Or
1ercs them 10 he sent down 10 the line Of the
| Union pac!fc fnatl, where ho wns going to
1uT THEN 70 WORK uNnEn 0t:AnD.
On tho way stnwn they mutin'ct, killed tho OIL
g9rA In charge OF tl,o useort, md aftar liarl tus-
Mnonligllt was ordered out aftcr thon,. lie
made t1go Dr throc iaErlox, nt, turning nut his
iioraos without gllarl one night. tho ln1inMs
stamroletl thonl, aud 1so was obliged t9 return
| tu laramie asuot.
Gen. Connor nnw detes,nlnad tn relieve The
Platta runto and tho Colorado settlements by
making q campaign tntu tue Powder River
country similar TO that undertaken this suil,-
p,ar Ttero wero tho Villages containing the
THESE rLA1Ns MARAupHns,
and Connnr knew that to Threaten thc1n would
call them llatnc.
omNha Will, 1870, md sully vim the Yellow
stauc with n competent force. After ciFcctlng
n1nnction OIL Roscbld, they wcrc TO i.,nlsc sixty
days cat'lpagn with pack anmats, aud then, II
necessary, Winter canlpaign.
| EllllY was no Sp01Er Wpll into the Itl(}jH1
country than he was recalled witslnnt striking
blow. Cnnllpr hi,Hsclf was delayed I'LL lats, By
OF Laramie. lie nnrelIcd n however, ut last,
established Camp Conner TN Powder River.
nois GuTt Kcnn. and got IN SIX months supplies.
pointed rendezvous VI Roscbud, when l,ts
scouts brought him word Of NIL Arapaho VII
lage On Tongue River, tohis loft: lie turned OH,
mule furced night march Of 40 miles, and
'rlioy Started their fainllIca aud traps up
stream toward tac mountains, the braves follow
Ing mud defending as we'll as they could. Con-
KlLlrD s1xrro711nEE INDIANS,
destroyed what waa left Ut TIC village, took n
few prssoucrs md GOO ponies. 1lo purslcd tls!n
inpldly for 10 miles, aud, helt!ng for breath,
him, the rest hy!ng fallcn behind hctaso their
stock garo out. E6 turned back, and Ho did tho
Indians, who followed him to the alto OF tho
Sss1sa sc1Tsst ys as II nss #. sssues vea .s n
ho let h!s prisoners 20, tsllide them to sny to
l.aranto and give himself up ho would not b
| further molcstcd.
lie now onlcaynrcd to open communication
With Co1n and Walkor, WHO, by tho way, lla,l
encountered Indians OH Powder River, aua hctu
beaton hack, with tho loss Of must Of their stock,
up tho river toward Camp Cannon. Tho In
dams, between tho two forccs, prevented Con-
nor'a scouts from getting through. liz had de-
tachod considerable part oi lth small command
on this cFrand, and to escort tho NIobrara wagon,
At last sorno Of Ills scouts found w1,Grc Cole
and Walker had slut hundreds Of their stock ut
tho luc to keep them from, falltng into tho
llsuls Of the 1niians, asad in fact overlook tho
| command within 25 miles of Fort Cunn0r,
l. D1aMOuHTrD AND pAAEEooTED,
and living on mule meat, slowly retiring south-
ward up tho river beforO tho IntlIans. On re-
eept oftds news, there was = nothing for Gonuor
Here llo tuunl dispatches which had long been
OH his truck, ordering him to scud his troops to
Leayonyorth to bo discharged, and llt,nseh to
It was said lint Tho campaigns Of 1866 cos.
$3o 600 1O and resultcl III little, II any. good.
Thor relieved THO Platte route and tie fsontlers
of Coloratl" and Kansas, but thcir effect, On tho
At least C,nnor's part Of them executed with
spirit aud judgment, hut tho officers III tho field
werc not only not slppostu,l, they weru re-
chilled Just as they were cnscrlug oti N,o CAM
! pnfGn; md 1t SO happened as to leave the lin-
had driven them out Of tho Powder KlyGr
region. BY, main force Even after Connor'ss
seeming rotrea. from, tho Arapaho ylllnge, und
after Colo and Walkers loss uf 81 SEX and re-
treat up Powder RIycr, tley would no doubt,
after uniting, reenprrating, and rc1nountng,
hnvo cloanct out that nust ot rattlcs,lakcs thor.
onghly but for their rositlys recall
They werb recalled because
| THE CIVIL WAR HAD cEAsHp.
and thu trut.ps OIL tho plains, raised t2 fight re-
botliosla whites, and not lnlians, thought they
@ snst sta to h thS5 hdssss tssx Ta 0oyg IT.
| War Department no peace until they ,ycru re-
called aud discharged. Besides, tho apeaco
mcn'' wcrD busy everywhere, conntcracting as
much aS they could tile efforts Of the odcers IN
II colu aud Waikor had Joined Connor m
Rosebud, he would not have received my dis
patches from headquarters until hi had
dono then, with ee0tW men, nhat s QUO caauot 10
nov; tho Indians are 30 much better armed and
prepared, and 50 much more accustomed to die
tatsng than 5cco1yi,1E tersn9; H.. As u YES, thc
| now being felt Ut Its worst
! 1twns sniI that not huntlrol Indiana hail
| hcun killed during tic ycar, and that tho at
tcmpt to Obtain peaeo by means Of war was
rnE "pEAca stEnn srEpran IN
antl concluded trcnsy with the Southern Obey
unnea and Arapahos 'tu. October, 1sU5 ut the
! mouth Of the Little Arkansas, proceeding on
tho theusy t!,at tho wl.tsos had bepn wrong md
tho lndians right, ut lcust from tl.c day Of Sand
that quarter, hit it was ,ysrsu tim syor ln Tie
| Powder Ryer country. Thu hest, II not the on
y, route to Montana lay through there; . route
| 1e'Y, lefure tho MINNESOTA Sioux had put the
devil Into the tFibts OF TINT acrtlom.
| So stormy was tho horizon III tho beginning
OF 1876 that Nen Fopn lssucd an order III March,
! requiring all tho wasons for tho mountains tt,
rendezvous ut Fort Abrreronlhic, at KeRrney, or
l}cy, avrortling 10 their destinations 10 be there
organized l4 tratas of twcnty-two wagons cach,
md efgurtctl Fy thirty men, under n Captain Iii
Julls, Gov. Edgertoi,, .oi AIontana, haa to rail-
out 5o0 mon f1r sixty days to drive buck tue Iu-
| iJans frU1n tic settlements.
During tlls summer Gen. Popc established
Forts 1,eno, Oil Pill Kearney, aid c. I. Smith,
| TO gllurl tho ralte to Monta,in Tho Inlans nj
tho pla!nB, since thu oernpatton 1.y thu wlttrs ot
Colorado, llud never agrctxl u treaty With
good grasp, Their Organization was 40 lopse