The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-09-19
INJUN ITEMS.
Twenty-F Five Biaek..HiiIs Emigrants Said
10 Have Been Killed-A Band Of
Fifty Reported Corrslled by
the Red Warriors. .

Black Hills. The massacre took place
near the head of the Sica, and it is
thought that some of the party must
have got away and penetrated the foot
hills as far as Crook City, from which
place a force of fifty miners came out
to open a road to the Missouri. 1t is
reported that these were attacked and
surrounded, and held corralled on a hill
for a whole day, when a messenger es-
capped and went to the Hills fenrein-
forcements. Twenty others eame out
to the assistance of the besieged men,
but before being able to cooperate
with them they were attacked and yer
powered by the Indians and all massa-
cred.
This is the last report, which has not
yet been confirmed, but it seems prob
able, as the Indians have recently APP
peared in large numbers from the hos
tile camps in the neighborhood of the
Black Hills and even at the Cheyenne
River Agency.
The troops having been withdrawn
from Fort Pierre, the miners are no
longer detained till sufficiently large
companies are formed for protection,
but proceed to the Hills in small parties
and thus fall al easy prey to the saw
ages.
The fact that a large number of the
peaceable Two Kettle tribe recently
crossed to the east side of the river and
encamped near Fort Sully is regarded
as an evidence that the hostiles are
present in large numbers on the Fort
Pierre route, and that there will be
some trouble on that line again dur
ing the fall.
Gen. Clusters Remington rifle and a
black horse he used to ride at Lincoln
have been captured by some Black
Killers from a young warrior killed on
the route to the Black Hills.
NEWS FROM THE HosTILEs.
A Standing Rock letter, dated the
18th, says: An Indian arrived last night
from the hostile camps with a message
from seven of the hostile chiefs. He is
known to have left this agency about
three weeks ago for the hostile camps.
Whilehe does not claim to have been
with Sitting Bull. he says he was with
another much larger camp, where the
lodges and Indians covered all the
prairie.
He reports these Indians as abun-
dainty supplied with fresh meat, buffalo
and antelope being in great album
dance. They are also reported to have
more arms and ammunition than they
know what to do with.
They daily watch the men who are
engaged in building the new post on
Tongue river, and say at n time they
could have destroyed another body of
troops rs they did the lamented Custer
and his band, but they thought they
were going home and for that reason
did not care to disturb them. This is
supposed to have been Gen. Miles and
his regiment when they started back
for the Yellowstone.
They are anxious to treat for peace
and do not care to fight the soldiers if
they are let alone, but if they are not
will fight for years if necessary.
A LIVELY TINE EXPECTED.
S1otx CITY, Sept. IS.
Tomorrow has been fixed as the
time for taking arms and ponies from
the Indians at the various agencies on
the Upper Missouri, and though the
military express the belief that the
Indians will quietly submit, others,
who understand the character of the
Indians and their love for gun and
pony, believe that when the general
disarming begins there will be trouble
and that if a massacre at some point or
other along the Missouri is averted it
will be a wonder. Troops are being
distributed along at agencies where
trouble is most likely to occur, and
should the Indians resist a lively time
will ensue.
SITTING BULLS MOVEMENTS.
NEW York, Sept. IS.
A Herald special says: Sitting Bull,
with his followers, has crossed the
Missouri river thirty miles from Fort
Peck. Troops are in pursuit but it is
doubtful if they overtake them.
Savages ~surrendering.
Fort Laramie, Sept. 1.-THE follow
ing dispatch has just been received
from the Department Of Dakota:
Col. Carlin reports that Kill Eagle
and Little Wound, with one hundred
and forty people, all their arms and
ammunition and about one hundred
ponies, surrendered to him at Standing
Rock on the 10th. Twenty-nine men
surrendered all of whom were in the
Little Big Horn battle
[Signed, P. H. SHERIDAN,
Lieut.. Gen.
Chicago, Sept. 1S.-Gen. Drum tele-
graphs as follows to Lieut. Gen. p. II.
Sheridan at Fort Laramie:
Col. Buell., commander at Cheyenne
Agency, under date of the 9th inst,
says: Have had messages to-day