Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-23
THE INDIAN WAR.
LATEST NEWS FROM ALL
SOURCES.
THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF GENERAL
HOWARD.
Thirty-four Soldiers and as many
Settlers Killed.
TeleSraphs Assurances.

SAN Francisco, June %.
A telegram was received at army
headquarters this afternoon from Gem
eral Howard, dated Lewiston, June 20.
He reports Perry's loss in the engage
ment of the 17th instant as follows:
One officer, Lieutenant K. Theller, of
the Twenty-first Infantry, and 80 men.
Theller was placed, wounded, on his
horse by Captain Tremble, but was af.
forwards killed. The people of Flor.
euce report That they have effectually
blocked the Indian trail toward Little
Salmon aud Weiser. Captains Perry,
Tremble and Paruall are reported
wounded. Perry's command is still at
Mount Idaho.
A Winnemucca press dispatch says /:
Governor BrauIan, Of Idaho, received q
dispatch from Winneniucca, Chief OF
the Piutes, now at Silver City, in
which the Chief assures the Governor
that he has no intention of breaking
peace with the whites; that if an In
dian outbreak occurs he will remain
friendly, but if he wants to fight he
will give fair warning.
Southern dahO Not Frightened
The Piutes and ShOshones Want
Peace.
SILVER CITY, Idaho, June %.
No trouble is expected with the In
dians in this section of Idaho, although
the citizrns have prepared themselves
for any emergency, being now well
supplied with arms, ammunition, etc.
Many of the old Idaho pioneers re.
side here, and a majority OF them
have no especial love Tor red skins of
any description, but there will be no
trouble unless the Indians are the az.
gressors. There are over one hum
dred Piutes encainped fifty miles from
here, in the vicinity OF Mahogany
mountain. Some 800 S~hoshones are
in camp about 10 miles from here on
the road to Cornucopia. They claim
10 be peacefully inclined, and profess
10 have no sympathy with the war
ring NeZ Perces. The Piutes are anx-
ious to secure a reservation on the
Owybee.
A Portland Dispatch About the Ia
dian Wharf.-The L.apwsi Reserve
Si0n Abandoned.
PORTLAND, June "a.
The following dispatches have been
received here:
WALLA WALLA, jane 81.
DR.. o has received a letter dated
Lewiston June 20. which says the In
dams have killed every man on Sal
mon river, but let the woinen and
children live. A company OF cavalry,
Jim Lawler, an Indian, and forty OF
his men, came to Lewiston to-day
with all the employees and all the
whites OF the Kamiah Reservation Mt
Lapwai, which is abandoned. All
,,... rn, 10 nKf . IT.
returned from cpu to Grande
Ronde river. I ran on a party of war
riors of about 80 on the south side of
making their way to Wallows. The
Indians have got the best of
the soldiers. Up to this time
they have killed about thirty
men and driven them back
from White Bird to Mount Idaho.
The killed and wounded up to this
time number about fifty. The troops
from Walla Waila cannot get to Camas
Prairie. 1t will cake 500 soldiers to
whip Joseph's band. Winnenucca
and his band are encamped near Cow
Creek, in Idaho, armed. They claim
10 be peaceable, but the Governor tele-
Rraphed TO Silver City instructions for
Winnemucca to return, and he refused
to d o so, saying he would fight first.
About % or 80 Indians from the Nal
heur Reservation, passed halheur
village on Monday, with a band OF
horses, in the direction Of the Weiser
country. IL is reported that the In
dians at Canyon City said the Govern
ment had better take agent Remnant
away, or he might get killed. There
has been considerable dissatisfaction
existing among the Indians in regard
to Reinhart.