The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-08-24
TLirISG TRTCks WITH HOWlRD.
The Red skins Running ON with "a Hundred
of his Iorse.-Anothcr Fight.


of his Iorses-Anothcr Fight.
CAMP MEADOW, Idaho, Aug. 2O-I arrived
at this camp yesterday with cavalry and fifty
infantry. Miller, with foot battalion. will Join
mo tonight. My advance camp was APP
preached this morning before day by over one
hundred hostilcs They succeeded in stamped
ing and driving offabout one hundred animals.
Of which number ono-third were rccaptured by
the cavalry. who started in pursuit as soon rs
they could saddle their horses. Major Sanford
First Cavalry. struck the party after pursuit Of
ak miles and engaged them. with n loss Of one
bugler killed and one officer. Lieut. Benson. Of
the Seventh Infantry. and six privatcs wounded.
No cavalry horses were lost He will continue
the pursuit via. Henry's lake tomorrow.
Howard. Brigadicr-Genernl
CHICAGO. Aug. %
r. Gen ? p rs-n"gd. wi1frgD.. y e.
Capt. Banhrdgc, with Bannock scouts. on
route 10 Join Gen. Howard. trlrgraphs me from
Snnd Hills. Montana stage route. at p. VI. on
2lst., that Gen; Howard is at the head Of Dry
fight with hostcs the day before l2nhl. but no
particulars are given. tSignedl
p. II. SHERIDAN, Lieutenant General.
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 23.-Gcn. Howarl's
Pleasant Valley. Idaho. ON the 10Th inst. on
their way south, They went IL far on the stage
road as Dry Creek stage station. cight miles
south, then turned eastward toward the head II
Canal creek. Tho hostile Indians had crossed
IN" range some MY or slNty miles 10 the w,-,t-
ward, and had arrived upon the stage rond on
the 10th inst. taking possession of tho lfole-in-
the-h,,k stage station, iwcnty-siN Miles south
from Pleasant Valley. The Indians destroyed
the telegraph line in thW vicinity. and stopped
the stages and ALL travel upon tn, road. The
indians were in the ncighNvrhop1 oI the sta
ton for tire" days. They had been for nenrly
Two days without water when tiNny arrived upon
the stnge linr. and thsir s.l'. WIS So mu IA
scattered and IN had condition. ihat they stop
ped To- gather all the luos st' b .lnd to feed the
animals. using or Il -irDvii. am fhn grain ut
The station. and ai-n DESTROYING ail the property
thgr". including ~nuu twenty -"t- of hArncrS.
Thr Indians uui ll1ie-ln- -th"-Eo Is Station on
ard, going east or northwest and surprised
Gen. IlowardS ~ %. who hal rharg" of IN"
puck animals and loose stock. az duyhreuk on
ahout TWEEN miles eust of the Dry Creek stage
station. stanpodcl ahout ono hundred pack
aniinnls. and also about thirty hors. = belonging
to IN" Montana volunteers. Capt Norwood and
Col. sanford followed the lndinns with three
companies OF cavalry. AMI overlook them about
-iN miles distant, and there was a skrmsh, IN
wh'h one soldi"r was Killed an six wounded.
Inc wounded soldiers w"r" taken 60 PlnH- mt
Valley station, where ono Of them. named sam
uel \. GLASS. has sine died. Gen. Howard
has hcrn REINFORCED ly Cnn' Bainhrid4e
from Fort Hal. with one cowpuny and about
hiy Blnnoee Indians. and Is ui present in pur-
making fpf Henry - lake. which II about sixty
ili'~ northeast rom tAe stage road where the
or 49, M WAS made.
Grn. HoNar,l'S force was campol yesterday
morning Du ShOt-uu creek. Wli h is about
: riN i've miles from the stage road On the
2nth Grn. How urd', i1r'r WIS IN ernuaed ~ tho
arrival Di Col. VI llrt with uhlut 300 infantry iu
wpey yns. G"u. Howard hud W m HIM about 30
cavalry. i'm addition 90 the fArtr with Cant.
BuiuNridsn. Mhln Gsn. Howard was campDl
u ilr lun iou riEht"n milr- north oi l"u--
ant Valley. he M -iNty men und some lndiun
= outs u'r'-r country Ia Henry mk, 20 inter
!. @ = = p y ~ p ~ y p .--u-
Pleasant Valley y'si rdny ON their way alter
tHn Howard. All hut right or tn Of tho
Virginia Cty volunteers hAV' gone home. The
Indians huvc not l"'n IN any hurry or anxious
T. avoid "A fght. They are supposed t. number
between four and five hundred. and seem 10 bee
making their way toward the Crow country. on
the Yellowstone.
\ wagon train 81 James Hayden. on the Sal
mon river road. Is supposed tn hnye been de-
rtruyrd by Indians. ns Hnumher of mules be-
road also mules ul another tram belonging to
Col. Shuupr.
CHICAGO Aug. % Gen. Howard telegraphs
from camp on Shot Gun crecA. Idaho. Aug. -.
IT, follows:
~ ssq ,r,,t
lam oj,raune in vour department near ucnr,'slake.
FNuhri-t With scouts arrived ht last n.Af- -ifct aui
wiN it material -,rNINc flt An.tl.rs are iu,t NOW
aiming toward TIE CROW country
NIEGrNIA CITY. Aug 23-Tiout Laary Gen.
HuWard- rpmWi-Sury, SAYS when he irit ih"
front the Indians w'r. furtIiNlns q place called
ne Lava Beds. He thinks Cen. Howard stru n
them yesterday.
AiV,es from Fort Benton say thore are indi-
cations ot an outbreak among the Grus Nrntrrs
A~sin.holne- ana Picgans sitting Bun is Al
Fort Peck. Nr2 P"r'e. scouts On m" Alurius
river report that sixty horses have boon stolen
from Twenty Nile Springs and tie Black
loot Agency