The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-06-08
THE WEST,

An Inter Ocean special from Bismarck
d. T., says; Lieutenant Alfred 7. Fuller
just arrived by the steamer Peninah from
Tongue river, gives the details of a fight
with the Indians May 9TH. General Miles,
with companies F, H., L and G, of the Sec.
ond cavalry, and twenty-five mounted men
of the Fifth infantry, attacked an Indian
village On the Little Muddy creek, ninety
miles from the mouth OF Tongue river, sur.
prising and routing them. They pursued
the redskins five miles over a rough country
on foot. Fourteen dead Indians were
counted upon the field, and many Others are
known tie have been killed aud wounded.
Forty-tive ponies and horses, and t~ifty-feur
lodges, with the entire contents, were taken.
The cavalry found many new agency goods,
saddles guns, officers clothing, etc, taken
from the Seventh cavalry in Clusters fight.
The band were Minnecinkens, led by Lame
Bear, the commander. Killed-Privates
Charles Springer, company C; Peter Lewis,
company H; John Martindale, COMPANY F;
Charles q. Kesky, company r. The wounded
are: Alfred N. Fuller, stabbed through the
right shoulder; privates Freyer, left arm
r. Osborn, right arm VIM. Jefiries and Polk
Ryan. left arm; Thomas Gilman, neck; Wi.
liam Wilkes, right thumb; George Leonard,
chin. General Miles had a narrow escape
from being shot by two Indians, who, under
cover Of friendly greeting, came near shoot.
ing him just before the engagement.
General Crook reviewed six hundred
of the principal warriors at camp Robinson
a Jews day ago. Crazy Horse and many
others knelt on the ground while they tsok
the Generals hand. The council was opened
with a speech by Crazy Horse. Red Cloud
was one of the speakers.
General alarm prevails throughout
California at the prospective ruin of the
farmers and stock raise-s of the state by the
drouth. The San Joaquin and other great
agricultural valleys are utterly bleak and
desolate. In the foothills and valleys there
are thousands of dead and dying sheep, and
the bones of sheep and cattle whiten the
fields. Mr.. Hollister, ths4aannSd sheep king,
who own fifty Thousand sheep in California,
told a.hiend that if five Thousand remain
Gflve next spring he will consider himself
very fortunate. Friedlander, widely known
as the grain king, who controlled all the
shipments of wheat from San Francisco,
failed recently by reason of loans made to
farmers. He used TO pay six hundred dol
lars per month for accommodations for
himself and family in the Palace hotel, San
Francisco. In the northern part 81 the
state, where rains never fail entirely, the
prospect is better.
A special from Leavenworth 10 the
Globe.Democrat, says a letter in the Kansas
City Times, from Sweetwater, Texas, gives a
that the town of Double Mountain, in
the panhandle of Texas, has been captured
by the Apaches Indians and all the stock in
the town run of. No particulars given.
The letter also states that quite a large num-
Der of hunters had been killed by the In.
iians during the past winter; also that a
light recently occurred in the pan handle
,etween about sixty hunters and twice that
of Apa ,hes. The hunters started
fter the Indians to svenge the murder of
ir. Sewall, one of their number. They fol.
WED their trail many days, and although
heir provisions gave out they still pursued
lem, living on what game they could kill :
n the way. At length they came upon an :
indian village, containing a number of |.
on the bank of a small stream, and :
Though they had been without food for TIVE II
avs, they attacked the Indians under the
over of the banks oil the stream. The fight Il
several hours, aud was only el
topped by the darkness. During the night b
be indians struck their lodges, and took p
heir women and children, and killed and r,
founded, and fed. The Indian loss is not O.
noWn, but is believed To be considerable. it
sveral hunters were wounded, but none b
killed. o.