Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-06-29

thirty miles. The Indians did not kill
the women and children, but allowed
them to be taken under escort of a
friendly squaw to Slate Creek, which has
thus far been left undisturbed.
AT Slate Creek the whites have forti-
fed themselves in stockade fort, into
which has been received the wives and
children of the murdered men, together
with the families of the men who had
escaped the massacre. These women
are thus shut up in the midst of hostile
Indians, without adequate means of de
fense, and without aid will certainly be
overpowered and murdered, as the In
dians declare their determination to take
the fort and murder the men. It can't be
hoped that the Indians will again spare
the women and children, after the losses
they must sustain in capturing the fort, as
the men will fight to the last. -
Our informant says he is reliably in
formed that the Indians did not fire a
single building or destroy any property,
but cleaned the country of stock, which
they have driven TO the south side of the
Salmon River. They seem to hope that
they will ultimately be the undisturbed
proprietors of all the property the whites
are now compelled to abandon. They
think, not without reason, that before the
country is regained from them an army
must be created, and a long and doubtful
campaign passed through.
The Indians have now their principal
camp and headquarters on the Salmon
River, just below the mouth of the small
stream called Skookumchuck, while the
stock is gathered and pastured on an ex-
tensive triangular. shaped region formed
by the Snake and Salmon Rivers, and the
high mountain range. lying about the
sources of Fayette and Weyser Rivers
Here there is abundant pasturage foI
summer and winter, and here they will
doubtless make their final stand.
In contradiction to the previous reports
that the troops behaved badly, our in
formant is assured by citizens who were
in the fight that the troops, though they
allowed themselves to be decoyed into
ambush, displayed throughout the action
the utmost gallantry and fought like
tigers. About twenty-five or thirty sol
diers were killed in about the same mum
Der of minutes.
The situation in Northern Idaho faI
exceeds in gravity any Indian outbreab
of our day, and it would tax the best re
sources of the Government and of the
people Immediately interested to subduC
the Indians and restore peace to the
country. The Indians know the army on
this coast is skeleton, and the people
helpless from want of arms.
SAN FRANCISCO, June %.
A telegram was received at the army
headquarters this afternoon from Gen
Howard, dated Lewiston, Goth. He re
ports Perrys loss in the engagement o.
the 18th inst rs follows: One officer,
Lieut.. K. Heller, of the Twenty first In
fantry, and thirty-three men. Heller
was placed, wounded, on his horse b,
Capts. Trimble, but was afterward killed
Capt. Perry, Trimble and Parnell are re
ported wounded. All are we'll. Perry
command is still at Fort Idaho.
Winnemucca, Chief of the Piutes, as
sures the Governor that he has no inten
ton of breaking the peace with th
whites; that if an Indian outbreak occur
he will remain friendly, but if he want
to fight he will give fair warning.
Volunteer companies arc being con
stantly organized In the various settle
ments, but are unable to move until pro
vided with arms.
Gen. Mcdowell telegraphed the Wa
Department on the 2aabthat he could no
learn that the uprising had gone mucl
beyond Joseph's band of Nez Perces an,
the immediate vicinity. All the cavalr.
in the Department of California has bee
sent to Idaho, and also all the troops il
Alaska.
A Boise City Qdaho) dispatch of tn
23d says the people of the Waiser Val
leys have assembled near Jetfries, wher
they are constructing a fort. The peo
pie are without arms and generally dc
fenseless
Gen. Howard telegraphed from For
Lapway on the 21st that Capt. Milleran
800 men had left for the front. The In
dian prisoners state that the soldiers LEI
wounded on the field were killed but nc
mutilated. Mrs. Maxwell and the Chi
dren of George Woodward have bee
murdered.
There had been no further fighting
Idaho up to the Goth. Gen. howard ha
gone to the front to command in person
Gen. Mcdowell has been instructed
Con. Sherman to have the Indians pul
sued as fast as possible, and pay no a
tcntion whatever to the boundary line
of the different military commander
but to punish the Indians wherever the
may be caught.
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