The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-07-09
BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.
TO TIE DAILY LNTELLIGENCER
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ON THE WAR PATH.
A Small Skirmish with the Look :
ing-6lass Band.
I'VE Routed Them, We Secuted
Them, Nor Lost a Single Man."
Over 1000 Ponies and an Indian
Camp Captured.
Another Sklrmish With the Hez
PerCes.
Settlers Leaving Pine Creek and
Settlers Leaving Pine Creek and
Pal0use Plains.

diuuoe EthtIlo'
SAN FRANCI.Co, July IA Portland
special dispatch, dated Lewiston, July 4,
via Walla WAlla, 9Th, says: On July ID
Colonel Whipple's command, with voiun.
teers under Randall, came across Look.
ing glass band at Clear Creek att A. NJ.
The Indians told the Colonel they were
prepared to fight, and, il is said, opened
The ball by firing first. That when the
order was given 10 commence firing the
Indians soon broke for the hills and
places Of shelter. 1t Is not known how
many were killed or wounded, as they
scampered in all directions. The com.
mand captured the Indian camp, burned
all their provisions and plunder, and
took about u thousand head OF Indian
horses, which they brought here. No
citizens or soldiers were killed or wound.
ed. The command returned last night.
Captain Elliott Of the Ida ho Rangers
captured seventy-fve Of Joseph's cattle
and forty horses. They had skirmish
on the Nimnaho. The Captain says he
does moi know how many were killed, as
they had to retreat. The Indians are
mostly between Snake and Salmon Rivers,
and are now reported nine hundred strong
and well armed, Captain Booth will go
to WallAwAllS with seventy men from
the Cove. There are twenty.one men
from Union county now in Wallawalla
Valley.
News received at the Department
Headquarters here from Gen. A. Sully,
commanding at Lewiston, says that Col.
Perry, with thirty men, on his way to
Cottonwood, was attacked by the hostiles.
Lieutenant Rains. ten soldiers and two
citizens were killed. Colonel Whipple
Joined Colonel Perry and drove the lndi.
ans of. The fight Is still going on.
Major JacksOn's company, the First
Cavalry, which left Fort Vancouver yes.
terduy morning, will arrive at Lewiston
tomorrow.
The following dispatch comes from
Wallowa. 1t probably came by the
steamer Tenino, which arrived at g:l5
Thursday night. They say Joseph de-
Coyed General Howard across the Sal.
mon River, and then Joseph recrossed
the river and got on to the Cottonwood,
between Howard and Lapwai, within
thirty miles Of Lewiston.
A special received from John A. Far.
rell, OF San Francisco. who hast just re-
turned from Collville, dated PaIouse
Landing the Sd instant, via Wallowa the
9th, says: "Joseph Oppenheimer and
myself arrived here this evening. When
we crossed Spokane Bridge, yesterday,
there were three or four hundred buck
Indians who are SAID to be in council,
and all we'll armed. They consisted OF
Yaktamas, under Moses, Palouse, Tam.
pariIlp, Spokanes. Calleshalls and rene.
gade young men from other tribes, names
not known. The outlook for this coun-
try ia bad. Settlers on Pine Creek and
Palouse Plains, except Eve men, have
left, The country is in the hand" Of the
savages."
PEACEFUL uMATlLLAs
A Boise City dispatch says the follow.
ing is m extract from u letter received
here from Major NJ. A. Connoyer, Indian
Agent for many years at the Umatilla
reservation. He has lived in that coun.
try and has been personally acquainted
with the Indians spoken Of in his letter
for over thirty.fve years:
The Indians referred to in his letter
embrace every thing within reach Of the
hosIiles except the Bannocks and Piutes
"On this reservation, the number Of In
dians last January was 6S2 men, l57
women, 2G2 boys and 1877 girls. Now
have some more-I think an addition'oi
about 200-and the Indians are all hero.
1.-TWO only are at Lapwai, and both are
very friendly to the whites. None have
gone to Join the hostile Indians. l esti'
mate the Indians on Yakama ReServa'
tion, and tho renegade bands on the Co.
lumbiA river, from Cells 10 White Bluff
at about 1000. l know nothing Of other
tribes north. These Indians will moi
take up arms against the whites. l am
also sure the Cour d'Alenes will remain
friendly. The reports OF the UmatillaI
moving to join the hostile Indians are
false. None have gone, and | cannot be,
lieye they will go. The chiefs and head
men Of this reservation are keeping their
young men close at home, and l do mol
think any can leave without being discov
cred"
A'DowE1L's REPORT.
WASHINGTON, July 7.-The following
telegram from General Mcdowell, COM
manding the military division Of the Pa
ciGc, was received at the War Department
this morning:
SAN FRANctsco, July G.
To The Adutant General:
The following kilograms, both from
Lewiston, have Just been received from
my aid'de.camp, whom l had sent up tc
Gen. Howard's command.
The first telegram, dated July 4, says
No news direct from General Howar(
since the lat. The klamath Company il
expected tomorrow. Shall 60 with il.
ME- PERcEs SCATTERING.
"Captain Whipple's detachment struck
a band Of Nez Perces, under Looking
Glass, at Kamais, Sunday, and inflicted 4
'S'S FH"tnHtHSH1I capturing lNTbt
amount Of stock.
"lndiAn Inspector Watkins, who ha,
recently been with General Howard
writes from Lapwai, this evening, TO Gen
eral Sully, here, that this success Snt
General Howard's vigorous action ART
producing marked results.
Looking Glass wishes TO come In will
his band, Watkins states, and Joseph hal
crossed the Salmon, and Is making eas
for the Bitter Root country, with Genera
Howard at his heels and Whipple barring
the way; that Joseph, thus hNrassed, Il
on the point Of breaking up. There arr
no signs OF other Indians taking hand
INDIANA VERY DEMoSsrRATIyE.
The second telegram Ia dated the 9Th