, 1877-05-30
Gen. Miles, Forces Encounter
Sitting Bull and Lame
Deer.
One Hundred Lodges Of the YER
min 8urprfscd and Scat
tered.
Several Savagcs Killed and All
Their Traps Captured.
4 Desperate Fight Between Hunters and
Apaches in Te1as.
SITTING BULL STIRRED UT.
Enrefnf Htftxafeh 10 TAs TtfhuaA

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Sprctaf HtspatcA to 1nt 1l1bun&,
Can't hoh1ssoN, Ncb.. May 29.-The Chey-
emo Chief The-Nian-W Who Wears-thc-B Bears
Shirt cane In yesterday from the Northern
country, and reports that Sitting Bull anI tho
white soldiers, probably Capt. Ball, Of tho Sec
oud Cavalry. hare had big fight on tho Rose
bud, stream cnptylng into tho Yellowstone.
lie ts not very definite As to how many days
arc, but IL positive that It was big battle last-
Ing all day, tho Indians losing four killed
aad wounded, and that tho soldiers left
twenty-five dead on the field. These bodies
were sca1ped and mutftatc1 in tho usual horr'-
bic manner Of tho sasagc. The soldiers sur
prtsed their camp at carly dawn, attacking be-
fore tho old squaws were up to make tho fires.
The f{rst charge found The Sioux asleep, md 80
unpreparcd that they were driven out Of their
tcpces and from their catnp, but returned,
charging tho white soldiers, and recovered somo
Of thcir ponies, which had been captured in tho
FIRST Of tho fight They also took part Of a pack
train Of mules which carried the flour a1,tl bread
and ammunition for the troops Tic whit,
sotdtcrs then charged and rctook the village,
which they buried with all its tcepces, robes,
dried meat, an1 plnndes of evcty kind. .Fhcae
bltrt said ho got from m L''lan runner whom
tle met on tho Little Missouri. This report was
| not entirely credited here, owing to tho Chcy-
ennc'S !NdcllulteneA3 rs to ttfncs and bEcnust
tue 9ioux here think Sitting bull Is not south Of
| the Yellowstone Riyer.
To-day two Chcyennes came in and confirm In
| the main the first report. Lieut.. Phflo Clark.
Second Cavalry, who ia IN charge Of tho Indians,
| and Is we'll vctsel In indian ways, has kindly
given me the rceut Of what he learned from the
two last Cheyenne runners, and sayn ho Is not
PREPARED to believe entirely the story Us given,
but thinks there is something credible III the re-
mort, and II there has bccn fight it is with
| Capt ball. These two Cheycnnes say that Sit
| ting Bull had CONT down on to the Rosebud
| and Joined Lanc Dcer's band. and there Hcrc
about 1U0 lodges in alt, They claim to have
been in Btttlng Bulls and Lame Dccr's camp at
the time 1t was attacked. and that the white Ro1-
dicrs drove the Sioux from their village and held
[ II agatntt repeated charges Of Sitting Bull
and his wnrE1oss: that tho white soldiers
burned Ill the lodges, antl captured = large
| number OF ponits 1hcy say that Sitting Bull
with biz people llavo ded toward the Powder
| River, They arc rcticcnt ns to the number Of
Indians killed, aud do not know how many
white soldiers wcro slain. Sitting Bull wanted
to 1earu through them how Crazy Horse bad
been trratcti here; eayb that lie could CONG III
aud surrender Will all Ills people Lame Deer
and fls sun arc reported bY the 1rst runner ~
amongst tho Indians killed.
| During the winter ettinC Bull had Eohe
| north into the British Possessions, where, with
some other renceulc indians escaped from the
/ American side, he had Succeeded In obtaining
| supply OF ammunition sufficient to start In on
tho sprinE n,ayaudtng excursions. lie md lis
gang Ind just Joined Lanc Dccr6 band, and tho
latter only acscd as chief III the last encounter.