The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-07-24
OUR SALT LAKE LETTER.
The Indian Situation at Fort
Hall.
Gen. Crooks visa.-AII Quiet Along the
Lines.

SALT LALE CITY, July %, 1873.
Things at Ross Fork Agency ant
Fort Hall, Idaho, remain very quiet
Occasionally Bannock Indian come,
in, and always from the east, reporting
that he has been over about CamE
Brown hunting. The facts are thai
they are from the camp of the hostiles
and are really spies sent in to see
what is going on at the agency. There
are about one hundred Bannocks now
at the agency. When all are in they
number about $50. Out of this number
there are not to exceed $50 warriors.
These may have received some acces-
sions from Shoshones, Umatillas and
other tribes, but it is pretty certain that
at no time could the hostiles in front of
Gen. Howard have numbered more
than 400 warriors. But even this num-
Der, operating in a lava bed country,
thoroughly known to themselves, could
do great deal of mischief.
Gen. Crook and Lieuts. Bourke and
Schuyler of his staff, made hurried
visit to the agency last week. In con-
versation with Shoshone Jim, an old
chief, who knew Gen. Crook well, the for
mer stated that as the railroad was soon
to be finished to their agency he desired
to go to Washington, and wanted to go
in one Of the cars that had 'splenty
cushions" meaning a Pullman sleeper.
He also wanted Gen. Crook to ask the
Great Father to have pass furnished
him, so he could travel when he
pleased, like other big people. do not
know that Gen. Crook promised to
comply with these requests. Jim's gen.
eral get up would make the writer of
Munroe's Dime Novels die with envy,
and would no doubt create first class
sensation on Pullman sleeper.
have noticed vivid paragraph
going the rounds of the papers to the
effect that Buffalo Horn, chief of the
Bannocks (and whom Gen. Howard re-
ports positively killed., was one of
Gen. Crooks chief scouts in his Sioux
campaign. This is entirely erroneous.
Buffalo Horn was never with Gen.
Crook at all. He was employed by
Gen. Miles short time in 1876, but
left him early in 1877, at the time some
Grow scouts at Fort Keogh fired upon
and killed some Sioux chiefs who were
coming in there to surrender.
The Shoshones at Ross Fork Agency
have raised some very fair crops of
wheat and potatoes this season, which
will in a small measure exc out the
pittance they receive from the Govern
ment towards their support.
Gen. Nathan Kimball, recently Sur
veyor General of this Territory, and
an officer who served with much dis
tinction both in the Mexican war and
the war Of the rebellion, has recently
accepted the position of surgeon to the
agency at Ross Fork. His son, Lieut..
w. A. Kimball, Fourteenth infantry,
is also stationed at the agency with a
few soldiers to preserve the peace:
y The companies of the Fifth Cavalry
under Capt. Hamilton, are in camp
about four miles east of the agency on
Ross Fork, and four companies of the
Fourteenth infantry are at Fort Hall.
1t is probable. that as soon as the rail-
road passes through the reservation the
post at Fort Hall, now fifteen miles
east Of the agency, will be moved down
to its immediate vicinity.
=. RANGER.