The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-06-27
The West.

General Towards scouts report the hos
tiles concentrating in large force in STEMS
Mountain, and the General is moving his
troops in that direction. General Growers
expedition to Camas Prairie, with Colonels
Sanford, Sumner, and Bendire's companies
will be turned back and go directly to
STEMS Mountain. +
A special from San Antonio states: Gem
eral Grierson, informing General Ord of
the progress made toward protecting the
FL Paso stage route, says: az have ordered
suitable detachments of infantry to occupy
Seven Springs. They will be able to pre-
vent Indians from passing through the
valley, and to protect the route TO Barilla
Springs"
The President and the Secretary of War
have been in consultation upon the subject
of the Indian troubles in the Northwest.
Secretary McCrary read to the President a
telegram received by him from the Gov
ernor of Oregon, relating that the Indians
were committing hostilities on the eastern
border of that State; that the settlers are
provided with arms and ammunition for the
purpose of their protection, and asking the
| government to furnish them with supplies.
The request viii be granted.
A Portland dispatch says a dispatch re-
ceived at the military headquarters states
that abeutfye hundred hostile Indians have
started toward Camp Harmony,in California,
andthat they are receiving accession as they
march. General Howard has given instruc-
tions to send Miles command now. en- rorte
to Harvey with all possible haste.
Sarah Winnemucca, who recently escaped
from the hostiles at STEMS Mountain, re-
ports that one of the Indian scouts claims
to have kinedRufalo Horn, the hammock
CHIEF. Sarah says their leader was killed
in a skirmish with citizens in which the
scout was engaged.
At Salt Lake City, w. G. Williams, a
Wells-Fargo Express messenger, has been
found guilty of a robbery which occurred
on the Utah Central two years ago.. Will.
Jams was found bound and gagged when the
train arrived at Salt Lake, and claimed il
was lone by men who entered the car at the
last station and then jumped off. Seventeen
thousand dollars were stolen, which has not
been recovered.
A Silver City dispatch says a messenger
from the vicinity of Camp Harvey reports
serious Indian depredations. A party
under Egan have burned Diamond Ranch in
Happy Valley, near STEMS Mountain. The
Indians have captured four hundred horses.
Thirty soldiers. of the First Cavalry have
gone there to render assistance. Troops
and supplies are greatly needed. French
and Robbie, with their employees, have been
driven from STEMS Mountain. They re.
port the mountains full of Indians; also re,
port all their stock killed or driven off
Two men were shot. Z
The sensational reports from Wisconsin
relative to the rumored Indian trouble in
the northern part of that State are utterly
discredited at st. Paul, Mimi, at least Sc
far as they relate to any general combina
ton of the Minnesota and Wisconsin Chip.
pewas, who are not warlke Indians, and a:
for the Sioux, there are none in either State
An Indian outbreak anywhere east of the
Missouri is the most distant i~mprobability
A Rush City dispatch to the Pioneer Pres
treats the affair across the st. Croix, in Wis
consin, as a mere scare.