Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-11-23
ARMY REPORTS.
Gan. Crook. 1,enort,

Brig.-Gcn.. George Crook. commanding the
Department of the Platte, has sent his annu-
views the troubles with the Sioux
and the killing OF Crazy Horse, who
engaged in mutiny year ago last summer.
tep Tail agencies to the Missouri in the
month of November, 1871. Owing to the
lateness of the season !" he says, "this march
was attended with much suffering, and thu
removal Itself was n source of great dissatis-
faction TO the people of these tribes" The
capture of the NeZ PerceS last fall Is also ful-
ly described. In regard to the condition of
Affairs among the Shoshone and Bannock
Indians, who were recently in revolt, Gen.
Crook says: ..' -'f
al visited this agency in March and April
last. The apportionment OF rations for this
agency was ridiculously Inadequate. The
Indians complained that three days out of
the seven they had nothing to- eat, and the
. agent informed me that the allowance had
the state of affairs to the department., and
urged that something be done immediately
10 Ie.euS IT, ~ Vas ma..er on @ ,S .1
of these Indians should soon after break out
into hostilitfes. The great wonder is that
so many of them have remained so long on
their reservations. With the Bannocks and
Shoshones our Indian policy has resolved
itself into q question of war path or starva-
ton, ana, being human, many oil them Will
always choose the former alternative, In
which death shall ut least be glorious. They
can not hunt for subsistence, and the influx
OF immigrationfs is each day adding to the cor
don oil settlements around them; and IL for
any purpose they leave their reservation, 1t
is only the merest accident in the world that
they can avoid q conflict of some kind with
the whites. The savages know nothing and
can be made to understand nothing of such
things as the failure OF an appropriation or
the Cumbersome and dilatory complications
OI administrative red tape.' They only know
that we have promised faithfully to feed and
clothe them and teach them to earn their own
living; and they insist upon our living up to
the contract, or they will, If driven to the
war-path, wreak their vengeance upon the
unprotected ranchmen and miners around
them. They, too, are dissatisfied that while
they have been for years our steadfast friends
and allies, the Sioux, so lately our bitter enc
mics, have twice the amount OF supplies that
is provided for them"
Gen. Crook comments upon the condition
OF the force under his command He says
that tire force is in good condition, but he
complains that IL Is inadequate to the de-
mand made upon IL, and insufficient for the
protection ofthe frontier.
In regard TO the removal of the Sioux, OF
the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies,
Gen. Crook says: .ss
"The Indians seemed distrustful of the
promises made them by the President, and
feared they would not be carried out In good
would be caYried out they consented to the
removal Upon my arrival at the agencies,
Oct. II, found part of the Indian supplies
exhausted, and the remainder would be so at
the end of the month. also found that the
transportation provided by the Indian De-
pan tment for the removal of the Intians
could not possibly reach them In time.
Therefore, u prompt action was necessary
with the consent of higher authority as
Sisted the Indians by scfaping together all oi
the Army transportation Within reach, i'm
provising many u ans of broken down cav
airy horses. BY much effort, many of the In.
dians going on foot. and by their conSenting
| TO subsist on beef during the march, was
finally able to get them OF. Had been re-
quired 10 send any additional troops with
them, II would have been impossible Tor the
move to have been made in time."