Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-09
rue INDIANS.

Movements and reported Movements of
Warlike Reds on the Plains Of Dakota.
Our information from the near Indian
country, regarding warlike operations is
meagre and unsatisfactory. A telegram of
the 7th inst. from Camp Robinson states
that.a courier just arrived from Red Clouds
new location On White Clay creek, reports
that q band of !Cheyennes crossed there at
noon Sunday and were said to be with Red
Clouds Indians. The same courier stated
that everything was quiet At Red Cloud
and Spotted Tail agencies. Nothing
had been heard from Cartoons command for
the past thirty.six hours. Considerable time
has therefore elapsed since the discovery Of
the hostile Indians on. White Clay creek
and no information regarding their subse-
quent operations has been received. The
courier who brought this intelligence to
Camp Robinson is reported to have come
from Red Clouds new location on the
White Clay. It is known that Red Clouds
Indians are not at White Clay, but at Pass
creek, some fifty. miles northeast, and that
Spotted Tails Indians are some twenty-five
miles still farther east. A courier from
White Clay could not therefore bring any
reliable information regarding the att
tude Of Indians fifty and seventy.ive
miles away. Information through
army sources is to the effect
that the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail In
dams are all moving towards the Black
Hills. but we do not believe this to be true,
as the former promised DR.. Irwin. their
agent. that they would remain on Pass
creek and await the result of his mission
east. As that mission has been successful in
securing all that the Indians asked for, it is
reasonable to suppose that they will be ap-
peased as soon as the result is made known
to them. The greatest danger from the Red
Cloud Indians is that they may tire of wait.
ing, that the Cheyenne renegades may get
among them aud stir up their bad blood
and that the Young men may join with the
young men of Spotted Tails band and with
the already hostile Cheyennes and cut loose
for q season of p%lundering and numbering.
The Cheyennes are doubtless with them by
this time and results will be anxiously
looked for.
The cattle owners of Omaha who have
ranches along the Niobrara, took fright
several days ago and fearing that the Chey.
ennes In their %northward course might
strike their employees and cattle, tele-
graphed to Ogsllalla, and North Platte
to have couriers sent out regardless of ex-
pense to warn the men of the Indians. Two
well.mounted couriers were accordingly
sent out from North Platte with instruc-
lions to make as many changes Of horses as
en- route. About fifty cattle herd. |
BIB can b 1athered together on the Mo
brsra river In three or four hours. They
No we'll armed md have abundant ammu.
milton. It was thought however, that the
Il not overaken BY the troops,
would pass to the west OF the ecattle ranges.
Information. has been received at mill
tary headquarters at Omaha that about one
hundred and fhy Arspahoes and fifty Chey.
snna have. withia: the last ten or twelve
days, left their reservation near Camp
in northern Wyoming, in small
squads, under pretense Of hunting, but q
u now generally believed, going On the
war path. They went toward the Black
Hills. The officers ut Gen. Terry's. head
quarters have semi-of1cial information that
the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Indians
were moving In the directionsof the Black |
Hills. These reports ars unconfrmed and
may not b. reliable.