The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-06-16
THE INDIAN WAR.
Further News Concerning the
Red Fiends.
A General Uprising in Progress, which
Creates a Reign of Terror
Among the Settlers.

mucca dispatch says that thirty or forty
whites, at White Horse Meadows,
Grant county, Oregon, are threatened
by strong force Of hostile Bannocks.
A Winnemucca mounted volunteer
company will start from Camp McDer-
NIT tomorrow to reinforce the White
Horse Meadows settlers. Our county
officials will try and send more men
and arms from here tomorrow.
A Boise City dispatch says Major
Downer, who is on the way, with his
command, to Sheep Ranch, has received
orders to return to Fort Harney, in
consequence of information received
that Egar, Piute chief, was at the
head of four hundred warriors, and re-
solved to go upon the war path. This
band is composed Of Indians who have
left Malheur Agency. Some of the
military officers here have recently in
terviewed Tawbiago, the Indian now
under sentence of death for the muir
der of Alexander Rhodan. Tawbiago
says the Bannocks are led by Buffalo
Horn and two other chiefs, and that
their plan was to rendezvous at Juniper
Mountain and at Sheep Ranch, get the
Piutes to join them, and then proceed
northward to Salmon river. Tawbiago
has been in confinement several months,
but his story is corroborated by other
information, and proves that an out
break has been long contemplated. The
settlers of Bruneare and adjacent vicin-
ity have abandoned their houses and
come to this place for safety. Settlers
on the Boise City and Carson City
stage road in Baker county, Oregon,
for distance of sixty miles, have also
left their homes and sought places of
safety.
The dispatches say: In military quar-
ters the preparation for the campaign
are going forward quietly but earnestly.
Experienced Indian fighters and from
tiersmen believe that there is general
uprising of all the tribes and scattered
bands throughout southern Idaho and
eastern Oregon, and that they will be
able to number at least one thousand
warriors. An emigrant train detained
at Payne's ferry arrived here to-day un-
der escort of Capt. Bushes volunteers.
There have been no stages through
from Winnemucca since the raid.
The Kelton and Boise City road has not
been disturbed since the raid on King
Hill station, on the 31st Of May. This
route is considered safe and stages are
regularly. There is a rumor
that large bands of horses were discov-
cred yesterday on the south side of
Snake river, between the mouth of
Brunea and Mundy's ferry. This
would indicate that the Indians are en-
deavoring to get back with their stolen
stock to the lava beds, from which they
started. The prevailing opinion here
is that the Indians will concentrate in
the neighborhood of STEMS mountain,
and there either await the coming up
of the troops or divide into bands for
raiding exposed settlements.
LATER.-Gen. Towards scouts re-
port the hostiles concentrating in large
force in STEMS mountain, and the Gen.
eral is moving his troops in that direc-
tion. Gen. Growers expedition to
Camas prairie, with Col. Sanford Tur-
ner and Bendines companies will be
turned back and go directly to STEMS