Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-08-11

INDIAN WAR NEWS (!
Ent.ians Gradually Drawing Ont
The story OF BERNARD Being
Under Arrest-Surren,ier of the
Piutes-A strengthening Set of
Prisoners-Newspapers TO b. Ia
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SILVER CRY, Idaho, August 10.
The Indians are gradually drawing out
from this section. A band left South
Mountain recently with stolen stock.
They were seen by Mike Lacy about eight
miles from Wagon Town. o her bands
have been seen near Sheep ranch. Colonel
Robbins passed through here this morning.
He left Forsyth's command at Antelope
Springs, and they would be at Three
Forks, Owvhee, to-day. The report that
General Howard had Colonel Bernard un-
der arrest recently, is not generally be-
lieved. Bernard is credited with saying
that he could, with 400 men, have wiped
out all the hostiles in Eastern Oregon and
Idaho within a month.
BAKER CITY, Oregon, August 10.
The Indian excitement in this section
has abated wonderfully since the surrender
of the Piutes began. The query now on
every tongue is, what will be doDe with the
prisoners? Popular belief says they will
be taken to the Indian Nation. The sur
render is progressing nicely, but is not yet
complete, which accounts for the fact that
the prisoners come in by ones and twos.
They are thus far n sorry looking set, their
| pinehed faces and almost naked bodies,
and wornout horses, affording striking
evidence Of the unceasinS pursuit by Gen
| eral Towards troops after a trail was
struck in fact, the Indians say the troops
were so close upon them for many days
that the Indians were not given time to
camp, cook on hunt, and their ammunition
having become exhausted, and their horses
worn out, they were compelled to break up
into small parties, hiding in the noun
tains, hoping that all the troops would fol-
low the Bannocks, and leave this country
open for the Piutes to recruit their worn
out forces. Finding that General Howard
was d. termined to provide for the Snakes
as well as the Bannocks, and having lost
their leaders, they lost all hope, and con-
Guided to surrender. Some came into
the agency on foot, and others mounted
on horses. One old fellow came
in yesterday mounted on a-colt scarcely a
year old. But few are armed, and they
with old-style firearms, conspicuous among
the lot being an old Hudson Bay rifle. The
prisoners say the hostile losses have been
very heavy, and that but for the almost
impossible nature OF the country through
which they have travelled, preventing the
possibility of their being surrounded and
forced to fight, they would have been whip
ped long ago. The only remaining hostile
Piuie chief, Oils, with about 80 followers,
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Mountain, waiting to learn the nature OF
the reception given the members of his
BAND who have already surrendered, before
doing so himself. Considerable uneasiness
is felt among the best citizens in this coun-
try concerning affairs at the Umatilla
agency, there being a class of people in
that vicinity who covet the Umatilla Indi-
ans land, and seem determined to have
these Indians break out, and threby forfeit
their reservation but the price paid in the
lives of innocent and defenseless set
tiers, be what it may, one would
naturally think such a class would
be driven out of the country,
or at least compelled to drop their in
famous land-grabbing scheme by that pow
erful lever, the press but one ceases to be
surprised at anything, when the publish
ers of some Of our frontier sheets do not
hesitate to stoop, On account of some inn
aginary personal grievances, to publish,
and in some cases to telegraph, the most
unmitigated falsehoods against General
Howard, who has considered neither per-
sonal comfort nor health during this whole
campaign, but has organized and carried
out, under his " personal observation
one of the most unceasing and ~tireless
pursuits ever put upon record, moving
army and wagon trains through o country
hat would be pronounced impossible by
any person unacquainted with the events
of this campaign. The class of papers re-
ferred to will be tabeced as leprous by
every person having the best interests OF
the frontier at heart, and allowed to sink
into merited oblivion, unless names OF
some more scrupulous men appear at the
head Of the editorial columns.