The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
'THs RED HJEEns.
They Played il Sharp on Evar5oGg :
and Have IT About Their
Own Esy.
Troops From This Department
Probably to Cross Into the
Department Of the
PIstte.
Indian Atrocities Dead at Buf.
aIo Sta.ion-O:ker Indian
Information.
TIE red nuVEns.
THE CEEYESNEs

THE CEEYESNEs
= The latest word received from the fpg
e tive Cheyennes was TO the effect that the
| were making rapid cracks" for their noun
! tam home, @i.er succeeding in crossing III
j, Union P4cifc road. so far they have sue
ceeded in completely outwitting the troops
and by travelling fast and
SCIENTIFIC MANEUvERING,
have Kept c.t OF me way Of all those zen
: 10 intercept them, having even eluded Col
Thornbery's cavalry, from Sidney, in whicl
command such high Lopes and great re
lance had been placed Thornberg's com
mand is, it is true, now in the field sgains
} them, but as they are giving the savages 1
stern chase, which promises TO be long one
and as unsuccessful as that iuauguraied
just after the reds left their reservation II
rs matter OF the greatest surprise that the
Indians
SHOULD HAVE SUCCEEDED
in efiecting what at first seemed to be an
utter impo-ribiliiy-that of crossing the en-.
ire State of Kansas, in the face OF nearly
all the soldiers in this Department 1t il
not hardly probable that the reds
themselves al frst entertained the idea that
they coul succeed. but being victorious in
the frs, two or three encounters with the
troops and herders, embolden, d them, and
so they kept straight onward, finally cross
| ing the Union Pacific road. The Santa Fe
road was their Rubicon, and after crossing
that line, retreat was not not 10 be thought
| of
GEN. DAVIS AT HOME.
General JEFF G. Davis, commanding the
1 4 I,f. II H., L.. E.
| few DAYS out at Fort Wallace, about four
hundred miles west of here, directing the
| campaign against the reds, returned to
Fort Leavenworh last SUNDAY evening, the
eight companies Of his regiment, however,
remaining in the field. Ii j. probable that
the latter will cross from this Department
into the Department of the Platte, and be
in at the desi h." If the -oiGiers succeed in
bringing the Cheyenne TO halt. The boys
Of the 23j have seen good deal of Indian
warfare, and if they had succeeded in tack
ling the reds there would have heen rome
hot work, and somebody would surely have
been hurt.
WHO THEY ARE.
The Cheyennes who have 30 far complete
ly bafiied tine troops s. Mt in pursuit are
portion of same band which formed an alli-
ance with the sioux and fought under the
leadership of Crazy Horse, some two win
tiers ago. They are Intrepid warriors, and
at the same time excel the Sioux in manli-
ness and honesty Nearly all the members
Of the party now escsping porthward took
part in the massacre OF Cus.eris command
For fifteen years past their hands have been
almost continually imbrued with the blood
of frontiersmen or soldiers. Yet in no in
hor thax, ska
cept when driven 10 do 30 from actual star |
walton. mad it not been for rascally Indian |
agents these redsdins would not now be |
horses as they go.
TWENTY FIVE CoRPsEs.
A dispatch from Fort Hays says that |
twenty five dead bodies were brought in /
Saturday night to Buffalo Station, sixty |
miles west Of that post, the result of Tues
days fight ten miles north of Buffalo.
Twenty Of the deceased were cattle men,
and en- ire straH:r.s - al who viewed /
Them, while five are recognized as settlers.
tittr kiiling th- ir victims The ildians con-
fiDued their course north, taking with them
every horse and pony with a range of TWEEN
~ r.iies. The baDd struck a stream called |
Prairie Dig, forty miles north OF the Kan
-as Pacific road, killing the herd-rs that
were EeodIug horses aud cattle, and settlers
as they cane un them.
THIRTY-THREE DFA AID BoDIEs
were found Saturday by their pursuers in
Decatur county, in the Prairie Dog region
This was evidently the work of the last
oand that crossed the road on Tuesday last.
No one has been able TO learn the names of
any of Saturdays dead. The northwestern
portion of the Stste has been IN a terrible
storm Of excitement for the past two week.
but this country being very thinly settled
no body OF meu sufficient 10 cop with the
red devils could be got together.
EAvIsHTSG WOMEN.
In the northern portion Of Decatur coun-
~. the Indians captured an entire family
of settlers, named Williams, lately from
Indiana, ard consisting Of the mother of
the family and three daughters, aged nine
teen, seventeen snd fourteen respectively.
The Iend- ravi~hed the shrieking women
before the very eyes OF the father and two
brothers, and then slew the entire fam
lily, throwing thedead bodies into the burn
ing house, the remains being consumed 10
the flames. Such acts as these constitut.
the beauty of savage warfare, and tend to
lncite philanthropic leniency toward the
red man.
WILL THEY FALL INTO MILES HANDS?
General Miles, since he left Fort Leaven-
worth in July, 1876. has been singularly
fortunate, and besides finishing the work
the gallant Custer begun, opened his arms
and took Chief Joseph in alter Howard had
chased him for two thousand miles or 40.
II now remains to be seen whether the
Cheyennes will fall into his trap, and
whether he will add to his already brilliant
laurels the additional one of capturing
those renegades who foiled the troops Of
this Department. 1t is true that the Chey-
ennes will strike to considerable distance
west OF Fort Keogh, but Miles and his har
dy boys of the Fifth could easily travel the
required distance in time to meet the foe, I
and it wouldn't seem at all unnatural to
wake up some ire morning to find informa-
ion by telegraph that Dull Knife and his
band had fallen prey 10 Custer's success
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