The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-11-13
THE REBELLIOUs TIES.
Return of Gen. Adams, Special Agent,
From the Hostile Campfire White RiV-
err CaptiVes Surrendered.
Especial to the Chicago Times

err Captives SURRENDERED.
Especial to the Chicago Times.I
GEN. B1ERRITT's CAMP, WHITE RIv-
ER, Colo, Oct. "A, via RAwLINs, wy, Oct
25.-Gen. Merritt yesterday detached Maj
Sumner with five companies of the 9th Cav
airy to make further search for Paul
Humme, the man of the Ordnance Depart
ment supposed to have been killed with
Lieut.. Weir, near Grand River, on Oct. 20.
The battalion reached the place where Weir
fell, when Drais, the scout, discovered In
dams ahead. Mai. Sumner Immediately
threw out skirmishers, but was astonished
at seeing two white flags displayed on tepee
poles Two hOrsemen dashed out of the In
dian line, and on approaching were found to
be Gen. Charles Adams of the United States
Postal Service and Count Dornhoff, First
| Secretary of the German Legation, accom-
/ panied by body guard of some 30 Ute In
! dians. The latter very prudently kept out
| of the way of the soldiers. Gen. Adams,
acting as peace commissioner for the In
4 terror Department, stated that he had come
/ through both Ouray's camp at the Southern
/ Agency and the hostile main camp on Grand,
/ near Roam River. Maj. Sumner inquired
/ relative to the fate of Paul Humme, and the
/ Indians were asked the particulars of the af-
/ fair in which he and Lieut.. Weir lost their
/ lives. They said that a scouting party of 10
warriors had come out from the hostile camp
/ to watch Gen. Merritt's movements, but
with orders not to fight. They were en-
camped near where HaiPs party lunehed,
!
the deer. One of their men happened to be
| on foot, aiming at a deer which Humme shot
/ before he discovered the Indians. Immedi-
ately after he observed the warrior on foot
making for his horse, and fired at and killed
/ him. Then the surviving Indians opened
/ fire and killed Lieut.. Weir. who approached
| over the raYine on horseback, thinking to
| have shot at the deer. He fell from his
| horse and never moved afterward. Humme,
! whose horse stampeded, retreated on foot to-
ward the hills, the party firing as he went.
He received shot through the right eye, but
! still kept on walking and firing. He received
/ another shot clean through the head, and
! died. Hewas killed about 900 yards south
/ west from where Weir was found. Then the
Indians turned loose on Hall and fought him
| till night, losing one man killed in the affair
with him. The body of Humme was found,
| as directed, and buried. He used to be Sec
ond steward for Potter Palmer, and was a
! very intrepid but somewhat rash soldier.
Maj. Sumner buried him with military hon
oTs.
The Times correspondent interviewed
Gen. Adams, and obtained from him the fol-
lowing important statement: He left Ouray's
camp, at the Southern Agency, on Oct. 10,
reaching the hostile camp on the night of the
Doth. He was well received by the chiefs,
although ne found much mourning in the
were killed in the hot encounter with Thorn
burgh'S command, on Sept. %. There was
no mistake about the number. Gen. Adams
said the IJteS acknowledged that Thorn
burgh's men fought heroically, but said that
undoubtedly the Major provoked the fight,
being DESTROYS of whipping the Indians any
how, as he said in council. Meeker and his
male employees were killed day or two
after the ThOrnburgh fight, probably on Oct
1. The chiefs said the agent had threatened
! them with chains and handouts when the
soldiers came. This is why they placed the
chain around BIeeker's corpse. They also
/ complained that Meeker refused to give then
the supplies at the Agency unless they titled
the land. There were plenty of supplies
1T
them. The women were taken
prisoners, with the children, and neither
were harmed in any way. Gen. Adams
found them with the squaws in the smaller
!; Indian camp, and had them sent, under es-
cOrt of one of Ouray's chiefs and other In
dians, to Lake City, Colo, which point they
will have reached in a few days. Gen
Adams further saws the Utes are DESTROYS OF
peace, and claim that Meeker and Thorn
burgh brought on the war. Having lost, in
Guiding Halls fight, thirty mine oftheir best
men, they considered things about even, and
are willing to shake hands. They wished K
make the surrender of the women and chill
dren a condition of peace, but Gen. Adam,
= was peremptOry in declining the proposition
and they delivered them up unframed with
, out further conditions. After the propose
that the ringleadeTs of the recent outbreaks
should be given up the chiefs unanimously
} refused, saying the outbreak was not pre-
meditated, and that all were implicated. Sc
, the matter of peace or war now stands. Gen
Adams says the hOstiles are encamped in
country utterly impregnable, and that fOul
times the force mt present here could not re-
duce them. Their main camp is about :!
miles south of this point. Gen. Merritt viii
Immediately telegraph for instructions
Gen. Adams and Count DOrnhon will &C
back with the Indians to the Southern Agen-
CIV. Every thing is in a state of incertitude
In further conversation with Gen. Adams
the Times correspondent learned that the
Indians at first intended to kill Meeker only
Miss NIeeker was in the well house when {
: brother of Chief Johnson made a rush tC
capture her. Dresser, one of the white en-
plOyees, conceiving Miss Meeker's honor tC
be endangered, fired and killed the Indian
Dresser was shot dead ON the instant. The
| other white men rushed for the buildings
and opened with rifles on the Utes, wound
ing several. The Indians then fired the
buildings and shot the men one by one a
! they rushed out. Two Indians We're killed
in the affair. The exact number killed by
l ThOFnburgh's men was %, as they wheeled
and fired during the retreat to the wagons
PAYNE killed seven from his intrenchments
! Merritt's infantry and cavalry killed five
during the skirmish of the morning OF thu
, rescue. This, with two killed at the Agency
and two in Halls affair, makes total OF 80
g or balance of six in favor of the whites who
between soldiers and citizens, have had 3
, men killed up TO the present. Gen. Adams
: says that Plateau Greek, which has sever
branches, running through one of the mos
difficult countries in the world, will be tn,
D stronghold of the Utes in case the war i
e prosecuted. Douglas, of all the chiefs, i
the only one who wishes to return to thu
, Agency. The others all profess desire TO
peace, but do not care about coming back t
4 White River 1" Ute Jack" commanded
Y against Thornburgh, but claims to have haC
! only 100 men. This is presumably lie, in
vented to glOrify himself.
Gen. Adams, in conversation with Gen
Merritt, stated that the Indians, if attacked
4 now, would raid the settlements of Northern
/. | Colorado; ut least they have expressed
a themselves. It is just as we'll for the peOpl
of that section to be warned of this. Tn
Indians also say that Capt. DOdge's com
1 pany was watched by a strong party, bu
they did not know of ThOrnburgh's fight un
til after Dodge joined Payne in the entrench
Y ments. Gen. Adams says the Indians ar
I not very we'll armed, but have plenty of am
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