Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-10
THE UTE wAa.
Farther R.ssss liss 3 .A,: :a.l,,r d fc.p..
Payne's Command.

la fayne's Command.
Chicago. Oct ga dispatch from Gen.
Merritt, Oct. 8. on Milk river, was forward.
led to Gen; Sheridan tostght 1t san ssVe
This morning. W. found he command
much as reported In original dispatches.
The casualties were twelve killed and forty.
tbree wounded. All the 4animsls 81 the
command we're killed except twelve mules
and three horses Of the four companies Of
cavslry. Capt. Dodge. with his company
arrived the sinBt. into Capt. Payue's en-.
treDchnieuis, butall bis -hofes were killed
bv the enemy Too much praise cannot be
given this gallant officer and bis command
tor the very pr"isesOrthy Act 10 the sruju.
foscement. of P.Aae Words an st6 He-
scfi6e ths ssce6ays ,heswSim,y tok slhis
wretched entrenchment Over 800 dead
animals are y tng outside the breast works.
the stencil from which IL something horri-
BILE. The wounded are doing we'll. Capt,
Payne aod Lieutenant Paddock are both
improving. cannot give too much credit
to my gallant officers aud men for their sd.
mlraole conducs during the march. in
something like forty-efght hours nv com.
mand has msrched about 10 miles over 4
miserable dusty road, the worst ever tray.
|eled. -: 1859 s-''---- ,--.17
The rest of tie dispatch q ipsoted ia
praise 'of hts subordinates, whom he com
mends 10 the warmest manner, mentioning
especially Lieuts Swift,x Bishop, Burke
Schuyler and Weir and Cola. Compton and
Sumner. 1t will be observed he saws moth.
|!ng OF the Aght which he iS rsporteaf Ia
have had With the Indians en- route. and
that report may therefore be set down a.
fiction. H1Gg 4 S
MERk1Tr's MARCH.
Rawlines, Wy. r.. Oct S.-Lieu.. Almy
aaJu'ant ot Gen. Merritt's commsud, give,
q very interesting account sfthe msrch o
he says. We marched coptinuousl liz. Sat
urday n'ght, not halting for single mo
ment. maki1g seventy ntlesin 'tventy.lou
hours"
1t will be remembered that the command
left here At 1880 q. NJ. They marched for
" miles that day; the second day the,
marched fifty miles. The men endured m
march apleudidly. They realized that a fe,
OF their comrades in arms we're surroupde,
and that their safety depended upon. Nh
quick movement:Sf lheis COZ % and. snonee
4uently there wSs no comp.siits gsevers
horses were go worn out that they had to b
abandoned and died on the roadside. Tn
command arrived sat The scene of action !.
$50 a. m. Sunday, October 5, after marchin
seventy miles the day previous. Whe'
Merritts advance guard reached Payne'
pickets they we're commanded by the picket
to halt, and IN order to inform Capt. Pawn
that 1t was the relief column that was an
pro aching he caused his trumpeter to soun,
officers call. Capt. Dodge's company Of in
ninth cavalry was there when Merritt ar
rived. He arrived on Thursday and ha,
10 cut his way in. In the engagement Ii
lost th'rty-three ont Of his lhirty-five horse,
Drs. Grimes and Kimball went to work ca,
ing for the wounded Immediately upon ,hei
arrival at the command. Merits marc
| was great military success. Mai. Thorr
burgh's body has been recovered.
About eighty head Of hor.es belonging I
Geo. Braggs were taken out of their corrs
on Snake river and driven off on the niuh
Of October 6. 1t is thought TO be the vor
Of white men, ~ no Indians have been aee
in the neighborhood.
Gen. Crook has established his headouar
ters at Fort Steele.
NEWS FROM LOS PINos.
Los Pipos Agency. Col Oct. 5-Au II
dian ruaner. through 10 eighteen hour
from White river. arrived at midnight an
reports to Chief Oursy that the troops AZ
still fighting, strongly en,renched ssd ab1
to hold their position until reinforcement,
arrive. Chief Douglas sends word I
Oursy that oil the woman and children al
safe ct his house. He has turned the MOI
ey and papers over to the agents wife. 40
says that Quray need have no fears fro,
the White river Utes. The 6ght is an
fair Of their Own. lndians report that Jack
band. known ss the Denver rndians. are d.
Ing the fighting. Two indians entere
the office, seized the agent, through him Q
the door and shot him through the bea,
The agency and troops were attacked sin