The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-08-07
The Indian Troubles.

A dispatch from st. Paul, received
at General Sheridan's Headquarters
yesterday, confirmed the reports of
yesterdays papers in regard to the en-
gagement between General Miles COM
mand and the Indians on the 18th of
July. On that day the advance column
under Lieutenant Clark, of the Second
Cavalry, composed of Lieutenant Bar
den's company, Fifth Infantry, Lieuten-
ant Hopkins company, Second Caval-
ry, and fifty Indian scouts, met a party
of about four hundred hostile Indians
between Beaver Greek and the mouth
OF Frenchman's Greek, and had
an engagement. The Indians were
routed and pursued twelve miles to the
north. where the troops became
separated. The Indians crossed to
the north Of Milk River. The troops
fought well, and the Indians with
them, Cheyennes, Sioux, Crows, ASSN
iboines and Bannocks, acted we'll.
fighting with the troops and killing
several hostiles, and forced them to
abandon much property. Two men of
Company c and two Cheyenne scouts
were wounded. A scouting party that
had been sent to the north of Milk
River, near the head of Porcupine
Creek, reported that the main camp of
Sitting Bull, composed of LOGO lodges,
had removed from Frenchman's River
to the Little Rocky, and the report
was corroborated by others who had
been in the hostile camp as late as
June 16, at the former place. Miles
expected to move up between French
mans and the Little Rocky, where he
anticipated another engagement with
the Indians.
The commanding officer at Custer
telegraphs that Lieutenant Lapoint, of
the Second Cavalry, at Terry's Land
ing, reports that VOLTS band of Crows
was at the landing, with information
that three hundred lodges of Sioux
were south of the Missouri, on the way
to the Tongue River to make friends
with the whites.
Dispatches received at Sheridan's
headquarters report that Major Ilges,
commanding at the mouth of the Mus
Gle Shell, says that ten Sioux, with
thirty stolen horses from the Judith,
crossed the Missouri, June 10, eleven
miles above his station. Lieutenant
Vanarsdale. commanding the Seventh
Infantry, with eight men, followed and
caught up with five of the Indians and
killed one and drove the others into
the bad lands"
General Sheridan expressed an opin-
ion yesterday that the trouble between
General Miles and Sitting Bulls band
was 1T an end. He says it was only a
hunting party met and routed by Miles
troops, and they probably returned to
Sitting Bulls camp, which is in British
America, that night, as they were but
thirty miles from the line when they
met the troops. As to their returning,
he thinks it will not be until Miles hiss
left that part of the country, for it is
al. humbug to talk about so many thou
sand Indians belonging to Sitting Bulls
command. The 1900 lodges there
number all the Indians, including those
who went from Minnesota in 1868, and
they are peaceful and will remain SO
until disturbed in their homes, which
will never be by the United States sol.
dicrs. The hostile Indians did not
number more than 700 or 500 warriors,
and Miles had about 1000 men with
him. Three thousand lodges of tho
Indians who had been in that country
had already gone south of the Tongue
RIVER, to make friends with the whites.
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