The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-10-30


|. Sheridan-The Troops Under Gen.
Further Pursuit Of the Utes-The
Recent Outrages I'm New Mexico.
WASHINGTON, October 49, Y
The following dispatch is published
here to-day.
ITO General Sherman: - =,
os, General Merritt says, in a dispatch just re-
fSe St that he intends to march in pursuit Of
18th, and from there to the Uncompahgne
Agency, where he requests supplies to be
WAS sen or1s GsS Of se 1s
5i% Your dispatch s's saosld sn's h w1
ritt and General Crook, the g Delsrtn %sn
what to d. and so am L. rher os are f fas%
River. Their road to the Uncompahgne
Agency is over the main range of the Rocky
Mountains, and is very bad, and the danger of
ously entertained. We went to the White
River Agency at the solicitation of the Indian
Bureau, whose agent, was murdered, and
| we are left in the heart of the mountains
with our hands tied and the danger
of being showed in staring us in the face: I
though we had been pretty badly sold out in
| this business It is folly to say that the muir
de1ers % Of the Agent and Major: Lhcrnburg
ishedY Who Is going to punish them, and how
| long are the troops to wait at the Agency for
it to be done? will direct Crook to throw in
| to the agency all the supplies be possibly can
Up. H. SHERIDAN, Lieutenant General
Since the receipt of the above dis
patch from General Sheridan he has
been directed by General Sherman to
withdraw the troops under General
Merritt, and order them to their proper
stations, leaving at White River Agen-
cy only a sufficient number of men to
guard the Government property.
The troops now at White River Agen-
cy belong to the Department of the
Platte, and will, under this order, with
the exception of those left at the Agen-
cy, return to their respective stations in
that department. A force will be con-
centrated at some point in the Southern
Ute Reservation to conduct operations
against that tribe should they fail to de-
liver up the parties engaged in the kill
ing of Major Thornburgh. General
Mckenzie, commanding the Fourth Cav
airy, will probably be placed in charge
of the latter force.
GALVESTON, October IS.
The Ne,us' special from Messilla, N.
NJ, says it is stated that at Mescalero
the Apaches were forced to leave the
reservation near Fort Stanton by the
action of the agent at that place. The
Indians have expressed wish that the
soldiers might leave there, so they could
kill the agent.
Following is an account of the Indian
outrages to date:
September 5.-Victoria, at the head
of large band, killed seven soldiers
and captured sixty horses of Captain
Hooker at Ola Calient. September II.
I-Massacred a dozen men, mutilated
the bodies, captured the women, Drained
the children, seventeen altogether, be-
tween McEvers rancho and Hillsboro,
part of the killed being band Of
frontiersmen under Captain Yankie.
On the 18th, Governor Wallace asked
the War Department for arms and au-
thOrity to raise men to fight. The Sec
rotary of War answered that the De-
partment was uniformed of the nature
of the outbreak or the number Of the
hostiles. ~t,eaga 81.
Lieutenant Wright, of the Ninth
| =
some volunteers and Navajo scouts,
had resultless skirmish with the In
dams. Captain Boyer took command
later, and was repulsed, the Indians
capturing most of the, horses, pack
train and eight thousand rounds of am
munition.
A month later Major Morrow takes
command with 300 men; fights Victo-
ria, kills one squaw and captures one.
Two soldiers killed and several wounded.
October 12-News is received of the
destruction of McEvers' and Lloyd's
ranches; both killed. Seventeen vol
unteers left Messilla to succOr other
ranchers.
October 13.-Are attacked by Victo-
ria's band; slowly retreat, losing seven
killed. The Indians pursued them two
hours, dashing on the volunteers before
retiring, but were repulsed, and Chief
Victoria wounded. Eight miles from
Mason's eleven bodies were found and
buried. Women have been taken pris-
stroyed. At Lloyds ranch the body of
Alexander Morton, of St. Louis, was
found and buried. All the cattle were
killed and the implements of the houses
destroyed. 81
From Lloyd's the volunteers went to
succor+ Colorado and Santa Barbara,
small towns which were surrounded by
Indians, who dared the inhabitants out
to fight. Nine men were killed by the
Indians, who surrounded the towns.
Only thirty rifles in the place. The
volunteers dispersed the Indians and
raised the siege. The Indians have
gone to the Florida Mountains, thirty
miles south Of Fort Cummings, whence
they can easily 60 into Mexico. Ma
jor Morrow, near Jonas, fifty miles
from here, has sent for thirty days
provisions. Most of the warriors from
the Mescalero Agency joined the hos
tiles.
When the present Pope was Car
dinal he cherished the idea of publishing
| a Catholic journal that should be an
organ for his church, and that could be