Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-02
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Wednesday Evening, Apra z, 1879
THE RUNAWAY caEYennGs.

fhets xa9es1n9 On the P~laiss-D~saiSs 81
Their Final Capture.
New York herald Telegram.
Miles City, N. T., March %, ,lS79.-Lit
tie Volts band Of Cb~eyennes, who have for
0ver two months been . terror To eettIevs
between Camp Sheridan and the
Yellowstone valley have At LAST beeu
compelled to surrender. They have trav.
ersed the country from the time oftheir e.
cspe, running ID stock and Killing the lone.
~ travellers on The plains until last Tues
day, when almost starving, and naked aud
hard pressed BY the troops sem out from
Fort Keoeh 10 intercept them. they surren
dered TO Lieut.. w. p. Clarke. second cav.
souri, river 70 Box Elder creek and took
them csptives, securing their arms and $50
head OF ponies.
Two Sioux scouts end one half.breed
were sent out some ten days previous 70
the capture by Clarke from his camp on
Powder river. These scouts, when four
days out ran, Into the Cheyenne village.
numberipg ZONE thirty lodges, aud situated
90 . tributary OF the Little Missouri. eighty
miles from Clarke's camp. They were cop.
,ured and held over night by Little Wolf.
but By hard lying. stating that they had 90
connection With the soldiers aud where on
" out on . hunting trip, they were sreleaked
next morning, whereupon they made al
possible haste back u Clarke, giving him
the Information they had gained at SO much
risk.
They arrived ct half past three O'Clock p.
a., and at half past four O'Clock The same
evening Clarke and his gallant little band
Of eighty men were In the saddle end
away. They travelled all night and next
day, and the ntRht following rested but q
few hours, when The march wss resumed,
and next morning the place where the vii
laxe bed keen located Was reached, but the
releasing the cou and thinking oil WIS
not we'll. had already flown and struck out
toward the head Of Cabin creek, which they
intended following down to the mouth and
there crossing the Yellowstone. that being
the best fording point between here and
Butord.
Clarke however, fOresaw their Intention
anc sent q scout direct To Gen. Whistler, al
Fort KeoRh, stating their probable route
The general Immediately ordered one com
pany from Capt. 6nyders command, a
9lendive, u The objective point, and. sen
from Fort Krogh seventy five men, undel
Lieutenapts U'Brien and Bailey. VII,
marched oil night and struck Cabin creeI
next day at . point thirty miles above it
mouth. thus placing b hostiles between
Two ores.
They no sooner learned ofthis new move
ment than they crossed over to Box Eide
creek.and were rapidly making for the BIZ
Hor0 MOUNTAINS, but were . hOtly pul
sued by Clarke and bis troops that Of th
evening of the 25th they realized that the
had to light or surrender. Knowing Lieu
Clarke from . former time when be va
stationed among them st their sgency, az
that should they show fight at all he wout
never let up while one Of :hem remaine
alive this side Of the line they wisely chos
the latter alternative.
General Whistler, commanding Fol
Keogh, deserves great credit for bis jud
c,ous handling Of the troops during lh,
campaign.
Lieut.. Clarke. hero Of the captuIe, 10 on
of the most dsshing officers of the secon,
cavalry. He 10 brave snd energetic. end i
deserving Of great credit for the .suhjrciiol
OF these Indians. The caplives are expecte.
at KeoRh in . few dsys, when fuller infor
msli0n may he obtained.