The New York herald., 1879-02-11
REBELLIOUS CHEYENNES.
CONTINUED FROM SEVENTH PAGE.l

The agent q bad man. and he did not DO as tue
Great Father had promised
DID Nor COMMIT MURDER
I'VE knew there good agent at Red
Cloud, who gave the Indians what belonged
to them. and gave them farming implements.
We decided to come back. They told ms
we could not come back, but started.
We did not want TO kill the settlers steal their
stock. Some settlers In Kansas were killed
by young and Southern Chcycnnes-
Tho Southern Cheyennes were young bucks
who came part of the way through Kansas
with us. They were bad men. These braves and the
young men Of Little VOLTS band killed many set
tiers The young men and women who could ride
fast were ahead with Little Wolf. They had the best
ponies. Dull Knife and his old warriors were
back with the pack horses and the women and tho
children. We know the young men were hesdstrong
and told them to do harm. The braves who killed
the settlers are still out The Southern Cheyennes
returned to their reservation. Dull Knife did not
know anything about 1t until it done. The
Southern Cheyennes did not want US down there.
They said did not belong there. 1t was poor
country. Tho ground bad the water was
bad, the wood was bad We did not get
anything to eat We did not want to stay there. We
did not think we would be pursued by the soldiers.
We were four days the road before were pur-
sued. They did not say anything to us but rode
among us and fired on us."s
BIO HEADS TALK.
Big Head who is still suffering from bad wound,
and is only able to walk with the assistance of rude
stick. said:-
'I am not Cheyenne in the first place. wanted
+, to come back anyway. l should have come back il
everything had been all right in belong
Cloud and Three Bears band and want to stay
here. 1t bad country and did not suit me.
They did not issue me ration there.
I lived Off the other Indians. They called
mo Sioux; did not issue any
rations. There was nobody killed trail. and
did not see that anybody killed. am Sioux.
and would not hide anything from you. 1t is
Of my work. 1t was nothing TO me. will not hide
anything at all. I two little boys
come to camp; they were themselves Crows and
took them into the lodge and fed them and sent
them away No hurt them. Little Wound. of
the Cut-Ofs. is down there and other Sioux who
were married to Cheyenne women.
DESCRIBES SOUTH.
When the Cheyennes were taken down thought
would 60 down on visit. That is
how I there. thought I could come
back when I wanted to. The southern
Cheyennes had come up visits before, and
thought could up. They treated us well at
Camp Robinson until the last. when they wanted
us to go South. They did not give us
any provisions for five days. nor any
wood or water for two days. Wild Hog
and Grow were taken to lower camp tho day before
the Cheyennes broke out" He made the further
statement that he knew nothing Of the arms. and
this believed to be true, and that the Indians pro-
cured the guns after breaking out. Big Head evaded
Ill questions on this point
STARTED FORT LEAvENwonrH.
Last evening at o'clock the Indians were
placed in passenger coach on the Union Pacific
Railroad standing o switch the guard house
1t was the first time they were ever in
railroad car, they first taken across
the country. As the locomotive came down with its
kissing steam changing bell and brilliant headlight
ssvcval OF the Indians srsrtsd nervously ard the
children screamed. Confusion rcigned for q mo-
ment Their fear changed to as
Constituent and from astonishmcnt to de-
Light. Lieutenant Foote.. with one company
OF the Ninth infantry assumed charge and
will take the Indians to The Fort Leavenworth Mill
tary Prison, where the bucks will be held for trial
The women, it is expected. will be taken to the
Indian Territory. detachment with the In
dians left Sidney the regular train on
Sunday night. reaching here this even
ing. your correspondent accompanying them.
There great excitement and curiosity all along
the line. The surrounded at every stopping
point The interest principally centered on Wild
Hog. Several hundred people gathered at the Omaha
depot, and few leading citizens were allowed
to enter the car. Wild Hog displayed his
selfinficted wounds with pride, and pointed to the
irons his feet and hands proofs of his bravery
Most prominent among his decorations was o large
metal star attached to brass chain, bearing Wild
Hogs name on one side and the other Newark
Industrial Exhibition. 1878. Newark. N. j." This
was presented to Wild Hog on his visit East.
STILL MISSING.
An <ho Il
seven women and children. who supposed to have
been frozen in the bluffs during the escape Inter-
prefer Farnham and Surgeon Pettys insist that Dull
Knife and two of his braves who reported killed
by the Indians. now alive and safe. Red Cloud
Agency officers ere sure that this statement ia un
founded
Twenty-Five Cheyenne women OF Sioux blood and
twentythree children turned over to Red Cloud for
protection left this evening for the South over the
Kansas City Railroad.
4 BODY OF WELL ARMED CEEYENNEs COM
MITTING DEPREDATIoSs-A LARGE TRAIN DIS
COVERED.
OMAHA. Ncb., Feb. 10, 1879.
A despath. received at Department Headquarters
foday from Fort Robinson. states that the Indians
who murdered Moorehead aud threc others on Janu-
ary 90 and Little VOLTS band of Chcyennes. in all
about hundred bucks. well armed with guns and
pistols, and having plenty of ammunition, recently
surrounded wagon train and took all the provisions
but killed no one. They gave of the men Of the
train silver watch they had taken from Moorehead
There squaws children with the party.
Captain Ferris telcgraphs from a camp on Snake
River that he has discovered large TRAIL ten days or
two weeks DID, leading southeast from Broatiman's 3
Fork. There evidently between three hundred
and four hundred head Of stock and many squaws
and children in the party. Captain Ferris will fol-
low the trail until IL terminates.