The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-10-31
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INFORMATION from the Indian coun-
try Is that on the 18th, Afty.si1 lodges Of
Ainnsconjou Sioux, under Chief Burnt
Face, left the Cheyenne agency and started
out on the war path. Two companies OF the
Eleventh infantry are In pursuit
The commissioner Of Indian affairs on
the Esd received q dispatch from Agent
McGillicuddy, at Red Cloud agency, saying
that twenty Of Sitting Bulls Indians were
just In with pass from Maj. Walsh, British
othcer at the nearest post across the border).
Many will come when the Missouri freezes.
Commissioner Hoyt instructed the agent to
require Sitting BulPs Indians to surrender
their arms and ponies, place them by them
selves under the surveillance OF police, and
feed them. The Indians are to be held a.
prisoners OF war.
A MAN who arrived at Park City,
Utah, on the 22d, reported that the Uintah
Utes and Snakes were on the war path, with
about 800 warriors. Settlers on the Ashley
fork were collecting together and building
. fort. On the day following man arrived
from Green River station, Union Pacific
railroad, AM reported that the Uintah Utes
killed some settlers on the Ashley fork.
The following dispatch was received
at Rawlins, Wyoming, dated Camp on
White river, three miles north Of the
agency, October q: "Lieut. VIM. B. Weir,
ordinance officer, while out hunting was
eighteen miles south OF here. All the
available cavalry have started on the trail.
A soldier OF hunting party is also miss.
ing"
The extension of the st. Louis and
San Francisco railroad to Chsrryvals, Kan.
sas, was completed and formally opened for
traffic on the 2lst.
LATE advices from Alaska state that
the Indians in the Chilcat county have had
serious fighting among themselves. The
provisional government started In August
has ceased to exist, the officials finding it
impossible to carry 1t on, owing to the
want OF legal authority. The miners are
favorable to starting another form OF gov.
eminent.
In the fight with the Apaches in New
Mexico, on the 18th, a Mesilla and Las
Cruces company, Numbering so, was massa.
cred by one hundred Indians, only one man
(Hicks) escaping.
ABOUT fifteen hundred miners in the
RellevIlle, ILL.,, coal district have struck for
sn advance OF three cents per bushel.
E. L. Mansfield telegraphs the com.
missioner OF Indian slairs from Rawlins
that he was in the employ Of the late Indian
Agent Meeker from August, 1878, aud that
he escaped the fate Of his employer by
being sent with dispatch to Capt. Dodge
on the 26th ult
OFFICIAL returns OF the California
election show that the vote on Chinese i'm.
migration was: 10 favor, S83; against 1914.
63S.
On the 10th General Sheridan tele.
graphei Gen. Sherman the situation at
White River agency, stating that troops
there are In danger OF being caught by the
winter SHOWS. The Indians had escaped
and the prospect for the imm sdiate capture
OF the depredators was rather slim. Gen.
Sherman Immediately ordered the troops
back to their respective stations in the de.
pariment leaving q sufficient number to
guard the government property at White
River. A force will be concentrated in the
southern Ute reservation.