Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-23
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. CHIBF VICTORIA SLAIN. DrVien to Close Quarters by Mexican
 Troops. SHOT DOWN AT SUNRISE. A Large Number of His Fol-
 lowers Destroyed. A DEMOCRATIC MARES NEST. A Little Mistake of Chair
 man BarnIlnl.
A DEMOCRATIC MARES NEST.
THE INDIANS.

Chief Victoria SIain-The Scourge of the
 Mexican Border Removed.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-The following tele- gram confirming the killing of Victoria anda number of his band and the capture of the remainder by the Mexican troops was received at the War office to-day. The death of this warlike chief relieves the Mexican frontier of the only hostile band of Indians in that sec ton, and the troops that have so long been on his trail can now be concentrated for eff fective work against the Utes in case there is any necessity for it.
 To the Adjutant General of the Army Washington comes through Colonel Buell at Fl Paso Colonel Hatch at Santa Fe and General Pope at Fort Leaven correct On the night of the 10th Colonel Buell. re- cefved information from Colonel Terrases that fur ther advance of his command into Mexico would be objectionabie hence his withdrawal from the trail
 (signedA P. H. SHERIDAN,
 Lieutenant General
 PAso DEL NoRTE, Oct. 19 To General Buell. Fl Paso:
 At this moment received letter from my brother from Carrisal, in which he says the following: l have the pleasure to communicate to the General that we have to-day received the very good news that of Victoria and his party and have learned from the young scout who arrived here with picket force to escort some wagons which were sent from here with provisions for the troops that the affair occurred follows afternoon met the Indians. The attack was ordered at once, but notwithstanding the immediate execution of this order the Indians took positions two hills called Los Costilleos" Colonel Terrases surrounded them at and finally the Indians had to retire to hill in the night The troops took their positions and at sunrise opened firing, which they kept up until o'clock a. when everything finished, leaving Victoria with fifty grown Indians and eighteen wo- men and children dead. Moreover, seventy and children taken prisoners and 250 ami mals recovered give you this news with pleasure, and remain yours truly, MARIANA SAMINGo.
 
 A Bloody Fight With Utes-Two of the
 Savages Wiped Out.
 LEADv1LLE Col, Oct. 22.-William Camp bell arrived in this city last night post haste from Jacks Cabin, eight miles from the Ute reser vation, and reports that bloody battle occurred between company of volunteer ran gers from the Gunnison district, commanded by noted Indian fighter named Jack Harri- son. and band of Utes, some fifty in mum Der, in which several Indians were killed and wounded. The fight opened about midnight by the Indians approaching the camp where the whites, thirty-fve in number, were spend ing the night. It was kept up two or three hours the white men firing at the flash of the Indian rifles. The Utes retired with at least two killed and several wounded. Only one of the whites was hurt, he receiving a slight wound in the forehead caused by Ute's rife ball rebounding from the surface of the rock behind which he lay concealed The tribe of Indians fled for two miles straight back to the reservation and then di- gressed in a contrary course beyond it's boundaries.