The Portland daily press., 1881-08-22
THE HOSTILE SAVAGES.

Close Pursuit Of the Marauders by the
Troops.
CHICAGO, Aug. 20.-Telegraph advices
which reach Gen. Whipple at military head
quarters from the scene of the Indian troubles
in New Mexico are considerably mixed, owing
to the bad condition of the wires. Following
is dispatch by courier and telegraph from
Col. Hatch, dated at Fort Craig, August 10:
Capt. Cooney, with a company of cavalry,
is securing the southern portion of the Magda.
lene mountains. Taylor took the trail of
Nana's party yesterday, who have their
wounded with them. He will probably be on
the hostiles to day. Guilfoyle and Wright
iona in sline nearly on the Gath parallel.
Hughes, with company, is on the trail about
Tulerosa. All the cavalry is scouting active
ly and the rain continues in the mountains in
torrents. The Rio Grande is very high.
A second dispatch of the same date is as fol-
lows:
Lieut. Valois, in command of Company L,
reports that he struck a band of Indians yes
terday near Cuchillo Negro who had attacked
a party of Mexicans. He thinks that the In
dams are about fifty strong, and that they
are the kostiles who have come up from Mexi-
co on the west side of the Mimbres mountains
and crossed over the lrange east. Lieut.. Bur-
nett was wounded, as were two men. Six
horses were killed in charges on the Indians,
| have ordered every available man from Sell
road, and leave myself at once.
tSigned) HATCH, Colonel.
Gen. Pope at Fort Garland, COL, tele-
graphs further information received from Col.
Hatch. He says that two companies with
cavalry (which should have been with Col.
Hatch have been detained for the last ten
days in an extensive washout south of them,
but they are now en- route by wagon road.
The last two companies and the company
near Lewis have been ordered to join the 9th
ers without delay. With these four COM
panies Col. Hatch will have his whole regi-
ment of II companies, the whole of the Fiji.
teenth Infantry and two companies of Indian
scouts in the section where the raiding Indi.
ans are. This force is ten times as large as the
largest estimate of the Indians, and should be
Hatch is personally in command in that sec.
ton. The Uncompahgre Utes are 10 move
tomorrow to their new agency, but as they
are unwilling to go, it cannot yet be told
whether they will go quietly or not. If they
are peaceful, Gen. Pope will send Col. Mac
kenzie with six companies of the Fourth Cav
airy to New Mexico at once if it should be
necessary. The heavy and constant rains
throughout New Mexico have done great
damage to the railroads and they cannot be
relied upon.
The Situation at the White River Ute
Agency.
RAwLNs, w. T., Aug. 2O.-Companies A
ane ~ oiAeh Aniah1iy, OdpbdiuS DduSor duo
Baker commanding, arrived here to-day from
the White River Ute Agency and left for Fort
Douglass. Salt Lake City, and Fort Hall
Idaho. They report everything quiet at the
agency, the majority of the Indians being alb
sent at the tim of their departare. The Indi
ans generally express their willingness to 60 tt
the new lands selected for them at the juno
ton of the Green and White rivers by the Ut:
Indian commission. Colorow, a notoriously
bad chief. who took prominent part at the
Milk River massacre two years ago, is openly
defiant in his opposition to new agency, and
is followed in his disaffection by number O.
lodges.
A Mining superintendent Killed.
New YORK, Aug. 21.-Despatches received
to-day by Col. Roberts and other gentlemen
interested in mining in New Mexico dated
Nutta Station, Aug. 49, reports the killing Of
George DAILY, general mining manager, by
the Indians whom he was pursuing with a
company of soldiers and citizens. Manage
DAILY was printer and editor on the Territori
al Enterprise in Virginia City some years ago