Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-22
THE INDIANS.

Hostile 1ndians-Reports From Colonel
 Hatch, Lieutenant VnIofs and General
 Pope.
 CHICAGO, Aug. 21.-The telegraph advicss which reach General Whipple, at military headquarters, from. the scene of the Indian troubles in New Mexico, are considerably mixed, owing to the bad condition of the wires.
 The following is dispatch by courier and telegraph from Colonel Hatch dated at Fort Craig August 16:
 Captain Cooney with company of cavalry is securing the southern portion of the Magdalene Mountains. Taylor took the trail of Nana's party yesterday, who have their @ wounded with them He and Wright were on large trail going west toward Hughes with 2 company is on a trail about TuIarosa All the cavalry is scouting actively and the rain tinues in the mountains in torrents The Rio is very high.
 A second dispatch of the same date is as follows:
 ports that he struck band of Indians yesterday Cuchilla Negra, who had attacked party of tive ty Mexieans. He thinks that the Indians are about fifty strong and that they the hostles who have come up from Mexico, on the west side of the M1mbres Mountains, and crossed over the range east. euen- mt Burnett was wounded, as were two men, Six horses were killed in the charge the Indians. I have ordered every available man from Selden, Bliss and from Fort Marcy am anxious about the railroads, and leave myself at once. HATCH, Colonel General Pope, at Fort Garland Col, tele- graphs further information received from Colonel Hatch. He says that two companies, with calvary, which should have been with Colonel Hatch, have been detained for the last ten days by an extensive washout south of them, but they are now en route by wagon road. The last two companies and the com pany near Lewis have been ordered to join l the others without delay. With those four
 companies Colonel Hatch will have his whole regiment of twelve companies, the whole of the Fifteenth infantry and two companies of Indian scouts in the section where the raiding Indians are. This force is ten I times as large as the largest estimate of the Indians and should be and is sufi- cient, as General Pope says. General Hatch | is personally in command in that section The Uncompahgre Utes are to move to-mor- row to their new agency, but, as they are un- willing to go, it cannot yet be told whether | they will go quietly or not. If they are
 peaceful General Pope will send Colonel 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.
 A dispatch from Rawhns, w. IT., dated | Aug 19, says:
 Companies and B, Sixth infantry, Captains
 Badger and Baker commanding, arrived here today | from the White River Ute Agency and left on the
 Union Pacific for Fort Douglas, Salt Lake City and
 Fort Hall, Idaho. They report everything quiet at
 the agency the majority of the Indians being absent st the time of their departure. The Indians gen
 eraliy express their willingness to go to the new
 lands selected them at the junction of the Green
 and White rivers by the Ute Indian commission Colo
 row. notorious 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 dsaection by number of lodges