Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-07-16
INDIAN NEWS.

Tho President Directs General Sheridan to
Go to the Scene Of the Indian Trouble
and Take Charge-Movenaent Of Troops
| The Arizona Fight-A Diss ppointed Del
sgation.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE President
has addressed the following letter to Gem
eral Sheridan: I'm view of possible dis
turbance that may occur among the Indians
now in the Indian Territory and the con-
templated concentration of troops in that
locality, deem it advisable that you pro-
coed at once to the location where trouble
Is to be apprehended and advise with and
direct those in command as to the steps to
be taken to prevent disorder and depreda-
tons Dy the Indians and as to the DISPOSE
ton of the troops. Your acquaintance
with the history and habits and customs of
these Indians leads me to request that you
invite statements on their part as to any
real or fancied injury or injustice toward
them, or any other causes that may have
led to discomfort, and to inform yourself
as to their condition. You are justified in
assuring them that any cause of COM
plant will be fully examined by the au-
thorities, and if any wrongs exist they shall
be remedied. think l hardly need say
that they must be fully assured of the de-
termination on the part of the Government
to enforce their peaceful conduct by all the
power it has at hand to prevent and pun
ish acts of lawlesSness and any outrage
upon our settlers" The Indian troubles,
as looked upon from Washington, are be-
coming more serious. General Sheridan
| left here last night for Fort Reno, /. T.
The General desires to be at the scene of
the conflict A telegram has been sent to
the officer in command, saying that the
outbreak should be suppressed even if the
| Cheyennes should be wiped out of ex-
istence. General Miles is expected to ar
rive in the Indian Territory not later than
the first of next week, and the hope is
expressed that he may be able to quiet
the disturbance without blOodshed. He is
well known to the Indians, and is said to
have considerable influence with them. In
trouble with the Cheyennes some years
ago they surrendered to him voluntarily.
Prior to that it was their custom to refuse
to surrender. The Indian Commissioner
had not received any kilograms from the
the office hours to-day. In answer to an i'll
quiry as to whether it was the intention Of
the Government to disarm the Cheyennes
he finally declined to give any information.
He declared that great harm might be done
by premature publication of intentions of
the Government in such cases as it enabled
the Indians to prepare themselves for resist
ance. Nevertheless it can be stated that
the Interior Department is strongly in favor
of disarming the Cheyennes and that In
spector Armstrong has recommended the
adoption of this precautiOn.
LEAvENwORTH, KAN, July 11.-Adju-
tant General j. p. Martin is in receipt of a
telegram from General SchOfeld at Chicago
stating that he has ordered fifteen cOmpa-
MES of infantry from the department of the
Platte and ten troops of cavalry from the
department of Texas to proceed without de-
lay by rail to CrOssfield, Ham, the present
terminus of the Southern Kansas Railway,
and await instructions. The troops
from the Platte will probably be
drawn from Forts Omaha, ID. A. Rus
sell and Sidney, consisting of the Fourth,
Ninth and Twenty-frst Infantry and the
cavalry from Texas will be the Third and
Eighth. When the troops arrive there will
be fighting force of $500 men, composed
twenty-nine companies of infantry. Gel-
eral Miles will be here in day or two and
at once assume command of all troops in
the field. 1t is the determination of the
department to make quick work of what
ever there is to be done.
TROOPS FROM TEXAS.
SAN ANTONIO, TEX, July 11.-Eight
hundred troops from the various forts in
Texas are to be massed here in the next
three days. They will be forwarded to Kan
sas to meet any emergency that may arise
from the present restless state of the Indians
in the northern portion of the Indian Terri
tory. The objective point of the troops is
Crossheld, Kan. They will be under the
command of Colonel H. F. Bernard. Colonel
Bernard, commanding Fort Mcintosh. re-.
ceived Geographic orders to forward immedi-
ately by rail to Kansas the Eighth Cavalry.
TOMBSTONE, A. T., July 1L-From Sam
uel Brannan, Jr., who arrived yesterday
morning from Sonora, are learned the fol-
lowing facts: The afternoon of July Q,
scouts, under command of Captain Chaffee,
came upon band of Apaches near Qua
sabus, On the Opurto River in Sonora, and
a spirited fight ensued, in which forty Indi-
ans were killed and three bucks and eleven
squaws captured. The loss to Chatfee was
but one soldier and one or two scouts hurt.
The prisoners have been sent to San
Carlos in charge OF sixteen In
dian scouts, and should arrive there
to-day, if nothing happens. The same
day one hundred Indians crossed the
Coonaps Valley and entered the Sonora
Mountains. They killed fifteen head Of
cattle while crossing the valley and took the
carcasses with them into the mountains,
where it is evident they intended to stay.
Chaffee, with his soldiers and scouts and
$50 Mexican volunteers, are in pursuit and
will try hard to eXterminate the entire band.
Brannan got these particulars from OzO
Maria Torres, brother of Colonel Torres,
who had just returned from the scene of the
fight.
WASHINGTON, July 11.-Representative
John T. Heard, of Missouri, arrived yes
terday and will remain long enough to Sec
that some pOst-Offices in his district re.
ceive attention. One of these will be the
Sedalia office. The first change made in
the Medical Boards for Missouri. has
already gone into effect in Mr. Heard's dis
trict, he having secured the appoint
ment OF Democratic physician in
Hickory County. When he presented this
case tie officials told him they we're occu-
pied with something more important.
But" urged Mr.. Heard, there can't be
apything more important to the Democrats
OF Hickory County. They don't know and
don't care who is to be made Minister tn
England, but they do know that they want
a Democratic examiner down that way and
they want him right away" Mr.. Heard
triumphantly carried off the commission,
and when he had gone the officials resumed
the consideration of their more important
business.
A Narrow Escape.
WABASH, md, July 1.-The connecting
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