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Your L.AvrSwoGrN. KAS- July A.
Abous noon yesterday General AuSuf -
eelved Q dispatch srom Csovesncs Aaran Of
Hsusaa a. fellows: The Aajutans tsea'
sr,l sends - word from lAmcd hal b
doubss Tie reports Of In Indian rA:a lie
says the eisiseus In As southwestern econ
ties have lust learned Of the thresseoins
position Of the Indians and thai their fears
have been intensified by the reported kt'ins
OF three or four persons ~ Fargo Springs ~
Indians. which report has been indassr'ocsls
circulated by cowboys and eass:crnen los
the purpose % driving cut actual settlers
who interfere with their range privileges
Colonel Campbell says tha, The men he
taxed with al say taaf The trouble h note
With the cowtoys thAn with ,:~ sdians
The telegraph operators - A'tica AMI
Harper report thai no news Of an Indian
Invasion has reached those r~osats Tie
lines a. Kingraan are down and !
can get no news this morning from there
Whether the reports arc true or not
however. troops should Dc forwarded
10 IN, southwest - scoa NJ possible. 1
earnestly r-lg-s; that cavalry fosrSs -
stationed along convenient points along 'hc
south line cf Comanchc. Clarke and Mead
Counties This seems 20 ne Necessary nj
oals 20 protsc. our borders ous Ia rrsiofr
confidence among the settlers and Keep TIC
COWBOYS ~ well ne the Indians In ordsr, 81
tina, tie d~epopniation Of The southwest
counties through terror should - prevented.
by the adoption Of prompt artson to rnsi"re
confidence. Cpcn the request Of Governor
Martin four Troops Of cavalry left fugt
I-ayen~orth ne two O'Clock .n the sft~rDsoa
FOR kinsInsn. The command II Ia charge
Of Major ,.sorge II. Sanford. Flrs, Casairy,
and the troops are o~rsocrcsi as fellows: II.
Th.rd Cavalry. Captain j. II. johnson. Flint
Lieutenant }. y. Msrksy and S~Saoi Lieu
tenant Robbins, hfty-one men; l. Fourth
Cavalry. Captain Whit and Lieutenant,
Fuller. Scoond Cavalry. hf'y men, NJ. siSth
Cavalry. Captain Rafferty,. fcgts sin
men; 1. FIRST Cavalry. Captain &. 4
Carr, fifty men, Acting Assistant surxron
Barbour. medical ofhcrr; Lieutenant Camp
bell. Eighteenth Infantry Qu.rsrniastsr;
I4tue ~ ir3us aHI ~ NbfNAe
and tern Jsys rst.oBs FOR the men and ten OF
forage for the animals arr carried along.
The trn,a arrived at Atrhison .; tat~c
O'Clock AMI made the run Ia Topeka ia two
and one half hours. Colonel Sanford's Ia
s;ructions are ,o 90 o. kingman and there
learn the csus. of the tronals reported. lie
Is 10 act upon his own Judgment ami report
TO headquarters. oficial dispatches u Me
department. headquarters from For; Rene
reports, even thing quiet NJ that post There
has not t-~n a Cheyenne la Kansas.
RODE AND kiSo9AS.
WICHITA. KAN. july a-Ihr E.,gI6's
special from kingmsn last evening says tina,
a reliable party Who was sent out las. nag III
had Just -iuDsd He had iddra over The
entire southern and western Portions 81
Pratt and kinxman Counties and reports
no Indians aud nobcdy hurt TIL farther
he yent tn. farther away Tho Indians were
III. usual number 81 Cheyenne
and ArspAhoc Indians were hanging about
Lodge and other smaller towns
trading. Some of these small bands had
doubt BEEN seen crossing the pfasies
which gave rise 10 the scare 81 yesterday.
\ special from Reno SAYS that The sitastion
there Is unchanged ard that many Of the
head mel say the, arc willing "a await the
action or report OF the commits
sloners sent from Washington. Abou,
six or seven hund,ed yoanS
bucks say. however. that they will hght "
their arms are demanded. These yong
have been canyassins aiaoug
the A~rapahoes and Comanch-s ks a.
s~is;ance. They admit, that the Sncidentsi
killing Of the Young brave in the late sham
was bad mesilriu-. Th.lr u.@silcin<
men are working Ike beavers 10 keep W
the war spirit.