The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-16
A BIG SCARE.

The Reported Indian Raid Nothing Bat .
Sesre-The Border to be Protected by
Troops
FoRr LEAvENwoRTH, KAN, July g.
About noon yesterday General Augur re-
eeiyed dispatch from Governor Martin, OF
Kansas, as follows: THE Adjutant Gen
eral sends me word from Larned that he
doubts the reports of the Indian raid. he
says the citizens in the southwestern coun-
ties have lust learned of the threatening
position Of the Indians and that their fears
have been intensified by the reported killing
of three or four persons at Fargo Springs by
Indians, which report has been industriously
circulated by cowboys and cattlemen for
the purpose of driving out actual settlers,
who interfere with their range privileges.
Colonel Campbell says that the men he
talked with all say that the trouble is more
with the cowboys than with the Indians.
The telegraph operators at Attica and
Harper report that no news of an Indian
invasion has reached those points. The
lines to Kingman are down and L
can get no news this morning from there
Whether the reports are true or not
however, troops should be forwarded
to the southwest rs soon as possible. l
earnestly request that cavalry forces be
stationed along convenient points along the
south line of COmanche, Clarke and Mead
Counties. This seems TO me necessary not
only 10 protect our borders but to restore
confidence among the settlers and keep the
cowboys as well as the Indians in order, so
that the depOpulatiOn of the southwest
counties through terror should be prevented,
by the adoption of prompt action to restore
confidence. Upon the request Of Governor
Martin four troops of cavalry left Fort
Leavenwortha at two o'clock in the afternoon
for Kingman. The command is III charge
of Major George b. Sanford, First Cavalry,
and the troops are Offered as follows: b,
Third Cavalry, Captain J. B. Johnson, First
Lieutenant j. o. Mackay and Second Lieu
tenant Robbins, fifty-One men; l., Fourth
Cavalry, Captain Whit and Lieutenant
Fuller, Second Cavalry, fifty men; NJ, Sixth
Cavalry, Captain Rafferty,, forty-six
men; 1, First Cavalry, Captain c. C
Carr fifty men; Acting Assistant Surgeon
Barbour, medical officer; Lieutenant Camp
bell, Eighteenth Infantry, Qusrtermaster;
nine SiX-mule teams and one spring wagon
and ten days ratiOns for the men and ten of
forage for the animals are carried along.
The train arrived at Atchson at three
o'clock and made the run to Topeka in two
and one half hours. Colonel Sanford'S in
structions are to 90 to Kingman and there
learn the cause of the trouble reported. He
is to act upon his own judgment and report
to headquarters. Official dispatches TO the
department headquarters from Fort Reno
reports everything quiet at that post. There
has not been a Cheyenne in Kansas.
RODE THROUGH PRATT AND KINGMAN.
WICHITA, KAN, July 9.-The Eagles
special from Kingman last evening says that
a reliable party who was sent out last night
had Just returned. He had ridden over the
entire southern and western portions of
Pratt and Kingman Counties and reports
no Indians and nobody hurt. The farther
he went the farther away the Indians were
reported. The usual number of Cheyenne
and Arapahoe Indians were hanging about
Medicine Lodge and other smaller towns
trading. Some of these small bands had
no doubt been seen crossing the praEies
which gave rise to the scare of yesterday.
A special from Reno says that the situation
there is unchanged and that many of the
head men say they are willing TO await the
action or report of the commits
sioners sent from Washington. About
six or seven hundred young
bucks say, however, that they will fight if
their arms are demanded. These yong
Cheyennes have been canvassing among
the ArapahOeS and COmanches for as
sistance. They admit that the accidental
killing of the young brave in the late sham
battle was bad medicine Their medicine
men are working like beavers to keep up
the war spirit.