Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-07-25
THE CHEYENNE TROUBLE,
The Troops Now Give the Kansas Border
Full Protection.

Full Protection.
A dispatch from Crossfield, Kansas, says:
There are now 1900 soldiers in camp here.
One troop is out scouting toward the
Cimraron river. Companies Fl I'm the camp
in Kiowa, fifteen miles to thssouthwest, are
scouting from there over to join the scout
ing lines, with companies A, E, # and N
of the Eighth cavalry under Major Compton.
From the camp sixty miles west of Us, and
about seventy-6ve miles northwest of camp
Supply; about 100 miles nearly due south
of us, on their own reservation, comprising
about 1000 miles square and on that
which Is known as the old Canton
ment, which is the well known In
dian camping ground, about seven miles
west and slightly south of Fort Reno, are
most of the Cheyenne warriors with the
chief who will not come into Fort Reno for
q pow-wow. The reason given by the In
dams is that the young bucks, having had
insufficient rations, are out hunting for
game. They will come and pOw-wow with
Gems. Miles and Sheridan as soon as the
bucks return: till then the soldiers nust
have patience. Meanwhile the news ar
rived at headquarters that the Indians are
insincere; they slip out to hunt, we'll
mounted and finely armed; they come
home with poor guns and only few poor
ponies. They are securely hiding their
arms, ammunition and ponies west of their
reservation. They have below 1 500 bucks.
The arms they secrete are principally Win
chester rides.
A later special from Fort Reno says that
the dissatisE ed Indians were given an op-
portunity to talk with Gen. Sheridan. The
conference was confidential and private,
but it was learned from the Indians that
the elements represented in the talk were
the Stone Calf and Little Robe outfits, that
have been creating 30 much trouble out in
the western part Of the reservation. Since
Cantonment was abandoned a. . military
post these two bands have been making
headquarters at TT. Supply instead of the
agency. They assured Gen. Sheridan that
visitor direct fsom Washington, and that
the talk about the Cheyennes wanting to
fight was all lie. On the contrary, they
were now and. always had been entirsly
peaceable; that they had some cause Of
complaint, that they did not like their
agent, and that they were opposed to the
grass lease; on this account they would
like large portion Of the reservation set
off especially for their own use, 50 they
could have their own agent and lease their
grass to their own friende. The foregoing
Is the substance oftheir talk.
The dispatch says further that Powder
face, the Arapahoe chief, was present, and
made speech, in which he told Sheridan
that for many years his people had never
fought the whites, and that he (5heridan)
well K new that the Arapahoes had refused
to join the Cheyennes in their last
war and that in the present
trouble the Arapahoes had stood
by the whites; that thus having been
friendly for so many years, he thought that
the Arapahoes' statements should have as
much weight as the turbulent Cheyennes
present, who were always making trouble.
That the Cheyennes who talked against the
grass leases we're only very small num-
Der of the tribes and that q large majority
Of the Cheyennes and all the Arapshoes
were strongly in favor of grass leases; that
the money had been promptly paid them
for the use of that which would otherwise
have rotted or burned up; that the lease
men had always acted honorable, kept their
promises, and that he. Powder Facs) want
ID the government to dir
tinctly understand that with
the exception of the few who had asked the
he full term, ten years, t, which they had
Been made. Sheridan is very willing to
allow tie Indians to amuse themselves
;alking until such time O. he can make
Juitable disposition Of his troops, when he
will talk.
General Sheridan has organized an Indian
,olice force, composed Of one hundred
young Cheyennes. It IL said that the gen.
nal, In his report, viii attribute the dis
satisfaction among the Indians chiefly to
he cattle diseases.