The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-16
INDIAN NEWS.

The ArisOns Fight-A Dis. ppointed Del
eeatioa.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE President
has addressed the following letter to Cen
eral Sheridan: I'm view of possible dis
turbaDce 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 by the Indians and as to the disposi-
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. l 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 il the
Cheyennes should be wiped out of eX-
istence General Miles is expected to ar
rive in tae 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
a trouble with the Cheyennes some years
| ago they surrendered to him voluntarily.
/ Prior to that IL was their custom to refuse
| to surrender. The Indian Commissioner
/ had not received any kilograms from the
scene of the disturbance up to the close of
! the office hours to-day. In answer TO an in
| 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 Chsyennes and that In
spector Armstrong has recommended the
adoption of this precaution.
| LEAvENwORTH, KAN, July 11.-Adju-
tant General j. =. Martin is in receipt of a
telegram from General SchOfield 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 CrOssheld Kan, the present
| terminus of the Southern Kansas Railway,
and await instructions. The troops
| from the Platte will probably be
drawn from Forts Omaha, d. 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
of twenty-eght troops of cavalry and
! twenty-nine companies of infantry Gen
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, TN, 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
,EolI rInv- ,,-fn he dor he,
command of Colonel Il. F. Bernard. Colonel
Bernard, commanding Fort Mcintosh, re-
ceived telegaphic orders to forward immedi-
ately by rail to Kansas the Eighth Cavalry
TOMBSTONE, A. T., July 11.-From Sam
uel Brannan, Jr., who arrived yesterday
morning from Sonora. are learned the fol-
lowing facts: The afternoon of July 2,
scouts, under command of Captain Chatfee,
came upon a band Of Apaches near Qua
sabus, on the Opurto River in Sonora, and
a spirited fight ensued, in which forty Ind1-
ans were killed and three bucks and eleven
squawS captured. The loss to Chaftee 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 lust returned from the scene OF the
fight
WASHINGTON, July 11.-Representative
John It. Heard, of Missouri, arrived yes
terday and will remain long enough to see
that some post-ofhces in his district re.
ceiye attention. One of these will be the
SedaIia Office The first change made in
the Medical Boards for Missouri, has
already gone into effect in Mr.. Heards dis
trict he having secured the appoint
ment of a 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
anything more important to the Democrats
o. Hickory County. They don't know and
don't care who is to be made Minister to
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 ND, July 1.-The connectins