The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-17
A BIG SCARE.

me reported Indian Raid Nothing Bat .
scare-Ths Border - b Protected b.
Troops.
FORT LEAvENwoRIH, KAN, July e.
About noon yesterday General Augur re-
eeived dispatch from Governor Martin. Of
Kansas, as fellows: The Adjutant Gen
eral sends ne word from Larned that he
doubts the reports of the Indian raid. He
says the citizens in the southwestern coun-
ties have Just 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 1t Attica and
Harper report that no news of an Indian
invasion has reached those points. The
lines to Kingman are down and
can get no news this morning from there.
Whether the reports are true or not,
however, troops should be forwarded
to the southwest as 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 to protect our borders but to restore
confidence among the settlers and keep the
cowboys as well as the Indians i'm order, 80
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
Leavenworth at two o'clock in the afternoon
for Kingman. The command is in charge
of Major George b. Sanford, First Cavalry,
and the troops are differed as follows: B,
Third Cavalry, Captain j. B. johnson, First
Lieutenant j. o. Mackay and Second Lieu
tenant Robbins, fifty-one men; l., Foiirth
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, Quartermaster;
nine six-mule teams and one spring wagon
and ten days ratiOns for the men and ten Of
forage for the animals are carried alsng.
The train arrived at Atchison at three
o'clock and made the run to Topeka in two
and one half hours. Colonel Sanford's in
structions are to 60 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 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
no Indians and nobody hurt. The farther
he went the farther away the Indians were
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 prairies
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
soners sent from Washington. About
six or seven hundred young
bucks say, however, that they will fight if
their arms are demanded. These young |
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 |
he war spirit.