New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-12
FORMER INDIAN UPRISINGS.
UNCLE SANS TROUBLESOME WARDS.

OUTBREAKS RECALLED ny THE RECENT
r,ouRr.r OVER THE DANNocKs-TuRBuLENr
uopocs SIOUX AND APAcHEs-MAs-
sAcnEs IN THE FAR WEST
yvb.n II was suggested to General sherman that
Tho cruel death OF General e. r. s. CANDY at the
hands OF the Modoc Chief captain JACK wouin
probably end the Quaker or peace pchcy OF the
covornment that veteran commander rep.:ed
"of course II Will not. In three weeks more
Ouakers will be sent on TO remohs'"'e anu """
neace Why sir General canoys oea'h ""uin
M, have occurred but for the Quaker pohcy. he
was in command OF the division ana the depart
men, doing the duty OF a soldier. and was erected
=. oa,,.r with the Peace Commissioners. To cid
Them in their efforts In doing this service he was
shot That Is all OF Il. OF course the Army was
not needed Politicians had 10 be accommodated
The Army was not allowed sthe appropriations re-
ouircd for maintaining peace. The agencies, the
commissioners etc. OF the politicians Kind.
Congress- would not give 100000 to the War De-
no-trnent hut It could bc spent In other ways"
Tho words seem as significant to-day 10 the
average Army officer they did then, on that
memorable 18th OF APRIL 1875. wncn E'herai
Canby's DEATH together with that OF The Rev. DR..
F. Thomas of the Peace Commission, ana the
woundng OF a. p. Meachar fired East ana West
alike This act OF the Modoc Indians. which called
forth IN. EXPRESSION OF General Sherman quoted
from The Tribune OF April Il. 1873. marked the
climax OF what has been known to history as the
Nodoc war The trouble had broken out in the
preceding January. and It was the old familiar
story OF Indian dissatisfaction with treaty terms;
much the same story. In fact, as that which led
to the recent alleged uprising OF the Dannocks.
with the difference. however. that the latter have
an anparent cause for dissatisfaction in The MS
use OF terms The treaty OF is6S made use OF the
term Kansas" when "Camas' Prairie
doubtcdly understood by the Bannocks
THE CONFLICT IN TIE LAVA BEDS
The AIodoc Indians had been known to the Indian
Once from 1853 and they had generally been hog
tile to the whites. year after the treaty With
the Shoshones and Bannocks. in 1863, treaties were
made with the Mo1oc tribe. which were afterward
amended by the Senate. and were only accepted
by Captain Jack and his adherents after consider
able hesitation. Under the treaties tract o; land
was set aside for them in the klamath Rcserva-
t!on in Southern oregon. 1t is needless to follow
the matter further than TO say that the klanaths
and the Modocs could not live In the same terri
tory, and the latter. under Captain Jacks leader
ship went away 10 their former holdings. On July
g. 1872 an order issued for forcible removal OF
the Modocs to the treaty reservation ard then
arose the Captain Jack fled 10 what
known Ben Wrghts Cave. which was invested
by the troops. This the border OF Tue
Lake on the shores of which are the historic lava
beds In the lake were numerous islands 10 which,
in the last extremity the Indians could flee. The
troops In the initial engagement. in The middle of
January 1873. under command o. General Whea-
ton were repulsed with loss. While there had been
uprisngs and OF upr!5ngs and thievng
episodes among different tribes. for the Apaches
were always stealing and the Sioux were always
rebellious this was the first disastrous Indian de-
lection in long period, and that II VAS OF vital
interest Is illustrated by reference to the Tribune
files. the account OF the massacre covering more
than n page. The official report Of the matter "as
forwarded 20. General Sherman by Major-Gcneral,
now Iieutenan General. John NJ. scnohed.
UNREST AMONG THE SIOUX
Those days OF unrest among the Indians,
this same month April being especially fruit
full. Spotted Tails band OF Sioux threaten
ing retaliation for the death of some Of their
chiefs in the preceding January. and the Sioux
problem the subject of meeting OF the In
dian Commissioners he'd at the Fifth Avenue Ho-
tel In this city. Expeditions were forming for the
protection OF surveying parties along the line OF
the Northern Pacific Railroad between the Mis-
souri, ana the Rocky Mountains. There
fights with the Backfeet and intense uneasineSs
among the interior settlements OF Manitoba be-
cause OF the apparently hostile intent OF the Yank
ton and Toronto Indians, who. 10 the number OF
between 1000 and 5000. had crossed the line
large body OF Sioux Indians under Sitting Bull
and Half Moon were moving toward the Red
Cloud Agency on the Platte River. This at
the close OF April 1873 while the Modocs still
firmly intrcnched in their rocky fastness. The de-
feat Of the troops April % was announced, and
Brigham Young. May s. expressed his views
upon the INSCRIPTIONS nature OF Indian agents
and the necessity OF ending the war II the COM
mercal progress OF the West was not to be retard-
ed for two decades and the entire frontier
broiled in a general Indian war. After stouty re-
sistng the combined forces sent out after him,
Captain Jack finally dislodSed from the lava
beds. and then began running contest. He was
was hanged October 8, together with Boston Char
ley Black Jim and Schonchin, at Fort klamath
In the ,al. OF 1875 effort on the part Of disaf
fected Indians to massacre the Black Hills Com.
devotion Of the Ogalalla chief. Young Man Afraid
of-His- Horse This was at time when the In
terror Deano had just sent in his resignation to
President Grant
THE CUSTER MASSACRE.
The campaign which found its awful climax
in the Custer massacre was inaugurated because
Of the refusal OF the Sioux Indians to leave their
camps on the Big Horn and Tongue Rivers, In
the Yellowstone Valley. and enter upon reser-
walton which had been get apart for them by the
Government This the most disastrous,
though ultimately successful. campaign ever
ciaI reports left by General Sherman go to show
that from the beginning of the trouble there was
Indians involved in the uprising unoer the leader
ship OF Sitting Bull. The expedition 10 force Sit
ting Bull into compliance with orders was made
up OF three columns, under command respec-
lively Of Generals Gibbon. Terry and Crook the
cavalry command of General Custer being part
OF General Terrys division The start was made
the last day OF May OF the Centennial year The
three forces were slowly but surely converging on
June % General Custer. with twelve companies OF
cavalry. had pushed ahead of the main command
into the Rosebud Valley on the Little Big Horn.
and there found an Indian camp OF 700 lodges.
The story OF the massacre is familiar history. and
the 276 white boards that mark the graves OF the
command In what is now the National Park tell
the story OF that last brave stand more eo1uentiy
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