Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-11-02
TROUBLE WITH INDIANS.
Looks as " There is to be War Out
In Wyoming.

In Wyoming.
Dispatches from Utah and Wyoming
indicate that the United States army
is about to have serious trouble with
the Ute, Cheyenne and other Indians.
The Utes have been located on
barren reservation in Utah. They did
very well so long as the government
was liberal with supplies; but OF late
the last Of their money has been go
ing, any they are unable to continue
their existence on the reservation.
Some several hundred Indians left
the reservation a week or ten days ago
and declared that they were going to
South Dakota, where they could live
with more comfort. The army author-
| tiles tried to demonstrate with them;
but they insisted that they would have
to move or starve and they did not
| heed the remonstrance. There were but
few soldiers available, and 1t was not
practicable to restrain the Indians by
| force
From Utah the Utes moved over in
/ to Wyoming, being joined along the
way by a large party of Cheyennes and
other Indians, the soldiers following
but refraining from an attack until SUI
fcient reinforcements could arrive
from more or less distant posts.
The dispatches indicate deep feeling
on the part of the Indians, and deter
mination to have some kind of con-
cession, or bring about bloodshed. IL
appears also that the Utes and Chey-
ennes are not alone: that numerous In
dians in the employ Of the army as
scouts and guides are misleading the
soldiers and playing to the hands OF
the runaways.
The soldiers have been in pretty close
touch with the Indians for several days
and reports have been indicating that
something would likely happen at al
most any moment; but as yet there has
been no definite news of a conflict.
The Utes are under the lead oi
Chief Kanahaugh, an experienced
Tighter and a willy old statesman who
knows pretty well what he Is about
Col. Augur has command Of the SOL
diers. He is said to be an able and
discreet campaigner.
1t is understood. that Chief Kama
lhaugh has sent word to Col. Augur
that the president must give the Utes
the Powder River valley In wyoming
for a hunting ground or otherwise he
will fight it out.
The whites throughout the entire
territory in which the uprising has oc-
CURED are very much alarmed over
the situation, and women and child
rem are being removed to places OF
safety as rapidly as possible.
A dispatch of yesterday from Sheri-
dan, Wyoming, describes the situation
as seen there as follows:
A band of 100 Ute Indians, 1t Is re-
ported, today captured a wagon loaded
with 5000 pounds Of flour and supplies
bound from Arvada to the Tenth and
the Sixth cavalry. The driver was
held at rifle point while the redskins
sacked the entire load and carried II
away, allowing the driver to proceed
with the empty wagon.
Troops camped at the mouth OF Buff
falo creek are on short rations and
more food has been ordered from Lit
tie Powder river, thirty miles from the
troops Most of the Utes are still
camped on Bear creek. near Birney
Soldiers north of Sheridan have seen
no trace of the Cheyennes.
The Utes evidently have split into
two bands. Telephone reports say
that one band is on Bear creek, twenty
miles southeast Of Birney, Mont, and
that the other band is camped along
Hanging Woman creek in the Powder
valley. Two officers and sixteen troop
ers arrived from Birney today. They
report that the main command from
Fort Keogh is at Ashland and has
seen no Cheyennes. Col. Augur today
broke camp at Sherives ranch, forty
miles north of Sheridan. He was ex-
| Dected to reach Birney early this af-
ternoOn. Captain whitman and signal
corps left Sheridan this morning fol
Birney, taking wire to connect the field
forces with the telephone from Birney
to Sheridan.