Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-31
Have = Reputation as Fighters and Are
Reported 10 Es Well Armed
NO DEMONSTRATION BY CHEYENNEs YET
Settlers Over the Montana Line Are
Alarmed and Forify Ranches
uTES ARE cCHMTTlNs OsPREDA1loNs
slauEhterinR Cattle and Roundup
wagons Captured and the Pro-
visions TakeB-In sulIen
and Defiant Mood.


SHERIDAN, wyo oct. SO.--Cspeoial Tt'-
gram.}-Danger from the 200 or 800 Chey
enne Indians joining the renegade Ute
band has become a reality. and tomor-
row morning six companies will leave
Sheridan and proceed up Tongue river to
Ashland to join forces with the troops from
Fort Keogh. expected TO arrive there to-
morrow night. Tho troops from here cam
not hope to make Ashland, eighty miles
north. before Thursday evening This mill
itary force is in command OF Colonel
Augur Of the Ninth cavalry and will he
guided by S. c, Rousculp, better known
as Jesse James Rousculp, who is familiar
with the Indians and especially the Chey-
ennes, having campaigned with General
Crook here in '6S He was also IN the bat
tie OF the Little Muddy in q and was
present when Chief Lame Deer OF the
Cheyennes attempted to shoot General
Miles. According TO Rousculp. tho Chey-
ennes are ready to fight at the drop Of
the hat and are the best armed tribe I'm
the west. lie says the Indians have been
buying modern guns and ammunition for
the past year, and the young bloods are
! anxious to follow in the footsteps Of their
old chieftains Little Wolf, Lame Deer and
Standing Wolf
! Rouscuips statement explains the hur-
! ried change in the plans of the troops uu-
der Colonel Augur, who expected to unload
| today at Arvada, Instead they were
! brought to Sheridan and the wagons sent
ahead at once. The soldiers we're started
| out, but were soon recalled and will not
] leave until morning, when they will proceed
up Tongue river TO Ashland reinforced by
two companies from Fort Mackenzie.
Utes Have Not Moved.
] ri, -.
cinity of RIoorehead but several small
bands have been detached and the troops
now lowering near are unable 70 keep track
of them. The Indians are sullen and seem
/ not at all afraid of the soldiers.
| The troops from Fort Meade. under COM
mand of Colonel Rogers. arc expected TO
| reinforce the troops now watching the In
dians before morning, but no attack Is
planned If at all, until after the concentra-
tion of the entire forces now In tho field.
I 1t Is Thought the plans of Chief Scout
Charles Long VIII be followed and an at
| tempt made 10 catch the indians at night
when all are together.
Private advices received here today re-
port the killing Of a sheep herder on Butte
creek and the destruction of a hand o.
sheep by a band OF tweny Ute Indians
Troopers from the Eighth cavalry In Sheri-
dan tonight say they have understood that
infantry has been summoned from Fort
Asslniboine, but this is not confirmed.
Settlers Are Alarmed.
! messenger Just arrived from Moore
head, Mont, says that the widest excite
ment prevails in that vicinity on account
of the depredations of the Indians.
Wagonloads Of women and children are
being driven to places of safety in fear OF
more serious trouble. The Spear ranch IS
/ HuFr
stocked with guns and ammunition. The
ranch blacksmith shop a log building, is
now heavily emhanked and loopholes have
been bon ID in the walls.
The messenger reports that Doc Spear
! and z. w. Collins, the Sheridan cowboy
artist, came upon a band OF about thirty
! Indians on Bowers creek, a tributary OF
Powder river. The Indians were skinning
six head OF cattle they had killed. As
soon as the men were seen the Indians fred
a voley. killing a Spear horse. The two
men escaped to the Spear ranch on one
horse.
The Spear roundup wagon was held up by
another band Of Utes and stripped. George
Thoct the camp cook, was bound and
gagged and the horse wrangier was COW
cred with a rifle while the Indians calmly
looted the camp and strapped the plundsr
on their ponies.
May Confer with CheyenneE.
! Colonel Archibald Patton Kensel govern
ment scout and interpreter at the battle OF
| Wounded Knee, visited the Indian camp
He speaks the Ute language and says from
the surly actions OF the savages they will
night before they arc taken back To Utah.
Colonel Kensel is of the Dpiniun that the
Utes have sent scouts to the Cheyenns
agency in hope OF securing the aid Of thar
warlike tribe in resisting the soldiers. The
scout talked with Chief Appah, who said:
me not afraid; soldiers no shoot"
Colonel Rogers, commanding the Sixth
cavalry. arrived at the front from Fort
Meade last night. The troop train. IN com
mand OF Colonel Augur, carrying the Third
squadron Of the Tenth cavalry from Fort
/ Robinson, has also arrived. The scout ar
riving at Arvada last night reports the 1u-
dians muttering against the troobs. They
say they will not so back 10 Utah and
claim the Powder river country as their
own. The soldiers arriving last night Will
start at once for the front and should
reach the vicinity OF the Indian camp b.
night
Clash With sentinel
I'VE are going 10 visit Chief White Cow
Bull Of the Cheyennes at any cogt and will
not be taken back to Utah to starve. We
| would rather die first" is the substance
Of the answer Of chief Appah 20 the SOL
diers. The Indians are getting boldor ami
paying no attention TO the soldiers. A
night was almost started last night When
an Indian encountered sentinel OF the
Tenth cavalry The Indian refused 20 turn
out Of IN q ath and rudsly bumped against
the soldier only the intervention OF some
cavslrynen prevented serious encountei
as other Indians came up. As the Utes
are continually on the move In small bands,
cowboys are hired by the soldiers as scouts
TO keep track OF the Indians. The latef,
report from the front locates the main
Ute band in the vicinity Of Moorhead. go
ing rapidly toward the Cheyenne reserva-
tion. Two more troop trains are reported
out Of Fort Robinson following the fret
train uuloaded AZ Arvada this morning.
Leupp Looks for No TFOubIe.
, / VVAgFITNCTON Oct 8U-fHpec'af frel.