CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO INDIANS.

In 1840, the Cheyenne made peace with the Kiowa, having already made peace with the Sioux. Since that time, the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, and Comanche have been friends and allies.

In Indian Territory the Cheyenne and Arapaho were referred to as the ASouthern Cheyenne@ and ASouthern Arapaho@ to distinguish them from their respective northern divisions on reservations in Montana (Tongue River) and Wyoming (Wind River).

The Cheyenne and Arapaho were provided with a reservation bounded on the north and east by the Kansas state line and the Arkansas River, and on the west and south by the Cimarron River (also called the Red Fork of the Arkansas) as a result of the Medicine Lodge treaty in October, 1867. However, they did not settle on the reservation. Instead, they located in close proximity to the OsageCtheir hereditary tribal enemies. In August 1869 by Presi-dential proclamation they were jointly assigned a new reservation along the North Canadian and the upper Washita rivers, lying west from the ninety-eighth meridian, bounded on the north by the Cherokee Outlet and on the south by the Kiowa-Apache-Comanche Reservation. They were near Camp Supply, the temporary tribal agency in charge of Brinton Darlington, a Quaker. He established the agency in Darlington in 1870 on the north side of the Canadian River, about two miles northwest of present El Reno, Canadian County, Oklahoma.

The Arapaho opened a school in 1871 in Darlington. This was consolidated with the Cheyenne Boarding School at Caddo Spring, about three miles northeast, in 1908.

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Emporia News, February 7, 1868.

Jane Proctor, who was captured by the Cheyenne Indians about twenty years ago, while on the road to California, is now stopping at the house of Norval Kelley, a few miles east of this place. She is twenty-four years old, being captured at the age of four. At the late fight between the Cheyennes and Kaws, near Fort Laramie, Jane made her escape, and came down to this region with the Kaws. Of course she has suffered a great deal, but was with the Indians so long that she became accustomed to their modes of living. She has been sold often and has spent her time with various tribes, roaming over the country and leading a terrible life. Her brother, who was older, remains with the Indians, having married among them. Miss Proctor says there were always a number of captives with the Indians, and hence she has preserved a tolerable knowledge of the English language.

Miss Proctor thinks some of her family live in Southern Kansas, somewhere, and would like to have information concerning them. Her father=s name is B. B. Proctor. Any information concerning him or any of the family will be thankfully received by her. We are indebted to W. T. Galliher, Esq., for the above particulars.

Emporia News, December 25, 1868.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 19. A letter from Gen. Sheridan, dated at the depot on North Canadian River, December 3rd, was received at Gen. Sherman=s headquarters today.It gives informa-tion derived from Black Kettle=s sister, by Gen. Sheridan himself, in substance as follows.

The Indians were encampedCfirst Black Kettle and other chiefs of the Cheyennes and a small party of Sioux, in all thirty-seven lodgesCeight miles down the Wichita were all the Arapahos and seventy additional lodges of Cheyennes, also the Kiowas, Apaches, and Comanches. While thus encamped three war parties were sent out; one composed of Cheyennes, Kiowas, and Arapahos, went in the direction of Fort Larned, and were still out. Another party was composed of Cheyennes and Arapahos, and returned, the trail of which led Gen. Custer into Black Kettle=s village. This party brought back three scalps, one of which was that of the express man killed and horribly mutilated between Dodge and Larned, just before Gen. Sheridan left the former fort. The mail he was carrying was found in Black Kettle=s camp. The other party was a mixed one and went in the direction of Fort Lyon and is still out.

About the time the first of these parties started, Black Kettle and one sub-chief from each band went to Ft. Cobb and brought back provisions given them at that fort, and while they were gone, or about the time of their return, the last war party referred to was sent out.

The women are of the opinion that they will all sue for peace at Fort Cobb as the result of the battle with Custer. They would have gone to Gen. Sheridan=s camp had not the opening at Cobb been held out to them.

Gen. Sheridan says: AI shall start for Fort Scott as soon as the trains from Fort Dodge arrive. Had it not been for the misfortune of the Kansas regiment getting lost and the heavy snow which rendered their horses unfit for duty, we would have closed up this job before this time. As it is, I think the fight is pretty well knocked out of the Cheyennes.

The Government makes a great mistake in giving these Indians any considerable amount of food under the supposition of necessity. The whole country is covered with game, and there are more buffalo than will last the Indians for twenty years, and the turkeys are so numerous that flocks of from one to two thousand have been seen; the country is full of grouse, quails, and rabbits; herds of antelope and deer are seen everywhere, and even run through Gen. Custer=s train while on the march. The reservations laid for the Cheyennes and Arapahos are full of game and the most luxuriant grass.

Black Kettle=s sister reports three white women in the lodges below Black Kettle=s camp.

Another letter from Gen. Sheridan says the mules belonging to Clark=s train, also photographs and other articles taken from the houses robbed on the Salina and Solomon Rivers in Kansas, last fall, were found in the Indian camp.

The Indian women prisoners say that most of the depredations along the line of the Arkansas were committed by the Cheyennes and Arapahos.

Emporia News, June 5, 1868.

Wednesday, at five o=clock, Mr. Pyle, of Cottonwood Falls, arrived here bringing the following letter from two of the most reliable men of that place. Mr. Pyle says this informa-tion was obtained from Cottonwood Falls citizens saw the Indians on Diamond Creek.

The Indians, camped at Marion Center for two days, said they were coming down to Aclean out the Kaws.@ They showed no signs of depredations until Tuesday morning.

Mr. Pyle says about 25 families had come into Cottonwood Falls for protection, from west of that point. Several of our citizens started last night for the Falls.

The following is the letter received from Hunt and Doolittle.

COTTONWOOD FALLS, June 3rd, 1868.

JACOB STOTLERCDear Sir: Reports of a startling character have arrived here of Indian depredations. First, that some five hundred wild Indians passed Marion Center, on Tuesday morningCthat they committed depredations there.

Word has just come to us direct from Diamond Creek. They are there, killing stock and cleaning out every house. There may be some degree of exaggeration, but there is no doubt but what there is a large number of Indians, and committing all sorts of depredations.

Think you had better take immediate steps for safety; also send such help as you can up this way. Respectfully, H.. L. HUNT. J. S. DOOLITTLE.

Emporia News, June 5, 1868.

COTTONWOOD FALLS, June 4th, 4 A. M.

About a dozen of us arrived here last night at 12 o=clock.

We find things more quiet here than we anticipated. Men just in from Diamond Creek put a better face on things than our former intelligence did. That the IndiansCsaid to be Cheyennes, from 400 to 600 strongChave been on Diamond Creek and are marching toward the Kaw Reserve, for the express purpose of fighting the Kaws, there can be no doubt. No depredations have been committed except the killing of from two to five head of cattle, and the stoning of one house.

What are these Indians down here for? That=s a question we propose to investigate a little farther, and we strike out this morning in the direction of Kaw agency.

There are sixty Kaw warriors in arms. It is supposed that they can do nothing against the large force of Cheyennes, and some fears are expressed that the cry of fighting Kaws is only a blind. It is generally believed that these Indians mean mischief on their return. An effort will be made to make them return over the same route they came in on. We ought to have one hundred more men. We only have about 150 and all are poorly armed with a few exceptions. It is believed there will be a little chunk of a fight between the Kaws and Cheyennes this morning, and the boys are all keen to see it. The boys are getting Ato horse,@ and I close. THE EDITOR.

LATER. We learn of a gentleman from Council Grove that a large body of Cheyennes made their appearance near Council Grove on Wednesday evening, the 3rd, dressed and painted for the warpath. They passed down the Neosho about six miles below the Grove and attacked the Kaws in the timber in the neighborhood of the Kaw Agency. They kept up a skirmish for an hour or two and darkness coming on, the Cheyennes returned to camp just west of the Grove; keeping out a large number of scouts during the night. On Thursday morning the Cheyennes were not to be found. The citizens of Council Grove sent out a large number of scouts to ascertain their whereabouts, but when our informant left there they had not ascertained where they had gone to. The Agent of the Kaws sent a messenger to Fort Riley for Government troops. As far as we can learn the Cheyennes have not as yet murdered any white people, but have plundered several houses. They declare they will have some Kaw scalps before they return.

Quite a number of our citizens have gone out to discover what it all means.

Emporia News, June 12, 1868.

In company with ten or a dozen of our citizens we went Apost haste@ to Cottonwood Falls last week on the receipt of the letter from Messrs. H. L. Hunt and J. S. Doolittle. Our reasons for going were two, as follows: 1st, because two responsible and reliable citizens of the Falls asked for Awhat help could be sent up that way;@ and 2nd, to see just what there was in the reported Indian troubles, that we might give our readers a truthful account.

Some of our friends thought we had better say nothing about the matter, as it would tend to discourage immigration in this direction. We take a different view of the subject. It is always best in the long run to give the truth about such reports. If there was real danger, it was our duty as a public journalist to tell the people so. If there was no danger, it was equally our duty to publish it. If we could keep the reports of such things at home, there might be no necessity for local papers to say anything about them. But these reports were bound to get out, and have already appeared in all the dailies of this State, and we doubt not, others at a distance. Persons at a distance picking up THE NEWS and seeing not a word said about the Indians would at once come to the conclusion that the matter was so bad that we did not want to say anything, from interested motives, for fear of creating a panic. And so, notwithstanding we desire to see immigrants coming as much as any person can; notwithstanding all our interests are here, and we have a piece of property for sale, we thought best to give such reports about the matter as seemed to us most reliable at the time.

We didn=t Ago to the front@ to get into a fight. Not much. That ain=t our style. Just as we expected when we left Emporia, the nearer we got to the scene of the reported difficulties, the less scary the affair looked, and although we traveled for thirty-six hours almost constantly, in the direction of the Indians, we did not so much as see one. Like the milk sickness, they were just ahead, but we didn=t catch up with them. The Indian raid was made up of about four-fifths scare and one-fifth truth. As usual on such occasions, the thousand reports flying over the country were unreliable. We found the people of Cottonwood Falls quiet, and apparently very little alarmed. Some families had come in there from Marion County for protection.

The object of the visit of the Indians to the settlements was to make war upon the Kaws. The last named tribe visited the Cheyennes last fall, and killed seven of their number and stole a lot of their ponies. The Cheyennes swore vengeance, and sent word that as soon as the grass was sufficiently large they should visit the Kaws for the purpose of avenging the outrages committed upon them.

The Cheyennes repeatedly said they did not intend to disturb the whites and did not want any trouble with them.

The extent of the depredations in Marion County were, that some five or six head of cattle were killed for beef, and one family was somewhat frightened by demonstrations of a warlike nature, but no real harm was done them.

After the fight with the Kaws, two houses were burned on the Kaw reservation which were occupied by Frenchmen who had married half-breed squaws. The Indians marched through Council Grove both as they came in and went back. They did not attempt any disturbances in the Grove. A mile and a half west of the town they destroyed all the household goods of a Mr. Polk, tearing up his bed clothes, emptying the feathers out of the beds, etc. It was stated that this was done to revenge some wrongs which Mr. Polk had done them. Whether there was any truth in the statement or not, we do not know. Further out on the Santa Fe road, they robbed the house of R. B. Lockwood. We did not hear any particular reason given for this outrage. There are reports that the Indians committed various other thefts and depredations, but they lack proof. We have only given what we know to be true.

The number that came into the Kaw Agency was variously estimated at from seventy-five to one hundred and fifty. It is pretty well ascertained that only about eighty were engaged in the fight with the Kaws. They fought some two hours, firing about three thousand shots. One Kaw received a scratch on the hand and one Cheyenne was shot in the foot. After the fight the Kaws, who only have about one hundred warriors, all told, pursued the Cheyennes to within three quarters of a mile of the Grove. There was every evidence that this band was only sent forward as a sort of a feeler, and that a large number of Cheyennes remained behind. They said repeatedly that they were coming back. They were riding bare-backed horses and each had two revolvers. The result of their trip must have been very unsatisfactory to them. The only way we can account for their leaving so abruptly and without having satisfaction out of the Kaws is that the number of white men in arms was becoming rather thick on the prairies to suit them, and they feared a conflict with the whites. As near as we could judge there were not less than two hundred and fifty men tolerably well armed and mounted watching them, and the number was rapidly augmenting. The Indians concluded they had better go. It is said they will come back, as they intend to wage a general war on the Osages and Kaws this summer. The assertion made about their coming back is only guess work. It is said the Cheyennes had a permit from Col. Wynkoop, their agent, to make this trip, under pretense of protecting their frontier from the Osages, and stating that they were peaceable Indians. An officer at Fort Harker saw this permit. If Wynkoop gave these Indians such a document, he ought to be removed at once. He certainly knows that the visits of the Cheyennes to the white settlements will lead to trouble.

The whites do not propose to interfere in the quarrel between the Cheyennes and Kaws. They are willing for them to fight as much as they please. But they will not submit to have their country overrun. And for that reason every citizen is anxious to see the Kaws and Osages removed at once. At present their reservations are almost surrounded by whites. They can go on the plains and commit outrages against other Indian tribes and then take refuge on their reservations in the white settlements, and be comparatively secure. This has been the practice of these miserable cowardly tribes. Some of the plains tribes have become so incensed at them that they say they will have revenge even if they have to come in among the whites. If they do come in, it will be impossible for them to go out without committing more or less damage, and hence there is danger of trouble with them. The government should see that they do not make further raids upon the settlements. The Kaws and Osages should be moved onto the plains at once. Their removal is loudly called for both for the good of the whites and the Indians.

This same body of Cheyennes have visited the Arkansas and Walnut, stating that they were going to fight the Osages. We have heard of no damage being done by them, down there. The people were somewhat frightened, and gathered in small parties for protection.

But at the present writing all is quiet. The Indians have probably gone back to the plains. We wish to say to immigrants that there is no more danger here from Indians than there is of being garroted or run off a railroad track in the East, and hardly as much. Knowing what we do about such excitements as the last one, and having no desire to deceive or misrepresent to gain population, we say to those who are coming that we would have no hesitation in settling at once in Lyon, Butler, Marion, Chase, Greenwood, or any of the counties of Southwestern Kansas. There is really nothing alarming, as we can see, in the late Indian demonstration.

Emporia News, June 12, 1868. Coke Watson, of this place, was Ataken in@ by the Cheyennes on the day of their fight with the Kaws, and kept prisoner about two hours. He happened to be riding across the prairies from Council Grove, to Peyton Creek, when he suddenly came upon the Cheyennes. At their urgent solicitation Coke piloted the Cheyennes to the hills opposite the Kaw Agency. He saw the fight and enjoyed it hugely.

Emporia News, January 1, 1869. A compilation from the official record regarding Indian wars for the past forty years shows the following.

Black Hawk War, 400 lives and $5,000,000.

Seminole War, 1,500 lives and $100,000,000; only 1,500 Indians being warriors.

A war with the Creeks and Cherokees, about the same time, cost $1,000,000.

Sioux War of 1852, 300 lives and $40,000,000.

War of 1862, 1,000 lives and about $60,000,000.

Cheyenne, 1867, 300 lives and about $100,000,000.

Indian trouble on Pacific slope for the last twenty years, about $300,000,000.

Three campaigns against the Navahos, $30,000,000.

The whole troubles in New Mexico, of which the last item forms a part, $150,000,000.

Emporia News, May 7, 1869.

CHICAGO, May 3. The following military dispatch was received at Lieut. Gen. Sheri-dan=s headquarters today. Gen. Grierson writing from Camp Wichita, Wichita Mountains, April 10th, reports the unconditional surrender at that place of 109 lodges of Arapahos, and the only part of a tribe still out is under Feathered Bear, or Spotted Wolf. He proceeds to say, March 31st: I reported the arrival of these Cheyennes on the 29th, and their statement that the whole tribe was coming in, the leading band under Little Robe, expecting to arrive here in six or eight days from that time. On the 7th inst., Red Moon, one of the principal men of Little Robe=s band, arrived here with eighteen other Cheyennes, stating that these men who left here on the 31st had reached their band, and the latter had moved this way and encamped on Stinking Creek. They remained overnight and went out on the 8th to request the chief and head men of the band to come and see me. They came yesterday, a party of 25, Little Robe, Bald Eagle, Red Moon, Grey Eyes, and Dead White Log being the best known. They expressed a desire to cease all hostilities and go upon their reservations, their willingness to come in and join the Arapahos, and with their consent move with them to their reservation and remain there until the terms of their surrender shall be made known to them by the department commander. I granted them protection in the meanwhile. This band numbers 67 lodges, and their camp is at the head of Coche Creek.

The 20th inst. is the time now set for the Arapahos to start for Camp Supply. A band of Cheyennes, numbering 400, will start soon. Food is scarce with the Indians, and these bands will have to be supplied temporarily with subsistence.

Emporia News, July 2, 1869. [From Detroit Free Press, June 16.]

A victim of Indian vengeance in the present struggle along the borders and in the Territories, and one that will forever have cause to remember it, arrived in this city Saturday night, departing for his home in New York, near Bufield, Monroe County. His name is Delos G. Sanbertson, and he lost his scalp at the battle of Washita. He has been an inmate of Laramie hospital since that event, and was discharged about ten days ago by reason of the expiration of his term of service. He allowed the curious to examine his poll, and a look at the still red and tender spot from which the scalp was jerked away was not calculated to prejudice any person in favor of Ahar lifting.@ As but few persons have ever undergone the process and lived, perhaps the sensations experienced by Mr. Sandbertson will interest and enlighten. He says:

AI was in the infantry. Custer had command of the troops. There was quite a force of cavalry with us, but they were about a mile in the rear when we first discovered the reds. Some of the troops had been sent around so as to attack from the other side. The reds were camped in a sort of valley, and we were within eighty rods of them for half an hour before daybreak. Just in the gray of morning the firing commenced on both sides, and we had it all our own way for a few minutes, the cursed snakes being much confused, and not knowing what was up. At length they rallied, and we could hear Black Kettle shouting and ordering. The vermin got into holes and behind rocksCanywhere they could find a place, and began to fight with a will. We fired whenever we could see a top-knot, and shot squawsCthere were lots of themCjust as quick as Indians. We just went in for wiping out the whole gang.

AWhen it was fully daylight, we all gave a big yell and charged right down into camp. The lodges were all standing yet, and lots of Indians in them. As we ran through the alleys a big red jumped out at me from behind a tent, and before I could shorten up enough to run him through with my bayonet, a squaw grabbed me around the legs and twisted me down. The camp was then full of men fighting, and everybody seemed yelling as loud as he could. When I fell I went over backward, dropping my gun, and I had just got part way up again, the squaw yanking me by the hair, when the Indian clubbed my gun and struck me across the neck. He might just as well have run me through, but he wasn=t used to the bayonet, or didn=t think. The blow stunned me; it didn=t hurt me the least, but gave me a numb feeling all over. I couldn=t have got to my feet then if all alone, while the squaw kept screeching and pulling my hair out by the handful.

AI heard some of our boys shouting close by, and the squaw started and ranCone of the boys killing her not three rods off. The Indian stepped one foot on my chest, and with his hand gathered up the hair near the crown of my head. He wasn=t very tender about it, but jerked my head this way and that and pinched like Satan. My eyes were partially open, and I could see the bead work and trimming on his leggings. Suddenly I felt the awfulest biting, cutting flesh go on round my head, and then it seemed to me just as if my whole head had been jerked clean off. I never felt such pain in all my life; why it was like pulling your brains right out. I didn=t know anymore for two or three days, and then I came to, to find that I had the sorest head of any human being that ever lived. If the boys killed the viper, they didn=t get back my scalp; perhaps it got lost in the snow. I was shipped down to Laramie after a bit, and all the nursing I got haint made the hair grow out on this spot yet.@

Emporia News, August 20, 1869.

FRIEND STOTLER: I came here with John Butler, of Salem, Ohio, and Achilles Pugh, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who have been appointed by the Executive Committee of the Yearly Meetings of Friends to visit the different tribes of Indians in the Central Superintendency, in order to encourage them to come and remain on their reservations and adopt the habits of civilized and Christianized society, and cease from their hostilities towards the whites and the Indians. As friends and advocates of the cause of peace on earth and good will to man, we feel called upon thus to labor in accordance with our well known and peaceable principles; and advise and encourage our friends who have lately been appointed to the important positions of Indian agents to the faithful discharge of their duties in every respect.

We have procured the services of William Griffienstein, as pilot to the Indian Territory, to assist us in carrying out our mission amongst the Indians. The above named will likely return from the Indian Territory in four or five weeks.

Three of the President=s Committee to visit the Indians, etc., have gone out to Fort Hays and will from there have an escort to the Indian Territory, where we will likely meet with them from time to time. I have lately received a letter from Lowrie Tatum, agent of the Kiowa and Comanche Indians, who wishes me to come there and assist him in his agency; and as I have felt at times it would be right for me to spend some time among those who have been Plains Indians, in order to assist, as opportunity offered, to encourage them in adopting civilized habits and also instruct them in the teachings of our dear Savior, and tell them of the blessings conferred upon the Christian, etc., I concluded to go.

We left Topeka about 2 o=clock p.m., on the 27th of 7th month, and passed through Emporia on the morning of the 29th. Our friends liked the appearance of the place, and we made some addition to our supplies. They had never camped out before we started on this trip, but they enjoy it well. We crossed at the Baker Ford on Cottonwood, and on to Bazaar, El Dorado, and Wichita, near the mouth of the Little Arkansas. Near this place we met several droves of cattle. I found much more improvement along the roads than I expected.

After leaving the Arkansas River and going south we found the country more level and sandy; but some good, rich land until we came down nearly to the south line of Kansas, where we found the country not so good, and in many places barren spots. From about the south line of Kansas, we came in the prairie dog region, where it is said that the dogs, owls, rabbits, and rattlesnakes all live together, in their houses dug out in the ground. We saw many of the dogs, which are about the size of a polecat. We also saw some of the owls. The buffalo grass prevails over this region, and the soil appeared to be a hard, tough clay, very much like our land in Lyon County where the short grass grows.

I am now about 25 miles south of the north line of the Indian Territory, and from here I expect to go about 160 miles south, to the Comanche, Kiowa, and Wichita agency.

Emporia News, August 20, 1869.

A dispatch from Camp Supply, Indian Territory, states that the Peace Commissioners had a most important meeting with the Cheyennes and Arapahos, at which a large number of chiefs were present, and the results are reported favorable.

Emporia News, September 10, 1869.

KIOWA AND COMANCHE AGENCY, NEAR FORT SILL, 8th Mo., 23rd, 1869.

RESPECTED FRIEND, JACOB STOTLER:

Our dear friend, Brinton Darlington, late of Muscatine, Iowa, has gone to Camp Supply, in order to be amongst the Indians that he is agent for, viz: Cheyennes and Arapahos. These tribes are the most difficult to manage, but we think we have a very suitable Friend for their agent, and believe that he will be able, with Divine help, to control them, and thus get them to abandon their roving and warlike habits and settle on their reservation, which will probably be on the Canadian River, west of the road leading from here to Harker. Our friends and the Commission had a pretty satisfactory visit with the last named tribe. There is one thing that is giving great dissatisfaction amongst the IndiansCthe stopping of their rations of sugar and coffeeCbut the Commission thinks some satisfactory change may be made. We feel very desirous of suppressing, as much as possible, all hostile feeling, and thus save life and money. Fighting the Indians is found to be very expensive, and causes much suffering to our soldiers and often to others. Very respectfully, THOMAS H. STANLEY.

Emporia News, March 18, 1870.

Enoch Hoag, Indian Superintendent for this Superintendency, arrived night before last at the Agency of the Kansas Indians, in this county, and Maj. M. Stubbs, the agent, was to have accompanied him yesterday, with six of the tribe, on a trip to the Cheyennes, on the Canadian River, to council with the plains and other Indians. Other agents are to be present. It is hoped a pacific understanding will be arrived at with the wild Indians, sufficient to avert an Indian war this year, though it is hardly probable such a measure will be accomplished. These Quaker Superintendents are doing all within their power to create a fraternal feeling between the whites and the Indian tribes. C. G. Advertiser.

Walnut Valley Times, August 5, 1870. A couple of Friends and their wives, with Powder Face and Left Hand, two Indian Chiefs of the Arapahos, passed through town a few days ago en route to Fort Leavenworth. What their mission is, we did not learn.

Emporia News, January 6, 1871. Mr. Welch, of the Indian commission who has been in Washington examining the records of the Indian office, says Mr. Lang discovered greater frauds in the Southern Indian territory than he (Welch) did in the Northern. He cited one instance where Lang saw $90,000 was paid to Arapaho Indians, of which amount $30,000 was taken by Gen. Blunt on the plea that he had performed legislation at much cost of time and money. Also mentions a voucher found to a rich contractor for $155,000, where the profit must have been over one hundred and twenty-five percent.

Emporia News, March 3, 1871. Teams are wanted to transport 150,000 pounds of freight to the south and west. For further particulars call at the A. T. & S. F. depot.

Emporia News, March 3, 1871.

We received a call last evening from Ezra Rich, who is direct from Cheyenne Indian Agency. He says the roads in that direction are almost impassable, the worst part being between here and Wichita. It seems the Indians are beginning to feel their Aoats@ and openly avow their determination to take white scalps the coming summer. These threats they have been in the habit of making every year for the past twelve years in order to compel the government to hire them to keep peace by presents of large sums of money, arms, ammunition, etc., and every year they have succeeded. They receive those presents only to use them in taking the lives and property of white people. Only those who are acquainted with all the sickening details of Indian war can realize the extreme treachery and craftiness of the Indian character. However well the government officials may know their objects in making these bloody threats, they invariably recommend the payment to the red devils of all they demand, which mostly proves to be the price of the blood of women and children, and the Government civil service with the Indians= pockets the profits.

Emporia News, March 10, 1871. Congress has agreed that hereafter no new treaties can be made between the government and any Indian tribe or nation. Present treaties stand goodCthat is, as good as they have ever done.

Emporia News, March 10, 1871.

A letter from Enoch Hoag, Superintendent of Indian affairs, dated yesterday at Lawrence, says the following telegram had just been received from the Commissioner of Indian affairs at Washington, D. C. AA party of Arapahos and Cheyennes have left Laramie for Southern Cheyenne Agency. They will be in northwestern Kansas very soon. Send Kaw Agent to meet them without delay and accompany them to said Agency. Also give as much notice as possible through papers that these Indians desire to pass peaceably to said Agency.@

Emporia News, May 12, 1871.

Mahlon Stubbs, agent of the Kaws, has just returned from a visit to some of the Southwestern tribes of Indians, where he was sent by the Government. Frequent rumors having reached Washington of hostile intentions on the part of the Cheyennes, Arapahos, Kiowas, Comanches, Apaches, and other Indians, the Government thought it would be wise to induce some of the chiefs to visit Washington to have a consultation, in order to prevent, if possible, an outbreak. Mr. Stubbs was sent to deliver the invitation of the Government to the chiefs. No better selection could have been made to perform this duty. After considerable persuasion, he induced six chiefs to make the journey to see the Agreat father.@ Two of these are Cheyennes, three are Arapahos, and one is a Wichita.

Mr. Stubbs says all the Indians assured him that they did not intend to make any trouble, and he believes the reports from time to time sent east, that certain tribes intended to Atake the warpath@ is unfounded. He thinks if there is any trouble at all, it will be made by the Kiowas on the borders of Texas.

The chiefs who accompany Mr. Stubbs were never in Washington; in fact, never visited any white settlements before. They came through Wichita, and that was the largest town they had ever seen. They were a good deal annoyed at the way they were looked at by the whites. It was with much reluctance that they undertook the trip, and after they started some of them wanted to go back.

Emporia News, May 19, 1871.

The big chiefs who passed through town Saturday on their way to Washington created a considerable furorCnearly as much as Robinson=s show will. They bought several hundred dollars= worth of fine clothes of Perley & Bearce. They were accompanied by Enoch Hoag, the Indian Superintendent, and Mahlon Stubbs, agent of the Kaws.

Emporia News, May 19, 1871. A train of thirteen large government wagons came in Monday night from Ellsworth, and loaded here with goods for the Cheyenne agency.

Emporia News, May 19, 1871.

We met Friend Mahlon Stubbs, Agent of the Kaws, yesterday. He was returning home from a four weeks trip to Fort Sill. He was present at the grand Indian council near Fort Sill, and had conferred with delegations of all tribes of the Plains Indians nearby. He reports all peaceful in that direction. Having been absent so long he of course had not received any official information in relation to the sale of the Kaw lands, and knew nothing concerning such sale save what he had gathered from the newspapers. His interpretation of that is, that the Trust Land only is to be sold. The allotments spoken of in the published dispatches, he says, will consume nearly all of the diminished reserve.

Emporia News, May 26, 1871. An extended council has been held in Washington between the Indian delegation now there and Secretary of Interior and Commissioner Parker, on behalf of the government. Commissioner Parker called the attention of the Indians to the fact that they were promised annuities for only ten years, four of which have passed, and in the time yet remaining they should try and take care of themselves, as they could live by hunting but a few years longer. When the Indians go home, said the commissioner, it will please the President if they stop on their way in the Indian Territory and attend the general council of Indians to be held there in the Creek country, the object of which is simply and solely for the good of themselves, and to establish peace and harmony and one general government among all the tribes of that country.

[See Wichita Indians for their response to the government.]

Walnut Valley Times, February 21, 1873. Superintendent Hoag, of Lawrence, has some specimens of salt from the Little Salt Plains, about 28 miles northeast of Camp Supply, and ten miles south of the Kansas line. The specimens are crystals of rock salt, white as snow, and apparently destitute of any impurity. Agent John D. Miles estimates these great natural salt works as covering sixteen square miles. The ground seems covered as with snow. Where Buffalo and Whirlwind Creeks join, there is a pond of brine, the bottom covered with rock salt that may be dug out in blocks as large as a man can lift.

Winfield Courier, April 10, 1873.

The Late Indian Massacre.

On the 19th of March, a band of Cheyenne Indians attacked, and killed a party of surveyors, consisting of four men, of which party Mr. Edgar N. Deming, son of Mr. A. N. Deming of Arkansas City, was the compassman. Mr. Deming, being the leader of the surveying party, is supposed to be the reason why he was the only one of the party who was scalped by the Indians. Mr. Deming was a promising young man, 19 years and 4 months of age. Immediately upon the report of this sad occurrence reaching Arkansas City, a company of 32 men, well armed, went out to recover, if possible, the bodies of those who were killed, and bring them home for interment. The company found all the bodies near together, where they had fallen. They brought the remains of E. N. Deming home today, and he was buried here at one o'clock p.m., April 7th. The others were so mutilated to render removal impossible, and they gave them a Christian burial where they had fallen. This was on the Cimarron River, about 150 miles southwest from Arkansas City. Captain Turner's surveying party, who were near the same place, and the mule supply teams have all come in safely without any loss. I was present at the burial of E. N. Deming. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, a very large number was in attendance. A. R. NAYLOR.

Winfield Courier, April 10, 1873. Correct one item in your issue of the 3rd, not material, except as it may misdirect the efforts of justice.

Mr. Deming and his party were almost certainly killed by Cheyennes of "Big Jake's" band. "Whirlwinds" camp was some thirty miles distant at the time.

The body of Mr. Deming was brought into town on Monday, the seventh inst. and buried. The others were buried where they fell. The bodies were terribly mangled, and Mr. Deming was scalped.

The avowed object of the Cheyennes in committing this outrage was to drive the surveyors from their work; in which plan they were entirely successful. All, including the party of relief, have arrived in town. A military guard is expected to soon arrive. Much sadness is felt by the friends of the deceased.

Walnut Valley Times, April 25, 1873. Front Page.

THE MURDER ON THE CIMARRON.

From the Arkansas City Traveler of the 11th inst., we learn that the relieving party of thirty-one persons arrived in town yesterday, bringing in the body of Mr. E. M. Deming, for burial. The bodies of the other three men were buried at the place of the murder.

All of Captain Darling's surveying parties have now come in. Carefully sifting all the evidence, we are satisfied that the deed was done by "Big Jake's" band of Cheyennes, on the 19th day of March; and that the object was to intimidate and frighten off the surveyors.

After the murder, parties of Cheyennes visited all the camps, told of what they had done, and ordered all to go eastward at once. The party of relief found the bodies of the four men slightly covered by scraping sand over them. Only the body of Mr. Deming was scalped. All were perforated with many wounds, by both arrows and bullets.

Mr. Reffer says that Whirlwind's band was some thirty miles distant at the time of the murder. All the bands are now moving southward.

Full evidence in the form of affidavits has been transmitted to Supt. Hoag: We presume that an effort will be made to bring the murderers to Justice.

The mangled body of Mr. Deming was buried here on the 7th March. Depression and grief is manifested by our people. The survey is suspended till troops arrive to protect the workers.

We see no reason to anticipate a general Indian war. It was rather one of those sporadic outrages which will continue to occur, so long as savage hunters roam over the great plains. The Indian chiefs, even when desirous to prevent them, are often unable to control the bloodthirsty instincts of the young warriors.

Captain Darling is now at Washington, claiming military protection for the surveyors, which will, we trust, be granted.

Winfield Courier, March 20, 1874.

[From Arkansas City Traveler.]

Fight with Cheyennes.

Oscar Wheeler, Willis McCarty, and McGinnis, who reside on the Strip; the former two well known by our citizens, left this place about two years ago to work on the railroad. After working a year or more, they left Dodge City last fall and went hunting through the territory until they reached the South Canadian in Texas, where they wintered, trapping and hunting, with tolerable success. One morning, about six weeks ago, seven Indians supposed to have been Cheyennes, came into their camp and asked for something to eat. Breakfast was made ready for them, and all ate. After breakfast the Indians, who were only armed with bows and arrows, left in an apparently peaceable and friendly manner. But the boys became suspicious from the fact they had not shown their guns, and concluded to move camp that morning, as they expected to move in a few days. While they were loading the wagon, a shot was heard and Oscar Wheeler fell to the ground, pierced with a rifle ball in the left breast, the ball coming out at the back and lodging under the skin. He was not unconscious; and rising up, told the boys to run on the ridge and see if they could see them, while he would drive on with the wagon. The boys did as requested and saw the Indians retreating behind the sand mound, during which some fifty shots were exchanged. Finally, McGinnis got good aim at one and shot, when the Indian threw his gun high in the air and leaped forward, dead. McCarty soon followed, knocking one down, and it is supposed, killed him. The boys drove them back for several miles and then began to retreat to the wagon, the Indians following some ten miles or more when they left. Wheeler was almost prostrated when the two came to him, from loss of blood, but they reached the settlements in safety, and Wheeler is now at Wichita under treatment of a physician, and is in a fair way of recovery. He will be brought to this place as soon as his condition will admit, to be taken care of by his brother-in-law, Mr. Pepper.

Winfield Courier, July 3, 1874.

There is no longer doubt of threatened Indian troubles on the western borders of the state. The red thieves and murderers made a raid into Barbour County, killing one man and stealing some horses, which they ran off. A Mr. Kyme, living near Medicine Lodge, was killed and scalped last week, so the governor has been informed. Out in Ford County trouble has been threatened and one man reported killed. The governor has forwarded all the arms and ammu-nition at his disposal, and authorized the raising of militia for the protection of the settlers.

Winfield Courier, July 3, 1874.

Indian Troubles.

[From Commonwealth.]

The latest news we have from the Indian country and the border counties is to the effect that the troubles reported last week are not so severe as at first thought, and that no tribe as such is committing depredations, but that a band of Cheyennes, headed by Little Robe, who had a son killed last winter, is probably seeking to avenge his loss. This opinion is concurred in by Mr. Mathewson, who is now in Wichita, and who is a trader possessing every opportunity to be correct in his conclusions upon the Indian question.

LATER.

Before going to press last night we saw and conversed with a party who was just in from the border. He represents matters as looking very dark. Five more men had been killed somewhere on the Medicine River, and the settlers near Medicine Lodge in Barbour County were stockading their stock and erecting defenses.

We call upon Governor Osborn to protect our frontier or arm the settlers without reference to what the government's army may do or promise.

Winfield Courier, July 10, 1874.

[From Arkansas City Traveler.]

Seven companies of the Nineteenth infantry reached Leavenworth, Thursday night, on a special train from St. Louis. Three companies left Kansas City for Forts Wallace and Lyon, on the Kansas Pacific. Four will go to the seat of the Indian troubles via the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe roadCtwo companies to Ft. Larned, two to Fort Dodge, and three to Camp Supply This regiment relieves the Third, and came from Louisiana.

Winfield Courier, July 10, 1874.

Indian Scare.

* * * * We have used every means at command to ascertain the truth in regard to the Barbour County raid; and we have become satisfied that the current reports of Indian outrages are greatly exaggerated, that the scare is over, and that all is quiet on the Medicine. That parties have been murdered and scalped as above stated we have no reason to doubt. But that it was done by roving bands without concert of action is equally certain. Hence the fear of an Indian war upon our frontier is groundless; and no one need apprehend any more danger than though he or she was living in the heart of Pennsylvania. Many absurd rumors in regard to Indian hostilities and outrages have been set afloat by foolish persons, and some of our own citizens are needlessly alarmed. We repeat that no more danger need by apprehended by our people from an Indian attack than by the people of Ohio or Indiana. Sumner County Press.

Winfield Courier, July 17, 1874.

Hon. D. R. Anthony, Ed. Times: It is due both the readers of the Times and myself that a statement embraced in the letter of "J. H. B.," written from Arkansas City, and appearing in the Times of the 11th inst., be corrected.

Said letter gives currency to the report that Agent Miles applied to me "some time ago for troops to help him control the Cheyennes," and that I replied that "if he could not stay there without troops, I would send a man down there that could.@ No application was ever made to me by Agent Miles for troops to control his Indians, but he did ask for police or marshal force to enable him to rid the reservation of horse thieves, buffalo hunters, and whiskey venders, who were goading the Indians to desperation by their unlawful deeds. And his appeals for this force were promptly responded toCboth by correspondence with the Hon. Secretary of the Interior, and by personal successful application to the President for the necessary relief.

Agent Miles reports that two hundred and fifty head of stock have been stolen from the Indians of his agency during the past year, and great numbers of buffalo have been killed, principally for their skins. Their carcasses were left to rot in view of the Indians, who regard them as their property and their means of support. Their protection against these intrusions has been promised by the Government, and this unwarrantable interference has been repeated and continued by men who have no more rights in the Territory than the Indians have upon the soil of Kansas.

These depredations by citizens, which the force at the Agent's command was entirely insufficient to prevent, have beyond all doubt been the exciting cause of the late outbreak; and if citizens of the United States would set a good example of obedience to laws of their own Government, they might have fewer occasions to complain of Indian barbarities, committed generally in retaliation of the nation's broken faith. Respectfully,

ENOCH HOAG, SUPERINTENDENT INDIAN AFFAIRS.

Winfield Courier, August 28, 1874.

MORE INDIANTICS.

A special dispatch to the Commonwealth from Dodge City, August 17th, says:

The report of Indian depredations is correct. Four men were picked up from one to three miles east of Aubrey station by conductor Hampton on Saturday afternoon. Two of them were scalped and horribly mutilated, and had been burned. The other two were not scalped. The bodies were taken to Granada and interred Sunday morning. The names of the men as near as could be ascertained were: John Doyle, John McDonald, William Graham, and an old man by the name of Snyder. All of the men were those returning from the mines of Colorado. Three of them were on foot and the old man was mounted.

Winfield Courier, September 4, 1874.

INDIAN NEWS.

Last week between Dodge City and Camp Supply, five farmers who lived in that vicinity, and were out hunting buffalo, were killed by Indians.

On the 17th ult., a party of six Indians fired upon the pickets at Medicine Lodge, it being promptly returned but without much effect, it being after dark and in brush.

On the morning of the 18th, a party of five Cheyennes made a descent upon the river eight miles above Medicine Lodge and captured five head of horses, at the same time firing seven shots at Dr. Bond.

On the morning of the 18th, a party of five Cheyennes made a descent upon the river eight miles above Medicine Lodge and captured five head of horses, at the same time firing seven shots at Dr. Bond.

Winfield Courier, September 25, 1874.

An insane man was found lying on the prairie, near the Salt Fork, in an almost helpless condition, by O. P. Johnson, while coming from the Cheyenne Agency. He was fully fifty miles from habitation, and was apparently lost. He gives no name or place of residence, and it is supposed he has run away from some lunatic asylum. Arkansas City Traveler.

Winfield Courier, December 3, 1874. The following is an extract from an official dispatch of Col. Miles received at Lieut. Gen. Sheridan's headquarters. It refers to the girls whose rescue from the Indians was announced some time ago.

"During the fight, two white girls were recaptured from the Indians. It appears these sisters, Adelaide and Julia German, aged five and seven years respectively, were captured in Kansas, en route from Georgia to Colorado. They state that their father, mother, brother, and one sister were murdered, and that they, and two older sisters were kept prisoners. They have no positive knowledge of their sisters' whereabouts. Their story of woe and suffering is simply too horrible to relate. They were almost naked and nearly starved, but are now under charge of Surgeon Waters, and will receive every care and attention, and when strong enough, will be forwarded to Leavenworth. I most earnestly recommend that ample annual provision be made for these children by the government out of the annual appropriation for the benefit of the Cheyenne Indians."

Gen. Pope in forwarding this statement heartily concurs in Col. Miles' recommendation.

Winfield Courier, April 29, 1875.

The Cheyenne Revolt.

[From the St. Louis Democrat, April 21st.]

An officer who was present at the Indian revolt, which occurred at the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency on the 6th inst., an account of which has already been given from military sources, says that from the beginning of the fight, the Indians fought with great desperation, and time after time, when the soldiers, under Captain Rafferty, charged up the sand hills, were driven back. Bear Shield, the chief who first started the fight, was instantly killed, four bullets entering his head. Stone Calf did all in his power to prevent the young men going into the fight, but his counsels were not heeded.

It is thought impossible for the Cheyennes to escape the military, as nearly the whole of the Tenth Cavalry are in pursuit. On the 15th instant four soldiers from Fort Wallace were corraled on Bear Creek, about twenty miles south of the fort, by thirty-five Indians. They kept them at bay for some time, and finally escaped, reaching Granada on Saturday. Word was at once sent to Fort Lyon, and troops were sent out to capture the red devils. This last outrage occurred nearly in the same place where the German massacre took place last September.

A dispatch from Kansas City says that news from the frontier is very exciting as to the Indian outrages. Four soldiers were surrounded near Granada, Kansas, last week by a band of Indians, and the fight lasted for several hours. A number of savages were killed before they were repulsed. General Pope is active in preparation for the approaching troubles.

Winfield Courier, March 4, 1875.

The following dispatch from the Cheyenne Agency, which is about one hundred miles southwest of this place, explains itself. The Indian war in that vicinity may be considered ended. CHEYENNE AGENCY, I. T., Feb. 22, via WICHITA,

Kan., Feb. 25, 1875.

To Maj. Gen. Pope, Ft. Leavenworth.

Stone Calf has come in here to surrender himself and the whole Cheyenne tribe, about 1600 in number, with the two German white women. The main body is still three days travel from here. I send an ambulance out tomorrow to bring in the white women captives. Stone Calf has agreed that they shall give up their arms and ponies, go into camp, and attend daily roll call. Gray Bird, Heaps of Birds, and all the principal chiefs except Medicine Water, are with Stone Calf.

Please order flour, sugar, and coffee to be forwarded as soon as possible. I can get plenty of beef. (Signed) THOS. H. NEIL, Brevet Brig. Gen., Com'g.

Winfield Courier, March 4, 1875. Hundreds of teams are wanted at Wichita immediately, to haul supplies to the Cheyenne Agency.

Winfield Courier, March 11, 1875.

Stone Calf and sixteen hundred warriors reached the Cheyenne Agency last Saturday, and surrendered themselves to the United States troops. With them were the two daughters of Mr. German, who, with his wife, one daughter, a son, and an infant child, were brutally murdered at Smoky Hill, Kansas, late in November. Their names are Eliza, aged 17, and Lizzie, aged 11, and they presented a terrible picture of misery and suffering when brought in. They were immediately taken to the Mission and cared for. From the time that the massacre was committed, the two unfortunate girls have been the mistresses of Stone Calf and Gray Beard. Eliza is now enceinte and in a half crazed condition. Both were dressed in the Indian costume. Eliza says she can identify the Indians participating in the murder of her family.

Winfield Courier, March 18, 1875.

THE CAPTIVES.

The following story given to the reporter of the Kansas City Times, at Cheyenne Agency, by the German girls, is of shocking interest.

On the 19th of February, Stone Calf, a chief, came to Gen. Neil, at the Agency and informed him that the Cheyennes, eight hundred in number, wanted to surrender. They were three days away. He told the chief to bring them in, and sent an ambulance out after the white girls. As the ambulance was driving away from the Indian encampment with the rescued captives, the Indians rode alongside and threw forty-two splendid buffalo robes into the wagon as an atonement for the release of the girls. When they arrived at the Agency they were taken care of by Mrs. Miles, the agent's wife, in whose care they still remain and with whom they desire to stay.

Catharine, aged 17, the eldest, is not enceinte, as previously reported, but is in a very forlorn condition. She was not considered the slave of any one chief but was carnally known by nearly every demon in the tribe.

Sophia, aged 11, looked better and had not been subject to all the horrors of her older sister.

We now give Catharine German's story.

"In September, 1872, our family moved from Missouri to Elgin, Howard County, Kansas. In August, 1874, we started for Colorado. The family consisted of father and motherCJohn German and Lydia GermanCRebecca, aged 21; Stephen, 19; Johanna, 15; Catherine, 17; Sophia, 11; Julia, 7; and Nancy, 5. We had an ordinary covered wagon, some provisions, and an ox team. When we arrived at Smoky Hill River, about 14 miles south of the track of the Kansas Pacific, and within 30 miles of Ft. Wallace, we encamped and spent the night there, and on the morning of Friday, September 11, 1874, were up early and preparing to resume our journey.

"Just as the sun was rising, and while engaged in driving the cattle up the river bank towards the wagon, I heard shots and yells, and, running closer, saw my father fall, shot through the back by an Indian. I was terribly frightened, but I can never forget the spectacle that then ensued. MY BROTHER STEPHEN

was a half mile away hunting up some stock, and he had a gun with him. As poor father fell, mother rushed towards him only to receive a shot from another Indian, who fired at her head, killing her almost instantly. My father was not killed at once, for he moved his arms about as he was scalped by one of the party. They also scalped my mother. An old squaw picked up our axe and stuck it in my father's head, leaving it fixed

During the time this was going on, one party rode after Stephen and shot and scalped him. My sister, Rebecca, made a brave defense with an axe. She knocked down one of the Indians and would have killed him if she had not been tomahawked from behind. While half insensible, and scarcely alive, the IndiansCfive or six of themCdespoiled her person, and after that they scalped her. Then they carried her near the wagon, tore off her clothes, piled them up over her with some other things from the wagon, and while she was still alive, set fire to the pile and BURNED HER UP.@

Here the broken-hearted girl broke down, and the reporter waited some time before she could proceed. Amidst sobs and tears and in broken utterances, she continued as follows, occasionally assisted by Sophia.

"After all were killed but we five sisters, they gathered around us to see which one should be put out of the way, as they said they could only take four along. One Indian, who seemed to be a chief, came up, and looking at Johannie and me, suddenly drew up his gun and shot sister's head off. I was so frightened that I could not stir for a long time. As soon as they got everything they wanted, they set the wagon on fire and killed the cattle; then made Sophia and I get on horses and tied us on, took our two little sisters up in front of them and started off as fast as the horses could go. We traveled all day, going due south, I should judge. One squaw tried to save Rebecca's life, but the Indian she hit with the axe said he would have her scalp, and so she was shot.

"After traveling two days we crossed a railroad track (probably A., T. & S. F.). The day after we got over the railroad, MEDICINE MAN

with a small party left, and were gone until late in the afternoon. When they came up to us, they had three fresh scalps and a number of articles of wearing apparel that must have belonged to a man, woman, and small child; also had a lot of canned fruit and oysters. After keeping us riding nearly two weeks, the main camp near the Staked Plains was reached. Stone Calf had command, and when they brought us in, all the tribe turned out and had a great time. The same night they had a big scalp dance over the scalps of our family, and made us all look at it.

"Two days after the main body of Indians were reached. They took sisters

away from the camp and I have never see them since. Sophia saw them once, about December, but only for a few minutes. All of us were one day placed on horses, and after the Indian fashion, made to ride as fast as the horses could go, and the Indian who caught us had to take care of us for good.

"Soon after this the whole body started north to get out of the way of the troops which, it was reported, were close at hand. Stone Calf, with Sophia, was left behind with about 100 more, and the rest, under charge of Gray Beard, Eagle Head, Heaps of Birds, and Lean Bear, still kept on north.

"In about a week, while encamped on Wolf Creek, the soldiers again made the Indians run. I did not see them, but heard the guns. All of this time I was on horseback and a good deal of the time very sick; had to ride all the time, and at night was

and beaten, because I could not carry as much wood and water as some of the squaws. All this time I was under charge of Long Back. At times I was nearly frozen, having nothing but a blanket to keep warm with at night. Sometimes there would be a foot of snow on the ground, but they made me work just as hard. This was about December 1st. My feet were frozen, and the nails of my right foot all came off. In January I met sister Sophia for a short time, and she told me we were better to be killed."

The reporter asked Catharine if she thought they would kill her, and she answered, "No, I always thought the soldiers would release us some time, and told Sophia not to be afraid. In the latter part of January I received a letter from Gen. Neil, brought to the camp by a Kiowa scout, telling me to keep up good spirits and the soldiers would soon capture us.

was received soon after this, but the Indians would not let me open it. They used to let me look at it, but would not let me take it into my own hands.

"As soon as these letters were received, I felt ever so much better. From this time until Romeo met us, the Indians treated me much better. We had but little to eat. Horses and dogs were all the meat we had. When the Kiowas were in camp with the letter, they would not let me out of the lodge, for fear they would steal me and take me to Fort Sill.

"One squaw was at times very kind to me, but all the rest used to strike me every chance they had.

"They used to paint me every few days. About

I was sure the Indians were going to surrender, as Stone Calf and Eagle Head with their bands joined ours and all started north. I did not see Sophia all this time, but knew she was near me, as the squaw who had been good to me said, 'Little sister with Stone Calf.' At last Medicine Water came to my lodge and told me I was to be given up. I asked him to let me see Sophia, and he answered, 'Sister dead.' I did not believe him, and one day Stone Calf told me she was alive and well. About two weeks ago I saw a four-horse wagon coming toward our camp, and as soon as it was near enough, I started to run out and meet it. The Indians would not let me, but made me go into a tent. Soon Romeo, the driver of the ambulance, came to me and spoke to me in English. It was the first time I had heard it for months. He said I might go with him and he would take

"I got into the ambulance, and there for the first time in two months saw Sophia. We at once left the Indians behind, and in two days came in sight of the soldier's tents, where I saw Gen. Neil, Mrs. Miles, and all the rest who were so kind to me. I could not help crying. Mrs. Miles is as kind as a mother to us."

"Did they take all the clothes away from you at the time you were captured?"

"Yes; and only gave me an old blanket to keep warm with."

"Can you identify the Indians who made the attack on your family?"

"I have seen them fifty times since, and can tell them all."

"How many of them were there?"

"Seventeen men and two squaws."

"Have you seen the squaw that hit your father with an axe, since?"

"Only once."

"Was Medicine Water one of the party?"

"He seemed to be the leader."

"Did they scalp all the family after they were killed?"

"All except Johanna. She had been sick and her hair was very short."

"How was Sophia treated after she left you?"

"From what she tells me, she had a much easier time than I did. She was only whipped once or twice, and did not have to carry so much wood and water."

"Where will you go, now that you are rescued from the Indians?"

"I don't know yet," she replied. "I would prefer to remain here than to go back to Georgia. If I and Sophia can get a good school education here, I would rather stay here than go anywhereCthey are so good to me."

Winfield Courier, March 18, 1875. Wells, a noted scout in the employ of Gen. Neil, rode from Cheyenne Agency to Wichita and return, bearing important dispatches, a distance of 328 miles, in forty-eight hours, without changing horses recently.

Winfield Courier, March 25, 1875.

The Secretary of War has addressed a letter to the Secretary of the Interior conveying the President's instructions regarding the disposition to be made of the recently captured Cheyenne Indians. The ringleaders and such as have been guilty of crimes are to be sent to military posts, and will not be accompanied by their families. The remainder of the captured Indians, with the exception of the two chiefs guilty of outraging the German girls, are to be turned over to the Indian Department, at their respective agencies. The two chiefs are to be held in confinement in such place as the Commanding General of the Military Division of the Missouri may direct.

ON EDITORIAL PAGECThe captured Indians are to be placed on the military reservation at Fort Leavenworth. The plan is a good one as they can be fed at less cost, and will be surrounded by all the elements of civilization, such as whiskey, Leavenworth, and Missouri. Wichita Beacon.

Winfield Courier, April 15, 1875.

From the Leavenworth Times we clip the following startling dispatch.

A dispatch received in the city yesterday afternoon imparts the startling information that the Cheyenne Indians at the Cheyenne Agency have succeeded in whipping the cavalry posted there and, as a consequence, the men have been withdrawn from that part of the country, leaving it to the mercy of the savages. The troops made three charges, and were each time repulsed with great slaughter. The number of killed among the savages is not reported. They were murdering and robbing at last accounts, with no one to check them in their bloody career. Advices from the different frontier forts state that the troops stationed there are ready at any time to receive marching orders, and at Fort Leavenworth active preparations are being made for the protection of the settlers on the Southern Kansas frontier. More trouble is expected with the red devils, and life in their vicinity is not safe. Bayonets are the only things worth using in a controversy with them.

Winfield Courier, April 22, 1875.

Five Indians Killed.

News up from Cheyenne Agency last Thursday brought reliable intelligence of the escape of the Cheyenne prisoners, three hundred in number, arrested and held as hostages for the murder of a part of the German family, and the torture and outrages perpetrated upon the German girls, reserved for a worse fate than the tomahawk.

Our information comes from an eye witness of the affair and does not differ from Gen. Neil's report, except in the number of Indians killed, which Gen. Neil puts at three instead of five, probably owing to a mistake on the part of the operator, who mistook a figure five for a figure three.

The outbreak occurred at 2 o'clock p.m., Tuesday, April 6th, and upon the very afternoon the thirty Indian prisoners in irons, en route from Sill to Wichita, were due at the agency. The previous day the Indian prisoners had all been searched for arms and nothing was found except a few old guns. These were taken by the guard, it being a precautionary measure against trouble during the next day's ironing process. The object failed, as the very next afternoon, upon the outbreak, nearly every Indian had side arms and plenty of ammunition.

The first Indian it was attempted to put irons upon demonstrated this fact, and brought into requisition upon the soldiers, a mere handful, opposing three hundred bloodthirsty savages, overwhelming in numbers, well armed for the attack.

A young Cheyenne warrior, noted for his dash and mischief-creating proclivities, was selected out from the rest, the irons got ready, and while the party detailed for this work were approaching to perform their duty, the young Indian broke and ran from the stockade, and was immediately fired upon and killed by the guard.

This was the signal for a general fight. The savages massed upon the few soldiers, but were held in check until company M, sixth cavalry, was brought upon the scene when the Indians fell back and ran to the Sand hills, about a quarter of a mile away. Here the soldiers came upon them and found to their astonishment that rifle pits had been made, and that every Indian took from the sand a gun of the best pattern, and all the ammunition they needed for a protracted fight.

The Indians held the rifle pits, wounding sixteen soldiers, four mortally, while five Indians were killed and left on the field. How many were wounded cannot be told as they carried the wounded with them.

The fight lasted from 2 o'clock till 10 o'clock p.m. During the night the entire body of Indians, barring the dead ones, escaped under cover of the Sand hills, and the next morning a company of cavalry was sent in pursuit, since which time neither have been heard of, except by unfounded rumor from Larned, that nearly three hundred Cheyennes had passed that post late Thursday night, going north.

There is still something strange in the fact that the thirty prisoners due from Fort Sill, in charge of two companies of cavalry and one of infantry, have not yet arrived at Cheyenne, for this point, thence to Leavenworth, though due last Friday. That the rise was preconcerted and the arms concealed by others of the tribe, there is no room for doubt. That it was the intent, after self-liberation, to rescue the Indian prisoners due that afternoon, as a part of the general plan, is alike apparent.

What action will be taken by the government remains to be seen. That the Indians have been petted until they are spoiled is a fact patent to every white man on the frontier. Many whites have, under the present misleading policy, been made to pay for their confidence in government and Indian promises with the forfeit of their lives. Hundreds of innocent women and children have been brutally murdered without mercy, because of too much mercy. Wichita Eagle.

Winfield Courier, April 22, 1875.

The soldiers at Cheyenne Agency, Indian Territory, had a little "misunderstanding" with the Cheyenne prisoners confined at that post, on the 6th inst.

Winfield Courier, April 22, 1875.

The prospects are that the "noble red men" will make it "red hot" for frontier settlers this season. Several depredations have already been committed.

Winfield Courier, April 29, 1875.

It is reported that 800 Cheyenne warriors crossed the track of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad on the night of the 15th, fifteen miles east of Lakin. They were going north, passing through the state of Kansas. A company of troops was sent from Fort Dodge in pursuit, and the Indian trail was followed about twenty miles, when it became evident that the Indians had separated and scattered over the prairies. They are undoubtedly on the war-path, and bloody work may be expected any day.

Winfield Courier, April 29, 1875.

[From the St. Louis Democrat, April 21st.]

An officer who was present at the Indian revolt, which occurred at the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency on the 6th inst., an account of which has already been given from military sources, says that from the beginning of the fight, the Indians fought with great desperation, and time after time, when the soldiers, under Captain Rafferty, charged up the sand hills, were driven back. Bear Shield, the chief who first started the fight, was instantly killed, four bullets entering his head. Stone Calf did all in his power to prevent the young men going into the fight, but his counsels were not heeded.

It is thought impossible for the Cheyennes to escape the military, as nearly the whole of the Tenth Cavalry are in pursuit. On the 15th instant four soldiers from Fort Wallace were corraled on Bear Creek, about twenty miles south of the fort, by thirty-five Indians. They kept them at bay for some time, and finally escaped, reaching Granada on Saturday. Word was at once sent to Fort Lyon, and troops were sent out to capture the red devils. This last outrage occurred nearly in the same place where the German massacre took place last September.

A dispatch from Kansas City says that news from the frontier is very exciting as to the Indian outrages. Four soldiers were surrounded near Granada, Kansas, last week by a band of Indians, and the fight lasted for several hours. A number of savages were killed before they were repulsed. General Pope is active in preparation for the approaching troubles.

Winfield Courier, June 17, 1875.

Sometime ago a Swede came to this city direct from his native country, but from the fact that he knew nothing of our language and could not make himself understood, his efforts to secure work were unsuccessful. Finally as a last resort he went to Fort Leavenworth and enlisted in the regular army. One day, shortly after the arrival of the Indian prisoners here, he strolled around to the guard house in which they were confined, and overhearing some of the conversation going on between the Cheyennes, was struck with the similarity between their language and his own. He entered the cell and began to talk with several, and found that he could, by talking to them in his mother tongue, make them understand.

This fact coming to the ears of Gen. Pope, that gentleman has sent on to Washington, recommending that the Swede be sent to St. Augustine, Florida, where the Indians are at present confined, to act as interpreter. Leavenworth Times.

A Swede that could not speak our language would make a poor interpreter.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 24, 1875.

[Leavenworth Commercial, 11th.]

Yesterday afternoon Gen. Miles called at the Commercial office and informed us that the German girls had just arrived, and we at once went up to interview them.

As already stated, there are four of them: Catherine Elizabeth, aged 18; Sophia Louisa, aged 12; Julia Ann Amanda, aged 8; and Nancy Adline, aged 6.

The family came from Georgia to Missouri in 1870, and from Missouri to Howard County, Kansas, in 1873, and in October, 1874, started for Colorado, when the father, John German, the mother, Lydia, the oldest daughter, Rebecca Jane, aged 21, the son, Stephen Wise, aged 17, and younger sister, Joanna Cleveland, were brutally killed by the Indians.

Stephen was about a mile from the wagon hunting antelope, and was chased down and murdered. Catherine was 75 or 100 yards from the wagon looking after some stock, and escaped the first massacre.

As soon as the Indians came up, they shot the father down, and killed the other three at the wagon in a few seconds; then rushed off and dispatched Stephen.

The four girls were captured, and as already stated, the two little ones were left on the prairie to perish when the savages were hotly pursued by the soldiers, but were fortunately found by the troops and cared for.

Catherine and Sophia were compelled, as previously reported, to ride upon ponies at a fearful rate, and in bad weather, to escape the troops in pursuit. They were treated very roughly, and had nothing to eat much of the time but raw buffalo meat without salt. Catherine was forced to cut wood and carry it for fires, etc., and when she did not do the work fast enough, the squaws would beat her. Most of the squaws were rough and cruel; but a few of them were kind and protected the girls whenever they could. The men never struck them; and they were never outraged by the chief or any other Indian, as was reported by sensational reporters at first. We are happy to relieve the story of their captivity of this horrible feature.

Mr. Cleveland, the agent's clerk, came up with the girls from the Cheyenne Agency. They expect to return to Lawrence shortly. They appear to be without a home or a definite purpose in life; but are now kindly cared for by those under whose care they are placed for the time. They deserve all the kindness and consideration which can be bestowed upon them.

Winfield Courier, July 1, 1875.

From a private letter from Cheyenne, of the 19th inst., we learn that the Arapahos and Cheyennes have gone out on a big buffalo hunt, but as they were accompanied by a body of Uncle Sam's cavalry, they will do no harm. What a fine Indian policy this Quaker peace-making business is! Every time an Indian wants to go on a buffalo (?) hunt, he has to have a couple of bayonets at his side to prevent him from stealing into the state and murdering some defenseless settler or cattle herder along the border.

Arkansas City Traveler, March 22, 1876. Front Page.

The St. Louis Times has an article in regard to one A. J. Brown, a late confidential clerk at Fort Sill, who has just been arrested in St. Louis, and tells something more about Belknap's sutler contracts.

The Times' interviewer says: He went to Cheyenne Agency, and there took charge of the sutler store of that post and conducted the business for Evans & Smith. He states that his employers paid Belknap $5,000 annually for the Cheyenne post; that he learned this fact from Evans himself.

Mr. Brown says that Evans made no secret of the fact that he had to purchase his sutlerships; that he frequently spoke of it among his employees and

for imposing such heavy terms as to take all the profits. About ten years and a half ago, Evans went to Washington to obtain a reduction of the assessments levied upon him by the Belknap party. He was unsuccessful, and on his return, while at Cheyenne, he gave vent to his indignation by roundly cursing Belknap and Marsh. Mr. Brown says that this circumstance impressed itself upon his mind because Evans was not in the habit of swearing.

The report asked Mr. Brown if Evans alluded to Belknap personally or to any conversation with him.

Brown: "Yes, he referred to conversations with Belknap in regard to Fort Sill and Cheyenne Agency.@ Evans had endeavored to induce Belknap to reduce the terms by representing to him that there were no profits left to his firm. He said he was paying $10,000 yearly for the Fort Sill post and $5,000 for Cheyenne. At Cheyenne Evans and Smith had the sutlership and Indian trade agency; but they kept one store from which they supplied the soldiers and the Indians.

Arkansas City Traveler, March 22, 1876. TOES OFF. We learn that John Breene cut two of his toes off while cutting wood for Mrs. Kirtley, last Sunday. He was on his way to Cheyenne Agency with flour and had to stop on account of the snow.

Arkansas City Traveler, April 5, 1876.

Gen. Custer, in his testimony before the Clymer Committee, is said to have been very bitter on General Belknap. Topeka Commonwealth.

Arkansas City Traveler, April 26, 1876.

Washington, April 19. The Committee on Expenditures in the War Department today heard A. E. Reynolds, of the firm of Lee & Reynolds, post-traders at Camp Supply, Indian Territory. Reynolds testified that he secured the appointment through Gen. Hedrick, and paid him $4,500. Witness never paid a dollar to General Babcock or his brother.

Mr. Geo. W. Bregs, of Geo. W. Cowles & Co., read a statement in regard to their processes for the preservation of tents and clothing for the War Department. Gen. Meags favored the process, but the Secretary of War opposed it. They had paid nobody to work for them except Col. Don Piatt, editor of the Washington Capitol. Witness thinks the contract with Piatt was for 5 percent of gross proceeds of the work in 1874. Col. Piatt put in a claim against Cowles & Co. for $11,000 or $12,000, but the company refused to pay him on the ground that he had been paid in full for his services. Piatt then threatened to have their work stopped. Piatt has been employed to use his influence with the Secretary of War. The 19th July, 1874, work of Cowles & Co. was stopped through Piatt's efforts. Witness went to see the Secretary of War and asked for a copy of the charges against Cowles & Co.; the Secretary gave him no satisfaction and said that he would be d_____d if he would gratify his request; witness then went to Long Branch to see the President; was not acquainted with either the President or General Babcock; saw General Babcock and told his story; witness was told that there must be some mistake, that the Secretary of War would be there in a few days, and he had better wait till Gen. Belknap came before going to see the President. Witness did wait, and a few days afterward received a copy of the charges through Gen. Babcock. The amount of money paid to the company was about $400,000. The company put in an answer to the charges.

Arkansas City Traveler, May 10, 1876.

The Grand Jury of the District of Columbia have agreed to return an indictment against Belknap for bribery. When Mrs. Marsh was looked for to give her testimony she was non est.

Winfield Courier, May 18, 1876. Editorial Page.

Gen. Rice branded Gen. Custer as a liar, and the latter has taken no steps to disprove it or to avenge his wounded honor. A correspondent writes of Custer as follows:

Gen. George A. Custer, "hero of the lash," as he is quite fittingly described by Ingersoll in his history of Iowa and the rebellion, on account of his brutal whipping of Iowa soldiers on the Rio Grande long after the close of the war, is quite likely to get more of this investigating business than he contracted for.

It turns out that the post-trader at Fort Lincoln had been for some time cashing Custer's drafts on the New York Herald, and the evidence is becoming conclusive that he was himself the correspondent of the Upper Missouri River, who has been so soundly abusing Grant, Belknap, and his other superior officers in direct violation of the articles of war. It appears to be conclusive that he bankrupted one of his quartermasters at the gaming table, which compelled that officer to dessert and flee the country, and that he is in the habit of fleecing the other financial and bonded officers of his command, which is a penitentiary offense under the law.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 14, 1876.

Eight companies of the Fifth cavalry, under command of Lieutenant Colonel Carr, passed through here today, en route to join General Crook's expedition.

Hunters from the headquarters of the Republican say that the Cheyennes and Arapahos are leaving in large numbers, bound north. It is supposed they are going to join the Sioux.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

Captain Smith's freight train, from Fort Reno, Cheyenne Agency, arrived in Wichita last Friday week. There were fifteen wagons, five of which were loaded with hides and ten with buffalo robes of Arapaho and Cheyenne tanning.

The train left Cheyenne on the 4th inst. We learn from the men with the train that there was almost a collision at the Fort between the Indians and the military on the 9th inst. The military authorities had some time previous arrested six of the chiefs of the Cheyennes, as hostages for the surrender of two braves who had murdered a white man. The Indians approached the Fort with the avowed intention of releasing their head men, and the prospects of a lively battle were, at one time, very good. By judicious action on the part of the commanding officer, the matter was finally settled, by the surrender of the two murderers and the release of the chiefs. The two braves were immediately forwarded to Fort Smith for trial. Beacon.

Winfield Courier, August 10, 1876.

Belknap was acquitted by the Senate last week. Thirty-five senators voted guilty, and twenty-five not guilty. Two thirds not voting guilty, he was pronounced innocent. Many of the senators voting not guilty did so on the ground that the senate did not have jurisidiction.

Arkansas City Traveler, September 6, 1876.

RANCH RED FORK, INDIAN TERRITORY.

August 25, 1876.

As it is cool enough this morning to keep the flies quiet, I will write you a few lines. At 2 o'clock p.m., yesterday, the thermometer registered 115, but a cool wind from the northwest this morning has brought the temperature down to 68.

Agent Miles, with his two amiable daughters, stopped with me last night. The Agent reports all quiet about the Agency. Two squaws were killed and two soldiers badly injured by lightning during a severe storm that passed over that section last Sunday night.

He reports that the Cheyennes and Arapahos are thinking of selling off part of their ponies and engaging in cattle raising.

Mr. Miles was on his way to Leavenworth after his wife, who has been there for some months.

The cattle drive is over. Quite a number of ponies have been driven past here this summer from Texas for Kansas and Colorado. The road is lined with freighters.

The other day a freighter mistook Messrs. Jackson and Smith, of Wichita, for Indians; and thinking his time had come, unhitched his horses and struck off over the prairie, leaving his wagon load of freight standing unguarded. The two men ran after him, calling out for him to stop; but the harder they yelled, the faster he ran. It was the poor fellow's first trip, and probably will be his last to this part of the country.

D. W. JONES.

Arkansas City Traveler, October 25, 1876.

O. P. HOUGHTON started to Cheyenne Agency, Monday morning, in a light wagon. Rev. Fleming accompanied him.

Arkansas City Traveler, November 8, 1876.

FROM FT. SILL. Rev. Fleming and O. P. Houghton returned from Fort Sill last Saturday, after a journey of two weeks. The trip paid them for the time spent.

Arkansas City Traveler, November 8, 1876. The Fort Scott Monitor says that a Cheyenne chief is in the State looking for a home for his people.

Arkansas City Traveler, November 29, 1876.

ELM SPRINGS, INDIAN TERRITORY, November 12, 1876.

I am keeping a ranch about 75 miles from Kiowa, Barbour County, in the Indian Territory. A man by the name of Charles Lyons came to my camp yesterday, and said that he was on his way to the panhandle of Texas, and that he was wounded in the thighCthat he had a fight with a party of three men who had tried to stop him.

I dressed his wound for him, which was bleeding profusely, and was getting him something to eat, when three men rode up to the door, and pulling their guns on me, wanted to know if Lyons was there; that he had killed one of their party, and they wanted him. I told them there was a wounded man in my ranch, but I did not want any trouble, when one of them dismounted and said, "We will hang the s___ of a b_____ if he is wounded. Boys, come on; we've got him rounded up."

Lyons was standing behind the door, and heard all the conversation. When they came in, Lyons fired on them with a Henry rifle, and killed two of them with the first two shots. The third man ran back, only to get killed while trying to mount his horse. Lyons walked out, looked around, and said:

"I wonder if there are anymore of them that want to make my acquaintance. I am a bad man, but the world has made me what I am. These men are robbers and murderers, and are mistaken in their man. I saw one of them in Houston, Texas, and one in Kansas City. I never murdered a man in my life, nor robbed anyone. These men have hunted me down, and they have found me. I don't know this man.@ (He was speaking of the last one he had shot.) "I never saw him before. I wish I had let him go, but he is shot through the heart and did not suffer much."

"Here are fifty dollars. Dig a trench, and throw them in, and cover them up, if that will pay you for your trouble."

He then mounted his horse and rode away to the south. I examined the pockets of the dead men, and found a letter addressed to J. W. Hinslow, from his sister in Missouri. In one of their pockets I found an army discharge of "Chas. Cox, of Ills."

I am short of paper and can't give you all the particulars I would like to. I have buried the men, and am going to Cheyenne Agency to report the affair to Mr. Miles, the Agent.

I think Lyons will die before he gets to a settlement, unless he falls in with some buffalo hunters. He told me he was acquainted in your town, and had friends in the vicinity. He is about six feet tall, with light complexion and heavy moustache; about thirty years old, and quite good looking. I know nothing about the history of the man, but he was justified in doing what he did here. Yours, etc. J. RUSSELL.

Arkansas City Traveler, November 29, 1876.

In another column will be found an interesting communication from Mr. J. Russell, of Russell's Ranch, at Elm Springs, in the Territory, relating the killing of three men by Charley Lyons, formerly of this place and Salt City. While a resident of this County, Mr. Lyons was a quiet citizen, residing on a farm. We have heard but one side of the story, by which it seems Mr. Lyons committed the murder of the three men in self defense.

Arkansas City Traveler, December 6, 1876.

CALDWELL, KANSAS, Dec. 2, 1876.

Mr. C. M. Scott: I read a communication in your paper today about Charley Lyons, formerly of Arkansas City and Salt City, stating that he had killed three men in the Indian Territory about November 12. I will say for Mr. Lyons that he has been at this place about two or three months, and it would be impossible for him to have been at Elm Springs at that time. Yours Respectfully, JOHN A. BLAIR.

Arkansas City Traveler, December 13, 1876.

DIXIE, BOLTON TOWNSHIP, DECEMBER 10, 1876.

Father Hollenbeck has made his assertion good, and left the country to take up his abode with the Indians at Cheyenne Agency.

Arkansas City Traveler, December 13, 1876. MR. NEWMAN started for Cheyenne Agency and Fort Sill this morning, in a carriage. He will be absent about two weeks.

Arkansas City Traveler, December 13, 1876.

CHARLEY LYONS, the man who was reported wounded at Elm Springs ranch, turned up all right last Thursday at Salt City. He did not know that he had been wounded until he saw an account of the affair in the papers. It was another Lyons.

Arkansas City Traveler, January 24, 1877. 75,000 pounds of flour left this place for Fort Sill last week, to supply the hungry Cheyennes and Arapahos.

Arkansas City Traveler, February 14, 1877.

The case of the United States against Gen. Belknap was today dismissed on the motion of the district attorney general, for the reason that the evidence would not sustain the prosecution. The action of the attorney general is taken by direction of President Grant, who endorses the statement made by the district attorney general, as follows: In view of the within statement of the district attorney to the effect that he believes a conviction impossible, and in view of the long suffering of the accused and the great expense to which he has already been subject, I think the district attorney should be directed to dismiss the suit.

U. S. GRANT.

Arkansas City Traveler, February 14, 1877.

Nearly all of the freighters have returned from Fort Sill, and not a scalp missing.

Winfield Courier, June 14, 1877. The Cheyenne Indians, who are en route to the Indian Territory, passed Sidney, Nebraska, on the 11th inst.

Winfield Courier, June 28, 1877. Sixteen hundred Cheyennes from the north are passing down west of this County into the Indian Territory. Such is destiny. The Indian's trail leads across the white man's pathway in fate and spirit. The Indian entered the country at Behring's straits and is going out at desperate straits.

"They died not of hunger or lingering decay.

The steal of the white man hath swept them away."

Winfield Courier, August 23, 1877. Harter, Harris & Co. have taken a contract to supply the Cheyenne, Comanches, and Wichita Indians with flour. This will make a home market for a large quantity of wheat and save a large amount of hauling to Wichita.

Winfield Courier, December 20, 1877.

Several Cheyenne Indian chiefs had a satisfactory consultation with General Sheridan today, in which they expressed a desire to remain with General Miles and assist him in case of Indian outbreaks in the spring. They were, however, informed that they must move to their reservation in the Indian Territory early in April.

Winfield Courier, December 27, 1877.

Seventy-five teams were loaded with flour at the Tunnel Mills last Thursday, on the contract to supply the Indians at the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Wichita agencies.

Winfield Courier, March 7, 1878. Last Saturday a six mule team was loaded at the Tunnel mills with 7,500 pounds of flour for the Cheyenne Agency.

Winfield Courier, September 26, 1878.

Just as we go to press a dispatch reaches us that the two bands of Cheyennes who recently left their agency, together with other Indians, have taken the warpath, cleaning out some cattle ranches near Fort Dodge. This forenoon three men at Chapman's ranch were killed and scalped. The whole country is in arms. Wichita Eagle.

Arkansas City Traveler, January 22, 1879.

We call special attention of contractors to the ad. in our columns soliciting bids for the construction of a Manual Labor and Boarding School Building at Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency; plans and specifications can be examined at the TRAVELER office.

SEALED PROPOSALS.

Office CHEYENNE & ARAPAHO AGENCY,

Darlington P. O., Indian Territory,

January 11th, 1879.

Sealed Proposals, in triplicate, will be received at this office until 12 m. Saturday, the 15th day of February, 1879, for the construction at this Agency of a Manual Labor and Boarding School Building according to the plans and specifications on file at this office and at the offices of the Wichita Eagle and Arkansas City travelerCKansas, where they may be seen on application.

Proposals should state the amount for which the material necessary for its construction will be furnished at Wichita, Kansas, (where it will be transported by the Government to the proposed location) and for the construction and entire completion of the building, according to the plans and specifications. Bids will be received for furnishing the dimension lumber of pine or of native timber, procurable within twenty (20) miles of the location.

Bonds in the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) will be required of the successful bidder, and the right is reserved to reject any or all bids, if deemed to the advantage of the Government to do so.

Bidders are requested to be present at opening of bids, or represented by attorney.

Proposals should be endorsed "Proposals for constructing Manual Labor and Boarding School Building, at Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, Indian Territory," and addressed to the undersigned.

JNO. D. MILES, U. S. Indian Agent.

Arkansas City Traveler, February 2, 1879.

It was discovered by a sentinel guarding the building wherein "Wild Hog," the Cheyenne chief is confined at Fort Robinson, heavily ironed, that the desperate Indian was lying on the ground in his prison room covered with blood, having stabbed himself in four places in the region of the heart with the intention of putting an end to his life rather than be taken South. The post surgeon pronounced the wounds very dangerous if not fatal. Thirty-three squaws and twenty-five children left here for Pine Ridge Agency, and will be turned over to the Sioux at that agency as their natural protectors.

Arkansas City Traveler, February 5, 1879.

Commissioner Hoyt urges the passage of Representative Scales' bill, providing for a consolidation of the Indian tribes whereby the forty-four reservations and thirty-six agents will be reduced to ten reservations and ten agents.

Arkansas City Traveler, February 19, 1879.

The surviving seven Cheyenne bucks captured near Fort Robinson, Nebraska, after a desperate resistance, were taken through Council Bluffs en route for Fort Leavenworth, where they will probably be tried for the murder of white settlers in Kansas. Besides the braves there were fourteen women and children in the party, wives and children of the prisoners.

Arkansas City Traveler, February 19, 1879. The bill reported by Senator Patterson from the committee on territories, to establish U. S. courts in Indian Territory, and for other purposes, provides for regulating the administration of justice in the territory, and for making citizens of the white, colored, and Indian residents. The unanimous report of the committee accompanying the bill, includes an elaborate review of the condition of the territory.

Arkansas City Traveler, February 19, 1879.

The report of the conference committee on the Indian appropriation bill was submitted. The bill was substantially the one that passed the House. Agreed to.

The Senate on the 8th passed the Indian appropriation bill: the amount appropriated was $4,713,206.

The House went into committee of the whole upon the army appropriation bill; an amendment was offered requiring the inspection of supplies by the quartermaster or commissary nearest the place of the successful bidder. Agreed to; also the amendment that Indians who settle on lands under the homestead or pre-emption laws or on purchased lands, shall be free from the control of Indian agents. The original proposition of Mr. Boone for the transfer of the Indians to the war department was then rejected on a vote by tellers: yes, 88; nays, 101.

A respected correspondent in Washington proposes to solve the Indian problem by taking the whole race and distributing the individuals among the civilized States of the Union. No doubt something might be said in favor of the project, but for our part we prefer the plan of the late Doctor Greeley, which was to board all the Indians at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.

Arkansas City Traveler, February 19, 1879.

Major General John Pope has notified Governor St. John that the captured Cheyennes are to be brought to Fort Leavenworth, and calls upon the citizens of Dodge City, Ellis, and other places where murders and depredations were committed, to come forward and identify the murderers, that they may be tried and brought to punishment.

Arkansas City Traveler, Wednesday, February 26, 1879.

P. G. Noble, adjutant-general of Kansas, accompanied by A. F. French, James Masterson, and Geo. Sullivan, of Dodge City, are in Leavenworth as witnesses for the purpose of seeing the Cheyenne prisoners, now confined in the guard-house at Fort Leavenworth, and stating anything that may lead to their identification as being among the murderers of a number of settlers and their families on the border. They will report to Gen. Pope.

The Traveler reported Feb. 26, 1879, on appropriations passed by the U. S. Congress, noting that subsistence during 1879 of several tribes in the Indian Territory was $25,000.

Arkansas City Traveler, April 30, 1879.

Maj. John D. Miles, Agent at the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, reports that the Indians are quiet and well disposed, and at the time of the reportCsome two weeks agoC

that the Indians were disorderly, and about to start on the warpath, they were plowing and planting corn. Nothing like an appropriation to make things lively.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 21, 1880.

Tuesday of last week was a field day for Arkansas City in the matter of Indians. There were representatives of ten different tribes in our city on that day: Osage, Kaw, Ponca, Nez Perce, Pawnee, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Wichita, Kiowa, Comanche.

Arkansas City Traveler, May 21, 1879.

EDITOR TRAVELER: At your suggestion I will give you a few brief items from the land of the red man, from which I have just returned after three weeks absence, a ride of 600 miles on horseback from Arkansas City to Camp Supply, via way of Cheyenne Agency and Fort Reno, Fort Bennett, and up the North Fork of the Canadian into the Pan Handle of Texas.

All through the northern part of the Territory we met bone hunters gathering buffalo bones for sale at Dodge City and Wichita. They usually take down corn and bring back a load of bones for which they get $7.50 per ton. I don't know what they get for corn, but it retails at $1 per bushel all through the northern part of the Territory and at 22 cents per pound, or $1.50 per bushel at Camp Supply. We conversed with several owners of large herds of stock that declared they intend to make Arkansas City their headquarters this fall.

James Steen was on the road with 900 head of ponies, and is probably at Caldwell now. Others were behind him with from one to three hundred head. All horned stock looked a little thin on account of the hard winter, and grass was short for want of rain. Young stockCyearlings and two year oldsCcould not be bought; there were none for sale but thousands on the range. On our way back we visited the camp of the Patrol Guards and found them active and ready to meet the wayward Cheyennes, but there is none to meet except those that freight from Wichita to the Agency.

The roads were almost lined with immigrants to Harper and Barbour counties, and wild schemers on their way to Leadville.

Deer, elk, turkeys, wolves, and antelope were numerous, but the buffalo were all in New Mexico, and will not be seen within 200 miles of Arkansas City before July or August, when they will range north.

The Indians were all quiet and peaceable, and many of them planting corn and putting up fences. Occasionally a white whiskey seller ventures in, but Agent Miles has the reputation of knowing a rogue at first sight a mile off, so it is not often attempted.

You may wonder that we ever returned under those circumstances; but we did, and found the town improved to such an extent we hardly knew it. Yours, C. M.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 11, 1879.

We had the pleasure of meeting Lieutenants Leeper and Smith of the 4th cavalry last Friday. They are ordered by General Pope to report to the commanding officer at Camp Supply to combat any outbreak on the part of the Cheyennes.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 18, 1879.

Mr. Frank Schiffbauer returned from the Pawnee Agency last week and he states that the report through the country to the effect that the Pawnees had joined the Cheyennes to go north is without foundation. Everything is quiet down there and the Pawnees are at home. The effort that is being made, on the part of shysters, to get up an Indian scare is too thin to alarm an old woman. "Let us have peace."

Arkansas City Traveler, July 23, 1879.

Editor Traveler: I chanced to go down at Fort Reno on that glorious day of the independence of the United States, the 4th of July, and was entertained by a scene that is seldom witnessed of parties living in the States.

The soldiers announced among other amusements that they would have a trial of speed between some of the best animals at the Post. This was enough to bring in every chief, warrior, squaw, and papoose on the reserve, and long before the appointed time they were on hand, attired in gaudy colors and fixtures, to witness it, for an Indian loves to see a horse race as a pup loves milk.

The race was run, and after a fearful round of cheers, yells, and screeches, they proposed running their own animals. The track was given them and for the balance of the day race after race was run. Blankets, saddles, and nearly all of their paraphernalia were offered as bets and greedily taken. The contest seemed to be between the Cheyennes and the Arapahos. Each tried to outrival the other. They were fair in starting. No jockeying, and rode as only Indians can ride, which I would pronounce equal to anything, if not excelling by far. The horses, or ponies, were run until it was so dark they had to quit, and all went to their tents.

The next day dawned, and they were on the ground again with the same program; running one horse as many as a dozen times during the day. And so it was the next day and the next. Why, we had Fourth of July for a solid week, and it seemed as though there would be no let up to it.

The issue of beef came in, however, and diverted their attention for awhile. You can always draw an Indian's attention with beef. Beef keeps peace, makes them fat, lazy, and good natured, and when they haven't it, look out.

It was a sight to see them running after these cattle and shooting them down like buffalo. In fact, there are hundreds of interesting things among themCtheir dances, funerals, councils, and sports at ball, swimming, tanning robes, moving camps, building brush fences, and trying to farm; but I won't attempt to tell you all these. C. M.

Arkansas City Traveler, October 22, 1879.

Lawrence, Kansas, Oct. 14.

The Cheyenne raiders, who have been confined in our County jail all summer, were taken to the courthouse yesterday afternoon at four o'clock. Mr. Jetmore, who acted as prosecuting attorney, arrived only a few moments before the case was called. He asked for a continuance of the case to next week, saying that he had no knowledge of the case himself, but had been notified by the Attorney General to report here and answer, and that he expected witnesses on. The papers on which the charge of venue to this court from Ford County was granted were read by Mr. Moehler, attorney for the Indians. He said the Indians had always been ready for trial and objected to any postponement. A letter was read from the County Attorney of Ford County, stating that one of the important witnesses for the prosecution was in Texas, another in Nebraska, and another in Arizona, and requesting that a plea of nolle prosequi be entered if a continuance was not granted. Judge Stephens said the prosecution had had plenty of time in which to prepare for the case, and denied the motion for a continuance. A nolle was thereupon entered by Mr. Jetmore, and the court turned the Indians over to Agent Miles, who was present. Thus the case was disposed of and the raiders go unpunished. The Indians are at the Lawrence House today, but will go West tomorrow with Attorney Moehler. They will go as far as Salina for a pleasure trip, and then proceed to their agency. The late captives are six in number, and answer to the euphonious names of Wild Hog, Left Hand, Big Thorn, Noisy Walker, Blacksmith, and Tangled Hair. Old Crow, wife, and daughter, and the wife and daughter of Wild Hog and several other Indians are here as witnesses.

Arkansas City Traveler, Wednesday, December 10, 1879.

By hunting, farming, freighting, and the sale of robes, furs, etc., the Cheyennes and Arapahos supply one-half of their existence, and the government the other half. Among the Cheyenne and Arapahos last year there were 183 births and 148 deaths.

Arkansas City Traveler, December 10, 1879.

Arkansas City has done considerable toward supplying the Indians with subsistence to say nothing of the amount sent to the different military posts and employees at several Agencies.

In 1868, R. C. Haywood contracted for 150,000 pounds of corn for Cheyenne Agency at $1.38 per 100 pounds.

R. C. Haywood received $1.98 for freight from Wichita to the Cheyenne Agency.

In 1868 A. A. Newman took the contract for the following, 600,000 lbs. of flour at Cheyenne Agency

Arkansas City Traveler, June 16, 1880.

A. A. Newman has returned from New York, where he has been the past week, during which time he secured Government contracts for supplying some 1,400,000 pounds of flour for Territorial consumption. The flour is deliverable here, and will be distributed as follows: 700,000 pounds to Cheyenne, 500,000 pounds to Wichita, and 200,000 pounds to other Agencies. We understand Mr. Searing will manufacture the flour at his mill on the Walnut.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 14, 1880.

Washington, June 25. The Northern Democratic newspapers of today teem with accounts of General Hancock's military achievements during the Rebellion. Not a word is said, however, about General Hancock's last active military campaignCthe only one, too, in which he ever had an opportunity as an independent commander to display his brilliant military qualities.

This was the campaign against the Cheyenne Indians in Kansas in the spring and summer of 1867.

In conversation with a Tribune correspondent tonight, Colonel S. F. Tappan, who was a member of the Indian Peace Commission of 1867, recalled some of the incidents of that famous campaign.

"In April," said the Colonel," Hancock marched from Leavenworth with an expedition of 1,000 men. Some of the equipment of that expedition excited much curiosity and amusement among those of us who had served in that country. For example, an elaborate pontoon train was taken along for a campaign in a region where there is not a stream that is not easily fordable. A long train of water carts also accompanied the expedition, and it has been irreverently suggested, by soldiers who were not educated at West Point, that the water carts might be needed to have a supply of water sufficient to make the pontoons useful.

"When the expedition reached Ft. Larned," continued the Colonel, "a body of Cheyennes, numbering some 400 warriors with their women, children, and old men, encamped on the Pawnee Fork, about fifteen miles distant. On General Hancock's invitation, the chief and warriors came to Ft. Larned for a conference. General Hancock asked them where their women and children were, and why they also had not come in. He was told that among the women and children were many who had escaped from the Chivington massacre, at Sand Creek, and they were afraid to come near the soldiers. General Hancock insisted that the women and children should be brought to the Fort. The warriors returned to their village, and, taking their women and children, fled from the vicinity. The village was then attacked by the troops, its only occupants being an old man and a demented girl, who had been forgotten by the Indians in their hasty flight. These two Indians were murdered, but not until after the girl had been assaulted. The village was burned, except about fifty of the finest tepees, which were reserved for officers of the expedition.

"An active campaign against the Indians was then begun," said Col. Tappan. It lasted until some time in July, when General Hancock sent to Washington for more men and money. He had spent about $9,000,000, and the lives of about 300 soldiers and settlers had been sacrificed. Congress decided that $4,500,000 for killing an Indian was too much, and the Peace Commission was appointed.

"General Hancock was examined as a witness before the Commission early in August, and he made a very pitiable exhibition of himself trying to excuse his blunders. The Commission met the Cheyennes in September, and readily concluded a treaty with them. General Hancock's campaign was an unnecessary, as well as an expensive one, and its management from beginning to end reflected no credit upon the commander."

Arkansas City Traveler, July 21, 1880. Among the Cheyennes that were here last Saturday was a white man called "Kiowa Dutchy," who had been stolen by the Indians when but a child of three or four years of age. He talks very poor English, and has no idea whether any of his folks are living, and if so, on what portion of the globe.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 21, 1880. Searing's mill has been running day and night during the past week, in order to keep up with the demand for flour for the Indian Territory. Last Saturday morning some forty wagon loads pulled out, driven by Wichita, Kiowa, and Comanche Indians, and before noon thirty-seven teams from Cheyenne Agency, in charge of Mr. Covington, the wagon master, arrived. As it was necessary for them to load and make way for forty more teams due Tuesday, and as the Inspector had no time to lose, the most of these wagons were loaded Sunday morning. In less than a week about 225,000 pounds of flour have been loaded in this city for the Indian Territory. Mr. Bohle, the inspector, says the flour is of superior quality, and better than the sample.

Arkansas City Traveler, September 1, 1880.

We made mention last week of some disturbance which took place at the Cheyenne Agency on the 16th inst. Since then we have been informed that the difficulty occurred between Agent Miles and the Northern Cheyennes, and originated in a complaint of the Indians that they had not received sufficient food. The Indians forcibly took possession of a beef at the corral and slaughtered it. A private letter received here on Saturday gives the following account of what occurred afterwards.

Major Miles ordered two Cheyennes arrested, who had bulldozed him out of a beef at the corral. He first tried to have it done by the Indian police, but they could not do it. He then called on the military. They went with two companies of cavalry, but Indians stood them off. If a shot had been fired, I don't think many would have got back. A compromise was finally effected by the Cheyennes agreeing that if the troops were drawn off they would come into the Agency and settle it with the Agent. The soldiers withdrew, and the Indians came in as agreed. There were about 500 of them, well armed, and they went to the office, pulled John D. out, and in the presence of the commanding officer settled it with him, with their guns cocked and pointed at him. It was settled very quietly, you bet, by Miles explaining that he had not lost any Indians and did not want even a litle one.

The Northern Cheyennes are all well armed, are uneasy and turbulent, and it is more than likely they will either make an effort to return north or raise such a disturbance in the Territory that military force will have to be used to subdue them. We shall not be surprised any day to hear that they have turned loose and murdered some of those whom they deem responsibile for their present condition. Caldwell Commercial.

Arkansas City Traveler, September 1, 1880. It is reported that the Cheyenne Indians are threatening an outbreak. It seems that the Government has ordered that beef at this agency shall hereafter be issued at the block instead of on the hoof, and that each Indian receiving such meat shall be present and sign for it. Recently some meat was sent to a few sick Indians, but was stolen by the Indians who had it in charge. An order to arrest the guilty ones was the cause of the trouble, and showed very plainly that the military is needed in that section.

Arkansas City Traveler, September 8, 1880. Frank Hutchison has secured a position as industrial teacher at Cheyenne Agency. He left for that point last Saturday.

Arkansas City Traveler, September 8, 1880. Forty-three Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian children arrived in town last Friday and took the train from this point for Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where they will be placed in the school for Indian children. They were accompanied by Agent Miles and family and eight Indian chiefs, five of whom were Cheyennes and three Arapahos. They are bright, intelligent looking children, and give promise of growing into useful citizens under the attention of civilization.

Arkansas City Traveler, September 29, 1880. Robert Bent, interpreter for the Cheyennes, arrived home from the East last Saturday, having with him the following chiefs: Big Horse, Bob Tail, Man-on-Cloud, Mad Wolf, Little Raven, Left Hand, and Yellow Bear. They had been to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and thence to Washington, where a council was held with the authorities. They returned very well satisfied, and with no disposition to countenance another affair like the threatened outbreak of a month ago.

Arkansas City Traveler, January 12, 1881.

After the band of fierce warriors brought to Fort Madison in chains had returned to their homes in the Indian Territory, civilized, industrious men, Capt. Pratt, to whose efforts this change was due, was anxious to continue in this new Indian warfare, where the weapons were Christian love and interest. His next victory was the placing, by the authority of the Interior Department, of forty-nine Indian children at Hampton Institute.

The military barracks at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, were unoccupied by troops. Pleasantly located, the commodious buildings well adapted to such use, Capt. Pratt decided that this was the place for an Indian school. Educational work on an Indian reserve is doubly difficult, because the teaching of the schools is so much counteracted by the evil influences of home associations. When Capt. Pratt laid before Secretary Schurz his plan of utilizing the Carlisle Barracks for an Indian school, the Secretary at once gave it his cordial approval, and by his powerful support, with the cooperation of the War Department, the school was opened.

The first delegation of eighty-four boys and girls from Red Cloud and Spotted Tail's bands of Sioux arrived in October, 1879. These children were fresh from the lodges, utterly wild and uncivilized, clad in their savage garb, with long unkempt hair and painted faces. The task of civilization seemed hopeless. The first lessons were on the uses of soap and water, of scissors and comb, and then the blankets and moccasins were laid aside for coats, shoes, and dresses. The number of pupils at present in the school is 212. The tribes repre-sented are Apaches, Arapahos, Cheyennes, Comanches, Kiowas, Wichita, Poncas, Pawnees, Nez Perces, Menomonees, Keechis, Tawakonis, Pueblos, Seminoles, Iowas, Sacs, Foxes, and Lipans. Applications for the admission of children from other tribes are constantly received, and it is anticipated that the number will ere long reach 300, the full capacity of the school.

In deed as well as in name, it is an "Indian Training School," and its object is to make its students useful, self-reliant people, competent to support themselves by their own exertions. They are therefore trained in industrial pursuits. In the kitchen, dining-room, and laundry, the girls receive careful instructions in household duties. In the sewing-room they learn to cut, make, and mend garments. Many of them use the sewing machine very skillfully, and it is quite amusing on mending days to see the group of little ones gathered about the great basket of stockings to be darned.

Connected with the schools are shops where the boys receive instruction in various trades. Those who are apprenticed spend two days at work and four in school each week. There are tailors, shoemakers, carpenters, blacksmiths, tinners, wagon and harness makers, printers, and bakers. The wagon makers and harness makers and trimmers are kept busy in filling orders for goods to be supplied by the Indian Department to Indians on the reservations. The printers do considerable work for the school, and one of them, a Pawnee boy of fourteen, edits a tiny paper, "School News," which is made up from the unaided productions of the students. The other apprentices are employed in needful work for the school. All receive sixteen cents a day for the time they work, and thus they have opportunities for lessons in economy and prudence in spending money. Twelve of the boys are organized into a brass band, and are able to play quite a number of pieces in a manner which does them much credit.

The teaching of the schoolrooms is by such methods as experience has shown to be best adapted to pupils with no knowledge of English. The progress made has been such as to satisfy the most sanguine expectations. Every month a report is sent to each student's parents, telling of the conduct, health, and scholarship of the student during the month. The report is accompanied by a letter from the student, so that at least once a month a message of peace goes to the distant lodges. Most of the children write oftener than once a month. They are governed kindly yet firmly. They are not hampered by useless regulations, but those that exist must be strictly kept. The pupils are never whipped. Most of them attend religious services in the various churches of Carlisle. Those who do not go to the Sabbath schools in the town are taught in the chapel, and on Sunday afternoons there is a service conducted by one of the ministers from Carlisle. Once a week there is a students' prayer meeting.

This sketch will show the important work that is going on at this Indian school. There ought to be many such schools. The United States Government is bound by its treaty stipulations with almost every Indian tribe to provide educational advantages for all the children of the tribe, and in not a single instance is this contract fulfilled.

Is it not time our nation should begin to keep its promises to these people? Let the Carlisle school be but a beginning, and the work started by Capt. Pratt be carried forward at many another point. Hundreds, yes thousands, of Indian children are begging for the teaching which should be given them not as a charity, but as their right. New York Observer.

Arkansas City Traveler, February 9, 1881. Agent Miles, of Cheyenne Agency, has just sent sixteen Indian youths to the training school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He accompanied them as far as Kansas City. These children, we understand, sold their ponies to pay their traveling expenses to Carlisle.

Winfield Courier, February 10, 1881. The Senate confirmation of John D. Miles as agent of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians will be heralded as a token of peace along the entire border of Kansas for without him the chances would be against them. Mr. Miles has been in the services at Cheyenne Agency for more than three years, and knows every trait of character of the restless and unruly wards left in his charge, making him one of the most valuable men in the Indian service. Commonwealth.

Arkansas City Traveler, March 8, 1881. Last year the Cheyennes and Arapahos culti-vated 1,180 acres of land, raised 9,540 bushels of corn, put up 175 tons of hay, cut 1,650 cords of wood, sawed 100,000 feet of lumber, made 180 rods of fence, made 100,000 brick, and burned two large kilns of lime, besides doing all the freighting of Government supplies required by the service. As many as can be employed are kept constantly at work by the Agents, doing whatever work needs to be done about the Agency. The Cheyennes and Arapahos own 6,540 horses, 3,380 cattle, and 312 mules. Transporter.

Arkansas City Traveler, March 16, 1881.

George W. Padgett, who killed W. H. Stevens, near Caldwell last June, was tried at Fort Smith at the last term of court and found guilty of murder in the first degree. He has killed seven men, and the sentence is certainly a just one.

MARRIED. At the Cheyenne Mission, February 27, Dr. Little Chief and Miss Anna Gentle Horse, Rev. Beard officiating.

A gentleman of this place says that he learned from letters lately received that the loss of cattle on the Cherokee Strip is very light. About all the cattle that were in good condition in the fall are still alive, though thin and weak.

Arkansas City Traveler, May 4, 1881.

There are three licensed Indian traders at Cheyenne Agency now, viz: G. E. Reynolds & Co., Candy & Co., of Illinois, and T. Connell, of Wichita. The Department seems to have deviated from the established rule of licensing but one trader at each Agency.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 8, 1881. A train of Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians made things lively on our streets last Thursday. They came up for supplies, and did quite a large amount of miscellaneous trading before they started on the return trip.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 15, 1881. A large train of Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians has been in town the past week loading up with flour for their respective agencies. The train numbered some fifty-two wagons, and hauled out all the remaining flour due them under the contracts of 1880. It is expected they will return in about two weeks, and commence hauling flour, etc., under the contracts of 1881. In order to afford the necessary transportation for the various Indian supplies from this point in the coming year, it is estimated that between two and three hundred teams, driven by full blooded Indians, under the management of train masters, will be kept constantly employed during the summer. This of itself is no inconsiderable item in the commercial prosperity of our town.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 15, 1881. Agent John D. Miles writes Mr. Hubble that it is not through any negligence or mismanagement of J. W. Chastain, nor of the office of Cheyenne Agency, that the new trail has not been authorized to be laid out through the Territory, but to that of the Indian Department in not attending to it sooner. Mr. Miles instructed Mr. Chastain to proceed on his locating and opening business, and that he would stand the consequences himself, as he was very anxious to have the trail located definitely. Mr. Chastain is now out on the line of the trail, piloting the incoming heads through. This will be pleasant news to many of our local cattle men, as they were anxious to have the trail established, so that the through cattle would not pass over their ranges and thereby impart the Texas fever to the wintered cattle. Caldwell Post.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 22, 1881. A party of several members of the Nez Perce tribe of Indians paid the Cheyennes a visit last week, and joined them in their "Medicine dance," and general frolics. Before taking their leave many presents were exchanged, and ponies given away. Chief Joseph, Yellow Bull, Red Elk, and other chiefs were with the party. At Fort Reno they met several officers whom they knew in former days, and at the Cheyenne camp, they were greeted by their warm friend, Capt. Scott, who made his home among them during the late apprehended "out-break."

Arkansas City Traveler, June 22, 1881.

J. D. Miles, of the Cheyenne Agency, was in town Monday, and in company with Charles Schiffbauer, left for Ponca Agency yesterday morning.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 22, 1881.

Messrs. Lee & Reynolds, traders at Cheyenne Agency, have sold out to T. Connell.

Arkansas City Democrat, June 23, 1881. It is reported that the Northern Cheyenne Indians are getting on their ear. We are informed that they have notifed Agent Miles that they intend leaving the Agency and returning to their home in the north. They say they are willing to depart in peace, but if he or the troops interfere, they will go forceably.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 29, 1881.

The Arapaho school boys have just finished cultivating a field of corn, the ground for which was broken, laid off, planted, and tended by the boys of this school. The corn is well advanced, free from weeds, and promises well for a good crop. Industrial training shows the most satisfactory results, and we hope to see more of it carried on in our Indian schools.

"Mountains," an Arapaho Indian who lives up the river from the Agency, reports that forty-six cattle that strayed from the trail have been at his camp for the last two weeks. They are in several brands, and two are, "US" or "SU" and "101". He is neglecting his own work to care for these cattle, and is very anxious for the owner to come and take them away. They are through cattle.

The first Christian funeral service (by one of their own number) ever known among the Cheyennes, was conducted by David Pendleton, on the 16th inst., over the remains of a son of Big Horse. The whole management of the service was given over to him, and the funeral was conducted after the forms of the Episcopal church.

The people of this village were not a little surprised on the morning of the 16th to find in front of and to the northeast of the commissary, an Indian train of about forty wagons. That number of four-horse covered wagons standing in line is not often seen. The freighters had broken camp very early, or perhaps, had not camped at all. The entire train was loaded with flour, at Arkansas City.

Seventeen members of the Nez Perce tribe of Indians, accompanied by their friend, Capt. C. M. Scott, paid the Cheyennes a visit last week, exchanging presents, dancing, and having a good time generally. Among others, were Chief Joseph, Yellow Bull, Red Elk, Henry Rivers, Yellow Head, and Espanyas. They met many friends among the Northern Cheyennes, and were delighted at meeting Maj. Randall, commander at Fort Reno, whom they knew in former days. The Cheyennes entertained them nobly and presented them with several ponies. The result of the visit will be beneficial to both parties.

Winfield Courier, June 30, 1881.

The Cheyennes and Arapahos at Cheyenne Agency have been having "medicine dances" for the past two weeks that were attended more fully than for years before.

The "sun dance" caught its usual number of young men, who lacerated themselves fearfully, besides dancing with a rope tied in a slit in their backs for three days and nights without eating or drinking.

During the dance members from the neighboring tribes visited them and took part in the demonstrations. The Kiowas, Comanches, and the Nez Perces, under the leadership of Chief Joseph and Yellow Bull remained about two weeks with the Cheyennes, enjoying their visit very much. A dance was given in honor of their visit, and a feast on roast dog indulged in.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 6, 1881.

The Arapahos lately took from Beard & Day's cattle range, seven head of saddle horses, and rode them down, blurred the brands, clipped their ears, shaved their manes, and treated them shamefully. They were recovered by paying one of the Indian police a good sum for their return. Among the many ponies of these Indians are a number with brands blurred.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 27, 1881. [From Transporter.]

An Indian wagon train, of eighty teams, arrived in this city on Monday evening last from Cheyenne and Arapaho Agencies, and forthwith commenced to load with flour, coffee, sugar, etc. They expect to take out about a quarter of a million pounds of freight this time.

Arkansas City Traveler, August 3, 1881. A matter of some importance to the citizens of this place, at this time, is the proposed removal of Little Chief and his band to the North. Such removal is looked upon as a certainty, from the fact that the Hon. Secretary of the Interior has directed Little Chief to proceed to Washington not later than Aug. 15th, to settle upon some suitable northern location.

While there are other bands of Northern Cheyennes here whose right to removal north may be claimed, by some, to equal that of Little Chief, yet these bands gave their consent to the removal, and came with the understanding that they were to make this a permanent home, having relinquished their right and title to all their possessions in the North. Not so, however, with Little Chief, who was forcibly removed form his home, has been compelled to remain here, and has never become reconciled, from the fact that upon leaving his northern home he was led to believe that his stay here would only be temporary, and that he would be permitted to return north at an early day. This idea was advanced by those high in authority and in whom Litttle Chief reposed great confidence, thus keeping alive the hope; in fact, full belief that, in the near future, he would be permitted to return north. The Department may have been apparently slow to act in this matter, but we are satisfied that the right course is being pursued, and that justice is being done. Little Chief, who, though having an intense desire to return north and has persistently refused to affiliate with the Southern Cheyennes or to advance toward permanency here, has ever evinced a friendly spirit and indicated and even expressed a willingness to abide by the ultimate decision of the Department.

Arkansas City Traveler, September 21, 1881.

A very interesting incident occurred at the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Camp yesterday afternoon, between the Cheyennes and Pottawatomies, that needed to be seen and understood to be appreciated. The band of Pottawatomies camped on the grounds were a portion of the tribe that the Cheyennes had never met in peace, but frequently in war. According to Indian custom, whenever they shake hands, it denotes peace. Members of the two tribes met yesterday, and without knowing one another, shook hands. In talking over the matter, the chief members remembered the history of affairs, and discovered that this was the first hand shaking. A council was called, annd after much deliberation it was decided that it must hold good, although it was done through a mistake.

The thought of having met enemies and made friends, filled their spirits with joy, and in spite of the protestations of those in charge, they brought out the drum, and for full two hours they made the night air ring with their songs and dances. The matter does not end here, for when they return to the Territory, the rest of the tribe will be informed of the friendship, and seven thousand of the Cheyennes and Arapahos will celebrate the act with dances for two weeks to come. Commonwealth.

Arkansas City Traveler, October 19, 1881. EDITORIAL PAGE.

Major Ingalls says that there are, in the Indian Territory, from 70,000 or 80,000 Indians, of whom 55,000 are embraced in five tribes, and 15,000 are called wild Indians.

The 55,000 support themselves by agriculture; their government allowance is expended for schoolhouses and the maintenance of school administration; and 11,000 are communi-cants in churches. He reports, also, the Christian Indians are sending native preachers among the Sioux and Arapahos.

Arkansas City Traveler, December 21, 1881.

Those who wish to keep posted on matters and things in the Indian Territory should subscribe for the Cheyenne Transporter, a ten-page paper published at Darlington (Cheyenne Agency). It gives, in a condensed reading form, all the Indian, stock, and general news, and is sent to subscribers at the low rate of one dollar per year.

Arkansas City Traveler, January 4, 1882.

Some complaints have recently been made by stockmen on the Cherokee strip that Indians were depredating on their cattle. As matters now stand, there is no way of preventing this trouble. The country belongs to the Cheyennes and Arapahos, the Cherokees having only a rent right until it is actually occupied by the former tribes.

Arkansas City Traveler, January 4, 1882.

John D. Miles, Indian Agent, of Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, Indian Territory, under date of December 27, 1881, publishes the following notice.

BONES. The removal of bones from this reservation is positively prohibited except by authority from the Indian Department. JOHN D. MILES, Indian Agent.

Arkansas City Traveler, January18, 1882.

JANUARY 4TH, 1882.

Beaver Horse Road lost a pony on the last trip to Arkansas City. Red or bay color, horse, branded, about 10 years old, and harness marked. Anyone finding same will please deliver to Schiffbauer Brothers, at Arkansas City. JOHN D. MILES, Indian Agent.

Arkansas City Traveler, March 1, 1882. Intelligence reaches us that the Mennonite Mission School, at Cheyenne Agency, was destroyed by fire last week, and that four children were smothered in the flames, all efforts at rescue being abortive. Of the unfortunate victims, one was a child of Rev. Henry, principal of the school; a little daughter of James Morrison, beef contractor at Reno; a child of H. Hansels; and an Indian child. One other child was rescued from the building, and now lies in a very precarious condition. The fire broke out about 9 o'clock at night, and is said to have originated from a defective flue.

Arkansas City Traveler, April 12, 1882.

The following letter has been handed us for publication, in order that it may be clearly understood by what routes cattle from Texas may pass through the Territory. The trail business should have been attended to ere this, but with prompt action on the part of those interested, and if satisfactory to all concerned, the trail as laid out last season might receive the approval of the Commissioner of Indian affairs.

CHEYENNE & ARAPAHOE AGENCY,

DARLINGTON, INDIAN TERRITORY, April 1, 1882.

W. N. Hubbell, Caldwell, Kas. DEAR FRIEND: All cattle herds will be required to follow the old Chisholm trail east of this agency, or on the trail west of Cantonment. The trail passing between this Agency and Cantonment in the vicinity of the Red Hills, over which a few herds passed last season, was not authorized by the Indian Office and cannot be used this season except it first be authorized by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

You will please give this notice to cattle men. Very respectfully,

JNO. D. MILES, Indian Agent.

Arkansas City Traveler, April 19, 1882.

[By J. H. SEEGER.]

When the grass starts in the spring the question, "Will the Indians go on the warpath?" goes the rounds. In the last few years the question has been asked through force of habit, not with any apprehension that they would do so unless they are brought to starvation and have no other alternative.

But no farther back than the spring of 1874, things were different. The Panhandle of Texas was then a vast buffalo range, where the Indians could subsist without government aid. Going on the warpath was then practicable, as they could fight with Indian tactics. They could move their old people, women, and children far away from the haunts of the white man, where they could live by hunting, while the young men went out to fight. They would attack a wagon train or a herd of horses and hurry back to the main party before pursuit could be organized.

On one occasion, when a party of Indians were raiding in Texas, the citizens, to make sure of their horses, put them into a stockade corral and placed a guard over them. The men on guard played cards in order to pass away the time and keep awake, one of the number going out occasionally to see how things were going. The Indians were lurking in the vicinity and had sent one of their number to see how the whites were fixed. He had crept up and was surveying things through a crack under the door. While he was thus occupied, the game was finished and a guard went out to see that all was right. The guard, after satisfying himself that no Indians were near, returned to the house and the game. The Indian then went to the back part of the corral, let the horses out and escaped with them before the guards were aware of what was going on.

In 1874 the Cheyennes went on the warpath and committed many depredations; but when they were closed in by the troops and forced to take to the staked plains, where they were obliged to dig for water and carry it with them for two or three days, the warpath became entirely too laborious.

At the battle of the Sand Hills they were again severely punished. About 250 men, women, and children were huddled together and kept under constant fire, and were under play of two gatling guns. Their only hope was in digging holes in the sand and keeping as much covered as possible. To stand up was sure death. Some of the squaws were so excited that they had to be held or tied to keep them out of bullet range. One Indian declared that he would take his papoose in his arms and stand up and be shot. The squaw said she would not give up her child. In the struggle for possession of the child, it was killed. The Indian then stood up and was promptly shot. About midnight they left their pits and by wading through water hip deep, succeeded in passing the soldiers. They then scattered like a flock of quails, and it was several days before they all got together again. A number went north and joined the Northern Cheyennes. The journey was one of great suffering. Two days after the fight an old squaw who had been wounded was found near the battle ground, where she had lain without food or shelter.

The Indians finally came to the Agency and surrendered, had most of their ponies taken from them, and saw about thirty of their young men taken away in irons as prisoners.

If the Indians should go on the warpath now, they would have to take their women and children with them, and with no base of supplies, a war is not at all desired by these Indians. They will not begin hostilities unless forced to it by threatened starvation.

Arkansas City Traveler, August 9, 1882.

The boundaries of the Cheyenne and Arapaho reservations are described as follows.

Commencing at a point where the Washita River crosses the 68th degree of west longitude; thence north on a line with said 98 degrees to the point where it is crossed by the Red Fork of the Arkansas River (sometimes called the Cimarron River); thence up said river, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the north boundary of the country ceded to the United States by the treaty of June 14, 1865, with the Creek Nation of Indians; thence west on said north boundary and the north boundary of the country ceded to the United States by the treaty of March 21, 1866, with the Seminole Indians, to 100 degrees of west longitude; thence south on the line of said degree to the north boundary of the country set apart for the Kiowas and Comanches, by the second article of the treaty concluded October 21, 1867, with said tribes; thence east along said boundary to the point where it strikes the Washita River; thence down said Washita River in the middle of the channel thereof to the place of beginning. Commonwealth.

Arkansas City Traveler, August 30, 1882.

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs received a telegram from Agent Miles of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Agency, in the Indian Territory, which stated that the Northern Cheyennes have declared their intention of migrating to the Pine Ridge Agency, in Dakota, regardless of the wishes of the Indian office in the premises. These Indians had previously requested permission to remove to the Pine Ridge Agency, but receiving no reply from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, they resolved to act upon their own responsibility. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has the matter under consideration.

Arkansas City Traveler, August 29, 1883.

We had the pleasure of meeting Geo. Bent yesterday, one of the most remarkable Indians now living in the territory. Mr. Bent is a son of old Col. Bent, who married a Cheyenne woman and for years held Bent=s fort on the Arkansas River, at a time when Kansas as a state was not known. Bent County, Colorado, is also named in honor of the old colonel. At the present time George is chief of the Cheyennes, and as government interpreter, he probably has more influence among his people than has any other man in the tribe. He is a fine specimen of physical manhood, weighing 200 pounds, and well proportioned. His com-plexion is of the swarthy hue peculiar to half-breeds, and with his heavy, jet black hair, gives him a striking appearance. This is his first visit here since there has been anything of a town to mark the place. About fifteen years ago he camped on the Shilocco, and hunted buffalo on the divide between the Arkansas and Salt Fork Rivers. Phil McCuster accompanies him. This gentleman is one of the celebrities of the Indian Country. He has been with the Indians for thirty years, and no doubt will die among them. Both Phil and George have been govern-ment agents, and have done good service. They met at this place several friends who knew them years ago, and one or two who had been with them on many of their scouts and hunts.

Arkansas City Traveler, April 22, 1885.

We mentioned last week that Mrs. Berger was in the city, spending a vacation with her friends. We have since learned from that lady that she has resigned her position as matron in the Arapaho school, and will remain here permanently.

The Cheyennes number 4,000, and have always been a warlike tribe; but the influence of the schools and the extermination of their savage prey, the buffalo, are having a civilizing effect. These are affiliated with the Arapaho, 2,000 strong, or rather are placed on the same reservation and are under the same agent; but although less apt in taking on white man=s ways than the tribe last named, they regard themselves as of higher caste, and do not allow their children to mix with those of the other tribes.

Some years ago, during the early days of John D. Miles= agency, a schoolhouse was built for the children of the two tribes, and it opened with sixty scholars. A few acres of land were fenced in, and plowed for the boys to learn gardening, and the girls were introduced to the art of housekeeping. But the repulsion between the two tribes soon manifested itself in the scholars, the Cheyenne children refusing to eat at the same table or sleep in the same dormitory with the young Arapaho. As a consequence, the building had to be partitioned off, and the dining room and dormitory divided.

The subject of schools suggests an amusing incident in Arapaho history. Some contraband whiskey dealers being caught selling liquor to the Indians, they were indicted and put on trial in Topeka. Agent Miles was present with half a dozen Arapaho chiefs as witnesses for the government. He then took them to Leavenworth, to show them the world, and on the suggestion of this writer, showed them over the Morris school. As the wondering red men were taken from room to room, beginning with the primary grade and ending with the high school, and remarked at the quiet that prevailed and the careful classification of the young people, the head chief, Big Mouth, was moved to oratory, and throwing off his blanket, giving to view his brawny muscles, spoke through an interpreter as follows.

AI come with the agent to see the places where the pale face dwell. This man who writes (making a rude imitation with his hands) brings me here. The pale face children learn in these rooms all that the white man knows. I have wandered with my people many years; have fought soldiers and seen many of my braves killed. I like this better than fighting. The white man outwits the Indian every time, and this because he has schools. I will go home and counsel with my people and ask Washington to build me a school just like it. I have no more words to say.@

This visit to the Leavenworth high school was probably not without effect, for the interest in schools among the Cheyennes and Arapahos has greatly increased of late, and we have the assurance of Mrs. Berger that the young people are making satisfactory progress. The present superintendent of the Arapaho school is Prof. McLane, appointed April 1st, vice Mr. A. P. Hutchison, of this city, resigned. His assistant teachers are Miss Lamond, of Washington, D. C., and Miss Hamilton, of Illinois. One hundred scholars are enrolled, but the building is hardly adequate to the requirements. Two young Arapahos who spent three years in the Carlisle school are at the Agency, one engaged as commissary clerk. The pay of the teachers is $60 a month, and they are paid for the summer vacation of two months, if they re-engage. Mr. Whiting is superintendent of the Cheyenne school, which has an enrollment of ninety scholars.

Arkansas City Republican, November 21, 1885.

Stone Calf, the Indian chief whose death is reported from Cheyenne Agency, was one of the malcontents, or Aunreconstructed@ Indians of that tribe. He was an Indian Bourbon, and opposed all efforts at educating or teaching his people in the ways of white men.

He was the leader of the band which captured the German family from Georgia en route to Colorado, near Danver=s station on the Smoky Hill Route. The family consisted of father and mother, a married daughter and her husband, a son about 14, and four single daughters, the eldest about 18, the next 13, and two little girls. The father, mother, married daughter and her husband and the boy were killed outright, and the four other children, girls, were carried off into captivity. Gen. Miles was in command of the troops operating against the Indians at this time, and was indefatigable in his pursuit of them to rescue these girls. Two of them were recovered from the Indians after a fight on McClellan Creek, Lieutenant Hobart K. Bailey, of the Fifth Infantry, rescuing them, but the two others were spirited away. They were finally surrendered after the Indians were driven by General Miles into their agency. Subsequently, congress appropriated $20,000 to be devoted to the education of these girls, and they were consigned to a Catholic institution in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Winfield Newspaper Union, January 3, 1891.

THE INDIANS.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. Gen. Schofield this morning received the following telegram from Gen. Miles under date of Rapid City, South Dakota, Dec. 25: "Have not heard from Col. Carr for thirty-six hours. He started to intercept Big Foot. Should he succeed or turn him to Cheyenne Agency, it will be favorable, as Gen. Brooks reports that a message from Little Wound, Big Road, and Fast Thunder, who are the leaders of the Indians who went to the Bad Lands, says that about half the Indians there are coming, and he thinks the rest will follow. Should this not be interruputed by some unforeseen event, it will be most desirable."

Gen. Schofield has also received a telegram from Gen. Miles dated Rapid City, South Dakota, Dec. 24, as follows: "Col. Sumner reports his command at Big Foot's camp on Cheyenne River; that Big Foot assured him he would do whatever he said, and bring all his people to his (Sumner's) camp; but that he deceived him, and eluded his command, going south in light order. This was most unfortunate just at this time, and may turn the scale against the efforts that have been made to avoid an Indian war. Up to this time the prospects looked favorable, and in one week most of the worse element have been removed."

CAMP NEAR BATTLE CREEK, SOUTH DAKOTA, Dec. 26. The situation here remains practically unchanged. The weather is cold and the rivers frozen solid. A company of Cheyenne scouts is encamped at the mouth of Battle Creek. Two attempts were made Wednesday by the hostiles, who number about eighty, to break into their camp. The first attack was made by only a few of the Indians, who were quickly repulsed with a loss of two killed and several wounded. Three of the Cheyenne Indian scouts were wounded, and it is thought one is fatally hurt. The second attack was made after dark by what was supposed to be the whole band, who were led by Kicking Bear himself. Volley after volley was fired on both sides, and a desultory fire was kept up for an hour or more. It is not known how many of the hostiles were killed but, judging from the reports of one of the scouts, there must have been several killed, as he says he heard several shout in Sioux language that they were hit. Troops were sent to the scene at an early hour yesterday morning, and report everything quiet and no hostiles in sight.

PINE RIDGE AGENCY, Dec. 26. The peace party failed, as was predicted. Five of the friendly Indians are in, and report that the rest are coming in. The enemy are described as crazy, wild, and wholly unmanageable. None have come over from the fighters. It was decided to at once subdue the warriors.

RAPID CITY, S. D., Dec. 26. Gen. Miles received word from Gen. Brooks that the friendly mission of the Pine Ridge Indians to the hostile camps in the Bad Lands had been successful, and that the Indians are ready to come in. Several parties are now on their way. Big Foot and his band, who escaped from Col. Sumner, have been found on Porcupine Creek moving toward Pine Ridge.

CHICAGO, Dec. 26. A Pine Ridge special says the Indian council in the Bad Lands has decided in favor of the hostiles returning to the agency. They are all now on their way in. Perhaps a few may slip away, but the authorities feel that the trouble is at last at an end. There is still danger of serious trouble in case an attempt is made to disarm the hostiles. Unless this is done, all the Indians will be at the agency in a day or two.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 26. A special from Guthrie, Oklahoma, says Mr. W. P. Thompson, the local agent of the Iowas, who was invited to attend the ghost dance arranged for nine miles from Guthrie, returned from that place today and reports that the dance had been abandoned. There were assembled at the rendezvous representatives from the Iows, Missouri, Kickapoo, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and two or three Sioux runners from the northern country. The dance was commenced yesterday in regular style and had been in progress but a short time when To-Hee, the blind Cheyenne chief, and White Cloud arrived at the scene and urged the Indians to desist. They pleaded eloquently with the dancers. A conference was held and it was finally determined to abandon the dance. All the Indians returned peacefully to their reservations.

Daily Calamity Howler, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 1891.

The Arapaho and Cherokee Indians should move over to the east and get a sight of the way their lands will be gobbled up pretty soon. It would prepare them. A dispatch says the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians are dying off like sheep. The Indians dance all night and gorge themselves all day with watermelons, no matter whether ripe or not.

The contract has been let for the building of a new schoolhouse in the Cheyenne and Arapaho nation. It is to be built of stone and brick, 35 x 129, two stories high, and completed in 120 days and cost $12,000. It is to be built in the Segar colony, 55 miles southwest of El Reno, and most all of the material will have to be freighted through.

The Cheyenne and Arapaho lands will make five big counties.

Winfield Monthly Herald, April, 1892.

It is expected that a proclamation by the President will shortly be issued opening for settlement these reservations, probably between April 10th and 22nd.

The Santa Fe is the most direct line reaching this large tract of land. Take the Pan Handle division for Kiowa, Woodward, Higgins, and Canadian for the western portion. South via Guthrie and stage to Kingfisher; also via Oklahoma and the new Choctaw railroad for El Reno. All coupon offices are now supplied with tickets for all points on the Choctaw road. Inquire at local Santa Fe office for full information, also ask for new folder soon to be out.

W. J. NEVINS, AGENT.

Winfield Monthly Herald - April, 1892. Front Page.

It is expected that President Harrison by proclamation will open the Cheyenne and Arapaho lands that adjoin Oklahoma on the west, by or before the first of May this year. People looking for a nice quarter-section of land can here secure it, and they should be prepared to make selection.

Everyone should remember that there is only one railroad that runs into these lands, and that is the CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC, and its wide range of termini gives excellent facilities for the people of the United States to go by that route and file their claim. Its eastern termini is Chicago; its northern, Minneapolis and St. Paul; its western, Denver and Pueblo.

Another eastern termini is Kansas City, and all parties from the southeastern States arriving at this great Missouri River metropolis secure through cars via the "ROCK ISLAND."

Write at once for maps and folder, that gives correctly each piece of land opened for settlement, and it will be mailed to you and on your request to your friends, free, by addressing JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. T. & P. A.,

C., R. I. & P. R'y, Chicago.

Arkansas City Traveler, Friday, May 19, 1922.

Al Woolsey of Kildare, made a special trip to Arkansas City today to renew his subscription to the Daily Traveler and get on speaking terms with its editor. Mr. Woolsey is a pioneer resident of Arkansas City. He was here in the 1870s. In 1874 he belonged to the Kansas state guards, which protected the border from the Cheyenne, Comanche, and Kiowa Indians. Last Sunday he received a check for $1,200 for back pay for services rendered in the guards. He will get a pension of $20 per month from now on.