The Indians | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 19, 1867

The Indians.

A scout who has just arrived at Junction City, Kansas, from the West, reports the Cheyennes and Arapahoes Indians, to the number of 1,200 warriors, now on the war path. . . . Late Omaha papers mention the murder by Indians of a number of settlers at the Lawrence Rancho, about 50 miles north-west of Julesburg. The Montana Gazette of the 5th ult. reports that Mr. Rassiel, his wife and two children, and Joseph McKnight, sutler at Camp Cooke, and an Indian guide, were attacked by Indians at Eagle Creek; the latter was killed and Mr. Rassiel was severely wounded. Mrs. Rassiel, who is a squaw, and her two children were taken prisoners, and a waggon, four mules and a saddle-horse were carried off by the Indians. McKnight and Rassiel escaped. . . . Another massacre by the Cheyennes is reported near the head of Smoky Hill River a few days since, under the following circumstances: Wallace’s train, with sixty men, were in camp, when a party of fourteen Indians came begging of the teamsters, who refused to give them anything. The Indians then fired upon them without any effect; the teamsters returning the fire, killed eight of the aggressors. About eight o’clock that night the camp was surrounded by some 200 Indians, who massacred 59 out of 63 men. The man who brought the news had an arrow through his shoulder, and was wounded in the hip. He claims to be one of the four men who escaped. A party of Omaha and Kaws subsequently made a raid on the Cheyennes and captured several head of their stock. One Kaw was killed. . . . A letter received from a soldier at Fort Phil Kearney says the Indians are still hostile and very threatening in that vicinity. It was with difficulty that the bodies of the victims of the late massacre could be buried, owing to the presence in the immediate neighborhood of bands of savages. . . . A San Francisco telegram says that Gen. Crook is actively carrying on war against the Indians in Idaho. It confirms the report of the capture of 100 Indians and a large number of horses.