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Show had joined them for that purpose. Before arriving at the Fort, however, their picket guard discovered and informed the Fort that we were friends and on arriving we were permitted to enter. I had previously disarmed the Indians and taken possession of their bows and arrows, at the same time assuring the chief that I would oe responsible for their safety. The citizens at my request immediately put away their arms, I then informed them that I wished to hold a council to ascertain the nature and extent of the difficulty. We held a council of about three hours duration and I learned that the Indians had made a demand on the fort for a large quantity of provisions, a demand which the citizens did not and would not comply, in fact the demand was unreasonable and had it been complied with would have left the fort destitute. I would here state that the grasshoppers here as in almost every other section of the Territory have been very destructive to the crops and the wheat which was then standing at this late season of the Year was the result of the Second Sowing the First having been entirely destroyed. The Indians asserted that promises had been made to them by the Fort that when the crops were harvested that they ware to have much the largest portion which the citizens denied, but admitted they had promised a certain amount which promise they ware and have been willing to fulfil, (sic) To this the Indians took exception and threatened that if their demands were not complied with to possess themselves at all hazzard (sic) with as much as they desired. The citizens informed the Indians that they would resist the extent of their power any and every attempt to dispossess (sic) them of their property. The Indians admitted that they had behaved in a rude manner on several occasions by throwing down fences, riding their horses through the grain, making threats, &c against the citizens; they excused themselves, however, by saying that the citizens would not do as they agreed, and as they considered themselves the |