OCR Text |
Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 93 by Indians. Colonel Stanley's servant, while hunting, mas also killed. Of Major Baker's command one sergeant, was killed and three piirates were wounded. The loss of the Indians is not known. WYOMING. Owing to threatening demonstrations made by the Indians of theRed Cloudacenco. the comruandine officer at Fort Laramie. thirtv miles dis-tant, h;$ se?eral times beencalled upon during the year-for troops to protect the lires of the agent and employ4s and the Government nronertr at that acenco. A nromnt comnliance with the reauest of the &kt fir such as&sta<ce, auci thepresence of troops near ihe agency, has in all cases a-u ieted the difficulties without serious trouble or the loss of life. UTAH. A considerable number of Ute Iudians beIonging to theuiiitah Valley and White River agencies, together with others roaming atlargein the Territory, becoming dissatisfied from various causes,congregate~dl uring the pmt su~nweirn San Pete County aud vicinity and assumed a hos-tile attitude, committing some depredations upon white citizens of that section. By the prompt action and wise connsel of Lieutenaut Colouel H. A. Morrow, ,Thirteenth infantry, commanding at Camp Donglass, the Indians mere induced to cease thew depredations and return to their respective agencies. CALrnORNIA. The'only operations of the military iu connection with Indian affairs in this State during the year, reported to this Office, is a trip made by Oaptain R. F. Bernard, commanding at Camp Bidwell, for the purpose of looking after certain lndiaus charged with having committetl depre-dations upon citizens. The charges were found to be not well sus-tained. INDIAN TERRITORY. A large nnmber of whites from Kansas having settled in the Chero-kee country, west 04 the ninety-sixth degree of longitude, the comm&nd-ing general of the Department of the Missouri was called upon, in com-pliance with lav, to remove them. Captain J. J. Uphaml of the Sixth Cavalry, was assigned, with a detachment of troops, to t h ~dsu ty. The work was promptly and judicio~~vlayc complished, without any violent collision with the intruders, about fifteen hundred of whom bere ''r emoved. A considerable number of whites of notoriously bad character having followed the progress of the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Rai1wa.y into the .Choctaw country, a detachment Of soldiers under Lieutenant De Hart G.Qninbg, Second Infantry, uzas sent to the scene of the difficulty, cba,rged with removing all unauthorized persons b e ~ o u dth e limits of the Territory. Sabsequently Colonel J. A. Hardie, Inspector General United States Arm& visited the Choctaw country, to supervise the removal, which was effected thoroughly and without serious tronble. Of the many scouts and expeditions daring the gear by troops sta-tioned at posts along the northern and western borders of Texas, and at Fort Sill, in the Indian Territory, against hostile Indian8 raiding into Texas, the one most successful in inflicting merited punishment |