Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1878 — CHEYENNE BUTCHERS. [ARTICLE]

CHEYENNE BUTCHERS.

Complaint from a Surgeon Who Followed in Their Trail. Dr. J. W. Scott writes as follows, under date of Wa-Keeney, Kan., Oct. 9, to the Chicago Tribune: I lav.ng seen in the Tribunt and other paper.-, for several days back, varied reports of the depredations committed by the Cheyenne Indians on their recent raid through this country, and having at hand the true state of the case from a personal observation, I would lay the facts before you for publication, if jdu see fit at this late day: On Wednesday, the 2d, I received a telegram ffom Buffalo to come to that point, and prepared to go to the Bappa Creek, sixty mile* north, in Decatur County, to attend those who had been wounded by Indians. In company wfih Dr. Gaucbenaur, of Ellis, and a bodyguard of sixteen mounted men, we set out. For forty miles north of the Kansas Pacific Road no depredations had been committed, tlie Indians evidently being anxious to get along as rapidly as possible at thia point. On the North Fork of the Bolomohßiver they began their deviltry, firing upon two land seekers f raveling in a wagon. One of the men was wounded in such a manner a* to prove speedily fatal. The other, running his horses for about ten miles, escaped, and warned the settlers on Bappa Creek, bnt. no attention was paid to the warning, so often, lately, had the same kind of reports been made. On the following morning the Indian* came suddenly into the Valley of the Bappa and commenced their damnable work, killing the settlers in the fields, after having made the strongest protestations of friendship. Before leaving this stream they bad killed outright seventeen men and left four more wougded. Nor weic these the whole of their outrages. Women were horribly abused and left insensible, children stripped naked and left upon the prairie, and stock destroyed and driven off. After haying taken care o( those wounded at this point, all of whom will probably recover, we were about starting for Beaver Creek, when news was brought by a courier that there was no demand for us there. All who bad remained there had been killed and mutilated in the most horrible manner. At all these places those living along the trail over which the Indians passed were robbed of all they possessed, and many women and children left destitute. The towns along the Kansas Pacific ROad near where the crossing was made were in a fever of excitement, and made repeated demands to the Governor and other* in authority for arms, which were disregarded until after the danger anticipated had passed by, and the n-d devils were beyond their reach. In fact, on tlie day we were summoned to proceed to the wounded, a telegram passed through here Horn headquarters at Leavenworth, stating that there was not the least danger along the road: that there were no Indians in this section of eonntry. ■ Jl.’rritile as this destruction of life and prop irty may be, it seems doubly so to us, »ho believe that, had proper measures been adopted, in view of the facts known at headquarters, this might have been prevented, the settlers were not only willing but anxious, hud they received the arms they requested, to have turned out en nuuse and intercepted the passageof the lndians nortiCT' ‘ —l= Twelve soldiers were stationed near the point where the Indians were expected to cross. At this point the settlers Were con-'riderably-alarmed, but without the slightest giom.ds, for the Indian* approached no town on i heir course. Moreover, they have never been known for year* to cross this road on their passages to and fro east of tlye cattletrail at Buffalo. As nearly as I can learn, about thirty were killed between this road and the Union Pacific Railroad, and six wounded. Tmre Indians were killed. These are the facts, a* observed by myself.

Infants are becoming too witty and smart in this marvelous generation* A fond and anxious mother, of Montclair, N. J., said to her little boy of three, at dinner, yesterday: “Now; Hennie, be careful and don’t swallow the bits of carrot in your soup, for you are sick, and carrot is indigestible.” “ Ah!” said the precocious baby, looking up with a twinkling eye, “you don’t think ’atin’ carats fine for the stomach, do you?” And hia little sister of four exclaimed, with emotion, “There, Hanky! .I guess ..you’ll jew-well-er nough, "after that!”—~ Graphic. The proper way to take vacation is as we go along. A day of recreation | or a couple of hours or so every day devoted to rest and entire forgetfulness of business cares, will sandwich labor so pleasantly and healthfully that 'strength will be preserved and life invigorathd~fo “ Nothing frightename,” said Smith, bluateringly. Quoth Mr. Jones, quietly, “So? I knew that next to nothing would dp ty.” Tableau.— Bnxtqn Transcript. *