INDIAN OUTRAGES IN THE UNITED STATES,

North Otago Times, Volume 2094, Issue 2094, 18 January 1879, Page 3

INDIAN OUTRAGES IN THE UNITED STATES,

Report! in the New York Herald give pictures of the ravages committed by the Cheyenne Indians. One correspondent Bays*:-— The half has not been told of the atrocities committed by the Cheyennes on their route from their reservation across Kansas, leaving as they did behind them trails of rapine and blood. I have been over the whole 6eld north of the KansasPacißc road, from Buffalo station to the headwaters of Beaver creek, and the facts there obtained are simply frightful. The Indians crossed the Kansas-Pacific road, and proceeding north sacked the postoffice on the north fork of the Solomon, but John Bailess the postmaster escaped. They then went in a north-easterly direction, and killed every person and sacked everything in their way. Near Beaver creek they attacked a ranch owned by Thomas Lynch, who fled to a dugout with his wife and two children. The Indians came whooping up, but Lynch killed two with a revolver and the rest fled. On Sappa creek occurred an outrage the reoit»l of which makes the blood c.old, The howling demons came suddenly upon the honse of H. Lang, and, after Jcilling thß father and two sons, outraged the mother and two daughters, and then ■aturating the house with kerosene, set it on fire. The two little daughters were only 11 and 13 years of age, and are now in a state of semi-madness, all of them escaping from the burning building after the red devils left. Just north of Lang's place Kate Abernathy, a school teacher, was also ravished and murdered. Seventeen dead bodies were gathered up by the Bottlers and buried at Bowden, eight of whom were known, and nine unknown and unrecognised ones. Until after the Indians passed Beaver Creek they killed men, women, children, and itock with guns, but after leaving that stream they used axes to kill the people, in nearly every instance crushing the face and skull and mutilating the bodies in the most barbarous manner. This was because they were getting" short of ammunition and had to save every ounce of powder and ball.

The situation it simply frightful ; but the Indians have how left the State, and people will return to their homesteads. During all this time the troops were only a few hours in the rear ,» and stock* men and settlers are Tery bitter in their denunciation of the way they were handled. On one occasion about two hundred soldiers came \ip with the Indians, but neglected to engage them, giving as excuse that the soldiers were tired out and needed rest. General Jeff C. Davis had his headquarters at Wallace, but did not take the field in person, and General Popo, the department commander, seemed to have little knowledge of the state of affairs, as he telegraphed on the day the men were killed south of Buffalo, that " there was not an Indian • in Kansas."

A writer in the Hokitika Star says : — " The Colorado beetle is nowhere. The bank which owns that destructive insect wired in pretty well, but another institution in town is •smothering traders wholessle. One consequence of these proceedings is, I am told, the resignation of the local manager, who is naturally indignant that his advice should be disregarded, and the business which he obtained by dint of courtesy and attention, thrown away. The representative of this bank, who is so completely carrying out the orders of his directors, is known a3 the Octopus."