--Major Smith, paymaster United States army, has just returned to Leavenworth from a trip to the southern posts in Colorado and New Mexico. He informs the Bulletin as follows: "The feeling on the plains is unanimous that the Indian war will open again in the spring with renewed vigor, and that the nice little humanitarian arrangements planned by the indian commission in their report, will be seriously interfered with by the renewal of hostilities by the indians. The Cheyennes and other tribes openly avow that they do not consider themselves in any way bound by the pretended treaties made at Medicine Lodge creek, last fall. That many of the most important portions of said treaties were never read to them, and that in regard to others, the government has already failed to comply with their provisions. The indians are making constant demands for arms and ammunition, evidently with the intention of using them against the whites as soon as the opening of spring shall permit of their commencing operations. Another significant feature is the following fact: Colonel Wynkoop desires, probably in accordance with instructions from Washington, to take to the capital some of the principal chiefs of the various tribes with which treaties have been pretended to have been made, but they absolutely refuse to go, saying they have already had "heap talk" with the great father at Washington, which has not resulted in any good to them, and they did not want any more, They were sick of Talk."

Source:

Unknown, "Major Smith, paymaster United States army," Daily Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado, Monday, 20 January, 1868, page 4.