Reports From Col. Wynkoop--
The Arapahoes, Apaches
and Other Tribes
Still Peacefully Inclined.
THE INDIAN WAR.
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Reports from Col. Wynkoop--The Arapahoes, Apaches and other Tribes still Peacefully Inclined.
Fort Larned, Kansas,
Upper Arkansas Agency, April 24, 1867.
Hon. N. G. Taylor, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C.
Sir--My last communication was written hastily from Fort Dodge, and I now have the honor to state that I have since arrived at the headquarters of my agency. Since the killing and scalping of the six Cheyenne Indians above Fort Dodge, nothing new has transpired with reference to Indian affairs. Contrary to my expectations, the Cheyenne Indians who fled from their village, committed no depredations while crossing the Santa Fe road, and have not, to my knowledge, up to the present time, notwithstanding their persecutions.
It is rumored that considerable stock has been run off the Smoky Hill road by the Sioux Indians, on the occasion of their flight north. General Hancock is still at Fort Dodge, with his troops. Since the Indians of my agency have not as yet retaliated for the wrongs heaped upon them, it may be possible, if proper action be taken by the Department of the Interior, to prevent the military from forcing trouble, or that a general Indian war may be prevented. As far as lay in my power I have struggled to avert this direful calamity.
The Arapahoe and Apache Indians are far south of the Arkansas river, and have not yet got into any trouble.
E. W. Wynkoop.
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A New Yorker Killed by Indians.
(From the San Antonio Herald, April 25.)
Mr. E. C. Powell furnishes us the following, with the request that the New York papers please copy.:--
Mr. George W. Dawson, from New York originally, while on a traveling tour from the Indian village of Istleta to Fort Stanton, was killed some time last month near San Augustine Spring, about sixty miles north of El Paso. He was in company with a small party going to that place, and during a halt for dinner, the party were listening to some of his quotations from Shakspeare [sic], when he was felled by a rifle ball from Indians who had succeeded in surprising them by means of grass attached to their horses heads. He was buried about three miles from the place where he was shot, living several hours after receiving the fatal messenger of death. The remainder of the party escaped uninjured.
Source:
Unknown, "The Indian War," New York Herald, Thursday, 9 May 1867, Page 4, Col. 6.
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