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Show .Indian . ATitociriES. Gen. Sheri-dun' Sheri-dun' telegraphed to Washington on Friday that the Indians afacked a wo-.d trdn near Fort Fetterman last Wednesday, killed one .man. corralled the train for one day. and then moved off in the direction, of Fort . Iu-aiuiai He also telegraphed to Gen. Slier man report of several skirmishes between the Sioux Indians and the i-ettlers in the direction of the Winni peg country. He says he very lnueh fears that these young men of the Yankton Sioux aie simply making their .reservation a base of operations and supplv. and that several war parti' par-ti' a of Indians have appeared at or crossed the Union Pacific Kaiiroad a' different points between the 23 1 and 26th of this month. 0:i the 22d a party crossed at lxoking Glass Creek; on the ioih a party of one hundred appeared at Medicine Bow; on the .26th a party of seventy-five crossed the road at Separation, going south; on the 26th a war party of sixty crossed on the 26th a war party of sixty crosed atTiiwlins; on ihe 2nh Indian fires wre seen on Medicine Bnw; abuut fifty Indians appeared at Como and Me ici 'e Bow. '"mall parties of tmops have pursued these Indians with, as yet unknown results, eighteen eigh-teen miles above the post. Several companie-- of the Seventh Infantry have ariived at the post. The general has received communi cations regarding the movement of hostile Sioux from the Winnipeg coun try toward B -nton, and thicks that some of th-m have quartered on Milk River. All the friendly Indians, he says, sueh as the Gros Ventres of the frairie have been driven in by these Indians an by war parties of Yankton Sioux and Unkpanas. the former from the Reservation at Fort Randall. A war piny four hundred strong, came in on his trail, and attaeked the garrison garri-son of Fort Bufoid on the 14th of June All the available tioops in Washington and vicinity were dis natched on Saturday evening to Gen. Sheridan. Col. .Morrow writes from Fort Bu-ford Bu-ford tiat a party of Indians, supposed to be Unkpapas attacked a contractor's contract-or's train . and wounded feur men. Thirty men under Lieut. Townsend were sent in pursuit and inflicted a loss upon them. Frars are entertaineo for ti e safety of the wood choppers. On the 25th of June the Indians stole, from the vicinity of t-outh f as-, fifty eight head of horses and mules. The citizens pursued the Indians, but all their horses being gone, could not retake the stock: They found the bodies of Dr. Bard, Hi rny Morgan and Mr. Mason, they having been caDtured by the Indians and tortured to death. ; Morgan was scalped, . the king bolt of a wagon driven through his head, and the tendons down his spine taken out tor bow strings. , The Indians who committed the depredations depreda-tions were Arrapahoes and Siuux N. Y. Sun,- J-ly 4. ' |