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Show .11 ore In diit n Murder?--. St. Jjoui-i. 11. The Rev. Norman j Iiadgi r, army chaplain thr Concha, I weelc-rn Texas, arrived here A-i-day, cit i-utt for Washington. A : scouting party returned to Concha last Saturday week, after forty day.- : absence, bringing in a nunib.-r of; stolen ponies capture-el from Indian- oil' their reservations, also (lie hvh ' scalii of a white inrhbi vears nld.wiio. ' with a woman, was killed and scalped on Staked plain, about two weeks before. .Mr. Badger says it b now known that General MacKenie. during dur-ing his great raid against the Cmaii- i dies last fall, killed upward of one 1 hundred of them. It was report. -d at the time that be bad killed I nit iwcu- ' ty-three. About three weeks ago a ' band of Indians a p pea reel near old i camp Colorade), ami shot and stabbed a Mrs. Williams, and al-o shot a little girl of Mrs. William.,', and mashed its head against the door i post and threw her U-dy into the tire. ' They then en t mil the house and shot a girl 8 years old, and carried her away with them. ' Mrs. Williams, , uotw.thstanding her two wounds, I crawled into the house, pulled her . little child out of the tire, rolleel it in a wet blanket, and laid her on the bed. Mrs. Williams' husband I soonafler rcturnal, to whom she re- ' luted the circumstances mid then ; dit.il; but the infant whose head was : mashetl almost to a jelly, was still alive when last heaixl from, and would probably recover. A band of from fifty to sixty Indians were roaming abjut tho country south of Fort McKavett, and in the absence of : cavalry at Fort Connors, scouts had been sent in all directions to warn the j settlers. Much alarm exishil, and I tho citizens were arming to defend themselves. |