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Show INDIANS IN THE PLATTE VALLEY- Indian news is now in order. On Thursday our Chcyenno special an- nouncod an Indian raid at Sidney station sta-tion upon tho Union Pacifin road, resulting in tho capturing of thirty I head of mules and horses. Cheyenne papers aay many rumors of Indian raids are afloat there. On Monday morning last, a herder came in from Crow creek, some forty miles south of Cheyenne, giving information of the burning of his ranoh and his own narrow nar-row cEcapo. Other reports of Indian troubles in that region have been made. Genera! Ord, commanding the department depart-ment of the Platte, has sent out already one or two scouting parties, but thus far without result. Captain Mix, in charge of an expedition through the Loup valley, reports the grass burned in every direction, and that the Indians Indi-ans can mako no important movements until it grows, tlo says the settlers are very much in need of arms, and asks if the governor of Nebraska can not do something for them. The Loup valley has only within a year or two begun to bo sottled, and at present the number of inhabitants is estimated at 2U0. An Omaha correspondent of tho Chicago Tribune Bays Gen. Ord has, for some years past, kept a summer oamp of troopB in the Loup valley, and has now, since the raid there, taken means to guard against farther troubles. This valley is situated some forty miles northwest of Grand Island station, Nebraska, and is considered oue of the most fertile in the wholo Stato. Thcro appears to be a universal univer-sal feeling in gonoral Ord's department depart-ment that with the growth of grass, so that tho ponies can be fed, tho the Iudian raids will become more frequent and serious. A Washington dispatch of yesterday siya the movement move-ment near Sidney is regarded as most significant, and .that considerable apprehension ap-prehension exists at the Indian bureau. bur-eau. Our Omaha exchangee Btate that general Ord is taking every precaution to meet tho anticipated difficulties, but tho Indians appoar to be unusu ally aotive this spring, and Dews of more trouble will Dot bo surprising. |