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Show INDIAN TROUBLES IN KANSAS. Indian troubles upon the southern Kansas frontier have of late been marked in their boldness and frequency frequen-cy and our exchanges from that State call loudly for Buoh steps upon the part of government as will proteot settlers and put a stop to bloodshed and massacre. mas-sacre. It is not long since we published publish-ed a brief item in regard to tho reported re-ported murder by the Cheyennes, of a party of survoyora upon the Cimarron branch of the Arkansas. A writor to the Leavenworth Times, of March 28th, confirms this report and adds: "The excitement is at fever heat on this frontier, and curves both loud and deep are beard on all sides against the policy of sending men to survey Indian In-dian lands and not furnishing thempro-teotion, thempro-teotion, and against the Indian policy generally. A common remark is, 'Oh! the government will give them fresh ammunition and more rifles, feed them all winter a- d let them murder white men at will.' " Tho Cheyennes are estimated to number soma 1,200 fighting men and their foray upon this party of surveyors survey-ors is generally looked upon as the opening raid of tho season's move" ments. The Times of & later date adds: "Troublo on tho frontier is becoming becom-ing a matter ot paramount interest. Hundreds of lives aro being sacrificed. "Scalping is tho order of the day." Tb.it tho Indians are wholly responsible, respon-sible, no one imagines, and the Times calls for an investigation aGd the punishment pun-ishment of traders and agents whose course may havo urged on these Indian In-dian raids, by their faithless disregard of all things save themselves by plundering plun-dering 'he savages. At the same time the Cheyennes aro known to be among the most untractablc of the tribes inhabiting the Indian territory. Apropos of Indian outrages the published schedule of presents for the coming year enumerates some interesting interest-ing items, among them 2-56,325 yards of calico, 14S.575 yards of trowo sheeting, 348 dozon cotton handkerchiefs, handker-chiefs, 500 dozen misses woolen hose, 400 heavy double shawls, 300 yards bleached sheeting, 600 Powhat-ten Powhat-ten pipes with reed stems, 9,600 pounds of plug tobacco, 500 pounds of line cut, 24,000 pocket-knives think of it and 126 dozon fine tooth combs. We refrain fiom pursuing the list further. Jf visions of fine tooth combs and scalping'knives do not become be-come in-xtrioably mixed in the confused con-fused dreams of frontier settlors, it will not be for lack of attention upon the part of a "paternal" government And how Mrs, Lo will "oome out" with cotton handkerchiefs and woolen hese! |
