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Show the iiabeo ha;: i::e:i. Joseph's Rnnd Uelrc.it to ftlonluiiu. Portland, 21. A dispatch w..j received re-ceived this afternoon from Kamai July 17th, via Walla Walla 21st. Five moro hostile with squaws eur-ronderod eur-ronderod today. The military commission com-mission which was formed to try the Indian prisoners taken in the lato fight with Major Throckmorton of the 4th artillery as advocate, is to be buc ceeded by Commissioner Watkins adjourned, ad-journed, as no witnesses for the prosecution pro-secution wore here. Howard sent thirty volunteers to day to destroy the caches in Joseph's old camp, and all but the captain and one man loft for their homes. Col. Mason is in hot purnuit of the hostile hos-tile Indians with his entire cavalry command, and met to day .near Orofino creek. Two Indian bcouIs were wounded and oue killed, when the Indians got demoralized and fled, leaving the soldiers in possession of the field. The country around Orofino creek is very rocky and densely wooded with heavy timber and thick undergrowth, thus pre venting any further pursuit by the soldiers, who cannot get their horses across the rough ground. The hostiles will be met by either Crook or Miles as they enter into Montana from this trail, and will in all probability be captured by their forces. One of the wounded scouts was James Reuben, interpreter, and son of the ex chief of the Kamia Nez Pirces, The war with Joseph is practically over, and we start to-day for Lapwai. Fiom there the troops will marcn through the Spokane country for tne moral eflect it will have upon the Indians. Col. Green's cavalry, upon its arrival, will be kept here to prevent pre-vent the return of the hostile Indians this way. Another force ot Indians with a flag of truce is now coming in to surrender. A special dispatch received from Wallula July 21st says: One hundred hund-red and fifty Chinamen arrived here yesterday from the Upper Columbia river, where they have been engaged in mining. They state that the Indians In-dians entered their camp, robbed them of all their money, provisions, blankets and some clothing. After taking all they possessed the Indians told tnem to leave, which the Chinamen China-men lost no time in doing. |