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Show THE SIOL'X, Narrow Ewcnpe of a Courier The Soldiers will not Strike a mclNive JUlon- Lutll Aivxt Jl 011 til. ; FubulouM Story of Itluclt Hills Uold. Cheyenne, 22. A courier w'10 left Gooae creek on the evening of the 10th, arrived at Fort Felterman tonight. to-night. His delay was caused by having met at Powder river a body of 200 Indians, from whom he escaped twenty-four hours, one Indian following follow-ing his trail nine miles. He says tuey were evidently waiting for him, and fears that the couriers who were Bent from Fetter man on the 16th inBt. with dispatches have been intercepted, intercept-ed, as ho saw their trail this side of tha river, but not beyond. His delay run him out of rations, compelling him to fast two days. Ho left all quiet in camp. The hostile Sioux nro believed to be north of Goose ' creek forty miles, and not far from the scone of the late massacre on the Little Bit Horn. They have not fired into camp lately, nor attempted to burn it out, although the parched condition of the grass reudera this somewhat easy. At leant the animal may be robbed of ita gusteuance. The wagon train gives them aBupply until October. The command moved seven miii s north ou the day of the courier's departure, to another branch ol Tongue river, near the foot of Ihe Big Horn mountains, where they will camp until the Fifth cavalry, which wili leave Fort Laramio on Monday, reaches it about the 5th of August. General Crook will mako no aggressive aggres-sive movement until this event, and when, if the couriers whom he bag despatched to Terry, advising him to join him, succeed in reachiug tbat command, he will have made a junction with Terry, and the next action will provo a decisive one. There is nothing not already reported pertaining to General Merrill's Mer-rill's engagement with the Chey-ennes. Chey-ennes. The Indian killed by Buflalo Bill was named Yellow Hand, a young chief. The agent at Red Cloud admits that up to this date one thousand Sioux and twelve hundred Cheyentua have left that agency for the north, though all is quiet there " now, and it is believed no more ! will co. The stage to-night brought in $10,000 in dust from Deadwood. Mr. Gardner, a reliable man, who has spent five weeks in traveling through that region, intent on satisfying himself him-self of its richness, reports marvelous discoveries being made, and fully a million dollars awaits safe transportation. transporta-tion. Ho saw in the possession of Mr. Beary. of this city, one nugget .weighing $147, and a number ranging rang-ing from $5 to $50. He briDgs also ifcven hundred pounds of sample quarU for smelling. |