| Show THE INDIAN WAR air col herrlitz Herr 31 ernt lits s report from 1 roin red cloud agency I 1 11 ho turns bick back ii a large foi eq of Chey ednes t ami alit is ii marching to lo form 1 auction huc tion with crook gell crooks crook i course heartily Sus tallied liy by merritt else blous null nod CHICAGO anly ill 19 this the following was received at military head beail tere hero to clay lanause LAn Aure baly 13 18 cul D C drum Dr iii f e general ei geral oi of A jn ohp effis chica go A courier who via laa just jilt arrived from red cloud apora that on 00 the kith dinst merritt eight hundred aul and sioux had loft left the agency to join then alio ostile baud against crook and add terry and drove them buck back to the gency agency signed K E r ToWNs riD report H lorl july 19 hotbo abo following ol lowine official report or colonel merritt marrit was wag roc roath tired cd at mi RED itco july 19 hi tit tl i roar laal july ai in in my jest jast I 1 moved by forced marches to the main northwest trail roil on indian crock in ia thirty five fita boars baars my mj command mado made about tro tiro miles milea reach ing the trail sunday ebding about 9 i tho the trail showed this tabt no largo large parties had passed at a be y esterday morning I 1 caddle d up dp to move moio on the trail tj garde tb tie a agency at the finx a pirty party of ct seven indiana near the command comm oDil moving with wita the be in ia tout ioni or of oil off two couri cre who acro approaching sago crock A party was sent scat out to cut these off tailing one of them the command then moved out at once onca after oth other at indiana sec beco I 1 ia th a 8 direction boil sad ginned them but bat they bey escaped peeving four lodges bed and several hundich pounds ot of pro niona bo be hind after scouring tho the country io a our vicinity wo we moved I it t once toward tho the agency at a dis dia 1 enco of twenty five co miles to north west rest ot of ibo be agency tho the indiana broke camp anil and fled that wo we succeed ia catching chew beni tho the trail was wag much worn were that hundreds hua dreda of indiana veto driven in ia by our iacre deot neot tot prom from repeated re rc parte ort which T rca 1 T yuyi YS yi 4 4 lit T yaa cengia ot of it bog cb 0 to ish this I 1 hard barj to get on their trail faking my io dantry blodi to ta auard the fagoni andio fight if neeck siry reports received from thil point led d mo me to believe that many ot of the sioux warriors wore with wilh the choy critics lain ism tow low aliat iho number of indiana the ibo agency aro are exaggerated in ia the I 1 ic ep port ort and I 1 au satisfied that hot dot a hundred ioa lo 10 dindi dr 0 zis or rather panics all eld haro kona gone north on tho ibo mim main trails in tho the last ten slays tho the baraj wo we drove io in took refuge on tho the reser liggion near blotted til tail 11 II they leave again aio I 1 think it will be 19 to go to the as aa they seem to be thoroughly frightened out oat of the northern trip our oar appear acco on injun and hat creeks was a complete surprise to 0 o the indians indiana in tho the ly firs but bill boo thaia in 10 were informed by ru oDor so eo that they got oat of the iha way I 1 lave have just juel received your jour vs of the lab I 1 will move without iri thoat dolay dalay to port I 1 ort Li and at ai soon as aa possible po sililo move moto to join clock my moa men boj and herpes are very tired but a low lew doyi days of moro bloo with full forego will malo make them all right liht how it woe doutt done july 19 morritt merritt badoa marched nearly a hundred milua in thirty birly six fix baars boars successfully intercepted the iho who had bad left the lb agency ito and d drove them baak to 10 that place the indians being advised by runners of the approach of otibe abe caa alry airy broke small mill bands and scattered liko their vigilance linee and the jaded condition or merritt B d animal clur hu his march knablin enabling a them to rain in their al teejay lions homa 0 pitr vilu no casualties save EMO ono one killed 1 by be jut cody gen gan bl erritt is 13 believed to have bito by this ilia fri out ona of any further farther attempt to join abo and has taken nis his bis lino line ot of march for or port fort latapie La iamie tamie alerc to juin join crook as early possible po bibIc four ol of tho firth cati afy are ro here DOW and will leave for or bort ott lagacie in a sew few days icil er illey will join joia the ibe regiment nod go north or remain to guard the bettio acts mcula and witch watch the alacy ii n dot dol yet oily folly determined mccoy for or ita i a toward of was wa offered by the iba minors minora 30 JQ Ie leadwood adwood district for murder vas brought to port diramio this ibis evening and will bo be taken buck back to 1 A report reached rort fort Lara niia tonight that thirty acin LI lile le evening twelve miles milci below that lies TIC on the river captain E agon goo with lis his company started to hunt huot them Item down loya illy was killed near pawnee S nob while returning to north from south lour loup with wilb ao an ox team lie via shot it is I 1 not cot known wl ibar by Indi agis or not A number of 0 castera papers laniog a statement ac crediting the officer at fort jaramio La ramio ath buying denounced the abo conduct ot of As ueral frook crook io IQ the lita late action at a called at that post oata were adopted the tibar giB 11 cdon dd ou the coattsy and applauding tho ilia fl aelion action rig ng it il at ii wiio and Jrade rit and that tiny liny criticism critic iam would bo be A lain luza named 1 y kidney fidney lo n calit iroc red pcs chind to IB tr born that on an indian L biajo abc deer cime cacia ioto into alta lied d loaa cloud on coil lilliy lii liy alid reported that crook had tild bad es fight ciot and acil lost ril ailcy aril AV ai ultra is i no sach fines news fit t bort oft barp rate whish ba aci later lalar latoi arm bied clond we dl net credit 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