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Show THE INDIAN WAR. The Tito Grrrcrals Appear ta Pre. fire a Combined AttacL on The .Starting Sara-res; 200 INDIANS REPORTED DEAD FROM STARVATION. XoTablic Monrr for the Burial or Dead Italics, Farnlshed by Soulless Corporations. A RAT PLKSt-e If. r(Uc FEN DIS-TllCT. DIS-TllCT. ENGLAND. Itemarlable Case or a Negress, Tf bo Lives Tonr liars with a rierceaWfart. Ey TtlsErapB tothcM.r,.i THE IDIVr taocnLii the "Uoslllem" rjmelj- Uunrdedbr Ibekoldlera. lUriD Cm, H. D., Dec. IP. Four hunarud men of tlio SeVert-teealh SeVert-teealh Infuntry flaited today for General Carr'a carafsat lbpld cretk arid Chu.venuo rtTer, Uenrral Allies has coacenlfitej there about twelve hundred men. with artillery. There is n large encampment of hostile Indians In Green l?a;ln on the Had I'.ltlX", EbuUt ten miles froniX,VtrrScarnp, and the Indians have liten making raids on the ranches from there. Troops are being disposed to guard every pass and outlet, aud the cavslrjr are scouting about to inttrccpt bitting Hull's followers, trha are sappdacd to bo heading for that poihU 'fne indications in-dications arts thai General Mile-ttiro. I posesho-dlnx Ihetndiausin the basin JJntilreitiy to make a movement into the Bad limits himultautously wltlt General itrooke's forces. As the troops are dhpoccd now, It ap. pears that the escape of .the hostiles Is impossible. TWESTV FAMILIES LEAVE THEIR HOMER. I'lEiiRtj. S. L'., l)ic 19.- George NotrlE, a storekeeper at Cheyenne City, near thi! mouth of Cherry creek, has jut arrived. He says the entire populationof twenty families fam-ilies and alo a number of friendly Indians have left there, tome going to Fort Dennett, some to Oaks and others to Pierre. He says Just bo-fore bo-fore leaving there night before last twenty Indians from Bitting Bull's band arrived and held a biz council Tith the Cherry Creek Indians to -ee whether they should fight or not, and they Were joined, after the vaanc.l, by over one hundred and fefly Ccerokets, ail of whom started for the Bad Lauds. Morris y9 ttiat during the time the refugees were getting a ay to the Bad I.mJs sharp firing was heard between the Indian police aud the ho'tili-s and that aixittle tnn no doubt fought, but as the set tlefi made batten) reach the towns he can give no further particulars. As troops were ordered to that point yesterday it is believe! the hostiles weiu routed and capture!. .Morris says Hitting Bull's Indians are well armed and are determined to avenge Bull's death. TWO HL'XDItED INDIANS DEAD 1KOM STARVATIO.V. Wasiilv.tox, Dec 13. Dr. Uland, of the Indian Defense A-c-elation, lias received a loa; letter from the lutlrau ilitef. itt-d Clcud, at I'me Iti.is;Baj;ei!py, uu lerdateof Dectmlier lutb. IteJ Cloud ays he Is a tsn-taut friend of the whites, anil.bi-, peopio luve no iiitt-nllon of going on the M-irpilti. He L-cver liad anything todii with the ghost dance, lie complains of the Government Gov-ernment ration.-. 1-trin.; cut douxi more and more every J ear. The Iiatt two f ea-ns w ere so dry that the Indian could not rake much and the rations were t-o scant that they had to kill their own cattle to avoid starvation. Many Ix-eati: sitk from waut of proper food aud -17 have died from starvation since the fall of last year. A ECOl'T ARRESTED. Omaha, Dec 19. A special from Camp Carr, on the Cheyenne River says: John Farnham. a scout, was today placed linder arresL Farnham Farn-ham is su'peited of giviug information informa-tion concerning the movements of troops to the hostiles. He isa squaw man. The troops are ready for movement as soou as orders are received, re-ceived, and will have no difficulty In penetrating to the Indian strong". Iiofd. Several easy routes have been fou ud In and out of tbe to-called impregnable stronghold. LULL HEAD'S WIIX. Fort Yates, X. !., Dec 19. Bullhead's body was buried today with military honors. HisHjuaw, who was upon Canuonball itlver when she heard of the fight, started at once for Fort Vales aud walked eighty miles without rest.. She readied her husband licfore Ills death and fell in a faint when admitted ad-mitted to the room. More thau forty of Sitting Bull's followers have reported to the agent and are now in camp close by. The remaiuder are reported to be south of the reservation, near Moreau Itlver. rusmon ov the ckkoc ijdia:s. ICansas City, Dec 19. A Guthrie Gu-thrie disiatch says a number of Creek Indians today aerteU that their cople had no sympathy v ith the Jlwilali craze, although bitting Kill! had rent couriers to all tbe different tnbss toinciteau uprising. They had been sucteasful only with the uncivilized Indians. |