Show from dacotah Bac otah euril editorial correspondence ft bearnet rort fort connor D T july 4 the day prior to our arrival tome some eight or ten indians indian came within half A milo mile of the garrison and drove from under the eye oatlie herder thirty eight head of horses and mul va with which they made off onard pumpkin bolles some twenty miles mile east ast they were so BO close closely pursued pursue db apart a of the iotti mounted infantry under the guidance fidanc ui of mr J 1 I brannon that they ero compel led to abandon one one raule mule and traps pony some days day ago the mater paymaster pay brought in ina report that a pilgrim ui train had their herd he rd attacked on tile the old california road rear deer daer creek the pilgrim killed on one rind and wounded one indian without any ay lost 1088 on or their t h air part p art two head of toe tock k were alo al 4 0 driven d r alven from bridgers Brid ferry forr the th day d bedfor b f foro carrington crt many at seem com nr ri T kors A frendly andin lariat ted his hii hor horte se and add chased ali the thieves lielet awa w these depredations depre are commit tod b indians v hoso sole ole too ino tice p plunder lu der and to Lon convince our read cr th that t t are am zare lafe and with A ith a little caro care their stock also 1 I w with ith two trien have crossed from laramie to this aud and camping alone alo 13 e point P at oa 01 night trav tra slid and oling my lowly clowley courto cour to ly lay through tho t h a worst wont portion or of tho the recently hogni hogile tribes trib and yet et ue ive have hato not seen an I 1 in i dinn dian s ve tho the mountaineers mountaineer families until recently ly this post was known as rort fort connor an order from the war department changed it to reno and now C command is pursuant to orders en route to clear or piney creek 43 nilles miles north to re reestablish establish fort reno there hence bence 1 date from fort connor as a the appropriate name for this place it having been built by general connor on his expedition last lait year this post is on powder river about two bundled miles from its to month and one hundred from mi ih held bead which springs from the southwestern end of BIX big korn mountains here hera the river riter ii 13 emall muddy ea easily eaily ily and dense dens ly IT timbered the snow now capped peak or of wy big clorn chain looms up tip to the wet west some GO miles distant anle pumpkin buttes vary tho the high dry prairie as the eye scans tile the eastern hori yon settlers in gallatin valley montana and threshing nia aia are re shipping reshipping mowing clil chinee nes improved plows plon s sod and other newly patented agricultural implements up the Illk missouri and eiten exter she farming fArr is being in in that far off men dlen the famo famous col james bridger ridger li is our guide ihde mth brannan and willima the great six r hundl hundred red mitt mile dut cul off MY i i s now being led by this expedition so 0 o that laramie will be brought within miles of virginia cit city y montana with a good natural road no no mountains to cross and new military 1 posts 0 ts to protect it in case of any renel renewal 1 of hoA tili itice I 1 L R F |