Show M w ac general GE NERL INTEL intelligence I 1 i af camamck t t v i JI r k FIGHT WITH TH rs is til yh tl e following letter ietter from a gen geb gentleman attached to the united stites states surveying party an ui the thel indian territory t abbis ohis relatives iu ill this gity efty city f furnishes some additional information in re regard gard to the recent fight be between tweena 3 deach j ment of united states troops under command 1 of major van dorn dora and a party of calanche camanche Ca manche indiana FORT C N alf J october ad d 1858 5 an express hab has bab just arrived from major V van an domb doms command icilma i nd for foi suphi supplies ies les and ana medical i al assistance they thay the had an engagement yesterday with ith ahree three hanc hundred T red Ca manches encamped near the witchita village some fifty west of this pl ace major van dornlas Dorn dorri was wae badly wounded inthe arm and andi abdomen and his bis recovery cover is considered very doubtful lt van val 1 eicem through the heart heartly by all an ar row rewo eivet elvel soldiers were killed are miss missing ingi inge including the hospital steward with the medicines two unfortunate Wit chitas were also killed one of them was well known tous As a good reliable man thirty camari carnal chessell ches fell feil they had lost all their horbes horses ses seb ove over three hundred a adew tew days previous they abdin beings 9 stolen byr the texas indians Indiana accompanying agaj 1 i i dr U S army with twenty men and a wagon and ambulance has st started artea and I 1 will of the fortunate unfortunate ua occur I 1 rence hearnoon near noon if no accident I 1 happens the road is asvery very boughs roughs much baue franx acx I 1 for lor th the e party patty of fifty men under vilder 1 burnett now encamped on oil creek 1 protecting the depot of supplies it must be many days bea before ore any assis assistance tance can be afforded afore him bimi this small party could not with stand a abaid band bind of exasperated Caman rhes A this conflict asvery is very unfortunate from the fact that the marches Cam Ca arches archea tacked attacked at were wele ithone that were ere to visit this ahls post to re turn urn horses stolen from this some time since they were band hand f friendly and might have been baen ia instrumental in ill bringing to peace the rest of the trite tribe tr ille they bad aj ai ready bentin bentlin by the witchita chief sever beveral several alof of i 1 the he stolen horses and were coming jn in wit lythe tribe rest when the indians indiana accompanying major van ivan dorns dorna troops i stampeded t three hundred and fifty of their those to be returned here the horses being stolen the tite yit Vit chitas persuaded chiefs chiefa not to follow themi themy them but that they would bendi bendl irr if fW wor dito the commanding officer that heir hear horses were all sto lem lez captain cartain afir prince ce it rt 1 liedl that they need noti come dome in without the i E h bes ses and aiso also ais als ogave gave the Wite witchita bita hita chief chiet aletter netter a ietter letter ta be shown to maj wan xan ing they were mere fr ienus thi thit iafet 1 ten suppose the he nvere afraid to major van dorp it much IQ aj hei be regretted that thit some bome riger was not sent bent to the commander of the ca cavalry valry inform informing him urn of the peaceful intentions of these t ddn a t e I 1 Indians n df ans harthe witchita Wit chifa a agent been beery daothi athis S lios post t all this trouble would have been avoided M i j abbi began ad in earnest dame st and and there ther 6 is ho saying where it wiil will te rr diate ate peace could ibbye been made mide very eastly easily and been leen illy y kepf kept if the protected ro tec ted they are ate and i 1 believe belleve the and the reserve arve indi indians i a ps of Major neigh bors bons oes cause cause two third thirds odthe 1 trou brou troubles bie ble on A party of bf sixty oi or one hundred swartout star start tout out eve every ry few months and steal camanche calanche Ca manche horses by hurl hun dredson dred bof of co cour u rae sethe the wild indian ind ian lan retaliates i othi this unhappy y event will cause il play and lylian perhaps gih stop the survey lof we the lilii line s of the he in lan ian territory itry t his this winter 1 certainly certa Cirta certainly wh we can cani i olgo 1 n out gut until matters matter u understood j ayt if i rahe THE RED TRY tay engi engl p exploring by oun our ent nt tp the red river terra ory returned by ili the last trip p pobe t the Rs rest best c cue feind ad is now in y he wili will prepare rep 0 surveys su r vey so anias anlas arias ar las mada madea aril anil pd will mil return ato to the territory errit dry ory about the middle of win winter to rejoin the fialk flait parkies parties ies les whom he baslee has left carrying on the ibe work lor bior k we understand I 1 I 1 ihal mr dawison speaks inthe in the highest of lithe ithe territory between betwee th the aled river andade i where he has ilce recently beena been exploring pl oring ix i it I 1 asfor is far a araine country wel well alid arid 11 P fertl fertile lf wj aff dawson brings specimens ipe ape ns of lignite which we believe b e place aiice it beyond question that hat considerable deposits of coal will be q found in i various parts of lb the count country ry more mora particularly on the he souris river the indications of its is existence are veny very numerous it hasteen has been known for a length ottiliie 0 time thai that on n she the saskatchewan plains ia in s near the tie base of tile tiie th e mountains large beds teds beds of or coal existed but bui bu it has hitherto been by byrdo 60 idea means inea s certain that it was to be found further furth ei ia eastward stward the discovery supplies an additional reason for believing the first railway ay pacific will be made through these magni magnificent fi cent prairies ra iri lri i i ei the opening p of f the stage route from st t louis loul to io san francisco fraacisco has pro deuced iii la the american papers proofs of the itin fitness unfitness of the southern territory to support fla fia ila a railway across the contin continent ent ye hind find in the itinerary t i ha crary of a passenger who came through 6 S to st louicy louis louls by the first expedition statements stateman sta temen teman f long journeys performed wit without hout water and even at the stations on the road the water is f f funi furnished shed by means of expensive 1 wells in s such rich tieh a country of course there is 13 no wood neither has coal been discovered south of the boundary at no point in the tha british route ro ut v would here there bere be a scarcity of elther whet fuel or water from lake superior to the Re dRiver there are abundant supplies of the finest tim that coal is 13 to bo found almost throughout 7 othelo the I 1 entire entire region rT toronto oronto GIF 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