| Show the osage massacre I 1 I 1 11 liow irow ivl xvi WHITE hren brex MEN x IN kassas kanbas tred ened ti red reb T OD I A IQ 10 INDIANS I 1 dec 0 1874 oil the ath of august last a small smail band of usages near Medi medicine eine bine bodge todge kansas were ht tacked attacked and four of them killed by it a party of white inen tho the remainder of the usages 0 ea fled to thor their reserva reservation tion tiou abandoning their camps campa and other property which were taken by the whites captain ricker bleker the leader reported tho the affair as an attack by indians and rumor soon enlarged edit it into indian war niong along the border with the osage nation raiding upon the settlers of kansas the governor called out the militia and telegraphed the secretary of yar yan carfora yan yar Var fora for a supply of armmand arms and amina am to bo be issued to tho the citizens of that abat state 1 1 subsequently information discovered tbt fact that the indians attacked were entirely peaceable and friendly and that the tile parties styling themselves militia were a number nu m ber her of persons who were skir shir bisbing on their own account and welo were afterward organized into a militia company with richer as captain whose commission antedates this massacre boas so ag to callet all an act of war these facts heretofore reported are now DOW verified by a statement of a member of the militia of whom the probate judge of the county says saye under his sea seal seni he is an old resident of Arbour barbour 13 I 1 and a respectable repeatable andie andle eod man he states that he ile i A lit himself unattended and un aimed iyla the camp of these indians tile the day before delpre they were murdered was well treated and saw nu indica indication whatever of hostility and stated further that the indians did not fire anre first morlat nor atall all ali that they were well known to be oil on a peaceable hunting expedition that the four indians were killed after they had been captured an and a when they were entirely helpless b by the order of captian ricker richer and nud tuat at the time of this raid up upon a the indians tho the parties who have since styled themselves kansas militia letl of whom lie he was one were not ordered into service it is a significant fact that the same mail which bore this communication ni cation to the indian office also contained a certified copy of the resolutions of the legislature of kansas condemning the present policy in the management of the indians and recommending that the 1 indian lureau be turned over to the war dep department av y Y herald |
